2008 OFC Men's Olympic Football Tournament

2008 OFC U-23 Olympic Qualifying Tournament
Tournament details
Host country Fiji
Dates 1 March - 9 March
Teams 6 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions  New Zealand (2nd title)
Runners-up  Solomon Islands
Third place  Fiji
Fourth place  Papua New Guinea
Tournament statistics
Matches played 15
Goals scored 89 (5.93 per match)
Top scorer(s) Solomon Islands Benjamin Totori
Fiji Malakai Tiwa
(8 goals)

The 2008 OFC Men's Olympic Football Tournament functioned as the qualifying tournament to the association football competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing for the member nations of the Oceania Football Confederation. The tournament consisted of a single round-robin tournament played in Fiji from 1 March to 9 March 2008. New Zealand won the tournament and qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games.

Final standings

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 New Zealand 5500193+1615
 Solomon Islands 5401255+2012
 Fiji 5302216+159
 Papua New Guinea 52031820-26
 Vanuatu 5104616-103
 Cook Islands 5005039-390

Matches

1 March 2008
14:00 UTC+12
New Zealand  2 – 1  Fiji
Peverley  33'
Old  90' 		Tiwa  41'
Churchill Park, Lautoka
Referee: Job Minan Papua New Guinea

1 March 2008
16:30 UTC+12
Cook Islands  0 – 4  Vanuatu
Nimanian  16'  40'
Sakama  47' (pen)
Chillia  83'
Churchill Park, Lautoka
Referee: Rakesh Varman Fiji

1 March 2008
19:00 UTC+12
Papua New Guinea  1 – 6  Solomon Islands
Apo  65' Totori  9'  16'  68'
Nawo  12'
Rande  51'
Saie  80'

3 March 2008
14:30 UTC+12
Solomon Islands  11 – 0  Cook Islands
Rande  9'
Maemae  17'  24'
Totori  47'  56'  68'  75'
Nawo  62'
Waroi  77'  78'
Forau  82'
Churchill Park, Lautoka
Referee: Fiti Aimaasu Samoa

3 March 2008
17:00 UTC+12
Fiji  7 – 1  Papua New Guinea
Suwamy  18'
Tiwa  23'  55'  68'
Dunadamu  32'  70'
Rao  76' 		Winnie  72'

3 March 2008
19:30 UTC+12
Vanuatu  0 – 2  New Zealand
Barbarouses  15'
Brockie  40'
Churchill Park, Lautoka
Referee: Norbert Huata French Polynesia

5 March 2008
14:30 UTC+12
Fiji  9 – 0  Cook Islands
Singh  16'  23'  58'
Krishna  38'
Tiwa  59'  75'  76'
Rao  66'
Samy  81'
Churchill Park, Lautoka
Referee: Andrew Moli Solomon Islands

5 March 2008
17:00 UTC+12
Papua New Guinea  2 – 5  New Zealand
Gunemba  17'  86' Ellensohn  43'  58'
Barbarouses  60'  69'
Brockie  85'
Churchill Park, Lautoka
Referee: Rakesh Varman Fiji

5 March 2008
19:30 UTC+12
Solomon Islands  5 – 0  Vanuatu
Maemae  39'  62'  75'
Totori  55'
Nawo  73'

7 March 2008
14:30 UTC+12
New Zealand  2 – 0  Solomon Islands
Old  5'
Henderson  69'

7 March 2008
17:00 UTC+12
Cook Islands  0 – 7  Papua New Guinea
Muta  16'
Winnie  19'  50'
Gunemba  29'
Upaiga  54'
Mobbs  64'
Hans  75'
Churchill Park, Lautoka
Referee: Norbert Huata French Polynesia

7 March 2008
19:30 UTC+12
Vanuatu  0 – 2  Fiji
Tiwa  28' (pen)
Krishna  41'

9 March 2008
12:00 UTC+12
Cook Islands  0 – 8  New Zealand
Old  8'
Brockie  16'
Hayne  52'  79'
Messam  64'
Ellensohn  67'
Barbarouses  75'
Scott  90+2'
Churchill Park, Lautoka
Referee: Job Minan Papua New Guinea

9 March 2008
14:30 UTC+12
Vanuatu  2 – 7  Papua New Guinea
Kaltack  52'
Masauvakolo  79' 		Kini  10'
Winnie  13'  68'  90+2'
Muta  18' (pen)
Gunemba  63'
Upaiga  75'
Churchill Park, Lautoka
Referee: Rakesh Varman Fiji (First Half)
Andrew Moli Solomon Islands (Second Half)

9 March 2008
17:00 UTC+12
Solomon Islands  3 – 2  Fiji
Waroi  28'  42'
Fifii  39' 		Krishna  6'
Dunadamu  23'
 2008 OFC Olympic Qualification Championship 

New Zealand
Second title

Goal scorers

8 goals
6 goals
  • Papua New Guinea Tau Winnie (PNG)
5 goals
4 goals
  • New Zealand Costa Barbarouses (NZL)
  • Solomon Islands Joachim Waroi (SOL)
  • Papua New Guinea Raymond Gunemba (PNG)
3 goals

  • Fiji Macui Dunadamu (FIJ)
  • Solomon Islands Jason Nawo (SOL)

2 goals

  • New Zealand Jason Hayne (NZL)
  • Fiji Shameel Rao (FIJ)
  • Solomon Islands Joachim Rande (SOL)
  • Papua New Guinea David Muta (PNG)
  • Papua New Guinea Koriak Upaiga (PNG)
  • Vanuatu Jefferey Nimanian (VAN)

1 goal
  • Solomon Islands Franklin Forau (SOL)
  • Solomon Islands Nelson Saie Kilifa (SOL)
  • Solomon Islands Michael Fifii (SOL)
  • Papua New Guinea William Mobbs (PNG)
  • Papua New Guinea Samuel Kini (PNG)
  • Papua New Guinea Neil Hans (PNG)
  • Papua New Guinea Mathias Apo (PNG)
  • Vanuatu Francois Sakama (VAN)
  • Vanuatu Tony Chillia (VAN)
  • Vanuatu Michael Kaltack (VAN)
  • Vanuatu Fenedy Masauvakolo (VAN)

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