Polynesia Cup

The Polynesia Cup (French: Coupe de Polynésie) was a football tournament for Polynesian nations within the Oceania Football Confederation. It acted along with the Melanesia Cup as a qualifying tournament for the OFC Nations Cup. The last tournament was played in 2000.^[1]

The tournament involved a round-robin format where every team played each other once at the location of the tournament.

In the first tournament in 1994, Tahiti, fielding a young and inexperienced team, beat Tonga 1-0, American Samoa 2-0 and Western Samoa 7-0. Lolani Koko, a multisport athlete, captained the Western Samoan team. He had competed as a runner in the 1982 Commonwealth Games and was also an international rugby player for Western Samoa.^[2]

Participating nations

Results

Year	Host	Champion	Runners-up	Third place
1994	Western Samoa	Tahiti	Tonga	Western Samoa
1998	Cook Islands	Tahiti	Cook Islands	Western Samoa
2000	French Polynesia	Tahiti	Cook Islands	Samoa

Records

Total Wins

3		Tahiti	1994, 1998, 2000

All-time table

Rank	Team	Part	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Tahiti	3	11	11	0	0	67	4	+63	33
2	Samoa^[a]	3	11	5	1	5	26	23	+3	16
3	Cook Islands	2	8	5	1	2	16	16	0	16
4	Tonga	3	11	3	2	6	13	28	–15	11
5	American Samoa	3	11	0	0	11	8	59	–51	0

Footnotes

^ Includes participations as Western Samoa from 1994.

References

^ Fischer, Steven (2013). A History of the Pacific Islands (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Education UK. p. 294. ISBN 1137088125.
^ Moon, Paul (May 1995). "Polynesia Cup". World Soccer: 53. Retrieved 10 February 2026.

[3] Includes participations as Western Samoa from 1994.

[1] Fischer, Steven (2013). A History of the Pacific Islands (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Education UK. p. 294. ISBN 1137088125.

[PM-2] Moon, Paul (May 1995). "Polynesia Cup". World Soccer: 53. Retrieved 10 February 2026.

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