The 2025 OFC Futsal Nations Cup was the 15th edition of the OFC Futsal Nations Cup (previously called the OFC Futsal Championship), the international futsal championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the men's national teams of Oceania. It was held in Fiji from 20 to 24 September 2025.[1]
New Zealand are the defending champions, after defeating Tahiti in the 2023 final.
Teams
Four of the 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from OFC will enter the tournament. One of two associated OFC member team [[Tuvalu national futsal team|Tuvalu] has entered the cup as well. Tuvalu returned to regional stage after 14 years. [2]
The original location for the event were Solomon Islands and Honiara. However Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) announced on 15 July 2025 that Fiji has been handed hosting rights for the OFC Futsal Men’s Cup 2025 after the tournament was relocated from the Solomon Islands due to logistical issues.[3]
Media coverage
All games were streamed via FIFA+ platform as Fifa+ holds rights for all OFC competitions in the period 2024-2025. [4]
Oceania Football, website of governing body OFC and independent website Friends of Football NZ provided game reports and tournament news.
Facebook social media accounts of OFC,SIFF,FIJI FA and VFF made coverage about the tournament. No coverage came from New Zealand and Tuvalu. Independent Vanuatu Facebook public group Futsal Focus-Port Vila brought important player statistics and news. Twitter is not used in Oceania in the futsal media world.
Format and draw
Unlike in previous versions of the tournament, the 2025 tournament features a purely round robin format, with the champion being decided directly from the round robin stage, without a later final playoff.[5] As five teams are playing, there will be five two-game rounds, with one team taking a by in each round. The rounds will take place on five consecutive days from Saturday 20 September to Wednesday 24 September.
The draw deciding the matches took place on 19 August 2025 at the OFC Home Of Football in Auckland, New Zealand.[6]
In the first round, the Solomon Islands beat the reigning 2022 champions, New Zealand by 2-1. This was their first win over New Zealand in six years.[7] The tournament hosts, Fiji, beat Vanuatu 5-4.[7]
After the second round, the Solomon Islands media celebrated an unstoppable display by defeating hosts Fiji 5:2.[8] The defending champions New Zealand has welcomed Tuvalu after 14 years at the regional stage, unfortunately in the game of two teams of minimal media support.
In the third round, the Solomon Islands could claim the tournament victory by winning against Vanuatu, but the Gideons frustrated one of the tournament favourites for a first-ever stalemate between the two nations at an OFC Futsal Men’s Cup.[9] Host Fiji earned a hard-fought 4-1 victory over a determined Tuvalu to be ready to fight for the silver medal against New Zealand in the 4th round.[9]
Two so far winless teams met and Vanuatu confirmed the role of favourite. Tuvalu was close to their first ever futsal cup points, but Vanuatu escaped[10] The host Fiji fell in their final match 10-3 to New Zealand, despite a strong first half showing. [11]
Kicking off the last day of competition, Vanuatu took on New Zealand for second place. However, the scores were 3–1 at full time. With that win New Zealand claimed second place overall.[12] Solomon Islands Kurukuru is back as the king of the men’s Futsal in the Pacific. A massive welcome celebration is expected when the boys arrived back in Honiara later this week. [13]
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