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2024 OFC U-19 Men's Championship 2024 OFC U-19 siamupini Host countries Qualifying stage: VanuatuFinal tournament: SamoaDates Qualifying stage: 9–15 April 2024Final tournament: 5–18 July 2024Teams Final tournament: 8Total: 11 (from 1 confederation)Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city) Matches played 14 Goals scored 51 (3.64 per match) Attendance 3,200 (229 per match)
All statistics correct as of 6 July 2024.
International football competition
The 2024 OFC U-19 Men's Championship will the 24th 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.
The top two teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile as the OFC representatives.[1] [2] New Zealand are the defending champions.[3]
All 11 FIFA -affiliated national teams from the OFC are eligible to enter the tournament.
Starting from 2022, this will mark the return of the four-team qualifying stage after absent from 2022.
Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (2016 and 2018).
Team
Appearance
Previous best performance
Fiji
23rd
Champions (2014 )
New Zealand
23rd
Champions (1980 , 1992 , 2007 , 2011 , 2013 , 2016 , 2018 , 2022 )
New Caledonia
14th
Runners-up (2008 )
Papua New Guinea
16th
Fourth place (1978 , 1982 )
Samoa (hosts)
11th
Quarter-finals (2022 )
Solomon Islands
11th
Runners-up (2005 , 2011 )
Tahiti
13th
Champions (1974 , 2008 )
Vanuatu
17th
Runners-up (2014 , 2016 )
The draw for the group stage was held on 5 March with teams seeded into pots based upon their ranking at the 2022 OFC U-19 Championship .[4] [5]
Players born on or after 1 January 2005 are eligible to compete in the tournament.
Qualifying stage [ edit ]
The draw for the group stage was held 5 March 2024.[6]
Tiebreakers [ edit ]
Tie-breaking criteria for group play[7]
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 [ edit ]
Group stage [ edit ]
All times are local, WST (UTC+13 ).
Group A [ edit ]
Group B [ edit ]
Knockout stage [ edit ]
Bracket [ edit ]
Semi-finals [ edit ]
Winners qualify for 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup .[2]
Third place match [ edit ]
Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup [ edit ]
The following two teams from OFC qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile .
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
Broadcasting [ edit ]
All games will be streamed live and free on FIFA+ .[5]
Goalscorers [ edit ]
^ The identity of the qualifying winners was not known at the time of the final draw
References [ edit ]
Domestic Leagues Domestic Cups Super Cups OFC club competitions National team competitions