Soccer Oceania Championship 2016

Soccer Oceania Championship 2016
OFC Nations Cup 2016
Number of nations	8  (of 11 applicants)
winner	New Zealand (5th title)
venue	Papua New Guinea
Opening game	May 28, 2016
Endgame	June 12, 2016
Games	15th
Gates	48  (⌀: 3.2 per game)
spectator	41,996  (⌀: 2,800 per game)
Top scorer	Raymond Gunemba (5 goals)
Best player	David Muta
Best goalkeeper	Stefan Marinovic
yellow cards	56  (⌀: 3.73 per game)
Yellow-red cards	1  (⌀: 0.07 per game)
Red cards	2  (⌀: 0.13 per game)

The OFC Nations Cup 2016 ( Engl. : OFC Nations Cup ) was the tenth playout of oceanic continental championship in football and was held from 28 May to 12 June 2016 in Papua New Guinea instead. As usual , seven teams were set for the tournament: Fiji , New Zealand , New Caledonia , Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands , Tahiti and Vanuatu . Eighth place on the grid went to the winner of a qualifying round in which the four underperforming teams of Oceania America. Samoa , Cook Islands , Samoa and Tonga participated. The game was played in two groups of four teams. The respective group first and second reached the semi-finals. The tournament also served to qualify the Oceania zone for the 2018 World Cup in Russia . However, the representative of Oceania at the World Cup was determined independently of the results of the final round. For this purpose, the three best-placed teams in each group played the oceanic participants in the intercontinental play-offs against the fifth-placed team in the South American qualification in two groups of three in 2017 .

The winner qualified for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia.

qualification

The qualification for the Oceania Championship took place from August 31 to September 4, 2015 at the Loto-Tonga Soka Center in Nukuʻalofa , Tonga. The four underperforming members of the OFC American Samoa, the Cook Islands, Samoa and Tonga took part in this. They played the eighth participant in the main tournament in the league system. This qualification was also the 1st round of the Oceania qualification for the 2018 World Cup .

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Samoa	3	2	0	1	006: 300	+3	06th
2.	American Samoa	3	2	0	1	006: 400	+2	06th
3.	Cook Islands	3	2	0	1	004: 200	+2	06th
4th	Tonga	3	0	0	3	001: 800	−7	00

August 31
Cook Islands	-	Tonga	3-0
Samoa	-	American Samoa	3: 2
September 2nd
Cook Islands	-	Samoa	1-0
American Samoa	-	Tonga	2: 1
September 4th
Tonga	-	Samoa	0: 3
American Samoa	-	Cook Islands	2-0

Venues

All games were played at Sir John Guise Stadium in Port Moresby .

Preliminary round

The group matches of the OFC Nations Cup also counted as the 2nd round of the Oceania qualification for the 2018 World Cup . The four semi-finalists determined the Oceania champion in the knockout system . The first three of each group, in turn, determined the Oceanic representative for the intercontinental play-offs against the fifth-placed team in the South American qualification in the third round of the Oceania qualification in two groups of three in a further round with back and forth matches .

Group A

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Papua New Guinea	3	1	2	0	011: 300	+8	05
2.	New Caledonia	3	1	2	0	009: 200	+7	05
3.	Tahiti	3	1	2	0	007: 300	+4	05
4th	Samoa	3	0	0	3	000:190	−19	00

May 29th in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea	-	New Caledonia	1: 1 (1: 0)
Tahiti	-	Samoa	4: 0 (4: 0)
June 1st in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea	-	Tahiti	2: 2 (1: 0)
New Caledonia	-	Samoa	7: 0 (4: 0)
June 5th in Port Moresby
Samoa	-	Papua New Guinea	0: 8 (0: 2)
Tahiti	-	New Caledonia	1: 1 (0: 0)

Group B

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	New Zealand	3	3	0	0	009: 100	+8	09
2.	Solomon Islands	3	1	0	2	001: 200	−1	03
3.	Fiji	3	1	0	2	004: 600	−2	03
4th	Vanuatu	3	1	0	2	003: 800	−5	03

May 28th in Port Moresby
New Zealand	-	Fiji	3: 1 (2: 1)
Vanuatu	-	Solomon Islands	0: 1 (0: 1)
May 31st in Port Moresby
Vanuatu	-	New Zealand	0: 5 (0: 5)
Solomon Islands	-	Fiji	0: 1 (0: 0)
June 4th in Port Moresby
New Zealand	-	Solomon Islands	1: 0 (0: 0)
Fiji	-	Vanuatu	2: 3 (0: 2)

Final round

Semifinals

June 8, 2016 in Port Moresby
New Zealand	-	New Caledonia	1: 0 (0: 0)
Papua New Guinea	-	Solomon Islands	2: 1 (1: 1)

final

Papua New Guinea		New Zealand
	June 11, 2016 at 4 p.m. ( PGT ) in Port Moresby ( Sir John Guise Stadium ) Result: 0: 0 n.v., 2: 4 i. E. Referee: Norbert Hauata ( Tahiti )
	Ronald Warisan - Koriak Upaiga , Daniel Joe , Felix Komolong - David Muta , Emmanuel Simon (115th Jacob Sabua ), Michael Foster , Alwin Komolong - Nigel Dabinyaba , Raymond Gunemba , Tommy Semmy Trainer: Flemming Serritslev ( Denmark )	Stefan Marinovic - Michael Boxall , Luke Adams , Kip Colvey - Bill Tuiloma (71st Moses Dyer ), Louis Fenton , Sam Brotherton , Michael McGlinchey - Rory Fallon , Kosta Barbarouses (55th Jeremy Brockie ), Monty Patterson (53rd Marco Rojas ) Coach: Anthony Hudson ( England )
	penalties shoot
	Koriak Upaiga 1-2 Tommy Semmy 2-3 Michael Foster Raymond Gunemba	0: 1 Rory Fallon 0: 2 Michael McGlinchey 1: 3 Moses Dyer Jeremy Brockie 2: 4 Marco Rojas
	Tommy Semmy (20th), Michael Foster (36th), Raymond Gunemba (117th)	Louis Fenton (27th), Michael Boxall (49th), Kip Colvey (61st), Michael McGlinchey (90th + 2 ')

Best goal scorers

rank	player	Gates
1	Raymond Gunemba	5
2	Chris Wood	4th
	Teaonui Tehau	4th
4th	Roy Krishna	3
	Nigel Dabingyaba	3
	Michael Foster	3

Another 3 players with two each and 20 players with one goal each.

Web links

• Official OFC website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Prestigious honor for Papua New Guinea . Oceania Football Confederation. October 29, 2015. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.