2026 OFC U-19 Championship

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 September 2026
Teams	Final tournament: 8; Total: 10 (from 1 confederation)
Venue	1 (in 1 host city)
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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	App.	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)
Papua New Guinea	Qualifying stage Winner (final tournament)	6th	Group stage (2001, 2016)
Cook Islands	Qualifying stage	6th	Group stage (2001, 2016)
Tonga	Qualifying stage	9th	Group stage (1998, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2018)

Venues

Samoa
Apia
FFS Football Stadium
Capacity: 3,500

Apia

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 Zealand New Caledonia	Solomon Islands Fiji Tahiti Samoa	Vanuatu Qualifying Winner^[a]

Qualifying stage

The draw for the group stage was held 25 February 2026.

Tiebreakers

Tie-breaking criteria for group play
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	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Papua New Guinea	2	2	0	9	1	+8	6	Qualify for Final tournament	—	5–1	—
2	Cook Islands (H)	2	1	1	5	6	−1	3		—	—	—
3	Tonga	2	0	2	1	8	−7	0		0–4	1–4	—

Updated to match(es) played on 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	Papua New Guinea	7th place match

First match(es) will be played: 1 September 2026. Source: OFC
(H) Hosts

1 September 2026