2024 OFC U-16 Men's Championship

2024 OFC U-16 Men's Championship
Tournament details
Host countries	Qualifying stage:; Tonga; Final tournament:; Tahiti
Dates	Qualifying stage:; 13–19 April 2024; Final tournament:; 28 July – 10 August 2024
Teams	Final tournament: 8; Total: 11 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
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Last updated July 26, 2024

The 2024 OFC U-16 Men's Championship will be the 21st edition of the OFC U-16/U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the men's under-16/under-17 national teams of Oceania. The final tournament will be played in Pirae, Tahiti, from 28 July to 10 August 2024.^[1]

Teams

All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC entered the tournament.

In 2022 and 2023, male youth OFC tournaments did not have a four-team qualifying stage, and all teams competed in one tournament.^[5] This was reversed for the 2024 tournament.^[6]

Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (2016 and 2018).

Team	Appearance	Previous best performance
American Samoa	10th	Group stage (1999, 2001, 2003, 2011, 2015, 2023)
Cook Islands	11th	Quarter-finals (2023)
Fiji	19th	Runners-up (1999)
New Caledonia	13th	Runners-up (2003, 2013, 2017, 2023)
New Zealand	18th	Champions (1997, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2023)
Papua New Guinea	10th	Semi-finals (2017), Fourth place (1986)
Samoa	10th	Quarter-finals (2023)
Solomon Islands	10th	Runners-up (1993, 2018)
Tahiti (hosts)	15th	Runners-up (2007, 2009, 2011, 2015)
Tonga	11th	Quarter-finals (2023)
Vanuatu	16th	Runners-up (2005)

Venues

Pirae
Pirae
Stade Pater	Stade Fautaua
Capacity: 11,700	Capacity: 5,000

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 5 March with teams seeded into pots based upon their ranking at the 2023 OFC U-17 Championship.^[6]^[7]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
New Caledonia New Zealand	Fiji Samoa Tahiti Vanuatu	Cook Islands Solomon Islands ^{[lower-alpha 1]}

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2007 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Qualifying stage

The draw for the group stage was held 5 March 2024.^[6]

Tiebreakers

Tie-breaking criteria for group play^[8]
The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows: Total points; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Head-to-head result between tied teams; Points in matches among the tied teams; Goal difference in matches among the tied teams; Goals scored in matches among the tied teams; Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction per player, per match): One yellow card: −1 point; Two yellow cards (indirect red card): −3 points; Direct red card: −4 points; Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points; Drawing of lots.

Qualifying group

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Solomon Islands	3	3	0	29	0	+29	9	Final tournament
2	Tonga (H)	3	2	1	10	9	+1	6
3	Papua New Guinea	3	1	2	3	22	−19	3
4	American Samoa	3	0	3	1	12	−11	0

Source: OFC^[9]
(H) Hosts

Group stage

All times are local, TAHT (UTC-10).

Group A

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	New Zealand	Knockout stage
2	Vanuatu	Knockout stage
3	Fiji	5th place match
4	Cook Islands	7th place match

First match(es) will be played: 28 July 2024. Source: OFC

28 July 2024