2011–12 OFC Champions League

2011–12 OFC Champions League
Tournament details
Dates 29 October 2011 – 12 May 2012
Teams 8 (from 7 associations)
Final positions
Champions New Zealand Auckland City (4th title)
Runners-up French Polynesia Tefana
Tournament statistics
Matches played 26
Goals scored 88 (3.38 per match)
Top scorer(s) Spain Manel Expósito (6 goals)
Best player Spain Albert Riera
Best goalkeeper New Zealand Jacob Spoonley

The 2011–12 OFC Champions League, also known as the 2012 O-League, was the 11th edition of the Oceanian Club Championship, Oceania's premier club football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), and the 6th season under the current OFC Champions League name. It was contested by eight teams from seven countries. The teams were split into two four-team pools, the winner of each pool contesting the title of O-League Champion and the right to represent the OFC at the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup.

The title was won by the defending champions Auckland City.

Participants

Location of teams of the 2011–12 OFC Champions League.

From the 2011–12 season, the two New Zealand clubs were placed in different groups (in previous tournaments they were placed in the same group) – one was drawn with the club champions of Fiji, New Caledonia and Tahiti while the other competed in the second group with the champions of Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.[1]

Again no preliminary tournament for the 2011–12 O-League was played. Instead, the champion teams from American Samoa, Samoa, Cook Islands and Tonga would take part in a pilot stand-alone tournament in 2012. It was proposed that this competition would in future seasons became a preliminary tournament with the winner qualifying to play off for a place in the O-League (starting from 2012–13).[1]

Association Team Qualifying method
Fiji Fiji Ba 2010 Fiji National Football League champion[2]
New Caledonia New Caledonia Mont-Dore 2010 New Caledonia Division Honneur champion[3]
New Zealand New Zealand Waitakere United 2010–11 New Zealand Football Championship champion and premier[4]
Auckland City 2010–11 New Zealand Football Championship regular season runner-up[5]
Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Hekari United 2010–11 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League champion[6]
Solomon Islands Solomon Islands Koloale 2011 Solomon Islands Champions League Playoff winner[7]
French Polynesia Tahiti Tefana 2010–11 Tahiti Division Fédérale champion[8]
Vanuatu Vanuatu Amicale 2011 Vanuatu National Soccer League winner[9]

Schedule

The match schedule was as follows.[10]

Round Date
Group stage Matchday 1 29–30 October 2011
Matchday 2 19–20 November 2011
Matchday 3 3–4 December 2011
Matchday 4 18–19 February 2012
Matchday 5 3–4 March 2012
Matchday 6 31 March–1 April 2012
Final First leg 28–29 April 2012
Second leg 12–13 May 2012

Group stage

Based on seeding, sporting reasons and travel considerations, the OFC Executive Committee separated the teams into two groups in June 2011.[11] A draw was held at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand on 19 July 2011, 14:30 UTC+12:00, to decide the "position" of each team within those groups, which was used to determine the schedule.[12]

In each group, the teams played each other home-and-away in a round-robin format, with the group winner advancing to the final. If two or more teams were tied on points, the tiebreakers would be as follows:[13]

  1. Goal difference
  2. Goals scored
  3. Head-to-head record among teams concerned (points; goal difference; goals scored)
  4. Fair play record
  5. Drawing of lots

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
French Polynesia Tefana 64111512+313
New Zealand Waitakere United 6402216+1512
Fiji Ba 6303716−99
New Caledonia Mont-Dore 6015211−91
  BA MON TEF WAI
Ba – 2–1 0–5 3–2
Mont-Dore 0–1 – 1–1 0–1
Tefana 4–1 2–0 – 3–0
Waitakere United 4–0 4–0 10–0 –

29 October 2011
14:00 UTC+13:00
Waitakere United New Zealand 10 – 0 French Polynesia Tefana
Pearce  10' (pen.), 44'
De Vries  14', 37', 75'
Krishna  33', 40', 49', 70', 90' 		Report
Fred Taylor Park, Auckland
Attendance: 900
Referee: Rakesh Varman (Fiji)

30 October 2011
15:00 UTC+13:00
Ba Fiji 2 – 1 New Caledonia Mont-Dore
Swamy  64', 82' Report J. Hmaé  33'
Govind Park, Ba
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Chris Kerr (New Zealand)

12 November 20111
15:00 UTC+11:00
Mont-Dore New Caledonia 1 – 1 French Polynesia Tefana
M. Hmaé  70' Report Kamoise  80'
Stade Numa-Daly Magenta, Nouméa
Attendance: 300
Referee: Jamie Cross (New Zealand)

20 November 2011
15:00 UTC+13:00
Waitakere United New Zealand 4 – 0 Fiji Ba
Vesikula  56' (o.g.)
McKenzie  60'
Bale  71'
Lovemore  90+3' 		Report
Fred Taylor Park, Auckland
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Norbert Hauata (Tahiti)

3 December 2011
15:00 UTC+11:00
Mont-Dore New Caledonia 0 – 1 New Zealand Waitakere United
Report Bale  40'

2 December 2011
19:30 UTC−10:00
Tefana French Polynesia 4 – 1 Fiji Ba
Marmouyet  21' (pen.)
Degage  38', 77'
Williams  85' 		Report Vesikula  59' (pen.)
Stade Louis Ganivet, Faaa
Attendance: 117
Referee: Nick Waldron (New Zealand)

18 February 2012
15:00 UTC+11:00
Mont-Dore New Caledonia 0 – 1 Fiji Ba
Report Vakatalesau  36' (pen.)

17 February 2012
19:30 UTC−10:00
Tefana French Polynesia 3 – 0 New Zealand Waitakere United
Tehau  1'
Labayen  43'
Neuffer  70' 		Report

2 March 2012
19:30 UTC−10:00
Tefana French Polynesia 2 – 0 New Caledonia Mont-Dore
Degage  47'
Chang Koei Chang  71' (pen.) 		Report
Stade Louis Ganivet, Faaa
Attendance: 248
Referee: Andrew Achari (Fiji)

4 March 2012
15:00 UTC+12:00
Ba Fiji 3 – 2 New Zealand Waitakere United
Tekiate  36'
Salauneune  51'
Kainihewe  73' 		Report Cunneen  31'
Lovemore  83'
Govind Park, Ba
Attendance: ?
Referee: Norbert Hauata (Tahiti)

31 March 2012
15:00 UTC+13:00
Waitakere United New Zealand 4 – 0 New Caledonia Mont-Dore
McKenzie  68'
Haviland  73'
Pearce  82'
Lovermore  87' 		Report
Fred Taylor Park, Auckland
Attendance: 150
Referee: Kader Zitouni (Tahiti)

15 April 20122
16:30 UTC+12:00
Ba Fiji 0 – 5 French Polynesia Tefana
Report Tchen  36', 42'
Neuffer  53'
Tehau  74'
Williams  86'
Bill McKinlay Park, Auckland (New Zealand)2
Referee: Gerald Oiaka (Solomon Islands)
Notes

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
New Zealand Auckland City 6411178+913
Papua New Guinea Hekari United 632196+311
Vanuatu Amicale 621367−17
Solomon Islands Koloale 6105718−113
  AMI AUC HEK KOL
Amicale – 1–0 1–1 2–0
Auckland City 3–2 – 2–0 7–3
Hekari United 2–0 1–1 – 3–1
Koloale 1–0 1–4 1–2 –

29 October 2011
15:00 UTC+11:00
Amicale Vanuatu 1 – 1 Papua New Guinea Hekari United
Masauvakalo  45' Report Jack  90+3'

29 October 2011
15:00 UTC+11:00
Koloale Solomon Islands 1 – 4 New Zealand Auckland City
Totori  74' (pen.) Report Expósito  22' (pen.), 54'
Mulligan  86', 90+3'
Lawson Tama Stadium, Honiara
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Andrew Achari (Fiji)

19 November 2011
14:00 UTC+13:00
Auckland City New Zealand 2 – 0 Papua New Guinea Hekari United
Expósito  49'
Tade  72' 		Report
Kiwitea Street, Auckland
Attendance: 800
Referee: Rakesh Varman (Fiji)

19 November 2011
15:00 UTC+11:00
Amicale Vanuatu 2 – 0 Solomon Islands Koloale
Waroi  3', 53' Report
Port Vila Municipal Stadium, Port Vila
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Nick Waldron (New Zealand)

10 December 20113
15:00 UTC+10:00
Hekari United Papua New Guinea 3 – 1 Solomon Islands Koloale
Waqa  6'
Lepani  16'
Baleitoga  79' 		Report Naka  82'

18 January 20124
17:45 UTC+13:00
Auckland City New Zealand 3 – 2 Vanuatu Amicale
Expósito  40' (pen.), 45+1'
Dickinson  87' 		Report Pritchett  23' (o.g.)
Maemae  76'
Kiwitea Street, Auckland
Attendance: 800
Referee: Kader Zitouni (Tahiti)

18 February 2012
15:00 UTC+13:00
Auckland City New Zealand 7 – 3 Solomon Islands Koloale
Dickinson  7', 59'
Coombes  36'
Lafai  40' (o.g.)
Vicelich  58'
Milne  62'
Koprivcic  83' 		Report Anisi  16'
Totori  65'
Naka  90+3'
Kiwitea Street, Auckland
Attendance: 850
Referee: Averii Jacques (Tahiti)

18 February 2012
15:00 UTC+10:00
Hekari United Papua New Guinea 2 – 0 Vanuatu Amicale
Jack  11', 79' Report
PMRL Stadium, Port Moresby
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Chris Kerr (New Zealand)

3 March 2012
15:00 UTC+11:00
Koloale Solomon Islands 1 – 0 Vanuatu Amicale
Sale  87' Report
Lawson Tama Stadium, Honiara
Attendance: ?
Referee: Nick Waldron (New Zealand)

31 March 2012
15:00 UTC+11:00
Koloale Solomon Islands 1 – 2 Papua New Guinea Hekari United
Totori  16' (pen.) Report Dunadamu  45'
Jack  75'
Lawson Tama Stadium, Honiara
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Nick Waldron (New Zealand)
Notes

Final

The winners of the two groups played in the final over two legs, with the order of matches decided by a random draw. The away goals rule applied, with extra time and a penalty shootout used to decide the winner if necessary.[13]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Auckland City New Zealand 3–1 French Polynesia Tefana 2–1 1–0

29 April 2012
14:00 UTC+12:00
Auckland City New Zealand 2 – 1 French Polynesia Tefana
Mulligan  57'
Koprivcic  60' 		Report Williams  72'

12 May 2012
16:00 UTC−10:00
Tefana French Polynesia 0 – 1 New Zealand Auckland City
Report Expósito  41'

Auckland City won 3–1 on aggregate. As OFC Champions League winners they qualified for the qualifying round of the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup.


OFC Champions League
2011–12 Winners
New Zealand
Auckland City
Fourth Title

Awards

The following awards were given:[18]

Goalscorers

Rank Name Team Goals
1 Spain Manel Expósito New Zealand Auckland City 6
2 Fiji Roy Krishna New Zealand Waitakere United 5
3 Papua New Guinea Kema Jack Papua New Guinea Hekari United 4
4 New Zealand Dave Mulligan New Zealand Auckland City 3
Solomon Islands Benjamin Totori Solomon Islands Koloale
French Polynesia Axel Williams French Polynesia Tefana
South Africa Ryan De Vries New Zealand Waitakere United
New Zealand Sean Lovemore New Zealand Waitakere United
New Zealand Allan Pearce New Zealand Waitakere United
10 Solomon Islands Joachim Waroi Vanuatu Amicale 2
England Adam Dickinson New Zealand Auckland City
New Zealand Daniel Koprivcic New Zealand Auckland City
Fiji Avinesh Swamy Fiji Ba
Fiji Maciu Dunadamu Papua New Guinea Hekari United
Solomon Islands James Naka Solomon Islands Koloale
French Polynesia Roihau Degage French Polynesia Tefana
French Polynesia Taufa Neuffer French Polynesia Tefana
French Polynesia Angelo Tchen French Polynesia Tefana
French Polynesia Alvin Tehau French Polynesia Tefana
Wales Chris Bale New Zealand Waitakere United
New Zealand Ross McKenzie New Zealand Waitakere United
22 Solomon Islands Alick Maemae Vanuatu Amicale 1
Vanuatu Fenedy Masauvakalo Vanuatu Amicale
Vanuatu Kensi Tangis Vanuatu Amicale
New Zealand Chad Coombes New Zealand Auckland City
New Zealand Alex Feneridis New Zealand Auckland City
New Zealand Andrew Milne New Zealand Auckland City
Argentina Emiliano Tade New Zealand Auckland City
New Zealand Ivan Vicelich New Zealand Auckland City
Fiji Malakai Kainihewe Fiji Ba
Fiji Jone Salauneune Fiji Ba
Fiji Remueru Tekiate Fiji Ba
Fiji Osea Vakatalesau Fiji Ba
Fiji Jone Vesikula Fiji Ba
Fiji Pita Baleitoga Papua New Guinea Hekari United
Papua New Guinea Andrew Lepani Papua New Guinea Hekari United
Fiji Taniela Waqa Papua New Guinea Hekari United
Solomon Islands Steven Anisi Solomon Islands Koloale
Solomon Islands Ezra Sale Solomon Islands Koloale
New Caledonia José Hmaé New Caledonia Mont-Dore
New Caledonia Michel Hmaé New Caledonia Mont-Dore
French Polynesia Jean-Claude Chang Koei Chang French Polynesia Tefana
French Polynesia Hiva Kamoise French Polynesia Tefana
French Polynesia Sebastian Labayen French Polynesia Tefana
French Polynesia Tetiamana Marmouyet French Polynesia Tefana
New Zealand Matt Cunneen New Zealand Waitakere United
New Zealand Ross Haviland New Zealand Waitakere United
Own goals
Rank Name Team Goals Opponent
1 New Zealand James Pritchett New Zealand Auckland City 1 Vanuatu Amicale
Fiji Jone Vesikula Fiji Ba New Zealand Waitakere United
Solomon Islands Francis Lafai Solomon Islands Koloale New Zealand Auckland City

References

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  2. ↑ "Fiji FA suspends technical director". The Fiji Times. July 11, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Mont Dore become champions". oceaniafootball.com. November 26, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Waitakere crowned Minor Premiers at 10-man Otago". ASB Premiership. 6 March 2011.
  5. ↑ "Waitakere retain ASB Premiership crown in five-goal thriller". ASB Premiership. 10 April 2011.
  6. ↑ "Hekari and Bara crowned kings and queens". oceaniafootball.com. April 6, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Koloale qualify for third O-League". oceaniafootball.com. June 17, 2011.
  8. ↑ "AS Tefana cruise to consecutive titles". FIFA. 16 May 2011.
  9. ↑ "Amicale book O-League return". oceaniafootball.com. June 13, 2011.
  10. 1 2 3 "Match schedule brings intriguing clashes". oceaniafootball.com. July 20, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Live streaming for official draw ceremonies". oceaniafootball.com. July 19, 2011.
  12. ↑ "O-League and Pacific Games teams learn fate". oceaniafootball.com. July 19, 2011.
  13. 1 2 "Regulations of the 2012 O-League" (PDF). Oceania Football Confederation.
  14. ↑ "Ba-Tefana clash postponed". Oceania Football Confederation. 30 March 2012.
  15. ↑ "Ba-Tefana game postponed until further notice". Oceania Football Confederation. 1 April 2012.
  16. ↑ "Ba-Tefana clash confirmed". Oceania Football Confederation. 4 April 2012.
  17. ↑ "Hekari-Koloale clash postponed". oceaniafootball.com. November 30, 2011.
  18. ↑ "Auckland book FIFA Club World Cup spot". oceaniafootball.com. May 13, 2012.

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