OFC Champions League 2014/15

OFC Champions League 2014/15
Cup winners	Auckland City FC (7th title)
Beginning	October 7, 2014
Teams	15th
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The OFC Champions League 2014/15 was the 14th edition of an oceanic championship competition for club teams in football. The qualification took place in Samoa between October 7th and 11th, 2014 . The group stage begins on April 17, 2014. The mode changes made in the previous season were retained. The actual group stage with eleven clubs from the seven strongest countries (two each from Fiji , New Zealand , Tahiti and Vanuatu , and one each from New Caledonia , Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands ) was a qualifying round with the champions from American Samoa , the Cook Islands , Samoa and Tonga upstream. These four teams played the twelfth participant in the group stage in a round-robin tournament everyone against everyone. Here the Samoan club Lupe ole Soaga was able to conquer first place.

In the group stage, twelve teams in three groups of four played the semi-finals, for which the three group winners and the best runner-up were qualified. The group stage took place in the form of a tournament in Fiji in April 2015.

The OFC Champions League winner qualified for the 2015 FIFA Club World Cup . Both finalists also qualified for the OFC President's Cup 2015, in which two clubs from Asia and two other teams participated.

Attendees

country	society	Qualified by
Clubs in the group stage
Fiji	Suva FC	2014 National Football League champions
	Ba FC	Runner-up in the National Football League 2014
New Zealand	Auckland City FC	Winner of the ASB Premiership Final 2013/14. First of the ASB Premiership 2013/14 group stage
	Team Wellington	Second in the ASB Premiership 2013/14 group stage
Tahiti	AS Pirae	Master of Tahiti Ligue 1 2013/14
	AS Tefana	First of the Tahiti Division Fédérale 2014/15 group stage
Vanuatu	Tafea FC	2013/14 TVL League champions
	Amicale FC	Runner-up of the TVL League 2013/14
New Caledonia	FC Gaïtcha	Champion of the Division d'Honneur 2013
Papua New Guinea	Hekari United FC	Champion of the Papua New Guinea National Soccer League 2014
Solomon Islands	Western United FC	Master of the Telekom S-League 2014/15
Clubs in qualification
American Samoa	FC SKBC	Champion of the FFAS Senior League 2013
Cook Islands	Puaikura FC	Masters of the Cook Islands Round Cup 2013
Samoa	Lupe ole Soaga	Champion of the Samoa National League 2012/13
Tonga	Lotoha'apai United	Master of Tonga Major League 2013

qualification

The qualification phase took place from October 7-11 , 2014 in Apia ( National Soccer Stadium ), Samoa . The draw was held on September 22, 2014 in Auckland , New Zealand. The four clubs played a round-robin tournament and the winner entered the group stage with the other eleven directly qualified participants . The Samoan club Lupe ole Soaga won all three games and is in the final of the OFC Champions League.

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Lupe ole Soaga	3	3	0	0	010: 200	+8	09
2.	Puaikura FC	3	1	1	1	004: 400	± 0	04th
3.	Lotoha'apai United	3	1	0	2	004: 300	+1	03
4th	FC SKBC	3	0	1	2	002:110	−9	01

October 7, 2014
FC SKBC	1: 1	Puaikura FC
Lotoha'apai United	0: 1	Lupe ole Soaga
October 9, 2014
FC SKBC	1: 4	Lotoha'apai United
Lupe ole Soaga	3: 2	Puaikura FC
October 11, 2014
Puaikura FC	1-0	Lotoha'apai United
Lupe ole Soaga	6-0	FC SKBC

Group stage

The group stage took place in Fiji between April 11th and 18th, 2015 . The twelve clubs were divided into three groups of four teams each, with the restriction that clubs from the same country could not be drawn into the same group. In each group the teams played against each other once. The group winners and the best runner-up made it to the semifinals .

The games of group A were played in Govind Park in Ba , the games of groups B and C in the TFL National Stadium in Suva .

Group A

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Ba FC	3	3	0	0	008: 100	+7	09
2.	FC Gaïtcha	3	2	0	1	013: 600	+7	06th
3.	AS Pirae	3	0	1	2	005:100	−5	01
4th	Lupe ole Soaga	3	0	1	2	005:140	−9	01

April 11, 2015
AS Pirae	3: 3	Lupe ole Soaga
Ba FC	3-0	FC Gaïtcha
April 14, 2015
Lupe ole Soaga	1: 3	Ba FC
FC Gaïtcha	5: 2	AS Pirae
April 18, 2015
FC Gaïtcha	8: 1	Lupe ole Soaga
AS Pirae	0: 2	Ba FC

Group B

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Auckland City FC	3	3	0	0	009-000	+9	09
2.	Amicale FC	3	2	0	1	004: 500	−1	06th
3.	Suva FC	3	1	0	2	005: 700	−2	03
4th	Western United FC	3	0	0	3	001: 700	−6	00

April 11, 2015
Auckland City FC	3-0	Suva FC
Western United FC	0: 1	Amicale FC
April 14, 2015
Auckland City FC	3-0	Western United FC
Amicale FC	3: 2	Suva FC
April 18, 2015
Suva FC	3: 1	Western United FC
Amicale FC	0: 3	Auckland City FC

Group C

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Team Wellington	3	3	0	0	007: 300	+4	09
2.	Hekari United FC	3	2	0	1	006: 600	± 0	06th
3.	Tafea FC	3	0	1	2	005: 700	−2	01
4th	AS Tefana	3	0	1	2	004: 600	−2	01

April 12, 2015
Tafea FC	2: 3	Hekari United FC
Team Wellington	2: 1	AS Tefana
April 15, 2015
Hekari United FC	0: 2	Team Wellington
AS Tefana	1: 1	Tafea FC
17th April 2015
AS Tefana	2: 3	Hekari United FC
Tafea FC	2: 3	Team Wellington

Ranking of the runners-up

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	FC Gaïtcha	3	2	0	1	013: 600	+7	06th
2.	Hekari United FC	3	2	0	1	006: 600	± 0	06th
3.	Amicale FC	3	2	0	1	004: 500	−1	06th

Knockout phase

Semifinals

The semi-finals took place on April 21 at the TFL National Stadium in Suva .

	Result
FC Gaïtcha	0: 1	Auckland City FC
Ba FC	0: 2	Team Wellington

final

Auckland City FC		Team Wellington
	April 26, 2015 at 7 p.m. ( FJI ) in Suva ( TFL National Stadium ) Result: 1: 1 n.V. (1: 0, 1: 1), 4: 3 n.E. Spectators: 3,000 Referee: Norbert Haunata ( Tahiti )   Match report
	Tamati Williams - Marko Đorđević , Takuya Iwata , Ángel Berlanga , Darren White - Mario Bilen , Iván Carril Regueiro (90th Kim Dae-wook ), Ivan Vicelich (98th Adam McGeorge ) - Ryan De Vries , João Moreira (85th Gustavo Souto ), David Browne Trainer: Ramon Tribulietx	Michael O'Keeffe - Aaron Scott (78th Tim Myers ), Bill Robertson , Ian Hogg - Cole Peverley , Michael Gwyther , Alex Feneridis , Justin Gulley , Christopher Bale - Tom Jackson (33rd Sean Lovemore ), Luis Corrales Trainer: Matt Calcott
	1-0 João Moreira (17th)	1: 1 Ian Hogg (78th)
	penalties shoot
	1: 1 Marko Đorđević Ángel Berlanga 2: 2 Adam McGeorge 3: 3 David Browne 4: 3 Kim Dae-wook	0: 1 Alex Feneridis Luis Corrales 1: 2 Cole Peverley 2: 3 Justin Gulley Ian Hogg
	Iván Carril Regueiro (40th), David Browne (77th), Mario Bilen (97th)	Bill Robertson (13th), Michael Gwyther (32nd), Alex Feneridis (39th), Ian Hogg (72nd), Sean Lovemore (97th)
		Christopher Bale (112.)

Best goal scorers

Below are the top scorers of the OFC Champions League season (without qualification).

rank	player	club	Gates
1	Saula Waqa	Ba FC	5
2	Jean Kaltack	Tafea FC	4th
	João Moreira	Auckland City	4th
4th	Michael Gwyther	Team Wellington	3
	Bertrand Kaï	FC Gaïtcha	3
	Jarrod Smith	Team Wellington	3
	Jean-Christ Wajoka	FC Gaïtcha	3

Web links

• Results and Table of qualification (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ OFC Executive Committee decisions. Oceania Football Confederation , April 23, 2014, accessed September 24, 2014 . 
2. ^ OFC Executive meeting outcomes announced. Oceania Football Confederation , November 23, 2013, accessed September 24, 2014 . 
3. ^ OFC Champions League Preliminary draw finalized. (No longer available online.) Oceania Football Confederation , September 22, 2014, archived from the original on September 23, 2014 ; accessed on September 24, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.