Football Oceania Championship 2000

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Football Oceania Championship 2000
OFC Nations Cup 2000
Number of nations 6  (of 12 applicants)
Oceania Champion AustraliaAustralia Australia (3rd title)
venue TahitiTahiti Tahiti ( Papeete )
Opening game June 19, 2000
Endgame June 28, 2000
Games 10
Gates 48  (⌀: 4.8 per game)
spectator 6,000  (⌀: 600 per game)
Top scorer AustralianAustralian Craig Foster Clayton Zane (5 goals each)
AustralianAustralian 

The Football Oceania Championship 2000 ( English : OFC Nations Cup ) was the fifth game of the oceanic continental championship in football and took place from June 19 to 28, 2000 in Tahiti. All games were played at the Stade Pater Te Hono Nui in Papeete. With Australia , the Cook Islands , New Zealand , Tahiti , the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu , only six teams took part in the tournament. However, there were again two qualifying tournaments, the Melanesia Cup 2000 and the Polynesia Cup 2000. Australia and New Zealand were set for the main competition. The game was played in two groups of three teams. The two best in the group qualified for the semifinals.

Australia were Oceania champions for the third time, qualifying for the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup in Japan and South Korea.

qualification

Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands as representatives of Melanesia qualified via the Melanesia Cup 2000 in April in Suva , Fiji, and Tahiti and the Cook Islands as representatives of Polynesia via the Polynesia Cup 2000 in June in Papeete , Tahiti.

Main competition

Group stage

Group A

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. AustraliaAustralia Australia  2  2  0  0 023: 000 +23 06th
 2. Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands Solomon Islands  2  1  0  1 005: 700  −2 03
 3. Cook IslandsCook Islands Cook Islands  2  0  0  2 001:220 −21 00
June 19th
Australia - Cook Islands 17: 0 (7: 0)
June 21st
Solomon Islands - Cook Islands 5: 1 (1: 0)
23rd June
Australia - Solomon Islands 6: 0 (6: 0)

Group B

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand  2  2  0  0 005: 100  +4 06th
 2. VanuatuVanuatu Vanuatu  2  1  0  1 004: 500  −1 03
 3. TahitiTahiti Tahiti  2  0  0  2 002: 500  −3 00
June 19th
Tahiti - New Zealand 0: 2 (0: 1)
June 21st
New Zealand - Vanuatu 3: 1 (0: 1)
23rd June
Tahiti - Vanuatu 2: 3 (1: 0)

Semifinals

25th June
AustraliaAustralia Australia - VanuatuVanuatu Vanuatu 1: 0 (1: 0)
25th June
New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand - Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands Solomon Islands 2: 0 (0: 0)

3rd place match

June 28th
Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands Solomon Islands - VanuatuVanuatu Vanuatu 2: 1 (0: 1)

final

Australia New Zealand
AustraliaAustralia
Wednesday 28 June 2000 in Papeete ( Stade Pater Te Hono Nui )
Result: 2: 0 (1: 0)
Spectators: 300
Referee: Harry Attison ( Vanuatu ) VanuatuVanuatu 
New ZealandNew Zealand


Zeljko Kalac - Kevin Muscat , Danny Tiatto , Tony Popovic , Shaun Murphy , Stan Lazaridis , Craig Foster (80th Clayton Zane ), Brett Emerton , Paul Okon , Paul Agostino , David Zdrilic (80th Aurelio Vidmar )
Trainer: Frank Farina 		Jason Batty - Scott Smith , Jonathan Perry , Sean Douglas , Che Bunce , Chris Bouckenooghe , Mark Atkinson (77th Paul Urlovic ), Gavin Wilkinson (70th Raffaele De Gregorio ), Chris Jackson , Simon Elliott , Chris Killen
Trainer: Ken Dugdale
goal1-0 Shaun Murphy (40th)
goal2-0 Craig Foster (66th)

Best goal scorers

rank player Gates
1 AustralianAustralian Craig Foster 5
AustralianAustralian Clayton Zane 5
3 AustralianAustralian Kevin Muscat 4th
4th AustralianAustralian Paul Agostino 2
AustralianAustralian David Zdrilic 2
New ZealandersNew Zealanders Simon Elliott 2
New ZealandersNew Zealanders Chris Killen 2
Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands Commins Menapi 2
Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands Gideon Omokirio 2
VanuatuVanuatu Richard Iwai 2

Another 19 players each with one goal and 1 own goal.

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