OFC Champions League 2020

OFC Champions League 2020
Beginning	February 16, 2020
Teams	16 (18 with qualification)
Gates	86  (ø 4.1 per game)
spectator	26600  (ø 1,267 per game)
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The OFC Champions-League 2020 is the 19th edition of the Oceanic Club Championship, Oceania's premier club football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), and the 14th season under the current name OFC Champions League .

The 2020 OFC Champions League winners will qualify for the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar . Hienghène Sport was defending champion, but was eliminated in the group stage.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the competition is paused and should not take place before September 2020 at the earliest.

Attendees

Ba Lautoka Magenta (G) Hienghène Sport Eastern suburbs Auckland City Lae City Hekari United (G) Solomon Warriors Henderson Eels Venus (G) Tiare Tahiti Malampa Revivors (G) Galaxy Pago Youth Tupapa Maraerenga Lupe o le Soaga Veitongo

Location of the participants of the OFC Master League 2020. Teams entering the group stage; (G) hosts of the group stage teams participating in the qualifying round; Teams that have withdrawn

A total of 18 teams from all 11 OFC member associations take part in the competition.

• The seven established associations (Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Vanuatu) will each receive two starting places in the group stage.
• The four developing associations (American Samoa, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga) will each receive a starting place in the qualification phase, with the winners and the runners-up advancing to the group phase.

Teams entering the group stage

country	team	Qualification method
Fiji	Ba	Premier League 2019 champions
	Lautoka	Premier League runner-up
New Caledonia	magenta	Super Ligue 2018 champions
	Hienghène Sport	Super Ligue 2018 runner-up
New Zealand	Eastern suburbs	Football Championship Master Playoff 2018/19 champions
	Auckland City	Football Championship Preliminary Round First
Papua New Guinea	Lae City	National Soccer League 2019 champions
	Hekari United	National Soccer League 2019 runner-up
Solomon Islands	Solomon Warriors	Telekom S-League 2019/20 champions †
	Henderson Eels	Telekom S-League 2019/20 runner-up †
Tahiti	Venus	Ligue 1 2018/19 champions
	Tiare Tahiti	Ligue 1 2018/19 runners-up
Vanuatu	Malampa Revivors	VFF National Super League 2019 champions
	Galaxy	VFF National Super League 2019 runner-up

Teams entering the qualifying phase

country	team	Qualification method
American Samoa	Pago Youth	FFAS Senior League 2018 champion
Cook Islands	Tupapa Maraerenga	Cook Islands Round Cup 2019 champions
Samoa	Lupe o le Soaga	Samoa National League 2019 champions
Tonga	Veitongo	Tonga Major League 2019 champions

† Since the Telekom S-League 2019/20 0 was not yet over at the end of 2019, the Solomon Warriors and Henderson Eels, who had both secured a place in the first two places and were thus for the OFC Champions League 2020 at this point in time qualified, placed in the group stage after their placement at the end of 2019. The league continued into 2020, with the Solomon Warriors and Henderson Eels eventually taking the same spots as champions and runners-up, respectively.

Schedule

The competition schedule is as follows: For this season, the qualification phase was originally brought forward from January 2020 to December 2019 so that it can coincide with the end of the national league season of the participating member associations and can be played in Samoa. However, it was later postponed to January 2020 and relocated to New Zealand.

On March 9, 2020, OFC announced that all OFC tournaments had been postponed to May 6, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . On May 14, 2020 it was announced that the quarter-finals would take place in September 2020 at the earliest.

phase	draw	Game dates
qualification	December 13, 2019	25.-31. January 2020 ( New Zealand )
group		Group A: 16. – 22. February 2020 ( Papua New Guinea ) Group B: 15-21 February 2020 ( Vanuatu ) Group C: 1st - 7th March 2020 ( New Caledonia ) Group D: 1st - 7th March 2020 ( Tahiti )
Quarter finals	pending	outstanding (originally April 4-5, 2020)
Semifinals		outstanding (originally April 25-26, 2020)
final		pending (originally May 16, 2020)

qualification

The draw and qualifying stage hosts were announced by OFC on December 13, 2019. The four teams in the qualifying phase played against each other at a central venue. The winners and the second and third placed came into the group stage and joined the 14 direct participants. The games were played in New Zealand between January 25 and 31, 2020.

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Lupe o le Soaga	2	1	1	0	002-000	+2	04th
2.	Tupapa Maraerenga	2	0	2	0	002: 200	± 0	02
3.	Veitongo	2	0	1	1	002: 400	−2	01
4th	Pago Youth ≈	0	0	0	0	002-000	+2	00

≈ On December 17, 2019, OFC announced that Pago Youth had been eliminated from the qualification phase due to concerns about the measles outbreak in the Pacific.

January 25, 2020 16:00	Lupe o le Soaga	2-0	Veitongo	Ngahue Reserve, Auckland Spectators: 300 Referee: Calvin Berg ( New Zealand )
	Matthew Chant 27 ′  Suivai Ataga 31 ′	Match report

January 28, 2020 16:00	Tupapa Maraerenga	0-0	Lupe o le Soaga	Ngahue Reserve, Auckland Spectators: 250 Referee: Kavitesh Behari ( Fiji )
		Match report

January 31, 2020 16:00	Veitongo	2: 2	Tupapa Maraerenga	Ngahue Reserve, Auckland Spectators: 250 Referee: Teremoana Roihau ( Tahiti )
	Hema Polovili 2, 33 ′	Match report	Andre Estay 10 ′  Harlem Simiona 50 ′

Group stage

The draw and qualifying round hosts were announced by OFC on December 13, 2019. The 16 teams (14 teams that advance to the group stage and two teams that come out of the qualifying round) were drawn in four groups of four. The four teams in each group played against each other in a central venue in a round-robin mode. The winners and runners-up in each group reached the quarter-finals of the knockout round. The games were played at the following dates and locations:

• The Group A games were played in Papua New Guinea from February 16-22, 2020 .
• The Group B games were played in Vanuatu between February 15 and 21, 2020 .
• Group C games were played in New Caledonia between March 1 and 7, 2020 .
• The Group D games were played in Tahiti between March 1 and 7, 2020 .

Group A

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Eastern suburbs	3	2	1	0	008: 300	+5	07th
2.	Galaxy	3	1	1	1	007: 500	+2	04th
3.	Hekari United (A)	3	1	1	1	005: 500	± 0	04th
4th	Hienghène Sport	3	0	1	2	003:100	−7	01

(A) = organizer

February 16, 2020 12:00 PM	Galaxy	4: 1	Hienghène Sport	Sir John Guise Stadium , Port Moresby Spectators: 1000 Referees: Ben Aukwai ( Solomon Islands )
	Roberson 14 ′  Gagame Feni 34 ′ Terence Carter 80 ′ Kensi Tangis 90 + 1 ′	Match report	Joseph Athale (Elfm.)

February 16, 2020 15:00	Eastern suburbs	2: 1	Hekari United	Sir John Guise Stadium , Port Moresby Spectators: 1,500 Referee: Veer Singh ( Fiji )
	Martín Bueno 19 ′, 45 + 2 ′	Match report	Kolu Kepo 44 ′

February 19, 2020 12:00 PM	Galaxy	2: 2	Eastern suburbs	Sir John Guise Stadium , Port Moresby Spectators: 100 Referee: Timothy Niu ( Solomon Islands )
	Terence Carter 16 ′  Roberson 21 ′	Match report	Martín Bueno 43 ′ (eleven meters), 90 + 2 ′

February 19, 2020 15:00	Hienghène Sport	2: 2	Hekari United	Sir John Guise Stadium , Port Moresby Spectators: 500 Referee: Deepak Raj ( Fiji )
	Roy Kayara 5 ′  Joseph Athale 83 ′ ( eleven meters )	Match report	Erick Joe 30 ′  Vinicius rice 45 + 7 ′ (eleven meters)

February 22, 2020 12:00	Hienghène Sport	0: 4	Eastern suburbs	Sir John Guise Stadium , Port Moresby Spectators: 300 Referees: Ben Aukwai ( Solomon Islands )
		Match report	Martín Bueno 11 ′, 72 ′  Reid Drake 17 ′ Adam Thurston 90 + 5 ′

February 22, 2020 15:00	Hekari United	2: 1	Galaxy	Sir John Guise Stadium , Port Moresby Spectators: 2,000 Referee: Veer Singh ( Fiji )
	Ati Kepo 54 ′, 64 ′	Match report	Bong Kalo 84 ′

Group B

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Malampa Revivors (A)	3	1	2	0	006: 300	+3	05
2.	Henderson Eels	3	1	2	0	008: 700	+1	05
3.	Lae City	3	1	1	1	010: 600	+4	04th
4th	Lautoka	3	0	1	2	003:110	−8	01

(A) = organizer

February 15, 2020 11:00	Lae City	3: 3	Henderson Eels	Luganville Soccer Stadium , Luganville Spectators: 2,500 Referee: Norbert Hauata ( Tahiti )
	Emmanuel Simon 3 ′, 62 ′ (eleven p.m.)   Nigel Dabinyaba 64 ′	Match report	Tutizama Tanito 24 ′ ( eleven yards ), 70 ′ ( eleven yards )   Emmanuel Simon 3 ′, 62 ′ (Elfm.) Raphael Le'ai 36 ′

February 15, 2020 15:00	Lautoka	1: 1	Malampa Revivors	Luganville Soccer Stadium , Luganville Spectators: 3,500 Referee: Campbell-Kirk Waugh ( New Zealand )
	Jack Caunter 29 ′ (Elfm.)	Match report	Azariah Soromon 16 ′

February 18, 2020 11:00 am	Lautoka	0: 7	Lae City	Luganville Soccer Stadium , Luganville Spectators: 1,200 Referee: Sione Mau ( American Samoa )
		Match report	Nigel Dabinyaba 23 ′, 62 ′  Raymond Gunemba 37 ′, 57 ′ Emmanuel Simon 39 ′, 44 ′ Obert Bika 45 + 2 ′

February 18, 2020 15:00	Malampa Revivors	2: 2	Henderson Eels	Luganville Soccer Stadium , Luganville Spectators: 2,800 Referee: Antony Riley ( New Zealand )
	Edwin Bai 5 ′  Armando Ravo 86 ′	Match report	Joses Nawo 42 ′, 80 ′

February 21, 2020 11:00 am	Henderson Eels	3: 2	Lautoka	Luganville Soccer Stadium , Luganville Spectators: 1,800 Referee: Sione Lelenga ( Tonga )
	Kennedy Watemae 72 ′  Raphael Le'ai 87 ′ Joses Nawo 90 + 6 ′	Match report	Shazil Ali 29 ′  Jack Caunter 51 ′ (Elfm.)

February 21, 2020 15:00	Malampa Revivors	3-0	Lae City	Luganville Soccer Stadium , Luganville Spectators: 4,200 Referees: Norbert Hauata ( Tahiti )
	Andre Batick 34 ′, 45 + 3 ′, 58 ′	Match report

Group C

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Magenta (A)	3	3	0	0	008: 200	+6	09
2.	Solomon Warriors	3	2	0	1	004: 200	+2	06th
3.	Tiare Tahiti	3	1	0	2	005: 400	+1	03
4th	Tupapa Maraerenga ≈	3	0	0	3	000: 900	−9	00

(A) = organizer

≈ On March 1, 2020, OFC announced that Tupapapa Maraerenga had been eliminated from the group stage because three of their players were not allowed to compete because their measles vaccination could not be confirmed, according to the New Caledonia Health and Welfare Authority. Tupapapa Maraerenga lost all games that were counted as a 3-0 victory for the opponent due to his withdrawal.

March 1, 2020 16:00	Solomon Warriors	1-0	Tiare Tahiti	Stade Numa-Daly , Nouméa Spectators: 150 Referees: Nick Waldron ( New Zealand )
	Dennis Ifunaoa 66 ′	Match report

March 1, 2020 7:00 p.m.	Tupapa Maraerenga	0: 3 (rated)	magenta	Stade Numa-Daly , Nouméa Referee: Sione Lelenga ( Tonga )
		Match report

March 4, 2020 5:00 p.m.	Tupapa Maraerenga	0: 3 (rated)	Solomon Warriors	Stade Numa-Daly , Nouméa
		Match report

March 4, 2020 8:00 p.m.	magenta	3: 2	Tiare Tahiti	Stade Numa-Daly , Nouméa Spectators: 450 Referee: Matthew Conger ( New Zealand )
	Kevin Nemia 54 + 4 ′, 87 ′  Rico Haring 51 ′ ( own goal )	Match report	Manarii Porlier 21 ′, 76 ′

March 7, 2020 16:00	Tiare Tahiti	3: 0 (rated)	Tupapa Maraerenga	Stade Numa-Daly , Nouméa
		Match report

March 7, 2020 7:00 p.m.	magenta	2-0	Solomon Warriors	Stade Numa-Daly , Nouméa Spectators: 550 Referee: Cory Mills ( New Zealand )
	Fonzy Ranchain 16 ′  Nathanaël Hmaen 28 ′	Match report

Group D

At the suggestion of the local organizing committee in Tahiti, OFC agreed to move the venue for Group D from Stade Pater Te Hono Nui , Pirae , to Stade Municipal de Mahina , Mahina . Due to heavy rainfall, the first day of Group D was to be played in Stade Pater, after Stade Mahina was found unsuitable by the OFC in cooperation with the local organizing committee.

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Auckland City	3	3	0	0	009-000	+9	09
2.	Venus (A)	3	2	0	1	010: 300	+7	06th
3.	Lupe o le Soaga	3	1	0	2	004:110	−7	03
4th	Ba	3	0	0	3	005:140	−9	00

(A) = organizer

March 1, 2020 5:00 p.m.	Ba	0: 6	Auckland City	Stade Pater Te Hono Nui , Pirae Spectators: 350 Referee: Médéric Lacour ( New Caledonia )
		Match report	Jordan Vale 30 ′  Emiliano Tade 39 ′, 45 + 1 ′ Logan Rogerson 58 ′ Myer Bevan 72 ′ Brian Kaltak 84 ′

March 1, 2020 8:00 p.m.	Lupe o le Soaga	0: 6	Venus	Stade Pater Te Hono Nui , Pirae Spectators: 750 Referee: Joel Hopken ( Vanuatu )
		Match report	Tamatoa Tetauira 30 ′, 48 ′, 88 ′  Teaonui Tehau 33 ′ Andrew Setefano 51 ′ ( own goal ) Tauhiti Keck 76 ′

March 4, 2020 5:00 p.m.	Lupe o le Soaga	4: 3	Ba	Stade Municipal de Mahina , Mahina Spectators: 350 Referees: Hamilton Siau ( Solomon Islands )
	Jamie Mason 11 ′  Tomas Mosquera 29 ′ ( Penalty ) Vaa Taualai 38 ′ Ritchievoy Ueligitone 52 ′	Match report	Malakai Tiwa 72 ′  Saula Waqa 74 ′ Samuela Drudru 76 ′

March 4, 2020 8:00 p.m.	Venus	0: 1	Auckland City	Stade Municipal de Mahina , Mahina Spectators: 1,500 Referees: David Yareboinen ( Papua New Guinea )
		Match report	Myer Bevan 42 ′

March 7, 2020 5:00 p.m.	Auckland City	2-0	Lupe o le Soaga	Stade Municipal de Mahina , Mahina Spectators: 250 Referees: George Time ( Solomon Islands )
	Brian Kaltak 30 ′  Dylan Manickum 68 ′	Match report	Myer Bevan 42 ′

March 7, 2020 8:00 p.m.	Venus	4: 2	Ba	Stade Municipal de Mahina , Mahina Spectators: 250 Referee: Médéric Lacour ( New Caledonia )
	Teaonui Tehau 29 ′, 45 + 2 ′, 55 ′  Kevin Barbe 36 ′	Match report	Samuela Drudru 2 ′  Benjamin Totori 10 ′

Final round

The pairings for the final round have not yet been drawn.

Web links

• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Solomon Islands has its Champions League contenders. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , December 30, 2019, accessed July 11, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Teams vying for OFC Champions League spots. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , January 20, 2020, accessed July 11, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Simon Abana: Solomon Warriors clinch sixth title. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , January 26, 2020, accessed July 11, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Champions League group hosts named. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , December 13, 2019, accessed July 11, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Hosts appointed for 2019 competitions. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , November 6, 2018, accessed July 11, 2020 . 
6. ^ OFC tournaments, workshops, training and courses postponed until May 6th. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , March 9, 2020, accessed July 11, 2020 . 
7. ^ OFC tournaments postponed. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , May 14, 2020, accessed July 11, 2020 . 
8. ↑ OFC Champions League 2020 | Qualifying stage. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , accessed July 11, 2020 .  
9. ↑ ^{a b} OFC Champions League 2020 | Groups A & B. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , accessed July 11, 2020 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b} OFC Champions League 2020 | Groups C&D. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , accessed July 11, 2020 . 
11. ↑ OFC Champions League 2020 | Quarter finals. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , accessed July 11, 2020 . 
12. ↑ OFC Champions League 2020 | Semi-finals. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , accessed July 11, 2020 . 
13. ↑ OFC Champions League 2020 | Final. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , accessed July 11, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Champions League qualifying confirmed. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , December 17, 2019, accessed July 11, 2020 . 
15. ^ Tupapa withdraws from Champions League. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , March 1, 2020, accessed July 10, 2020 . 
16. ^ Change of venue for Group D in Tahiti. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , February 12, 2020, accessed July 10, 2020 . 
17. ^ Weather forces Group D venue change. In: oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation , March 1, 2020, accessed July 10, 2020 .