2016 Ofc Nations Cup

The tournament was played between 28 May and 11 June 2016 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The winner (New Zealand) qualified for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia.

2016 OFC Nations Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Papua New Guinea
Dates	28 May – 11 June
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	New Zealand (5th title)
Runners-up	Papua New Guinea
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	48 (3.2 per match)
Attendance	41,996 (2,800 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Raymond Gunemba (5 goals)
Best player(s)	David Muta
Best goalkeeper	Stefan Marinovic
Fair play award	New Caledonia
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Similar to the previous edition in 2012, the group stage of the tournament also doubled 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) advanced 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. 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 Tahiti, who had won their first title at the 2012 OFC Nations Cup, were eliminated in the Group stage.

Tahiti, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand were expected to bid to host the event. 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. The OFC confirmed Papua New Guinea as hosts on 30 October 2015.

All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from OFC entered the OFC Nations Cup. 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). 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
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

The format of the OFC Nations Cup was as follows:

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

The OFC had considered different proposals of the 2016 OFC Nations Cup. 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. 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.

The tournament was played at a single venue in Port Moresby.

Port Moresby	Port Moresby
	Sir John Guise Stadium
	Capacity: 15,000

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

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.

The seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of July 2015 (shown in parentheses). 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. The fixtures of each group were decided based on the draw position of each team (teams in Pot 1 drawn to position 1 or 2, teams in Pot 2 drawn to position 3 or 4).

Note: Bolded teams qualified for the World Cup qualifying third round.

All times are local, UTC+10.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Papua New Guinea (H)	3	1	2	0	11	3	+8	5	Qualification to Nations Cup knockout stage and World Cup qualifying third round
2	New Caledonia	3	1	2	0	9	2	+7	5
3	Tahiti	3	1	2	0	7	3	+4	5	Qualification to World Cup qualifying third round
4	Samoa	3	0	0	3	0	19	−19	0

29 May 2016 (2016-05-29)

16:00

Papua New Guinea	1–1	New Caledonia
Semmy   41'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Saïko   83'

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 4,231

Referee: Matthew Conger (New Zealand)

29 May 2016 (2016-05-29)

19:00

Tahiti	4–0	Samoa
T. Tehau   2', 5' Chong Hue   15' A. Tehau   39'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 4,720

Referee: Ravitesh Behari (Fiji)

1 June 2016 (2016-06-01)

16:00

Papua New Guinea	2–2	Tahiti
Gunemba   45+1', 64'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	A. Tehau   66' T. Tehau   76'

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 1,643

Referee: Nick Waldron (New Zealand)

1 June 2016 (2016-06-01)

19:00

New Caledonia	7–0	Samoa
Kayara   18', 30' Nemia   28' Zeoula   38' (pen.) Wadriako   53' Cexome   79' Dahité   89' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 2,015

Referee: Robinson Banga (Vanuatu)

5 June 2016 (2016-06-05)

16:00

Samoa	0–8	Papua New Guinea
	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Foster   13', 51' Gunemba   33', 63', 85' Dabinyaba   58', 74' Upaiga   67'

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 2,678

Referee: Joel Hopkken (Vanuatu)

5 June 2016 (2016-06-05)

19:00

Tahiti	1–1	New Caledonia
T. Tehau   90+2'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Kaï   80'

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 3,158

Referee: Nick Waldron (New Zealand)

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	New Zealand	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8	9	Qualification to Nations Cup knockout stage and World Cup qualifying third round
2	Solomon Islands	3	1	0	2	1	2	−1	3
3	Fiji	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3	Qualification to World Cup qualifying third round
4	Vanuatu	3	1	0	2	3	8	−5	3

28 May 2016 (2016-05-28)

16:00

New Zealand	3–1	Fiji
Tzimopoulos   16' Fallon   41' Wood   61' (pen.)	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Krishna   45+2' (pen.)

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 378

Referee: Norbert Hauata (Tahiti)

28 May 2016 (2016-05-28)

19:00

Vanuatu	0–1	Solomon Islands
	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Donga   19'

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 1,611

Referee: Médéric Lacour (New Caledonia)

31 May 2016 (2016-05-31)

16:00

Vanuatu	0–5	New Zealand
	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Wood   4', 5' McGlinchey   10' Fallon   19' Barbarouses   45'

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 520

Referee: Amos Anio (Papua New Guinea)

31 May 2016 (2016-05-31)

19:00

Solomon Islands	0–1	Fiji
	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Krishna   85' (pen.)

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 798

Referee: Abdelkader Zitouni (Tahiti)

4 June 2016 (2016-06-04)

16:00

Fiji	2–3	Vanuatu
Kautoga   51' Krishna   69'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Fred   19' Masauvakalo   41' Kaltak   75' (pen.)

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 851

Referee: Abdelkader Zitouni (Tahiti)

4 June 2016 (2016-06-04)

19:00

New Zealand	1–0	Solomon Islands
Adams   80'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 1,925

Referee: Norbert Hauata (Tahiti)

If tied after regulation, extra time and, if necessary, penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner. All times are local, UTC+10.

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	8 June – Port Moresby
	New Zealand	1
					11 June – Port Moresby
	New Caledonia	0
					New Zealand (p)	0 (4)
	8 June – Port Moresby
					Papua New Guinea	0 (2)
	Papua New Guinea	2
	Solomon Islands	1

Semi-finals

8 June 2016 (2016-06-08)

16:10

New Zealand	1–0	New Caledonia
Wood   49'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 1,379

Referee: Abdelkader Zitouni (Tahiti)

8 June 2016 (2016-06-08)

19:40

Papua New Guinea	2–1	Solomon Islands
Foster   38' Dabinyaba   82'	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)	Molea   41'

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 3,548

Referee: Matthew Conger (New Zealand)

Final

11 June 2016 (2016-06-11)

16:00

New Zealand	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Papua New Guinea
	Report (FIFA) Report (OFC)
Penalties
Fallon   McGlinchey   Dyer   Brockie   Rojas	4–2	Upaiga   Semmy   Foster   Gunemba

Sir John Guise Stadium, Port Moresby

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Norbert Hauata (Tahiti)

There were 48 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 3.2 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal