2016 OFC Nations Cup

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2016 OFC Nations Cup
Tournament details
Host country  Papua New Guinea
Dates 28 May – 11 June 2016
Teams 8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played 6
Goals scored 17 (2.83 per match)
Top scorer(s) New Zealand Chris Wood (3 goals)
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All statistics correct as of 31 May 2016.

The 2016 OFC Nations Cup will be the 10th edition of the OFC Nations Cup, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Oceania organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC). The tournament will be played between 28 May and 11 June 2016 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.[1] The winner will qualify for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia.

Similar to the previous edition in 2012, the tournament will also double up as the second round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification tournament for the Oceania region. The top six teams of this tournament (i.e. the top three teams of each group in the group stage) will advance to the third round of World Cup qualifying, to be played between March and October 2017, with the winners of the third round proceeding to the inter-confederation play-offs in November 2017.[2][3][4] This means that once again, the team that wins the qualifying competition and advances to the intercontinental play-off may be different from the team that wins the OFC Nations Cup and represents the OFC at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.

The defending champions are Tahiti, who won their first title at the 2012 OFC Nations Cup.[5]

Host selection

Tahiti, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand were expected to bid to host the event.[6] On 16 October 2015, OFC President David Chung confirmed that Papua New Guinea was the only member association to present a bid to host the 2016 OFC Nations Cup.[7] The OFC confirmed Papua New Guinea as hosts on 30 October 2015.[1]

Qualification

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Main article: 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – OFC First Round

All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from OFC entered the OFC Nations Cup.[8][9] The seven highest ranked teams (based on FIFA World Ranking and sporting reasons) among the 11 OFC entrants automatically qualified.

The 4 teams which competed in the qualification round of the 2012 tournament - American Samoa, Cook Islands, Samoa and Tonga - once again competed in a preliminary round. This was a round-robin tournament, held in one location (Tonga).[9] The winners of the tournament, Samoa, qualified to compete alongside the remaining 7 Oceania nations.

Qualified teams

Team Method of
qualification		 Date of
qualification		 Finals
appearance		 Last
appearance		 Previous best
performance		 FIFA ranking
at start of event[10]
 Fiji Automatic 29 March 2014 8th 2012 3rd (1998, 2008) 183
 New Caledonia Automatic 29 March 2014 6th 2012 2nd (2008, 2012) 191
 New Zealand Automatic 29 March 2014 10th 2012 Winners (1973, 1998, 2002, 2008) 161
 Papua New Guinea Automatic 29 March 2014 4th 2012 R1 (1980, 2002, 2012) 198
 Solomon Islands Automatic 29 March 2014 7th 2012 2nd (2004) 192
 Tahiti Automatic 29 March 2014 9th 2012 Winners (2012) 196
 Vanuatu Automatic 29 March 2014 9th 2012 4th (1973, 2000, 2002, 2008) 181
 Samoa Qualifying winner 4 September 2015 2nd 2012 R1 (2012) 170

Format

The format of the OFC Nations Cup is as follows:

  • Group stage: The eight teams are divided into two groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group will advance to the knockout stage. Moreover, the top three teams of each group advance to the third round of 2018 World Cup qualifying.
  • Knockout stage: The four teams play a single-elimination tournament (semi-finals and final) to decide the champions of the OFC Nations Cup.

The OFC have considered different proposals of the 2016 OFC Nations Cup.[9] A previous proposal adopted by the OFC in October 2014 had the eight teams divided into two groups of four teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches in the second round, followed by the top two teams of each group advancing to the third round to play in a single group of home-and-away round-robin matches to decide the winner of the 2016 OFC Nations Cup which would both qualify to the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and advance to the inter-confederation play-offs.[11] However, it was later reported in April 2015 that the OFC had reversed its decision, and the 2016 OFC Nations Cup will be played as a one-off tournament similar to the 2012 OFC Nations Cup.[6]

Venues

The tournament will be played at a single venue in Port Moresby.

Port Moresby
Sir John Guise Stadium
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Squads

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Main article: 2016 OFC Nations Cup squads

Officials

10 referees and 12 assistant referees were named for the tournament.[12]

Draw

The draw for the 2016 OFC Nations Cup was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.[13][14]

The seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of July 2015 (shown in parentheses).[13][15] The eight teams were seeded into two pots:

  • Pot 1 contained the direct qualifiers ranked 1–4.
  • Pot 2 contained the direct qualifiers ranked 5–7 and the first round winner.

Each group contained two teams from Pot 1 and two teams from Pot 2. As the draw was held before the first round was played, the identity of the first round winner was not known at the time of the draw.

Pot 1 Pot 2
  1.  New Zealand (136)
  2.  New Caledonia (167)
  3.  Tahiti (188)
  4.  Solomon Islands (191)
  1.  Vanuatu (197)
  2.  Fiji (199)
  3.  Papua New Guinea (202)
  4.  Samoa (198) (first round winner)

Group stage

Group A

Pos Team
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  New Caledonia (X) 2 1 1 0 8 1 +7 4 Qualification to Nations Cup knockout stage
and World Cup qualifying third round		 — — — 7–0
2  Tahiti (X) 2 1 1 0 6 2 +4 4 5 Jun — — 4–0
3  Papua New Guinea (H) 2 0 2 0 3 3 0 2 Qualification to World Cup qualifying third round 1–1 2–2 — —
4  Samoa (Y) 2 0 0 2 0 11 −11 0 — — 5 Jun —
Updated to match(es) played on 1 June 2016. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Host; (X) Assured of at least World Cup qualifying third round; (Y) Eliminated from Nations Cup knockout stage, but may advance to World Cup qualifying third round.

29 May 2016 (2016-05-29)
16:00 UTC+10
Papua New Guinea  1–1  New Caledonia
Semmy Goal 41' Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)		 Saïko Goal 84'

29 May 2016 (2016-05-29)
19:00 UTC+10
Tahiti  4–0  Samoa
T. Tehau Goal 2', 5'
Chong Hue Goal 15'
A. Tehau Goal 39'		 Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)

1 June 2016 (2016-06-01)
16:00 UTC+10
Papua New Guinea  2–2  Tahiti
Gunemba Goal 45+1', 64' Report (FIFA) A. Tehau Goal 66'
T. Tehau Goal 76'

1 June 2016 (2016-06-01)
19:00 UTC+10
New Caledonia  v  Samoa
Report (FIFA)

5 June 2016 (2016-06-05)
16:00 UTC+10
Samoa  v  Papua New Guinea
Report (FIFA)

5 June 2016 (2016-06-05)
19:00 UTC+10
Tahiti  v  New Caledonia
Report (FIFA)

Group B

Pos Team
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  New Zealand (X) 2 2 0 0 8 1 +7 6 Qualification to Nations Cup knockout stage
and World Cup qualifying third round		 — 4 Jun 3–1 —
2  Solomon Islands 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 3 — — 0–1 —
3  Fiji 2 1 0 1 2 3 −1 3 Qualification to World Cup qualifying third round — — — 4 Jun
4  Vanuatu 2 0 0 2 0 6 −6 0 0–5 0–1 — —
Updated to match(es) played on 31 May 2016. Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(X) Assured of at least World Cup qualifying third round.

28 May 2016 (2016-05-28)
16:00 UTC+10
New Zealand  3–1  Fiji
Tzimopoulos Goal 16'
Fallon Goal 41'
Wood Goal 61' (pen.)		 Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)		 Krishna Goal 45+2' (pen.)

28 May 2016 (2016-05-28)
19:00 UTC+10
Vanuatu  0–1  Solomon Islands
Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)		 Donga Goal 19'

31 May 2016 (2016-05-31)
16:00 UTC+10
Vanuatu  0–5  New Zealand
Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)		 Wood Goal 4', 5'
McGlinchey Goal 10'
Fallon Goal 19'
Barbarouses Goal 45'

31 May 2016 (2016-05-31)
19:00 UTC+10
Solomon Islands  0–1  Fiji
Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)		 Krishna Goal 85' (pen.)

4 June 2016 (2016-06-04)
16:00 UTC+10
Fiji  v  Vanuatu
Report (FIFA)

4 June 2016 (2016-06-04)
19:00 UTC+10
New Zealand  v  Solomon Islands
Report (FIFA)

Knockout stage

If tied after regulation, extra time and, if necessary, penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner.

Bracket

 
 Semi-finals Final
 
            
 
 8 June – Port Moresby
 
 
 Winner Group A
 
 11 June – Port Moresby
 
 Runner-up Group B
 
 Winner Semi-final 1
 
 8 June – Port Moresby
 
 Winner Semi-final 2
 
 Winner Group B
 
 
 Runner-up Group A
 

Semi-finals

8 June 2016 (2016-06-08)
16:00 UTC+10
Winner Group A v Runner-up Group B

8 June 2016 (2016-06-08)
19:30 UTC+10
Winner Group B v Runner-up Group A

Final

11 June 2016 (2016-06-11)
16:00 UTC+10
Winner Semi-final 1 v Winner Semi-final 2

Goalscorers

As of 1 match played on 1 June 2016

There have been 21 goals scored in 7 matches, for an average of 3 goals per match.

3 goals

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2 goals

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1 goal

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