Soccer Oceania Championship 2016
Soccer Oceania Championship 2016 | |
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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 |
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1. | Samoa | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6: 3 | +3 | 6th |
2. | American Samoa | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6: 4 | +2 | 6th |
3. | Cook Islands | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4: 2 | +2 | 6th |
4th | Tonga | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1: 8 | −7 | 0 |
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 |
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1. | Papua New Guinea | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11: 3 | +8 | 5 |
2. | New Caledonia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9: 2 | +7 | 5 |
3. | Tahiti | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7: 3 | +4 | 5 |
4th | Samoa | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0:19 | −19 | 0 |
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 |
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1. | New Zealand | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9: 1 | +8 | 9 |
2. | Solomon Islands | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1: 2 | −1 | 3 |
3. | Fiji | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4: 6 | −2 | 3 |
4th | Vanuatu | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3: 8 | −5 | 3 |
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 | |||||
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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 )
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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 ) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ^ 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.