2020 OFC U-17 Women's Championship

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2020 OFC U-17 Women's Championship
Tournament details
Host countryTahiti
CityPapeete
DatesCancelled
Teams9 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
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The 2020 OFC U-17 Women's Championship, originally to be held as the 2019 OFC U-16 Women's Championship, was originally to be the 5th edition of the OFC U-16/U-17 Women's Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the women's under-16/under-17 national teams of Oceania.

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The 2019 OFC U-16 Women's Championship was originally scheduled to be held in New Zealand from 30 September to 12 October 2019. [1] It was later rescheduled to be played in Tahiti from 7 to 20 December 2019. [2] However, the OFC announced on 28 November 2019 that it would be postponed to 2020 due to the measles epidemic in the Pacific region. [3] It was later rescheduled to 6 and 19 April 2020, with the name of the tournament changed from "2019 OFC U-16 Women's Championship" to "2020 OFC U-17 Women's Championship". [4] However, on 9 March 2020, the OFC announced that all OFC tournaments were postponed until 6 May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] On 14 May 2020, it was announced that a further decision regarding that tournament would be made on 2 June 2020. [6]

On 5 June 2020, the OFC announced that the tournament would be cancelled due to difficulty in rescheduling the tournament. New Zealand, who were the four-time defending champions, were nominated by the OFC Executive Committee as the OFC representatives for the 2021 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup (originally 2020 but postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic) in India. [7] [8] However, FIFA announced on 17 November 2020 that this edition of the World Cup would be cancelled. [9]

Teams

Nine of the 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from OFC entered the tournament. There would be no qualification tournament, as it was suggested first.

TeamAppearance
(planned)		Previous best performance
Flag of American Samoa.svg  American Samoa 2ndGroup stage (2017)
Flag of the Cook Islands.svg  Cook Islands 4thThird place (2012)
Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 3rdThird place (2016)
New Caledonia flags merged (2017).svg  New Caledonia 4thRunners-up (2017)
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 5thChampions (2010, 2012, 2016, 2017)
Flag of Samoa.svg  Samoa 3rdGroup stage (2016, 2017)
Flag of French Polynesia.svg  Tahiti 2ndGroup stage (2017)
Flag of Tonga.svg  Tonga 3rdFourth place (2010)
Flag of Vanuatu.svg  Vanuatu 2ndGroup stage (2016)
Withdrew

Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea

Did not enter

Flag of the Solomon Islands.svg  Solomon Islands

Venue

The matches were originally to be played at the Stade Pater, Pirae.

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2003 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

Draw

The original draw of the tournament was held on 17 April 2019 at the OFC Academy in Auckland, New Zealand. [10] The 10 teams were drawn into three groups, with Group A having four teams and Groups B and C having three teams. As the hosts were not known at the time of the draw, all teams were drawn into the group positions without any seeding, with the only restriction that the defending champions New Zealand must be drawn into Group A. [11] The original draw results were:

However, after Papua New Guinea withdrew, a re-draw was held. The nine teams were drawn into three groups of three teams.

Group stage

The winners of each group and the runners-up of Group A would advance to the semi-finals.

All times are local, TAHT (UTC−10). [12]

Group A

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of American Samoa.svg  American Samoa 00000000 Knockout stage
2Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 00000000
3Flag of Tonga.svg  Tonga 00000000
Source: OFC

Group B

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 00000000 Knockout stage
2Flag of French Polynesia.svg  Tahiti 00000000
3Flag of Vanuatu.svg  Vanuatu 00000000
Source: OFC

Group C

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of the Cook Islands.svg  Cook Islands 00000000 Knockout stage
2New Caledonia flags merged (2017).svg  New Caledonia 00000000
3Flag of Samoa.svg  Samoa 00000000
Source: OFC

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
 Semi-finals Final
 
      
 
 – Stade Pater
 
 
Winner Group A
 
 – Stade Pater
 
Winner Group C
 
Winner Semi-final 1
 
 – Stade Pater
 
Winner Semi-final 2
 
Winner Group B
 
 
Runner-up Group A
 
 Third place match
 
 
 – Stade Pater
 
 
Loser Semi-final 1
 
 
Loser Semi-final 2

Semi-finals

Third place match

Final

Winner would have qualified for 2021 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

The following team from OFC, nominated by the OFC Executive Committee, would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup before the tournament was cancelled.

TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup 1
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 5 June 2020 [13] 6 ( 2008 , 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018)
1Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

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References

  1. ↑ "Hosts appointed for 2019 competitions". Oceania Football Confederation. 6 November 2018.
  2. ↑ "Vanuatu women U16 prepares for OFC U16 World Cup Qualifiers". Vanuatu Daily Post. 17 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "U-16 Women's Championship postponed". Oceania Football Confederation. 28 November 2019.
  4. ↑ "Nouvelles dates des éliminatoires de la coupe du monde U17 féminines". Fédération Tahitienne de Football. 12 December 2019.
  5. ↑ "OFC tournaments, workshops, training and courses postponed until 6 May". Oceania Football Confederation. 9 March 2020.
  6. ↑ "OFC tournaments postponed". Oceania Football Confederation. 14 May 2020.
  7. ↑ "Women's U-17 event cancelled". Oceania Football Confederation. 5 June 2020.
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