Soccer Oceania Championship
Soccer Oceania Championship | |
abbreviation | Oceania Cup |
Association | OFC |
First edition | 1973 |
Teams | 8th |
Game mode |
Round tournament (2 groups of 4 teams each) / knockout system from the semi-finals |
Title holder | New Zealand |
Record winner | New Zealand (5 wins) |
Record player | ? |
Record scorer | Damian Mori (14 goals) |
Website | www.oceaniafootball.com |
The Football Oceania Championship ( English OFC Nations Cup , German actually OFC Nations Cup ), also just called Oceania Cup for short , is a continental tournament that has been held since 1973 for the national football teams to determine the Oceania champions in football. The competition is organized by the OFC Oceanic Football Confederation .
The tournament was held at varying intervals. It took place every two years between 1996 and 2004. The competition is currently played every four years and also serves as a qualifying tournament for the World Cup. The winner then plays off the World Cup participant in a play-off game against a team from another continent. The mode of play was also changed several times and switched between the tournament format with one or two group (s) in one country and the knockout or league system with home and away matches. Significant differences in quality between Australia and New Zealand on the one hand and the Pacific states on the other ensure that little attention is paid to the tournament in other parts of the world. Most of the best Australian players, most of whom are active in Europe, were not even nominated for the tournament because of their minor importance. In 2006 Australia switched to the Asian Association (AFC) and has not taken part in OFC competitions since.
The OFC Nations Cup winners qualify for the next FIFA Confederations Cup .
First participations
The first two (1973 and 1980), the fourth (1998) and the ninth (2012) Oceania Championship had first-time participants. Below is a list of all ten teams. In addition, a country is shown in brackets that took office under a new name.
- Teams in bold became Oceania champions when they first played.
- Teams in italics were hosts when they first participated.
- Teams in brackets participated for the first time under a different name.
year | First time participant | ||||
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1973 | Fiji | New Hebrides | New Caledonia | New Zealand | Tahiti |
1980 | Australia | Papua New Guinea | Solomon Islands | ||
1996 | not a first-time participant | ||||
1998 | Cook Islands | ( Vanuatu ) | |||
2000 | not a first-time participant | ||||
2002 | not a first-time participant | ||||
2004 | not a first-time participant | ||||
2008 | not a first-time participant | ||||
2012 | Samoa | ||||
2016 | not a first-time participant |
The tournaments at a glance
year | host | final | Game for 3rd place 1 | ||||||
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winner | Result | Second place | third place | Result | fourth place | ||||
1973 details |
New Zealand |
New Zealand |
2-0 |
Tahiti |
New Caledonia |
2: 1 |
New Hebrides |
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1980 details |
New Caledonia |
Australia |
4: 2 |
Tahiti |
New Caledonia |
2: 1 |
Fiji |
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1996 details |
no host 2 |
Australia |
6-0 5-0 |
Tahiti |
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1998 details |
Australia |
New Zealand |
1-0 |
Australia |
Fiji |
4: 2 |
Tahiti |
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2000 details |
Tahiti |
Australia |
2-0 |
New Zealand |
Solomon Islands |
2: 1 |
Vanuatu |
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2002 details |
New Zealand |
New Zealand |
1-0 |
Australia |
Tahiti |
1-0 |
Vanuatu |
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2004 3 details |
Australia |
Australia |
5: 1 6: 0 |
Solomon Islands |
New Zealand |
League system |
Fiji |
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2008 5 details |
no host 4 |
New Zealand |
League system |
New Caledonia |
Fiji |
League system |
Vanuatu |
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2012 3 details |
Solomon Islands |
Tahiti |
1-0 |
New Caledonia |
New Zealand |
4: 3 |
Solomon Islands |
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2016 3 details |
Papua New Guinea |
New Zealand |
0: 0 n.v. 4: 2 i. E. |
Papua New Guinea |
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2020 details |
New Zealand |
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Ranking list
rank | country | title | ∑ TN | Placements | |||||||||
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1973 | 1980 | 1996 | 1998 | 2000 | 2002 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | ||||
1 | New Zealand | 5 | 10 | 1 | VR | HF | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
2 | Australia * | 4th | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||
3 | / Tahiti | 1 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4th | VR | 3 | 5 | Q | 1 | VR |
4th |
New Hebrides / Vanuatu |
9 | 4th | VR | Q | VR | 4th | 4th | 6th | 4th | VR | VR | |
5 | Fiji | 8th | 5 | 4th | Q | 3 | A. | VR | 4th | 3 | VR | VR | |
6th | New Caledonia | 6th | 3 | 3 | Q | Q | Q | VR | Q | 2 | 2 | HF | |
7th | Solomon Islands | 7th | VR | HF | Q | 3 | VR | 2 | Q | 4th | HF | ||
8th | Cook Islands | 2 | VR | VR | Z | Q | Q | Q | Q | ||||
9 | Papua New Guinea | 4th | VR | Q | Q | Q | VR | Q | VR | 2 | |||
10 | Samoa | 2 | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | VR | VR | |||
11 | American Samoa | 0 | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||
12 | Tonga | 0 | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||
13 | Tuvalu ** | 0 | Q |
* Member of the AFC since 2005 . ** Associate member of OFC but not a member of FIFA .
Explanation: TN = participation in the final round, Q = out in the qualification, A = excluded, Z = withdrawn, VR = out in the preliminary round, HF = out in the semi-finals (no match for 3rd place)
Eternal table of finals
rank | country | Games | S. | U | N | Gates | difference | Points |
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1 | New Zealand | 34 | 25th | 2 | 7th | 94:34 | + | 6077 |
2 | Australia | 28 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 142: 13 | +129 | 74 |
3 | / Tahiti | 29 | 13 | 3 | 13 | 56:71 | - | 1542 |
4th | Fiji | 29 | 8th | 4th | 17th | 35:60 | - | 2528 |
5 | New Caledonia | 18th | 7th | 2 | 9 | 35:42 | - 7th | 23 |
6th |
New Hebrides / Vanuatu |
32 | 7th | 2 | 23 | 37:75 | - | 3823 |
7th | Solomon Islands | 20th | 5 | 2 | 13 | 27:64 | - | 3717th |
8th | Papua New Guinea | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6th | 10:38 | - | 285 |
9 | Samoa | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1:24 | - | 230 |
10 | Cook Islands | 4th | 0 | 0 | 4th | 1:41 | - | 400 |
Explanation: TN = participation in the final round, Q = out in the qualification, A = excluded, Z = withdrawn, VR = out in the preliminary round, HF = out in the semi-finals (no match for 3rd place)
Varia
competition | places | Stages | Messages 1 | Teams | Games | /Game | spectator | Z / game | /Game | /Game | /Game | ||||
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1973 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 37 | 3.08 | ? | ? | ||||||
1980 | 1 | 1 | 8th | 8th | 14th | 94 | 6.71 | ? | ? | ||||||
1996 2 | 11 | 4th | 6th | 18th | 3.00 | 61,279 | 10,213 | ||||||||
1998 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6th | 10 | 52 | 5.20 | 20,200 | 2,020 | ||||||
2000 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6th | 10 | 48 | 4.80 | 6,000 | 600 | ||||||
2002 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8th | 16 | 64 | 4.00 | 16,700 | 1,044 | ||||||
2004 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 6th | 17th | 69 | 4.06 | 71,561 | 4,209 | ||||||
2008 3 | 11 | 4th | 12 | 39 | 3.25 | 36,490 | 3,041 | ||||||||
2012 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8th | 16 | 64 | 4.00 | 131,700 | 8,231 | 52 | 3.25 | 1 | 0.06 | 2 | 0.13 |
2016 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8th | 15th | 48 | 3.20 | 41,996 | 2,800 | 56 | 3.73 | 1 | 0.07 | 2 | 0.13 |
2020 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8th | 15th | ||||||||||
Respective record |