2014 Oceania Men's Handball Challenge Trophy

The 2014 Men's Oceania Handball Challenge Trophy was held at the ASB Sports Centre in Wellington, New Zealand between 8 and 13 December 2014.

The competition participants were defending champions Australia, host New Zealand, regulars Vanuatu and Cook Islands. New to the championship were America Samoa, Tahiti (French Polynesia), New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea and Samoa.

Tahiti were the winner upsetting Australia in the final and going through undefeated. Third was New Caledonia over host New Zealand. Fifth was Vanuatu, then Papua New Guinea, Samoa, America Samoa and Cook Islands.

Men's Results

Pool A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
New Caledonia	3	3	0	0	99	69	+30	6
New Zealand	3	2	0	1	112	68	+44	4
Vanuatu	3	1	0	2	90	83	+7	2
American Samoa	3	0	0	3	33	114	−81	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

8 December 2014	New Zealand	27 – 29	New Caledonia	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

	American Samoa	10 – 32	Vanuatu	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

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9 December 2014	New Zealand	34 – 26	Vanuatu	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

	American Samoa	10 – 31	New Caledonia	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

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10 December 2014	New Zealand	51 – 13	American Samoa	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

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11 December 2014	New Caledonia	39 – 32	Vanuatu	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

Pool B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
French Polynesia	4	4	0	0	145	65	+80	8
Australia	4	3	0	1	139	61	+78	6
Papua New Guinea	4	2	0	2	69	109	−40	4
Cook Islands	4	1	0	3	72	116	−44	2
Samoa	4	0	0	4	55	129	−74	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

8 December 2014	French Polynesia	26 – 19	Australia	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

	Samoa	17 – 22	Cook Islands	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

	Australia	40 – 11	Papua New Guinea	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

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9 December 2014	Cook Islands	15 – 20	Papua New Guinea	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

	Australia	37 – 13	Samoa	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

	French Polynesia	36 – 15	Papua New Guinea	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

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10 December 2014	Australia	43 – 11	Cook Islands	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

	French Polynesia	47 – 7	Samoa	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

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11 December 2014	French Polynesia	36 – 24	Cook Islands	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

	Samoa	18 – 23	Papua New Guinea	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

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5th to 9th place

Each team to play each other once. Round robin rounds and additional games to finalize positions.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Vanuatu	4	3	0	1	146	69	+77	6
Papua New Guinea	4	3	0	1	86	93	−7	6
Samoa	4	2	0	2	84	92	−8	4
American Samoa	4	1	0	3	77	100	−23	2
Cook Islands	4	1	0	3	72	111	−39	2

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

8 December 2014	American Samoa	10 – 32	Vanuatu	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

	Samoa	17 – 22	Cook Islands	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

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9 December 2014	Cook Islands	15 – 20	Papua New Guinea	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand
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11 December 2014	Samoa	18 – 23	Papua New Guinea	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

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12 December 2014	American Samoa	29 – 30	Samoa	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

	Papua New Guinea	25 – 43	Vanuatu	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

	Cook Islands	15 – 53	Vanuatu	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

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13 December 2014	American Samoa	17 – 18	Papua New Guinea	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

	Samoa	19 – 18	Vanuatu	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

	Cook Islands	20 – 21	American Samoa	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

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Semi finals

12 December 2014	New Caledonia	21 – 23	Australia	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

	New Zealand	29 – 31	French Polynesia	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

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Third place game

13 December 2014 13:45	New Zealand	25 – 29	New Caledonia	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand

Final

13 December 2014	French Polynesia	20 – 17	Australia	ASB Sports Centre, Wellington, New Zealand Referees: Robert Ridley, Richard Ridley (AUS)

Rankings

Classification
	French Polynesia
	Australia
	New Caledonia
4	New Zealand
5	Vanuatu
6	Papua New Guinea
7	Samoa
8	American Samoa
9	Cook Islands

References

• 2014 Introduction
• 2014 Schedule
• 2014 matches on YouTube
• Day 1 results
• Day 2 results
• Day 3 results
• Day 4 results
• Day 5 results
• Day 6 results
• AS Handball Association teams make history attending largest Oceania tournament. Samoa News. 6 Dec 2014.