2022 OFC U-19 Championship
The 2022 OFC U-19 Championship will be the 23rd 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.
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Samoa |
| Dates | August 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-20 Championship (originally the 2020 OFC U-19 Championship), which would have been hosted by Samoa, had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Samoa would be retained to host the next edition in 2022.[2] On 4 June 2021, the OFC announced the tournament had been moved to August from July.[3]
The top two teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia as the OFC representatives. New Zealand are the two-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.[4]
Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (2016 and 2018).
| Team | Appearance | Previous best performance |
|---|---|---|
 American Samoa | 6th | Group stage (1998, 2011, 2014) |
 Cook Islands | 4th | Group stage (2001, 2016) |
 Fiji | 22nd | Champions (2014) |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} New Caledonia | 13th | Runners-up (2008) |
 New Zealand | 22nd | Champions (1980, 1992, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018) |
 Papua New Guinea | 15th | Fourth place (1978, 1982) |
 Samoa (hosts) | 10th | Group stage (1988, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007) |
 Solomon Islands | 10th | Runners-up (2005, 2011) |
 Tahiti | 12th | Champions (1974, 2008) |
 Tonga | 7th | Group stage (1998, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2018) |
 Vanuatu | 16th | Runners-up (2014, 2016) |
Venues
To be confirmed.
Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 2003 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup
The following two teams from OFC qualify for the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup1 |
|---|---|---|
| TBD | August 2022 | |
| TBD | August 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 competitions calendar rescheduled". Oceania Football Confederation. 4 June 2021.
- "OFC male youth tournaments continue to evolve". Oceania Football Confederation. 3 April 2020.