The 2019 OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament (also called the 2019 OFC U-23 Championship) was the eighth edition of the OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international age-restricted football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the men's under-23 national teams of Oceania.
In November 2018, it was announced that Fiji would host the competition.[1] The tournament was held from 21 September to 5 October 2019.[2]
Note: New Caledonia and Tahiti are not members of the International Olympic Committee and thus not eligible to qualify for the Olympic Football Tournament.
Players born on or after 1 January 1997 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
Draw
The draw of the tournament was held on 6 May 2019 at the OFC Academy in Auckland, New Zealand.[4] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The top two ranked teams, New Zealand and Fiji, were assigned to group positions A1 and B1 respectively, and the next two ranked teams, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands, were drawn into position 2 of Group A or B, while the remaining teams were drawn into position 3 or 4 of Group A or B.[5]
Group stage
The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals.
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^"New Zealand win through to Tokyo 2020". FIFA.com. 5 October 2019. Archived from the original on October 5, 2019.
External links
OFC Men's Olympic Qualifier 2019
News > OFC Men's Olympic Qualifier 2019 Archived 2019-05-07 at the Wayback Machine, OceaniaFootball.com