The first men's football tournament was held at the inaugural games in 1963 held in Suva, Fiji and was regularly held up until the games before this edition, which were the 1983 South Pacific Games in Western Samoa. New Caledonia has won three titles in the tournament up while French Polynesia had won the tournament at the 1966 South Pacific Games in Nouméa. The French Polynesian team would later use the name Tahiti and won the three previous competitions consecutively.[1]
Format
Six teams took part in the competition. They were drawn into one round robin group, where the top two placed teams would advance to the finals, the third and fourth would advance to the bronze medal match, and the two last placed teams would not compete in another match in the tournament. The competition would be held from 9 to 19 December 1987.[2]
New Caledonia and Tahiti would be the top two highest ranked team in the group stage and thus advanced to the finals of the tournament, while Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu were the third and fourth ranked teams and advanced to the bronze medal match. Wallis and Futuna and American Samoa were the lowest placed teams and did not play another match.[2]
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New Caledonia (4th title)
Tahiti 
Papua New Guinea 
