Tourney Name: | OFC U-19 Men's Championship |
Year: | 2024 |
Other Titles: | 2024 OFC U-19 siamupini |
Size: | 150px |
Country: | Qualifying stage: Vanuatu |
Country2: | Final tournament: Samoa |
Dates: | Qualifying stage: 9–15 April 2024 Final tournament: 5–18 July 2024 |
Num Teams: | Final tournament: 8 Total: 11 |
Confederations: | 1 |
Venues: | 1 |
Cities: | 1 |
Count: | 9 |
Matches: | 16 |
Goals: | 61 |
Top Scorer: | Keegan Kelly (4 goals) |
Player: | Luka Coveny |
Goalkeeper: | Alby Kelly-Heald |
Prevseason: | 2022 |
Nextseason: | 2026 |
The 2024 OFC U-19 Men's Championship was the 24th 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.
The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile as the OFC representatives.[1] [2] New Zealand are the defending champions.[3]
All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC are eligible to enter the tournament.
Starting from 2022, this marked the return of the four-team qualifying stage after absent from 2022.
Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (2016 and 2018).
Team | data-sort-type="number" | Appearance | Previous best performance |
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23rd | (2014) | ||
23rd | (1980, 1992, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2022) | ||
14th | (2008) | ||
16th | (1978, 1982) | ||
(hosts) | 11th | (2022) | |
11th | (2005, 2011) | ||
13th | (1974, 2008) | ||
17th | (2014, 2016) |
Apia |
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FFS Football Stadium |
Capacity: 3,500 |
The draw for the group stage was held on 5 March with teams seeded into pots based upon their ranking at the 2022 OFC U-19 Championship.[4] [5]
See main article: 2024 OFC U-19 Championship squads.
Players born on or after 1 January 2005 are eligible to compete in the tournament.
The draw for the group stage was held 5 March 2024.[6]
All times are local, WST (UTC+13).
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Winners qualify for 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[2]
The following two teams from OFC qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile.
Team | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup1 |
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0 (debut) | |||
7 (2007, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023) |
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
All games were streamed live and free on FIFA+.[5]