2020 OFC U-16 Championship

The 2020 OFC U-16 Championship will be 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 tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Fiji in September 2020.[1] However, on 28 July 2020, the OFC announced that the tournament had been postponed to April 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

2020 OFC U-16 Championship
Tournament details
Host countryFiji
DatesApril 2021
Teams10 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)TBC (in TBC host cities)

The top two teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru as the OFC representatives.

New Zealand are the seven-time defending champions.

Teams

Ten of the 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC are eligible to enter the tournament. The Solomon Islands have been banned from entering a team in this edition due to fielding at least one ineligible player in the 2018 OFC U-16 Championship.[3]

Starting from this edition, 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 (2017 and 2018).

Team Appearance Previous best performance
 American Samoa9thGroup stage (1999, 2001, 2003, 2011, 2015)
 Cook Islands10thGroup stage (1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2013, 2015)
 Fiji (hosts)18thRunners-up (1999)
 New Caledonia12thRunners-up (2003, 2013, 2017)
 New Zealand17thChampions (1997, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018)
 Papua New Guinea10thSemi-finals (2017), Fourth place (1986)
 Samoa9thGroup stage (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2015, 2017, 2018)
 Tahiti14thRunners-up (2007, 2009, 2011, 2015)
 Tonga10thGroup stage (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2015)
 Vanuatu15thRunners-up (2005)
Banned

Venues

To be confirmed.

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2004 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following two teams from OFC qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1
TBDApril 2021
TBDApril 2021
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
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References
  1. "Hosts confirmed for 2020 Youth Tournaments". Oceania Football Confederation. 26 February 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  2. "OFC tournaments update". Oceania Football Confederation. 28 July 2020.
  3. "Solomon Islands Football Federation and player sanctioned". Oceania Football Confederation. 13 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
  4. "OFC male youth tournaments continue to evolve". Oceania Football Confederation. 3 April 2020.
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