2022 OFC U-16 Championship
The 2022 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.
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Fiji |
| Dates | September 2022[1] |
| Teams | 11 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | TBC (in TBC host cities) |
The OFC announced on 4 March 2022 that the 2021 OFC U-17 Championship (originally the 2020 OFC U-16 Championship), which would have been hosted by Fiji, had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Fiji would be retained to host the next edition in 2022.[2]
The top two teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru as the OFC representatives. New Zealand are the seven-time defending champions, having won the most recently played edition in 2018.
Teams
All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC are eligible to enter the tournament.
Starting from 2020, male youth tournaments no longer have a four-team qualifying stage, and all teams compete in one tournament.[3]
Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (2016 and 2018).
| Team | Appearance | Previous best performance |
|---|---|---|
 American Samoa | 9th | Group stage (1999, 2001, 2003, 2011, 2015) |
 Cook Islands | 10th | Group stage (1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2013, 2015) |
 Fiji (hosts) | 18th | Runners-up (1999) |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} New Caledonia | 12th | Runners-up (2003, 2013, 2017) |
 New Zealand | 17th | Champions (1997, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018) |
 Papua New Guinea | 10th | Semi-finals (2017), Fourth place (1986) |
 Samoa | 9th | Group stage (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2015, 2017, 2018) |
 Solomon Islands | 10th | Runners-up (1993, 2018) |
 Tahiti | 14th | Runners-up (2007, 2009, 2011, 2015) |
 Tonga | 10th | Group stage (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2011, 2015) |
 Vanuatu | 15th | Runners-up (2005) |
Venues
To be confirmed.
Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 2006 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup
The following two teams from OFC qualify for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1 |
|---|---|---|
| TBD | 2022 | |
| TBD | 2022 |
- 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
References
- "OFC Competitions 2022 Calendar (updated 4/06/2021)" (PDF). Oceania Football Confederation. Fédération Tahitienne de Football. 4 June 2021.
- "OFC confirms schedule changes". Oceania Football Confederation. 4 March 2021.
- "OFC male youth tournaments continue to evolve". Oceania Football Confederation. 3 April 2020.