Football Oceania Championship 1998

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Football Oceania Championship 1998
OFC Nations Cup 1998
Number of nations 6  (of 12 applicants)
Oceania Champion New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand (2nd title)
venue AustraliaAustralia Australia ( Brisbane )
Opening game September 25, 1998
Endgame October 4, 1998
Games 10
Gates 52  (⌀: 5.2 per game)
spectator 20,200  (⌀: 2,020 per game)
Top scorer AustraliaAustralia Damian Mori (10 goals)

The OFC Nations Cup 1998 ( Engl. : OFC Nations Cup ) was the fourth playout of an oceanic continental championship in football and was held in Australia from 25 September to 4 October 1998 instead. All games were played at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane . Only six teams participated in the tournament: Australia , the Cook Islands , New Zealand , Tahiti , the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu . However, there were two qualifying tournaments, the Melanesia Cup in 1998 and the Polynesia Cup in 1998. Australia and New Zealand were seeded for the main competition. The game was played in two groups of three teams. The two best in the group qualified for the semifinals.

New Zealand qualified as tournament winners and Oceania champions for the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup in Mexico.

qualification

Fiji and Vanuatu as representatives of Melanesia qualified via the Melanesia Cup in September 1998 on Vanuatu and Tahiti and the Cook Islands as representatives of Polynesia via the Polynesia Cup in November 1998 in the Cook Islands.

Main competition

Group stage

Group A

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand  2  2  0  0 009: 100  +8 06th
 2. TahitiTahiti Tahiti  2  1  0  1 005: 200  +3 03
 3. VanuatuVanuatu Vanuatu  2  0  0  2 002:130 −11 00
25th of September
New Zealand - Tahiti 1: 0 (1: 0)
September 28th
New Zealand - Vanuatu 8: 1 (6: 1)
30. September
Tahiti - Vanuatu 5: 1 (2: 0)

Group B

Pl. country Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. AustraliaAustralia Australia  2  2  0  0 019: 100 +18 06th
 2. FijiFiji Fiji  2  1  0  1 004: 300  +1 03
 3. Cook IslandsCook Islands Cook Islands  2  0  0  2 000:190 −19 00
25th of September
Australia - Fiji 3: 1 (3: 0)
September 28th
Australia - Cook Islands 16: 0 (8: 0)
30. September
Fiji - Cook Islands 3: 0 (1: 0)

Semifinals

October 2nd
New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand - FijiFiji Fiji 1: 0 (0: 0)
October 2nd
AustraliaAustralia Australia - TahitiTahiti Tahiti 4: 1 (2: 0)

3rd place match

4th of October
FijiFiji Fiji - TahitiTahiti Tahiti 4: 2 (4: 0)

final

New Zealand Australia
New ZealandNew Zealand
Sunday 4th October 1998 in Brisbane ( Suncorp Stadium )
Result: 1: 0 (1: 0)
Spectators: 2,000
Referee: Massimo Raveino ( Tahiti ) TahitiTahiti 
AustraliaAustralia


Jason Batty - Chris Zoricich , Danny Hay , Sean Douglas (85th Ivan Vicelich ), Gavin Wilkinson , Harry Ngata (74th Che Bunce ), Aaran Lines , Chris Jackson , Mark Burton , Mark Atkinson , Vaughan Coveny
Trainer: Ken Dugdale 		Jason Petkovic - Alex Tobin (60th Dominic Longo ), Alvin Ceccoli , Mark Babic , Kasey Wehrman , Brad Maloney , Goran Lozanovski (46th Scott Chipperfield ), Troy Halpin (62nd Kris Trajanovski ), Simon Colosimo , Paul Trimboli , Damian Mori
Coach: Raul Blanco
goal 1-0 Mark Burton (24th)

Best goal scorers

rank player Gates
1 AustraliaAustralia Damian Mori 10
2 AustraliaAustralia Kris Trajanovski 4th
New ZealandNew Zealand Vaughan Coveny 4th
4th AustraliaAustralia Paul Trimboli 3
FijiFiji Esala Masinisu 3
TahitiTahiti Gerald Quennet 3
7th AustraliaAustralia Bradley Maloney 2
New ZealandNew Zealand Rupert Ryan 2
TahitiTahiti Loup Rousseau 2

Another 17 players each with one goal and 2 own goals.

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