2016 Oceania U-20 Football Championship

2016 Oceania U-20 Football Championship
OFC U-20 Championship

Number of nations	11
Oceania Champion	New Zealand New Zealand (6th title)
venue	Tonga Tonga (qualifying) Vanuatu (finals) Vanuatu
Opening game	3rd September 2016
Endgame	17th September 2016
Games	24
Gates	67 (⌀: 2.79 per game)
Top scorer	New Zealand Myer Bevan
Best player	New Zealand Myer Bevan
Best goalkeeper	New Zealand Michael Wood

The 2016 Oceania U-20 Football Championship was the 13th edition of the Oceania Football Confederation's (OFC) biennial oceanic football tournament for players 19 and under. For the first time the finals were held in Vanuatu .

Although the name continued to be the U-20 Oceania Championship , the maximum age limit was reduced to 19 years. Players wishing to enter the competition must have been born on or after January 1, 1997. At the November 2013 meeting of the OFC Executive Committee in Auckland , this condition was changed to give the tournament winners enough time to prepare for the U-20 World Cup .

In March 2015, FIFA decided that the OFC would get two starting places for each U-20 and U-17 World Cup . This meant that two teams qualified for the 2017 U-20 World Cup in South Korea .

mode

The qualification and the tournament are structured as follows:

First round / qualification : American Samoa , Cook Islands , Samoa and Tonga played a round-robin tournament in Tonga . The winner qualified for the final round.
Competition / Finals : A total of eight teams (seeded teams from Fiji , New Caledonia , New Zealand , Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands , Tahiti , Vanuatu and the winner of the first round) played the tournament in Vanuatu . For the group stage, they were divided into two groups of four teams each. The best two reached the final round (semifinals and finals) and determined the U-20 Oceania champion. The final opponents qualified for the 2017 U-20 World Cup.

Teams

All eleven FIFA national teams of Oceania were eligible to qualify.

Seeding list	Teams	number
First round	Samoa American American Samoa Cook Islands Cook Islands Samoa Samoa Tonga Tonga	4th
Finals	Fiji Fiji New Caledonia New Caledonia New Zealand New Zealand Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Solomon Islands Tahiti Tahiti Vanuatu Vanuatu	7th

Venues

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

Port Vila

Luganville

Port Vila Municipal Stadium

Luganville Soccer Stadium

Coordinates

Capacity: 10,000

Capacity: 7,000

Port Vila Municipal Stadium

Luganville Soccer City Stadium

Venues

Qualification / first round

The qualification for the finals took place between June 21 and 27, 2016 in Tonga. Only the winner qualified for the second round.

Four referees and four assistant referees were assigned by the OFC for qualification.

referee

Fiji Salesh Chand
Vanuatu Joel Hoppken
Solomon Islands Nelson Sogo
New Zealand Campbell-Kirk Waugh

Assistant Referee

Fiji Ujwaal Mudliar
Fiji Phul Singh
Solomon Islands Jeffery Solodia
New Zealand Isaac Trevis

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Cook Islands Cook Islands	3	2	1	0	007: 100	+6	07th
2.	Samoa Samoa	3	1	1	1	008: 400	+4	04th
3.	Tonga Tonga	3	0	3	0	005: 500	± 0	03
4th	Samoa American American Samoa	3	0	1	2	001:110	−10	01

All times in the local Tonga Time ( UTC + 13 ).

June 21, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	Tonga Tonga	1: 1	Cook Islands Cook Islands	Loto-Tonga Soka Center , Nukuʻalofa Spectators: 250 Referee: Joel Hopkken Vanuatu
June 21, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	Po'oi 51 ′	Match report	C. Tiputoa 77 ′

June 21, 2016, 3:00 p.m.	Samoa American American Samoa	0: 5	Samoa Samoa	Loto-Tonga Soka Center , Nukuʻalofa Spectators: 250 Referee: Nelson Sogo Solomon Islands
June 21, 2016, 3:00 p.m.		Match report	Mariner 12 ′ Malo 30 ′ Hunt 48 ′ Tunupopo 64 ′ , 75 ′

June 24, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	Tonga Tonga	1: 1	Samoa American American Samoa	Loto-Tonga Soka Center , Nukuʻalofa Spectators: 200 Referee: Salesh Chand Fiji
June 24, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	Likiliki 10 ′	Match report	Fiso 6 ′

June 24, 2016, 3 p.m.	Samoa Samoa	0: 1	Cook Islands Cook Islands	Loto-Tonga Soka Center , Nukuʻalofa Spectators: 200 Referee: Campbell-Kirk Waugh New Zealand
June 24, 2016, 3 p.m.		Match report	D. Tiputoa 85 ′

June 27, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	Cook Islands Cook Islands	5-0	Samoa American American Samoa	Loto-Tonga Soka Center , Nukuʻalofa Spectators: 200 Referee: Joel Hoppken Vanuatu
June 27, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	Wood 31 ' Samuela 38' D. Tiputoa 54 ' , 59' , 72 '	Match report

June 27, 2016, 3 p.m.	Samoa Samoa	3: 3	Tonga Tonga	Loto-Tonga Soka Center , Nukuʻalofa Spectators: 300 Referee: Campbell-Kirk Waugh New Zealand
June 27, 2016, 3 p.m.	Tunupopo 66 ′ , 70 ′ Malo 80 ′	Match report	Polovili 10 ′ , 40 ′ , 73 ′

Final round / second round

The final round took place from September 3 to 17, 2016 (originally planned between September 19 and 26). Vanuatu was announced as the host country in December 2015.

The draw took place on June 22, 2016. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams each. Vanuatu was the host country in position A1.

All times in the local Vanuatu Time ( UTC + 11 ).

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Vanuatu Vanuatu	3	3	0	0	005: 100	+4	09
2.	New Caledonia New Caledonia	3	1	1	1	005: 300	+2	04th
3.	Fiji Fiji	3	0	2	1	002: 300	−1	02
4th	Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea	3	0	1	2	003: 800	−5	01

September 3, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea	1: 4	New Caledonia New Caledonia	Port Vila Municipal Stadium , Port Vila Spectators: 8,000 Referees: Kader Zitouni Tahiti
September 3, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	Awi 34 ′	Match report	Watrone 56 ′ Gope-Fenepej 68 ′ ( penalty ) Poma 82 ′ Houala 90 + 4 ′

September 3, 2016, 3 p.m.	Vanuatu Vanuatu	1-0	Fiji Fiji	Port Vila Municipal Stadium , Port Vila Spectators: 8,000 Referee: Nick Waldron New Zealand
September 3, 2016, 3 p.m.	Tenene 61 ′	Match report

September 6, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	New Caledonia New Caledonia	1: 1	Fiji Fiji	Port Vila Municipal Stadium , Port Vila Spectators: 8,000 Referee: George Time Solomon Islands
September 6, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	Gope Fenepej 68 ′	Match report	Jennings 25 ′

September 6, 2016, 3 p.m.	Vanuatu Vanuatu	3: 1	Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea	Port Vila Municipal Stadium , Port Vila Spectators: 8,000 Referee: Campbell-Kirk Waugh New Zealand
September 6, 2016, 3 p.m.	Wilkins 50 ′ ( penalty ) Kalo 56 ′ Thomas 81 ′	Match report	Yanum 77 ′

September 10, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	Fiji Fiji	1: 1	Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea	Port Vila Municipal Stadium , Port Vila Spectators: 7,000 Referee: Nelson Sogo Solomon Islands
September 10, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	Catarogo 71 ′	Match report	Dabinyaba 35 ′

September 10, 2016, 3 p.m.	New Caledonia New Caledonia	0: 1	Vanuatu Vanuatu	Port Vila Municipal Stadium , Port Vila Spectators: 7,000 Referee: Nick Waldron New Zealand
September 10, 2016, 3 p.m.		Match report	Wilkins 90 + 1 ′ ( penalty kick )

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	New Zealand New Zealand	3	2	1	0	007: 100	+6	07th
2.	Solomon Islands Solomon Islands	3	1	2	0	005: 200	+3	05
3.	Tahiti Tahiti	3	1	1	1	006: 700	−1	04th
4th	Cook Islands Cook Islands	3	0	0	3	001: 900	−8	00

September 3, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	New Zealand New Zealand	3-0	Cook Islands Cook Islands	Luganville Soccer Stadium , Luganville Spectators: 8,000 Referee: Salesh Chand Tahiti
September 3, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	Bevan 30 ′ , 76 ′ , 90 ′	Match report

September 3, 2016, 3 p.m.	Tahiti Tahiti	2: 2	Solomon Islands Solomon Islands	Luganville Soccer Stadium , Luganville Spectators: 5,000 Referee: Joel Hoppken Vanuatu
September 3, 2016, 3 p.m.	Siejidr 13 ′ Salem 34 ′	Match report	Wetney 50 ′ Raramo 65 ′

September 6, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	Cook Islands Cook Islands	0: 3	Solomon Islands Solomon Islands	Luganville Soccer Stadium , Luganville Spectators: 5,000 Referee: Robinson Banga Vanuatu
September 6, 2016, 12:00 p.m.		Match report	Waita 54 ′ Wetney 56 ′ , 83 ′

September 6, 2016, 3 p.m.	Tahiti Tahiti	1: 4	New Zealand New Zealand	Luganville Soccer Stadium , Luganville Spectators: 5,000 Referee: Médéric Lacour New Caledonia
September 6, 2016, 3 p.m.	Petitgas 27 ′	Match report	Dyer 39 ′ ( penalty ) Lewis 61 ′ Imrie 65 ′ Bevan 87 ′

September 10, 2016, 12:00 p.m.	Solomon Islands Solomon Islands	0-0	New Zealand New Zealand	Luganville Soccer Stadium , Luganville Spectators: 5,000 Referee: Médéric Lacour New Caledonia
September 10, 2016, 12:00 p.m.		Match report

September 10, 2016, 3 p.m.	Cook Islands Cook Islands	1: 3	Tahiti Tahiti	Luganville Soccer Stadium , Luganville Spectators: 5,000 Referee: Joel Hoppken Vanuatu
September 10, 2016, 3 p.m.	Tiputoa 83 ′ ( penalty )	Match report	Salem 45 + 2 ′ , 55 ′ rope 87 ′

Final round

Semifinals			final

B1	New Zealand New Zealand	3
A2	New Caledonia New Caledonia	1
			B1	New Zealand New Zealand	5

			A1	Vanuatu Vanuatu	0
A1	Vanuatu Vanuatu	2

B2	Solomon Islands Solomon Islands	1

Semifinals

The winners of the two semi-finals will qualify for the 2017 U-20 World Cup .

September 13, 2016, 11:00 a.m.	New Zealand New Zealand	3: 1	New Caledonia New Caledonia	Luganville Soccer Stadium , Luganville Spectators: 5,500 Referees: Kader Zitouni Tahiti
September 13, 2016, 11:00 a.m.	Dyer 23 ′ , 30 ′ Cox 71 ′	Match report	Nyipe 19 ′

September 13, 2016, 2:30 p.m.	Vanuatu Vanuatu	2: 1	Solomon Islands Solomon Islands	Port Vila Municipal Stadium , Port Vila Spectators: 8,000 Referee: Nick Waldron New Zealand
September 13, 2016, 2:30 p.m.	Tenene 36 ′ Massing 90 + 4 ′	Match report	Gise 21 ′

final

New Zealand

Vanuatu

final

September 17, 2016 at 2:30 p.m. in Port Vila ( Port Vila Municipal Stadium )

Result: 5: 0 (2: 0)

Referee: Kader Zitouni

Match report

Michael Woud - Jack-Henry Sinclair , Sean Liddicoat , Hunter Ashworth , Luke Johnson , Reese Cox - Logan Rogerson , Moses Dyer , Clayton Lewis (86th Jake Porter ), Joe Bell (77th Sarpreet Singh ) - Myer Bevan (83rd Lucas Imrie ) coach: Darren Bazeley

Ricky Dick - Jason Thomas , Jeffrey Tasso (85th Sylvain Worworbu ), Timothy Boulet - Claude Aru (85th Gregory Patrick ), Bong Kalo , Godine Tenene , Ronaldo Wilkins , Abednigo Sau , Jayson Timatua , Frederick Massing Trainer: Etienne Mermer

Hunter Ashworth (13th) Moses Dyer (34th) Myer Bevan (76th) Lucas Imrie (88th) Lucas Imrie (90th)

Reese Cox (62nd)

Ronaldo Wilkins (29th), Jeffrey Tasso (57th)

Frederick Massing (70th)

Awards

The most outstanding player in the competition receives the Golden Ball Award . The Golden Glove Award is given to the best goalkeeper in the tournament. The Golden Boot award , the player with the most goals and assists. The Fair Play Award is given to the fairest team.

Award	player
Golden ball	New Zealand Myer Bevan
Golden Glove	New Zealand Michael Wood
Golden boot	New Zealand Myer Bevan
Fair Play Award	Solomon Islands Solomon Islands

Best goal scorers

rank	player	Gates
1	New Zealand Myer Bevan	5
1	Cook Islands Dwayne Tiputoa (including qualification)	5
2	New Zealand Moses Dyer	4th
2	Samoa Pago Tunupopo (including qualification)	4th
2	New Zealand Lucas Imrie	3
	Solomon Islands Albert Wetney	3
	Tahiti Heirauarii Salem	3
	Tonga Hemaloto Polovili (including qualification)	3
3	New Caledonia Thomas Gope-Fenepej	2
	Vanuatu Ronaldo Wilkins	2
	Vanuatu Godine Tenene	2
	Samoa Samuelu Malo (including qualification)	2

Individual evidence

^ OFC Executive meeting outcomes announced. OFC , November 23, 2013, accessed September 5, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Competition calendar outlined. OFC , December 10, 2015, accessed September 5, 2016 .
^ OFC Executive Committee decisions. OFC , April 23, 2014, accessed September 5, 2016 .
^ U-20 journey outlined. (No longer available online.) OFC June 22, 2016, archived from the original on August 12, 2016 ; accessed on September 5, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2

[1] OFC Executive meeting outcomes announced. OFC , November 23, 2013, accessed September 5, 2016 .

[auto-2] Competition calendar outlined. OFC , December 10, 2015, accessed September 5, 2016 .

[3] OFC Executive Committee decisions. OFC , April 23, 2014, accessed September 5, 2016 .

[4] U-20 journey outlined. (No longer available online.) OFC June 22, 2016, archived from the original on August 12, 2016 ; accessed on September 5, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2