Football Oceania Championship 2000
OFC Nations Cup 2000
Number of nations
6 (of 12 applicants)
Oceania Champion
Australia Australia (3rd title)
venue
Tahiti 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
Australian Craig Foster Clayton Zane (5 goals each)
Australian
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.
Australia Australia
2
2
0
0
0 23: 000
+23
0 6th
2.
Solomon Islands Solomon Islands
2
1
0
1
00 5: 700
−2
0 3
3.
Cook Islands Cook Islands
2
0
0
2
00 1:220
−21
0 0
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 Zealand New Zealand
2
2
0
0
00 5: 100
+4
0 6th
2.
Vanuatu Vanuatu
2
1
0
1
00 4: 500
−1
0 3
3.
Tahiti Tahiti
2
0
0
2
00 2: 500
−3
0 0
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
Australia Australia
-
Vanuatu Vanuatu
1: 0 (1: 0)
25th June
New Zealand New Zealand
-
Solomon Islands Solomon Islands
2: 0 (0: 0)
3rd place match
June 28th
Solomon Islands Solomon Islands
-
Vanuatu Vanuatu
2: 1 (0: 1)
final
Australia
New Zealand
Australia
New 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
1-0 Shaun Murphy (40th) 2-0 Craig Foster (66th)
Best goal scorers
Another 19 players each with one goal and 1 own goal.
Web links
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