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2026 OFC U-19 Men's Championship
2026 OFC U-19 siamupini
Tournament details
Host countries	Qualifying stage:; Cook Islands; Final tournament:; Samoa
Dates	Qualifying stage:; 6–12 June 2026; Final tournament:; 1–14 July 2026
Teams	Final tournament: 8; Total: 10 (from 1 confederation)
Venue	1 (in 1 host city)
	← 2024 2028 →

2026 OFC U-19 Men's Championship

Last updated March 03, 2026

The 2026 OFC U-19 Men's Championship will be the 25th 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 2027 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan as the OFC representatives.^[1] New Zealand are the defending champions.

Teams

All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC are eligible to enter the tournament.

Starting from 2022, this marked the return of the four-team qualifying stage after absent from 2022.

Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (2016, 2018 and 2024).

Team	Stage	Appearance	Previous best performance
Fiji	Final tournament (Group stage)	24th	Champions (2014)
New Zealand		24th	Champions (1980, 1992, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024)
New Caledonia		15th	Runners-up (2008, 2024)
Samoa (hosts)		12th	Quarter-finals (2022, (2024)
Solomon Islands		12th	Runners-up (2005, 2011)
Tahiti		14th	Champions (1974, 2008)
Vanuatu		18th	Runners-up (2014, 2016)
Cook Islands	Qualifying stage	6th	Group stage (2001, 2016)
Papua New Guinea		17th	Fourth place (1978, 1982)
Tonga		9th	Group stage (1998, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2018)

Venues

Apia
Apia
FFS Football Stadium
Capacity: 3,500

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 25 February with teams seeded into pots based upon their ranking at the 2024 OFC U-19 Championship.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
New Caledonia New Zealand	Solomon Islands Fiji Tahiti Samoa	Vanuatu Qualifying Winner^[a]

Qualifying stage

The draw for the group stage was held 5 March 2024.

Tiebreakers

Tie-breaking criteria for group play^[2]
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

Pos	Team v t e	Qualification
1	Tonga	Qualify for Final tournament
2	Papua New Guinea
3	Cook Islands (H)

First match(es) will be played: 6 June 2026. Source: OFC
(H) Hosts

Group stage

All times are local, WST (UTC+13).

Group A

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	New Caledonia	Knockout stage
2	Samoa (H)	Knockout stage
3	Solomon Islands	5th place match
4	Qualifying Winner	7th place match

Source: OFC
(H) Hosts

1 September 2026

11:00

Solomon Islands	v	Qualifying Winner

2026 OFC U-19 siamupini
Tournament details
Host countries	Qualifying stage: Cook Islands Final tournament: Samoa
Dates	Qualifying stage: 6–12 June 2026 Final tournament: 1–14 July 2026
Teams	Final tournament: 8 Total: 10 (from 1 confederation)
Venue	1 (in 1 host city)
← 2024 2028 →

	Semi-finals				Final

	15 July – Apia

	Group A Winner
					18 July – Apia
	Group B Runner-up
					Semi-Final Winner 1
	15 July – Apia
					Semi-final Winner 2
	Group B Winner

	Group A runner-up
					Third place match

					18 July – Apia

					Semi-final Loser 1

					Semi-final Loser 2

v t e OFC U-19/U-20 Championship
U-20	Tahiti 1974 New Zealand 1978 Fiji 1980 Papua New Guinea 1982 Australia 1985 New Zealand 1986 Fiji 1988 Fiji 1990 Tahiti 1992 Fiji 1994 Tahiti 1997 Samoa 1998 New Caledonia/Cook Islands 2001 Vanuatu/Fiji 2002 Solomon Islands 2005 New Zealand 2007 Tahiti 2008 New Zealand 2011 Fiji 2013 Fiji 2014 Vanuatu 2016
U-19	Tahiti 2018 ~~Samoa 2021~~ (U-20, originally 2020 U-19) Tahiti 2022 Samoa 2024
Squads	1974 1978 1980 1982 1985 1987 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2001 2003 2005 2007 2008 2011 2013 2014 2016 2018 2022 2024

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2026 OFC U-19 Men's Championship

Contents

Teams

Venues

Draw

Qualifying stage

Tiebreakers

Qualifying group

Group stage

Group A

Group B

5th place match

7th place match

Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals

3rd place match

Final

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

Broadcasting

Notes

References