1998 Polynesia Cup

1998 Polynesia Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Cook Islands
Teams	5 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Tahiti (2nd title)
Runners-up	Cook Islands
Third place	Samoa
Tournament statistics
Matches played	10
Goals scored	51 (5.1 per match)
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The Polynesia Cup 1998 was the second Polynesia-wide tournament ever held. It took place in Cook Islands and five teams participated: Tahiti, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga and the hosts Cook Islands for the first time and served for the second time as OFC Nations Cup qualifier.

The teams played each other according to a round-robin format with Tahiti national football winning the tournament for the second time and qualifying to the Oceania Nations Cup 1998 along with Cook Islands.

Results

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tahiti (C)	4	4	0	0	27	1	+26	12	Qualify for 1998 OFC Nations Cup
2	Cook Islands (H)	4	2	1	1	8	11	−3	7
3	Samoa	4	2	0	2	8	7	+1	6
4	Tonga	4	1	1	2	5	9	−4	4
5	American Samoa	4	0	0	4	3	23	−20	0

Source: ^[1]
(C) Champions; (H) Hosts

2 September 1998

Cook Islands	2-1	Samoa

Cook Islands

2 September 1998

Tonga	3-0	American Samoa

Cook Islands

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3 September 1998

Tahiti	5-0	Tonga

Cook Islands

3 September 1998

Cook Islands	4-3	American Samoa

Cook Islands

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5 September 1998

Tahiti	5-1	Samoa

Cook Islands

5 September 1998

Cook Islands	2-2	Tonga

Cook Islands

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7 September 1998

Samoa	2-0	Tonga

Cook Islands

7 September 1998

Tahiti	12-0	American Samoa

Cook Islands

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8 September 1998

Samoa	4-0	American Samoa

Cook Islands

8 September 1998

Cook Islands	0-5	Tahiti

Cook Islands

Tahiti and Cook Islands qualified for Oceania Nations Cup 1998

References

1. "Polynesia Cup 1998". WildStat.com. Retrieved 11 December 2020.