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2023 OFC U-17 Championship
Tournament details
Host countryFiji
Dates11–28 January[1]
Teams9 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played9
Goals scored47 (5.22 per match)
Attendance180 (20 per match)
Top scorer(s)New Zealand Luke Flowerdew
New Zealand Luke Supyk
Samoa Pharrell Trainor
(4 goals each)
2024 →
All statistics correct as of 17 January 2023.

The 2023 OFC U-17 Championship is the 19th edition of the OFC U-16/U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the men's under-16/under-17 national teams of Oceania.

The OFC announced on 4 March 2021 that the 2021 OFC U-17 Championship (originally the 2020 OFC U-16 Championship), which would have been hosted by Fiji, had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Fiji would be retained to host the next edition in 2022.[2]

The top two teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru as the OFC representatives. New Zealand are the seven-time defending champions, having won the most recently played edition in 2018.

Teams

10 of the 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC are eligible to enter the tournament. Solomon Islands were excluded from taking part by the OFC Disciplinary and Ethics Committee in regards to the 2018 OFC U-16 Championship.[3]

Starting from 2020, male youth tournaments no longer have a four-team qualifying stage, and all teams compete in one tournament.[4]

Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (2016 and 2018).

Team Appearance Previous best performance
 American Samoa 9th Group stage (1999, 2001, 2003, 2011, 2015)
 Cook Islands 10th Group stage (1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2013, 2015)
 Fiji (hosts) 18th Runners-up (1999)
 New Caledonia 12th Runners-up (2003, 2013, 2017)
 New Zealand 17th Champions (1997, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018)
 Papua New Guinea 10th Semi-finals (2017), Fourth place (1986)
 Samoa 9th Group stage (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2015, 2017, 2018)
 Tahiti 14th Runners-up (2007, 2009, 2011, 2015)
 Tonga 10th Group stage (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2015)
 Vanuatu 15th Runners-up (2005)

Venues

Matches are played at HFC Bank Stadium in Suva and Ba Academy in Ba.[5]

Match officials

The following officials were appointed for the tournament:[6]

Draw

The draw for the group stage was conducted at the OFC Home of Football on the 28th October 2022. Teams were seeded into three pots based on their 2018 OFC U-16 Championship ranking.[3]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3
 New Zealand
 Tahiti
 Fiji		  Papua New Guinea
 New Caledonia
 Samoa
 Vanuatu		  American Samoa
 Tonga
 Cook Islands

Squads

Main article: 2023 OFC U-17 Championship squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2006 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

Group stage

All times are local, FJT (UTC+12).

Group A

Papua New Guinea were originally drawn into position A3 of this group but were removed before the start of the tournament due to not submiting their registration on time.[7]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Fiji (H) 2 2 0 0 6 0 +6 6 Knockout stage
2  Samoa 2 1 0 1 6 3 +3 3
3  Tonga 2 0 0 2 0 9 −9 0
Source: OFC
(H) Hosts
Fiji 3–0 Samoa
 Report
Samoa 6–0 Tonga
 Report
Attendance: 100
Tonga 0–3 Fiji
Report

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  New Zealand 2 2 0 0 14 2 +12 6 Knockout stage
2  New Caledonia 2 1 0 1 9 3 +6 3
3  American Samoa 2 0 0 2 0 18 −18 0
Source: OFC
New Zealand 3–2 New Caledonia
 Report
Attendance: 80
American Samoa 0–11 New Zealand
Report
Attendance: 50
New Caledonia 7–0 American Samoa
 Report
Attendance: 20
Referee: Veer Singh (Fiji)

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Tahiti 2 2 0 0 8 1 +7 6 Knockout stage
2  Vanuatu 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 3
3  Cook Islands 2 0 0 2 1 8 −7 0
Source: OFC
Tahiti 2–1 Vanuatu
 Report
Attendance: 100
Cook Islands 0–6 Tahiti
Report
Attendance: 50
Vanuatu 2–1 Cook Islands
 Report
Attendance: 120

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 C  Cook Islands 2 0 0 2 1 8 −7 0 Knockout stage
2 A  Tonga 2 0 0 2 0 9 −9 0
3 B  American Samoa 2 0 0 2 0 18 −18 0
Source: OFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
21 January – Suva
 
 
 Fiji
 
25 January – Suva
 
 Cook Islands
 
Winners Quarter 1
 
21 January – Suva
 
Winners Quarter 2
 
 New Zealand
 
28 January – Suva
 
 Tonga
 
Winners Semi 1
 
22 January – Suva
 
Winners Semi 2
 
 Tahiti
 
25 January – Suva
 
 Samoa
 
Winners Quarter 3
 
22 January – Suva
 
Winners Quarter 4Third place match
 
 New Caledonia
 
28 January – Suva
 
 Vanuatu
 
Losers Semi 1
 
 
Losers Semi 2
 

Quarter-finals

Fiji Quarter 1 Cook Islands
New Zealand Quarter 2 Tonga
Tahiti Quarter 3 Samoa
New Caledonia Quarter 4 Vanuatu

Semi-finals

Winners qualify for 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Winners Quarter 1Semi 1Winners Quarter 2
Winners Quarter 3Semi 2Winners Quarter 4

Third place match

Losers Semi 1vLosers Semi 2

Final

Winners Semi 1vWinners Semi 2

Goalscorers

There have been 47 goals scored in 9 matches, for an average of 5.22 goals per match (as of 18 January 2023).

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following two teams from OFC qualify for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1
TBD 25 January 2023
TBD 25 January 2023
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

  1. ^ "Draw for OFC U-17 Championship to be set today". Oceania Football Confederation. 28 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  2. ^ "OFC confirms schedule changes". Oceania Football Confederation. 4 March 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Draw for OFC U-17 Championship to be set today". Oceania Football Confederation. 28 October 2022.
  4. ^ "OFC male youth tournaments continue to evolve". Oceania Football Confederation. 3 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Teams discover OFC U-17 Championship 2023 opponents". Oceania Football Confederation. 28 October 2022.
  6. ^ "Match officials confirmed for OFC U-17 Championship 2023". Oceania Football Confederation. 13 December 2022.
  7. ^ "'Best' shot for juniors". Fiji Times. 4 January 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
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