Soccer Oceania Championship

This article describes the men's soccer Oceania Championship. For women's soccer competition, see Women's Oceania Soccer Championship .

Soccer Oceania Championship
abbreviation	Oceania Cup
Association	OFC
First edition	1973
Teams	8th
Game mode	Round tournament (2 groups of 4 teams each) / knockout system from the semi-finals
Title holder	New Zealand
Record winner	New Zealand (5 wins)
Record player	?
Record scorer	Damian Mori (14 goals)
Website	www.oceaniafootball.com

The Football Oceania Championship ( English OFC Nations Cup , German  actually OFC Nations Cup ), also just called Oceania Cup for short , is a continental tournament that has been held since 1973 for the national football teams to determine the Oceania champions in football. The competition is organized by the OFC Oceanic Football Confederation .

The tournament was held at varying intervals. It took place every two years between 1996 and 2004. The competition is currently played every four years and also serves as a qualifying tournament for the World Cup. The winner then plays off the World Cup participant in a play-off game against a team from another continent. The mode of play was also changed several times and switched between the tournament format with one or two group (s) in one country and the knockout or league system with home and away matches. Significant differences in quality between Australia and New Zealand on the one hand and the Pacific states on the other ensure that little attention is paid to the tournament in other parts of the world. Most of the best Australian players, most of whom are active in Europe, were not even nominated for the tournament because of their minor importance. In 2006 Australia switched to the Asian Association (AFC) and has not taken part in OFC competitions since.

The OFC Nations Cup winners qualify for the next FIFA Confederations Cup .

Former logo

First participations

The first two (1973 and 1980), the fourth (1998) and the ninth (2012) Oceania Championship had first-time participants. Below is a list of all ten teams. In addition, a country is shown in brackets that took office under a new name.

• Teams in bold became Oceania champions when they first played.
• Teams in italics were hosts when they first participated.
• Teams in brackets participated for the first time under a different name.

year	First time participant
1973	Fiji	New Hebrides	New Caledonia	New Zealand	Tahiti
1980	Australia	Papua New Guinea	Solomon Islands
1996	not a first-time participant
1998	Cook Islands	( Vanuatu )
2000	not a first-time participant
2002	not a first-time participant
2004	not a first-time participant
2008	not a first-time participant
2012	Samoa
2016	not a first-time participant

The tournaments at a glance

year	host	final			Game for 3rd place 1
		winner	Result	Second place	third place	Result	fourth place
1973 details	New Zealand	New Zealand	2-0	Tahiti	New Caledonia	2: 1	New Hebrides
1980 details	New Caledonia	Australia	4: 2	Tahiti	New Caledonia	2: 1	Fiji
1996 details	no host 2	Australia	6-0 5-0	Tahiti	New Zealand Solomon Islands
1998 details	Australia	New Zealand	1-0	Australia	Fiji	4: 2	Tahiti
2000 details	Tahiti	Australia	2-0	New Zealand	Solomon Islands	2: 1	Vanuatu
2002 details	New Zealand	New Zealand	1-0	Australia	Tahiti	1-0	Vanuatu
2004 3 details	Australia	Australia	5: 1 6: 0	Solomon Islands	New Zealand	League system	Fiji
2008 5 details	no host 4	New Zealand	League system	New Caledonia	Fiji	League system	Vanuatu
2012 3 details	Solomon Islands	Tahiti	1-0	New Caledonia	New Zealand	4: 3	Solomon Islands
2016 3 details	Papua New Guinea	New Zealand	0: 0 n.v. 4: 2 i. E.	Papua New Guinea	New Caledonia Solomon Islands
2020 details	New Zealand

¹In 1996 and 2016 there was no match for third place. Among the listed semi-finalists, the first named was defeated by the later Oceania champion, the second named to the other finalist.

² No final round in one country, but a knockout round with a return leg.

³ Group stage was part of the World Cup qualification.

^4th No finals in one country, but a league round with a return leg.

⁵ At the same time World Cup qualification.

Ranking list

rank	country	title	∑ TN	Placements
				1973	1980	1996	1998	2000	2002	2004	2008	2012	2016
1	New Zealand	5	10	1	VR	HF	1	2	1	3	1	3	1
2	Australia *	4th	6th		1	1	2	1	2	1
3	/ Tahiti	1	9	2	2	2	4th	VR	3	5	Q	1	VR
4th	New Hebrides / Vanuatu		9	4th	VR	Q	VR	4th	4th	6th	4th	VR	VR
5	Fiji		8th	5	4th	Q	3	A.	VR	4th	3	VR	VR
6th	New Caledonia		6th	3	3	Q	Q	Q	VR	Q	2	2	HF
7th	Solomon Islands		7th		VR	HF	Q	3	VR	2	Q	4th	HF
8th	Cook Islands		2				VR	VR	Z	Q	Q	Q	Q
9	Papua New Guinea		4th		VR	Q	Q	Q	VR	Q		VR	2
10	Samoa		2			Q	Q	Q	Q	Q	Q	VR	VR
11	American Samoa		0			Q	Q	Q	Q	Q	Q	Q	Q
12	Tonga		0			Q	Q	Q	Q	Q	Q	Q	Q
13	Tuvalu **		0								Q

* Member of the AFC since 2005 . ** Associate member of OFC but not a member of FIFA .

Explanation: TN = participation in the final round, Q = out in the qualification, A = excluded, Z = withdrawn, VR = out in the preliminary round, HF = out in the semi-finals (no match for 3rd place)

Eternal table of finals

rank	country	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	difference	Points
1	New Zealand	34	25th	2	07th	094:34	+ 060	77
2	Australia	28	24	2	02	142: 13	+129	74
3	/ Tahiti	29	13	3	13	056:71	- 015	42
4th	Fiji	29	08th	4th	17th	035:60	- 025	28
5	New Caledonia	18th	07th	2	09	035:42	- 7th00	23
6th	New Hebrides / Vanuatu	32	07th	2	23	037:75	- 038	23
7th	Solomon Islands	20th	05	2	13	027:64	- 037	17th
8th	Papua New Guinea	09	01	2	06th	010:38	- 028	05
9	Samoa	03	00	0	03	001:24	- 023	00
10	Cook Islands	04th	00	0	04th	001:41	- 040	00

Explanation: TN = participation in the final round, Q = out in the qualification, A = excluded, Z = withdrawn, VR = out in the preliminary round, HF = out in the semi-finals (no match for 3rd place)

Varia

competition	places	Stages	Messages 1	Teams	Games		/Game	spectator	Z / game		/Game		/Game		/Game
1973	1	1	5	5	12	37	3.08	?	?
1980	1	1	8th	8th	14th	94	6.71	?	?
1996 2			11	4th	6th	18th	3.00	61,279	10,213
1998	1	1	12	6th	10	52	5.20	20,200	2,020
2000	1	1	12	6th	10	48	4.80	6,000	600
2002	2	2	12	8th	16	64	4.00	16,700	1,044
2004	1	2	12	6th	17th	69	4.06	71,561	4,209
2008 3			11	4th	12	39	3.25	36,490	3,041
2012	1	1	11	8th	16	64	4.00	131,700	8,231	52	3.25	1	0.06	2	0.13
2016	1	1	11	8th	15th	48	3.20	41,996	2,800	56	3.73	1	0.07	2	0.13
2020	1	2	11	8th	15th
Respective record

¹The reports submitted on time are counted regardless of whether they were withdrawn or not started before the start of the qualification; including defending champions and hosts.

² No final round in one country, but a knockout round with a return leg.

³ No finals in one country, but played in league format with a return leg.

→ Main article : List of top scorer in the Oceania Cup

Web links

• The Oceania Cup on rsssf.com