OFC U-20 Championship

OFC U-20 Championship

Founded	1974
Region	Oceania (OFC)
Number of teams	7
Current champions	New Zealand
Most successful team	Australia - 12 titles
2011 OFC U-20 Championship

The OFC U-20 Championship is a tournament held once every two years to decide the Under-20 champions of Oceania and also decides who will represent Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) at the biannual FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Eligible teams

Fourteen nations are eligible to participate in the tournament, these are:

•  American Samoa
•  Cook Islands
•  Fiji
•  Kiribati
•  New Caledonia
•  New Zealand
•  Niue
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Samoa
•  Solomon Islands
•  Tahiti (French Polynesia)
•  Tuvalu
•  Tonga
•  Vanuatu

Former Participating Teams

•  Israel (now is UEFA member)
•  Chinese Taipei (now is AFC member)
•  Australia (now is AFC member)

Results

Summaries

Year	Host Country
		Champions	Second Place	Third Place	Fourth Place
1974	Tahiti	Tahiti	New Zealand	New Hebrides	New Caledonia
1978	New Zealand	Australia	Fiji	New Zealand	Papua New Guinea
1980	Fiji	New Zealand	Australia	Fiji	New Caledonia
1982	Papua New Guinea	Australia	New Zealand	Fiji	Papua New Guinea
1985	Australia	Australia	Israel	New Zealand	Chinese Taipei
1987	New Zealand	Australia	Israel	New Zealand	Chinese Taipei
1988	Fiji	Australia	New Zealand	Chinese Taipei	Fiji
1990	Fiji	Australia	New Zealand	Vanuatu	Tahiti
1992	Tahiti	New Zealand	Tahiti	Fiji	Vanuatu
1994	Fiji	Australia	New Zealand	Solomon Islands	Vanuatu
1996	Tahiti	Australia	New Zealand	Fiji	Tahiti
1998	Samoa	Australia	Fiji	New Zealand	Solomon Islands
2001	New Caledonia & Cook Islands	Australia	New Zealand	No third place match
2003	Vanuatu & Fiji	Australia	Fiji	No third place match
2005	Solomon Islands	Australia	Solomon Islands	Vanuatu	Fiji
2007	New Zealand	New Zealand	Fiji	Solomon Islands	New Caledonia
2008	Tahiti	Tahiti	New Caledonia	New Zealand	Fiji
2011	New Zealand	New Zealand	Solomon Islands	Vanuatu	Fiji

Performances by Countries

Team	Champions	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth-place
Australia	12	1 (1980)	-	-
New Zealand	4 (1980, 1992, 2007, 2011)	7 (1974, 1982, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1996, 2001)	4	-
Tahiti	2 (1974, 2008)	2 (1992)	-	2
Fiji	-	4 (1978, 1998, 2003, 2007)	4	4
Solomon Islands	-	2 (2005, 2011)	2	1
Israel	-	2 (1985, 1987)	-	-
New Caledonia	-	1 (2008)	1	2
Vanuatu	-	-	3	2
Chinese Taipei	-	-	1	2
Papua New Guinea	-	-	-	2

^ This 1973 third place was achieved by Vanuatu under its former name New Hebrides.

FIFA U-20 World Cup Performances

Team	1977	1979	1981	1983	1985	1987	1989	1991	1993	1995	1997	1999	2001	2003	2005	2007	2009	2011	Total
Australia			QF	R1	R1	R1		4th	4th	QF	R2	R1	R2	R1	R1				12
New Zealand																R1		R1	1
Tahiti																	R1		1

External links

• OFC Official Website