The 2022 OFC U-19 Championship was the 23rd edition of the OFC U-19/U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the men's under-19/under-20 national teams of Oceania. ← 2018 2024 → The OFC announced on 4 March 2022 that the 2021 OFC U-20 Championship (originally the 2020 OFC U-19 Championship), which would have been hosted by Samoa, had been cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, and Samoa would be retained to host the next edition in 2022.[1] On 4 June 2021, the OFC announced the tournament had been moved to August from
July.[2] The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia as the OFC representatives.
New Zealand the defending champions, won the title for the eighth time, and qualified together with runners-up Fiji.Tournament details Host country Tahiti
Dates 7–24 September
Teams 11 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place Tournament statistics Matches played 18
Goals scored 71 (3.94 per match)
Attendance 5,410 (301 per match)
Top scorer(s)
(9 goals each)
Best player(s) Best goalkeeper
Teams
All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC are eligible to enter the tournament.
Starting from 2020, male youth tournaments no longer have a four-team qualifying stage, and all teams compete in one tournament.[3]
Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (2016 and 2018).
| 6th | Group stage (1998, 2011, 2014) | |
| 4th | Group stage (2001, 2016) | |
| 22nd | Champions (2014) | |
| 13th | Runners-up (2008) | |
| 22nd | Champions (1980, 1992, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018) | |
| 15th | Fourth place (1978, 1982) | |
| 10th | Group stage (1988, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007) | |
| 10th | Runners-up (2005, 2011) | |
| 12th | Champions (1974, 2008) | |
| 7th | Group stage (1998, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2018) | |
| 16th | Runners-up (2014, 2016) |
Venues
| Stade Fautaua | Stade Pater |
| Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 11,700 |
Draw
The draw for the group stage was held on 19 July with teams seeded into pots based upon their ranking at the 2018 OFC U-19 Championship.[4]
Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 2003 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
Group stage
All times are local, TAHT (UTC−10).
Group A
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | +23 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 6 | |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 11 | −7 | 3 | |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 19 | −19 | 0 |
Group B
| 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | +11 | 7 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | 7 | |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 3 | |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 14 | −14 | 0 |
Source: OFC
(H) Host
Group C
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 6 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 3 | |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 |
Ranking of third-placed teams
Due to groups having a different number of teams, the results against the fourth-placed teams in four-team groups will not be considered for this ranking.
| 1 | B | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 1 | C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 | |
| 3 | A | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | −11 | 0 |
Knockout stage
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 18 September – Pirae | ||||||||||
| 5 | ||||||||||
| 21 September – Pirae | ||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| 18 September – Pirae | ||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||
| 24 September – Pirae | ||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||
| 18 September – Pirae | ||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||
| 21 September – Pirae | ||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||
| 18 September – Pirae | ||||||||||
| 1 | Third place match | |||||||||
| 4 | ||||||||||
| 24 September – Pirae | ||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||
| 1 (4) | ||||||||||
| 1 (5) | ||||||||||
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Winners qualify for 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
Third place match
Final
Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup
The following two teams from OFC qualify for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
| 21 September 2022 | 1 (2015) | |
| 21 September 2022 | 6 (2007, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019) |
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.
Goalscorers
There were 71 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 3.94 goals per match.
9 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Notes
- ^ a b On 8 September 2022, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea announced they would be unable to play their opening games of the tournament.[11]
- ^ a b On 12 September 2022, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea announced they would be unable to play their second games of the tournament.[14]
- ^ Tonga did not turn up to the stadium before the schedueled kickoff time and hence, Papua New Guinea were awarded a 3–0 win.[16][17]
References
- ^ "OFC confirms schedule changes". Oceania Football Confederation. 4 March 2021.
- ^ "OFC competitions calendar rescheduled". Oceania Football Confederation. 4 June 2021.
- ^ "OFC male youth tournaments continue to evolve". Oceania Football Confederation. 3 April 2020.
- ^ "OFC U-19 Championship draw set for Fiji". Oceania Football Confederation. 15 July 2022.
- ^ "Solomon Islands v American Samoa". Oceania Football Confederation. 8 September 2022.
- ^ "Cook Islands v New Zealand". Oceania Football Confederation. 8 September 2022.
- ^ "Cook Islands v Solomon Islands". Oceania Football Confederation. 11 September 2022.
- ^ "New Zealand v American Samoa". Oceania Football Confederation. 11 September 2022.
- ^ "American Samoa v Cook Islands". Oceania Football Confederation. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "New Zealand v Solomon Islands". Oceania Football Confederation. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Statement: Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea U-19 squads to miss first match of the OFC U-19 Championship 2022". Oceania Football Confederation. 8 September 2022.
- ^ "Tonga v Tahiti". Oceania Football Confederation. 8 September 2022.
- ^ "Tonga v Fiji". Oceania Football Confederation. 11 September 2022.
- ^ "OFC U-19 Championship 2022: Vanuatu v Samoa; Tahiti v Papua New Guinea will not be played". Oceania Football Confederation. 12 September 2022.
- ^ "Tahiti v Fiji". Oceania Football Confederation. 14 September 2022.
- ^ "OFC U-19 Championship 2022: Group B fixture Papua New Guinea v Tonga". Oceania Football Confederation. 16 September 2022.
- ^ "OFC U-19 Championship 2022: Papua New Guinea awarded 3-0 wins". Oceania Football Confederation. 16 September 2022.
- ^ "Samoa v New Caledonia". Oceania Football Confederation. 14 September 2022.
External links
- oceaniafootball.com