The 2024 OFC U-16 Men's Championship will be the 21st edition of the OFC U-16/U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the men's under-16/under-17 national teams of Oceania. The final tournament will be played in Pirae, Tahiti, from 28 July to 10 August 2024.[1]
Tournament details | |
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Host countries | Qualifying stage: Tonga Final tournament: Tahiti |
Dates | Qualifying stage: 13–19 April 2024 Final tournament: 28 July – 10 August 2024 |
Teams | Final tournament: 8 Total: 11 (from 1 confederation) |
Venue(s) | 2 (in 1 host city) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 6 |
Goals scored | 29 (4.83 per match) |
Attendance | 800 (133 per match) |
The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as the OFC representatives.[2][3] New Zealand are the defending champions.[4]
Teams
editAll 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC entered the tournament.
In 2022 and 2023, male youth OFC tournaments did not have a four-team qualifying stage, and all teams competed in one tournament.[5] This was reversed for the 2024 tournament.[6]
Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (2016 and 2018).
Team | Appearance | Previous best performance |
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American Samoa | 10th | Group stage (1999, 2001, 2003, 2011, 2015, 2023) |
Cook Islands | 11th | Quarter-finals (2023) |
Fiji | 19th | Runners-up (1999) |
New Caledonia | 13th | Runners-up (2003, 2013, 2017, 2023) |
New Zealand | 18th | Champions (1997, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2023) |
Papua New Guinea | 10th | Semi-finals (2017), Fourth place (1986) |
Samoa | 10th | Quarter-finals (2023) |
Solomon Islands | 10th | Runners-up (1993, 2018) |
Tahiti (hosts) | 15th | Runners-up (2007, 2009, 2011, 2015) |
Tonga | 11th | Quarter-finals (2023) |
Vanuatu | 16th | Runners-up (2005) |
Venues
editPirae | |
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Stade Pater | Stade Fautaua |
Capacity: 11,700 | Capacity: 5,000 |
Draw
editThe draw for the group stage was held on 5 March with teams seeded into pots based upon their ranking at the 2023 OFC U-17 Championship.[6][7]
Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 |
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New Caledonia New Zealand | Fiji Samoa Tahiti Vanuatu | Cook Islands Solomon Islands[a] |
Squads
editPlayers born on or after 1 January 2007 are eligible to compete in the tournament.
Qualifying stage
editThe draw for the group stage was held 5 March 2024.[6]
Tiebreakers
editTie-breaking criteria for group play[8] |
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The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:
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Qualifying group
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Solomon Islands | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 0 | +29 | 9 | Final tournament |
2 | Tonga (H) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 6 | |
3 | Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 22 | −19 | 3 | |
4 | American Samoa | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | −11 | 0 |
Group stage
editAll times are local, TAHT (UTC-10).
Group A
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | New Zealand | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 1 | +22 | 9 | Knockout stage |
2 | Fiji | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 10 | −4 | 6 | |
3 | Cook Islands | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 3 | 5th place match |
4 | Vanuatu | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 15 | −12 | 0 | 7th place match |
New Zealand | 9–0 | Vanuatu |
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Fiji | 2–1 | Cook Islands |
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New Zealand | 7–1 | Fiji |
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Cook Islands | 3–1 | Vanuatu |
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Group B
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Tahiti (H) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 9 | Knockout stage |
2 | New Caledonia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | +1 | 3 | |
3 | Samoa | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 | 5th place match |
4 | Solomon Islands | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 3 | 7th place match |
New Caledonia | 0–2 | Samoa |
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Tahiti | 2–1 | Solomon Islands |
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Solomon Islands | 3–1 | Samoa |
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7th place match
edit5th place match
editKnockout stage
editBracket
editSemi-finals | Final | |||||
7 August – Pirae | ||||||
New Zealand | ||||||
10 August – Pirae | ||||||
New Caledonia | ||||||
Winner Semi 1 | ||||||
7 August – Pirae | ||||||
Winner Semi 2 | ||||||
Tahiti | ||||||
Fiji | ||||||
Third place match | ||||||
10 August – Pirae | ||||||
Loser Semi 1 | ||||||
Loser Semi 2 |
Semi-finals
editWinners will qualify for 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
Third place match
editWinner will qualified for 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
Loser Semi 1 | v | Loser Semi 2 |
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Final
editWinner Semi 1 | v | Winner Semi 2 |
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Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup
editThe following three teams from OFC qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar.
Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1 |
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- 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
Broadcasting
editGoalscorers
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Notes
edit- ^ The identity of the qualifying winners was not known at the time of the final draw
References
edit- ^ Final tournament statistics
- ^ "Qatar appointed as host of FIFA U-17 World Cup™ annually from 2025 to 2029". FIFA. 15 March 2024. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ^ "New Zealand's pathway to future FIFA U-17 World Cups gets easier". friendsoffootballnz.com. 1 April 2024. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ^ "10-man New Zealand hang on to win OFC U-17 Championship in tense final". Oceania Football Confederation. 28 January 2023. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ^ "OFC male youth tournaments continue to evolve". Oceania Football Confederation. 3 April 2020.
- ^ a b c "DRAWS CONFIRMED FOR OFC U-16 MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP AND QUALIFYING". Oceania Football Confederation. 5 March 2024. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ^ a b "Draw made for OFC U-16 Men's Championship tournament in Tahiti". friendsoffootballnz.com. 5 March 2024. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ^ "REGULATIONS OFC U-16 Men's Championship 2024" (PDF). Oceania Football. p. 22. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ "OFC U-16 Men's Championship 2024 - Qualifying". Oceania Football. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
- ^ "New Zealand vs Vanuatu". Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ "Fiji vs Cook Islands". Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ "New Zealand vs Fiji". Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
- ^ "New Caledonia vs Samoa". Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ "Tahiti vs Solomon Islands". Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ "Solomon Islands vs Samoa". Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ "New Caledonia vs Tahitit". Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 2 August 2024.