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The two garnered enough support for their bid to be approved by FIFA's congress in 1966. The founding OFC members were the following: [5] the Australian Soccer Federation (subsequently rebranded Football Australia in 2005) New Zealand Football Association [6] (also known as New Zealand Soccer: subsequently rebranded New Zealand Football)
The OFC Men's U-16 Championship is a biennial football tournament for players under the age of 16. The tournament decides the only two qualification spots for the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and its representatives at the FIFA U-17 World Cup , which is held every two years.
All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC entered the tournament. In 2022 and 2023, male youth OFC tournaments did not have a four-team qualifying stage, and all teams competed in one tournament. [4] This was reversed for the 2024 tournament. [5] Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (2016 and 2018).
The 2024 OFC U-16 Women's Championship was the 6th edition of the OFC U-16 Women's Championship, and the third with the U-16 format. The tournament is holding between 8 and 21 September 2024 in Fiji. [1] The top two teams qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Morocco as the OFC representatives. [2]
In March 2015, FIFA decided that the OFC gets two slots at every FIFA U-20 and U-17 World Cup. [3] So the top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil as the OFC representatives. New Zealand, the defending champions, won the title for the eighth time, and qualified together with runners-up Solomon Islands.
The OFC U-19 Championship is a tournament held once every two years to decide the under-19 champions of Oceania and also decides who will represent Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) at the biennial FIFA U-20 World Cup. Between 1974 and 2012, the competition was open to teams under 20 years of age and called the OFC U-20 Championship.
For 2022, a U-18 women's tournament was tentatively scheduled in April, and a U-15 girls' tournament was tentatively scheduled between September and December, but both were cancelled as those players will now be eligible for the 2022 OFC U-20 Women's Championship and 2022 OFC U-17 Women's Championship, which were postponed from 2021. [4] [5]
The Oceanian section of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification process is taking place from September 2024 to March 2025. [1] The 2026 tournament is the 16th edition of Oceanian qualifiers and marks the first time OFC has a direct qualification slot into the FIFA World Cup.