OFC Champions League

OFC Champions League
OFC Champions League
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Founded 1987
Region Oceania (OFC)
Number of teams 8
Current champions New Zealand Auckland City FC
Most successful team New Zealand Auckland City FC(3 Titles)
2011-12 OFC Champions League

The OFC Champions League is the premier club football competition in Oceania. It is also known as the O-League[1]. The OFC Champions League has commenced its inaugural season in 2007 and replaced the previous Oceania Club Championship.

Australian teams won all four competitions held before Australia left the OFC in 2006; after that, teams from New Zealand have won consistently, until 2010 when PRK Hekari United of Papua New Guinea defeated New Zealand's Waitakere United in the final.

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The Oceania Club Championship

The recent incarnations of the tournament, especially from 1999 onwards, have been organised by the Oceania Football Confederation in order to determine the Oceania representative at the FIFA Club World Cups (formerly called Club World Championships), although the Wollongong Wolves did not participate in a Club World Championship due to the cancellation of that particular tournament.

The 2006 tournament was held in New Zealand and won by Auckland City FC; a qualifying tournament was held earlier in Fiji involving the national club champions in relatively weaker nations in football. Recently there have been calls for New Zealand based A-league franchise Wellington Phoenix to join the competition.

It had been proposed that the Oceania champions would not get direct entry to the main round of the 2006 Club World Championship, instead having to play a preliminary knock out game against the host champions for entry into the main tournament[1]. However FIFA president Sepp Blatter was unable to get the necessary support for the new format and as a result Oceania retained a direct entry into the 2006 Club World Championship. However, in March 2007, the FIFA executive committee introduced a qualifying playoff between the 2007 OFC Champions League champion and the host nation's 2007 J.League champion.[2]

Format

Previous Formats

The Oceania Club Championships involved playing in a tournament at one location. The clubs played in two groups of three clubs each. The top two clubs from each group played each other in the semi finals. With the semi final winners playing the grand final to decide the winner.

Oceania Champions League

The tournament involves two groups of four clubs each playing each other home and away. The top of each group then play each other home and away to determine the champion. The champion will then play the champion club of the host nation for a berth in the FIFA Club World Cup.

Winners and runners up

Oceania Champions League

Season Winner Score Runner-up
2010–11
Details
Auckland City FC
New Zealand
New Zealand
6 – 1 Amicale FC
Vanuatu
Vanuatu
2009–10
Details
PRK Hekari United
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
4 – 2 Waitakere United
New Zealand
New Zealand
2008–09
Details
Auckland City FC
New Zealand
New Zealand
9 – 4 Koloale FC Honiara
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands
2007–08
Details
Waitakere United
New Zealand
New Zealand
6 – 3 Kossa FC
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands
2007
Details
Waitakere United
New Zealand
New Zealand

2 – 2
away goals
4R Electrical Ba
Fiji
Fiji

Oceania Club Championship/Oceania Champions Cup Finals

Season Winner Score Runner-up Tournament Venue
2006
Details
Auckland City FC
New Zealand
New Zealand
3 – 1 AS Pirae
French Polynesia
French Polynesia
Albany
New Zealand
New Zealand
2004–05
Details
Sydney FC
Australia
Australia
2 – 0 AS Magenta
New Caledonia
New Caledonia
Papeete
French Polynesia
French Polynesia
2000–01
Details
Wollongong Wolves
Australia
Australia
1 – 0 Tafea F.C.
Vanuatu
Vanuatu
Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
1999
Details
South Melbourne FC
Australia
Australia
5 – 1 Nadi F.C.
Fiji
Fiji
Nadi/Lautoka
Fiji
Fiji
1987
Details
Adelaide City
Australia
Australia
1 – 1
penalties
4 - 1
Mount Wellington
New Zealand
New Zealand
Adelaide
Australia
Australia

Statistics

By club

Team Won Runner-up Years won Years runner-up
New Zealand Auckland City FC 3 0 2006, 2008–09, 2010–11
New Zealand Waitakere United 2 1 2007, 2007–08 2009–10
Australia Adelaide City 1 0 1987
Australia South Melbourne FC 1 0 1999
Australia Wollongong Wolves 1 0 2000–01
Australia Sydney FC 1 0 2004–05
Papua New Guinea PRK Hekari United 1 0 2009–10
New Zealand University-Mount Wellington 0 1 1987
Fiji Nadi FC 0 1 1999
Vanuatu Tafea FC 0 1 2000–01
New Caledonia AS Magenta 0 1 2004–05
French Polynesia AS Pirae 0 1 2006
Fiji Ba F.C. 0 1 2007
Solomon Islands Kossa FC 0 1 2007–08
Solomon Islands Koloale FC Honiara 0 1 2008–09
Vanuatu Amicale FC 0 1 2010–11

By nation

Nation Times won Times runner-up Winning clubs Runners-up
 New Zealand 5 2 Auckland City FC (3), Waitakere United (2) Waitakere United (1), University-Mount Wellington (1)
 Australia 4 0 Adelaide City (1), South Melbourne FC (1), Wollongong Wolves (1), Sydney FC (1)
 Papua New Guinea 1 0 PRK Hekari United (1)
Solomon Islands Solomon Islands 0 2 Koloale FC Honiara (1), Kossa FC (1)
 Fiji 0 2 Nadi FC (1), Ba F.C. (1)
 Vanuatu 0 2 Amicale FC (1), Tafea FC (1)
 New Caledonia 0 1 AS Magenta (1)
 Tahiti 0 1 AS Pirae (1)

See also

Links

References


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