2010 Oceania Men's Handball Challenge Trophy

The 2014 Men's Oceania Handball Challenge Trophy was held in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia between December 7 and 17, 2010.

The competition participants were defending champions from 1998 and host Australia, and 1998 runners up New Zealand. New to the championship were Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and Samoa. Vanuatu arrived late due to Visa problems and had to forfeit their first two games.

Hosts Australia were the winners and undefeated all tournament beating New Zealand in the final. Third was Vanuatu over Cook Islands. Fifth was Samoa over Solomon Islands.

Results

Group results

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Australia	5	5	0	168	62	+106	10
New Zealand	5	4	1	169	72	+97	8
Cook Islands	5	3	2	87	97	−10	6
Vanuatu	5	2	3	77	87	−10	4
Samoa	5	1	4	73	122	−49	2
Solomon Islands	5	0	5	43	177	−134	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

7 December 2010 13:30	Australia	10 – 0 Forfeit	Vanuatu	Ipswich, Australia

15:00	New Zealand	34 – 6	Samoa	Ipswich, Australia
		(21 - 1)

16:30	Cook Islands	22 – 8	Solomon Islands	Ipswich, Australia
		(12 - 4)

8 December 2010 13:30	Australia	38 – 14	Samoa	Ipswich, Australia
		(19 - 6)

15:00	Cook Islands	10 – 0 Forfeit	Vanuatu	Ipswich, Australia

16:30	New Zealand	38 – 7	Solomon Islands	Ipswich, Australia
		(23 - 4)

9 December 2010 13:30	Samoa	18 – 8	Solomon Islands	Ipswich, Australia
		(11 - 2)

15:00	Australia	38 – 14	Cook Islands	Ipswich, Australia
		(17 - 9)

16:30	New Zealand	37 – 13	Vanuatu	Ipswich, Australia
		(20 - 7)

10 December 2010 13:30	Samoa	15 – 20	Cook Islands	Ipswich, Australia
		(7 - 10)

15:00	Vanuatu	42 – 10	Solomon Islands	Ipswich, Australia
		(24 - 4)

16:30	Australia	25 – 24	New Zealand	Ipswich, Australia
		(9 - 14)

11 December 2010 13:30	New Zealand	36 – 21	Cook Islands	Ipswich, Australia
		(17 - 9)

15:00	Australia	57 – 10	Solomon Islands	Ipswich, Australia
		(31 - 8)

16:30	Vanuatu	22 – 20	Samoa	Ipswich, Australia
		(10 - 12)

Semi finals

12 December 2010 14:00	Cook Islands	20 – 33	New Zealand	Ipswich, Australia
		(11 - 16)

16:00	Vanuatu	25 – 44	Australia	Ipswich, Australia
		(14 - 22)

Fifth place game

17 December 2010 13:00	Samoa	24 – 10	Solomon Islands	Ipswich, Australia
		(4 - 6)

Third place game

17 December 2010 14:30	Vanuatu	26 – 20	Cook Islands	Ipswich, Australia
		(14 - 14)

Final

17 December 2010 16:00	Australia	35 – 31	New Zealand	Ipswich, Australia
		(18 - 13)

Rankings

Classification
	Australia
	New Zealand
	Vanuatu
4	Cook Islands
5	Samoa
6	Solomon Islands