Oceania Club Championship

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The Oceania Club Championship or Oceania Champions Cup is the only international competition for clubs from nations in the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC).

The recent incarnations of the tournament, especially from 1999 onwards, have been organised by the Oceania Football Confederation in order to determine the Oceania representative at the FIFA Club World Cups (formerly called Club World Championships), although the Wollongong Wolves did not participate in a Club World Championship due to the cancellation of that particular tournament.

The 2006 tournament was held in New Zealand and won by Auckland City FC; a qualifying tournament was held earlier in Fiji involving the national club champions in relatively weaker nations in football.

It had been proposed that the Oceania champions would not get direct entry to the main round of the 2006 Club World Championship, instead having to play a preliminary knock out game against the host (Japanese) champions for entry into the main tournament[1]. However FIFA president Sepp Blatter was unable to get the necessary support for the new format and as a result Oceania retained a direct entry into the 2006 Club World Championship. FIFA will review the format before the 2007 Club World Championship.[2].

[edit] Future Tournaments

From the 2007 tournament onwards the OFC Club Championship will be replaced with an OFC Champions League involving two groups of three clubs each playing each other home and away (replacing the current one location tournament system) after a qualifying tournament for the clubs of the weaker nations. OFC Link

[edit] Oceania Club Championship/Oceania Champions Cup Finals

Season	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Tournament Venue
2006 Details	Auckland City FC (New Zealand)	3-1	AS Pirae (French Polynesia)	Albany (New Zealand)
2004/05 Details	Sydney FC (Australia)	2 - 0	AS Magenta (Nouméa) (New Caledonia)	Papeete (French Polynesia)
2000/01 Details	Wollongong Wolves (Australia)	1 - 0	Tafea FC (Vanuatu)	Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea)
1999 Details	South Melbourne FC (Australia)	5 - 1	Nadi (Fiji)	Nadi/Lautoka (Fiji)
1987 Details	Adelaide City (Australia)	1 - 1 Penalties 4 - 1	Mount Wellington (New Zealand)	Adelaide (Australia)