2016 OFC Nations Cup

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2016 OFC Nations Cup
Tournament details
Host country Papua New Guinea
Dates28 May – 11 June 2016
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played12
Goals scored44 (3.67 per match)
Top scorer(s)Papua New Guinea Raymond Gunemba (5 goals)
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2020 →
All statistics correct as of 5 June 2016.

The 2016 OFC Nations Cup will be the 10th edition of the OFC Nations Cup, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Oceania organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC). The tournament will be played between 28 May and 11 June 2016 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.[1] The winner will qualify for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia.

Similar to the previous edition in 2012, the tournament will also double up as the second round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification tournament for the Oceania region. The top six teams of this tournament (i.e. the top three teams of each group in the group stage) will advance to the third round of World Cup qualifying, to be played between March and October 2017, with the winners of the third round proceeding to the inter-confederation play-offs in November 2017.[2][3][4] This means that once again, the team that wins the qualifying competition and advances to the intercontinental play-off may be different from the team that wins the OFC Nations Cup and represents the OFC at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.

The defending champions are Tahiti, who won their first title at the 2012 OFC Nations Cup.[5]

Host selection

Tahiti, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand were expected to bid to host the event.[6] On 16 October 2015, OFC President David Chung confirmed that Papua New Guinea was the only member association to present a bid to host the 2016 OFC Nations Cup.[7] The OFC confirmed Papua New Guinea as hosts on 30 October 2015.[1]

Qualification

Main article: 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – OFC First Round

All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from OFC entered the OFC Nations Cup.[8][9] The seven highest ranked teams (based on FIFA World Ranking and sporting reasons) among the 11 OFC entrants automatically qualified.

The 4 teams which competed in the qualification round of the 2012 tournament – American Samoa, Cook Islands, Samoa and Tonga – once again competed in a preliminary round. This was a round-robin tournament, held in one location (Tonga).[9] The winners of the tournament, Samoa, qualified to compete alongside the remaining 7 Oceania nations.

Qualified teams

Team Method of
qualification 		Date of
qualification 		Finals
appearance 		Last
appearance 		Previous best
performance 		FIFA ranking
at start of event[10]
 Fiji Automatic 29 March 2014 8th 2012 3rd (1998, 2008) 183
 New Caledonia Automatic 29 March 2014 6th 2012 2nd (2008, 2012) 191
 New Zealand Automatic 29 March 2014 10th 2012 Winners (1973, 1998, 2002, 2008) 161
 Papua New Guinea Automatic 29 March 2014 4th 2012 R1 (1980, 2002, 2012) 198
 Solomon Islands Automatic 29 March 2014 7th 2012 2nd (2004) 192
 Tahiti Automatic 29 March 2014 9th 2012 Winners (2012) 196
 Vanuatu Automatic 29 March 2014 9th 2012 4th (1973, 2000, 2002, 2008) 181
 Samoa Qualifying winner 4 September 2015 2nd 2012 R1 (2012) 170

Format

The format of the OFC Nations Cup is as follows:

  • Group stage: The eight teams are divided into two groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group will advance to the knockout stage. Moreover, the top three teams of each group advance to the third round of 2018 World Cup qualifying.
  • Knockout stage: The four teams play a single-elimination tournament (semi-finals and final) to decide the champions of the OFC Nations Cup.

The OFC have considered different proposals of the 2016 OFC Nations Cup.[9] A previous proposal adopted by the OFC in October 2014 had the eight teams divided into two groups of four teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches in the second round, followed by the top two teams of each group advancing to the third round to play in a single group of home-and-away round-robin matches to decide the winner of the 2016 OFC Nations Cup which would both qualify to the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and advance to the inter-confederation play-offs.[11] However, it was later reported in April 2015 that the OFC had reversed its decision, and the 2016 OFC Nations Cup will be played as a one-off tournament similar to the 2012 OFC Nations Cup.[6]

Venues

The tournament will be played at a single venue in Port Moresby.

Port Moresby
Sir John Guise Stadium
9°26′27″S 147°11′07″E / 9.440893°S 147.185355°E / -9.440893; 147.185355 (Sir John Guise Stadium)

Squads

Main article: 2016 OFC Nations Cup squads

Officials

10 referees and 12 assistant referees were named for the tournament.[12]

Draw

The draw for the 2016 OFC Nations Cup was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.[13][14]

The seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of July 2015 (shown in parentheses).[13][15] The eight teams were seeded into two pots:

  • Pot 1 contained the direct qualifiers ranked 1–4.
  • Pot 2 contained the direct qualifiers ranked 5–7 and the first round winner.

Each group contained two teams from Pot 1 and two teams from Pot 2. As the draw was held before the first round was played, the identity of the first round winner was not known at the time of the draw.

Pot 1 Pot 2
  1.  New Zealand (136)
  2.  New Caledonia (167)
  3.  Tahiti (188)
  4.  Solomon Islands (191)
  2.  Vanuatu (197)
  3.  Fiji (199)
  4.  Papua New Guinea (202)
  5.  Samoa (198) (first round winner)

Group stage

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification tiebreakers
In league format, the ranking of teams in each group was based on the following criteria (regulations Articles 20.6 and 20.7):[16]
  1. Points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss)
  2. Overall goal difference
  3. Overall goals scored
  4. Points in matches between tied teams
  5. Goal difference in matches between tied teams
  6. Goals scored in matches between tied teams
  7. Away goals scored in matches between tied teams (if the tie was only between two teams in home-and-away league format)
  8. Fair play points
    • first yellow card: minus 1 point
    • indirect red card (second yellow card): minus 3 points
    • direct red card: minus 4 points
    • yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points
  9. Drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee

Group A

Template:2016 OFC Nations Cup Group A table

Papua New Guinea 1–1 New Caledonia
Semmy 41' Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)		 Saïko 84'
Attendance: 4,231
Tahiti 4–0 Samoa
T. Tehau 2', 5'
Chong Hue 15'
A. Tehau 39'		 Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)
Attendance: 4,720
Papua New Guinea 2–2 Tahiti
Gunemba 45+1', 64' Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)		 A. Tehau 66'
T. Tehau 76'
Attendance: 1,643
New Caledonia 7–0 Samoa
Kayara 18', 30'
Nemia 28'
Zeoula 38' (pen.)
Wadriako 53'
Cexome 79'
Dahite 89' (pen.)		 Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)
Attendance: 2,015
Papua New Guinea 8–0 Samoa
Foster 13', 51'
Gunemba 33', 63', 83'
Dabinyaba 58', 74'
Upaiga 67'		 Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)
Tahiti 1–1 New Caledonia
T. Tehau 90+2' Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)		 Kaï 80'

Group B

Template:2016 OFC Nations Cup Group B table

New Zealand 3–1 Fiji
Tzimopoulos 16'
Fallon 41'
Wood 61' (pen.)		 Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)		 Krishna 45+2' (pen.)
Attendance: 500
Vanuatu 0–1 Solomon Islands
Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)		 Donga 19'
Attendance: 1,611
Vanuatu 0–5 New Zealand
Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)		 Wood 4', 5'
McGlinchey 10'
Fallon 19'
Barbarouses 45'
Attendance: 520
Solomon Islands 0–1 Fiji
Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)		 Krishna 85' (pen.)
Attendance: 798
Fiji 2–3 Vanuatu
Kautoga 51'
Krishna 69'		 Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)		 Fred 19'
Masauvakalo 41'
B. Kaltack 75' (pen.)
Attendance: 900
New Zealand 1–0 Solomon Islands
Adams 80' Report (FIFA)
Report (OFC)
Attendance: 1,295

Knockout stage

If tied after regulation, extra time and, if necessary, penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner.

Bracket

Semi-finalsFinal
      
8 June – Port Moresby
A1
 Papua New Guinea
11 June – Port Moresby
B2
 Solomon Islands
Winner Semi-final 1
8 June – Port Moresby
Winner Semi-final 2
B1
 New Zealand
A2
 New Caledonia

Semi-finals

Papua New Guinea v Solomon Islands
New Zealand v New Caledonia

Final

Winner Semi-final 1 v Winner Semi-final 2

Goalscorers

As of all matches played on 5 June 2016

There have been 44 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 3.67 goals per match.

5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal

References

  1. ^ a b "Prestigious honour for Papua New Guinea". Oceania Football Confederation. 29 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Current allocation of FIFA World Cup™ confederation slots maintained". FIFA.com. 30 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Preliminary competition format outlined". Oceania Football Confederation. 10 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Preliminary Draw procedures outlined". fifa.com. 9 July 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Tahiti wins 2012 Oceania Nations Cup". Goal.com. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
  6. ^ a b "Football: Heat goes on NZ after switch". New Zealand Herald. 12 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Stakeholders confident moving forward". Oceania Football Confederation. 16 October 2015.
  8. ^ "Road to Russia with new milestone". FIFA.com. 15 January 2015.
  9. ^ a b c "OFC Executive Committee decisions". OFC. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
  10. ^ "FIFA Men's Ranking – May 2016 (OFC)". FIFA.com. 5 May 2016.
  11. ^ "OFC Executive Committee outcomes". Oceania Football Confederation. 20 October 2014.
  12. ^ "Officials confirmed for OFC Nations Cup". Oceania Football Confederation. 15 May 2016.
  13. ^ a b "Draw Procedures – Oceanian Zone" (PDF). FIFA.com.
  14. ^ "World Cup path laid out for Oceania". OFC. 26 July 2015.
  15. ^ "FIFA Men's Ranking – July 2015 (OFC)". FIFA.com. 9 July 2015.
  16. ^ "Regulations – 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia" (PDF). FIFA.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016.

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