Tourney Name: | OFC Champions League |
Year: | 2019 |
Country: | Qualifying stage: Cook Islands |
Country2: | Group stage: Vanuatu Fiji Solomon Islands New Caledonia |
Dates: | Qualifying stage: Competition proper: 10 February – 11 May 2019 |
Num Teams: | Competition proper: 16 Total: 18 |
Associations: | 11 |
Champion Other: | Hienghène Sport |
Count: | 1 |
Second Other: | Magenta |
Matches: | 37 |
Goals: | 206 |
Top Scorer: | Ross Allen (11 goals) |
Player: | Bertrand Kaï |
Goalkeeper: | Rocky Nyikeine |
Fair Play: | Auckland City |
Prevseason: | 2018 |
Nextseason: | 2022 |
The 2019 OFC Champions League was the 18th edition of the Oceanian Club Championship, Oceania's premier club football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), and the 13th season under the current OFC Champions League name.
In the final, Hienghène Sport defeated Magenta 1–0, becoming the first team from New Caledonia to win the tournament. As the winners of the 2019 OFC Champions League, they qualified for the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar. Team Wellington were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Hienghène Sport in the semi-finals.
A total of 18 teams from all 11 OFC member associations entered the competition.
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Lautoka | 2018 Fiji Premier League champions | ||||
Ba | 2018 Fiji Premier League runners-up | ||||
Hienghène Sport | 2017 New Caledonia Super Ligue champions | ||||
Magenta | 2017 New Caledonia Super Ligue runners-up | ||||
Auckland City | 2017–18 New Zealand Football Championship finals series champions 2017–18 New Zealand Football Championship regular season premiers | ||||
Team Wellington | 2017–18 New Zealand Football Championship regular season runners-up | ||||
Toti City | 2018 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League playoffs champions 2018 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League regular season premiers | ||||
Morobe Wawens | 2018 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League regular season runners-up | ||||
Solomon Warriors | 2018 Solomon Islands S-League champions | ||||
Henderson Eels | 2018 Solomon Islands S-League runners-up | ||||
Central Sport | 2017–18 Tahiti Ligue 1 champions | ||||
Tefana | 2017–18 Tahiti Ligue 1 runners-up | ||||
Erakor Golden Star | 2018 VFF National Super League grand final champions | ||||
Malampa Revivors | 2018 VFF National Super League grand final runners-up |
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Pago Youth | 2017 FFAS Senior League champions | ||||
Tupapa Maraerenga | 2018 Cook Islands Round Cup champions | ||||
Kiwi | 2018 Samoa National League champions | ||||
Lotohaʻapai United | 2018 Tonga Major League champions |
The schedule of the competition was as follows. For this season, all ties in the knockout stage were played as a single match.
Stage | Draw date | Match dates |
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Qualifying stage | 13 November 2018 (Auckland, New Zealand) | 26 January – 1 February 2019 (Cook Islands) |
Group stage |
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Quarter-finals | 5 March 2019 (Auckland, New Zealand) | 6–7 April 2019 |
Semi-finals | 28 April 2019 | |
Final | 11 May 2019 |
See main article: 2019 OFC Champions League qualifying stage.
See main article: 2019 OFC Champions League group stage.
See main article: 2019 OFC Champions League knockout stage.
Rank | Player | Team |    |    |      | Total | ||||||
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1 | Ross Allen | Team Wellington | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 11 | |||||
2 | David Browne | Auckland City | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||||||
Yorick Hnautra | Magenta | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
Kevin Nemia | Magenta | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
Paulo Scanlan | Kiwi | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
6 | Sylvain Graglia | Central Sport | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||||||
Micah Lea'alafa | Auckland City | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
8 | Maro Bonsu-Maro | Auckland City | 4 | 4 | ||||||||
Nigel Dabinyaba | Toti City | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Raymond Gunemba | Toti City | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
Bertrand Kaï | Hienghène Sport | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
Richard Sele | Magenta | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
Jack-Henry Sinclair | Team Wellington | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
Fabrizio Tavano | Auckland City | 3 | 1 |
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.[1]
Award | Player | Team | |
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Golden Ball | Bertrand Kaï | Hienghène Sport | |
Golden Boot | Ross Allen | Team Wellington | |
Golden Glove | Rocky Nyikeine | Hienghène Sport | |
Fair Play Award | — | Auckland City |