Melanesia Cup

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Melanesia Cup
Association Oceania Football Confederation
First edition 1988
Last event 2002
Teams 5
Game mode Round tournament
Title holder Fiji
Record winner Fiji (5 tracks)

The Melanesia Cup ( English Melanesia Cup ) was a seven-time competition between 1988 and 2000 for the five national football teams of Melanesia . Eligible were Fiji , New Caledonia , Papua New Guinea , the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu .

In 1994, 1998 and 2000 the tournament also served as a qualifier for the Oceania Championships in 1996 , 1998 and 2000 .

In 2002 the tournament was canceled for security reasons.

In July 2020, OFC President Lambert Maltock and the Melanesian Spearhead Group confirmed that the competition would continue under the name MSG Prime Ministers' Cup and that other OFC nations outside Melanesia could also participate. A period for the event was not mentioned.

The tournaments at a glance

year host Final stands
winner 2nd place 3rd place 4th Place
1988
details
Solomon Islands FijiFiji
Fiji
Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands
Solomon Islands
New CaledoniaNew Caledonia
New Caledonia
VanuatuVanuatu
Vanuatu
1989
details
Fiji FijiFiji
Fiji
New CaledoniaNew Caledonia
New Caledonia
Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands
Solomon Islands
Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
1990
details
New Caledonia VanuatuVanuatu
Vanuatu
New CaledoniaNew Caledonia
New Caledonia
FijiFiji
Fiji
Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands
Solomon Islands
1992
details
Vanuatu FijiFiji
Fiji
New CaledoniaNew Caledonia
New Caledonia
Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands
Solomon Islands
VanuatuVanuatu
Vanuatu
1994
details
Solomon Islands Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands
Solomon Islands
FijiFiji
Fiji
Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
New CaledoniaNew Caledonia
New Caledonia
1998
details
Vanuatu FijiFiji
Fiji
VanuatuVanuatu
Vanuatu
Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands
Solomon Islands
Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
2000
details
Fiji FijiFiji
Fiji
Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands
Solomon Islands
VanuatuVanuatu
Vanuatu
New CaledoniaNew Caledonia
New Caledonia
2002
Solomon Islands (canceled) - - - -

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Pedro Amadeu: Melanesian Cup one step closer to be revived in Oceania. In: Oceania Football Center. July 3, 2020, accessed on July 3, 2020 .