2022 OFC U-16 Championship

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2022 OFC U-16 Championship
Tournament details
Host countryFiji
DatesSeptember 2022[1]
Teams11 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)TBC (in TBC host cities)
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The 2022 OFC U-16 Championship will be the 19th edition of the OFC U-16/U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the men's under-16/under-17 national teams of Oceania.

The OFC announced on 4 March 2022 that the 2021 OFC U-17 Championship (originally the 2020 OFC U-16 Championship), which would have been hosted by Fiji, had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Fiji would be retained to host the next edition in 2022.[2]

The top two teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru as the OFC representatives. New Zealand are the seven-time defending champions, having won the most recently played edition in 2018.

Teams[]

All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC are eligible to enter the tournament.

Starting from 2020, male youth tournaments no longer have a four-team qualifying stage, and all teams compete in one tournament.[3]

Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (2016 and 2018).

Team Appearance Previous best performance
 American Samoa 9th Group stage (, 2001, 2003, 2011, 2015)
 Cook Islands 10th Group stage (, , 2003, 2005, 2011, 2013, 2015)
 Fiji (hosts) 18th Runners-up ()
 New Caledonia 12th Runners-up (2003, 2013, 2017)
 New Zealand 17th Champions (, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018)
 Papua New Guinea 10th Semi-finals (2017), Fourth place ()
 Samoa 9th Group stage (, , 2001, 2003, 2015, 2017, 2018)
 Solomon Islands 10th Runners-up (, 2018)
 Tahiti 14th Runners-up (2007, 2009, 2011, 2015)
 Tonga 10th Group stage (, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2015)
 Vanuatu 15th Runners-up (2005)

Venues[]

To be confirmed.

Squads[]

Main article:

Players born on or after 1 January 2006 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup[]

The following two teams from OFC qualify for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1
TBD 2022
TBD 2022
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References[]

  1. ^ "OFC Competitions 2022 Calendar (updated 4/06/2021)" (PDF). Oceania Football Confederation. Fédération Tahitienne de Football. 4 June 2021.
  2. ^ "OFC confirms schedule changes". Oceania Football Confederation. 4 March 2021.
  3. ^ "OFC male youth tournaments continue to evolve". Oceania Football Confederation. 3 April 2020.

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