OFC Nations Cup records and statistics

This is a list of records and statistics of the OFC Nations Cup football tourmnament.

General statistics by tournament

Year	Host	Champion	Winning coach	Top scorer(s)	Best player award
1973	New Zealand	New Zealand	Barrie Truman	Segin Wayewol (3) Alan Marley (3)	N/A
1980	New Caledonia	Australia	Rudi Gutendorf	Ian Hunter (5) Eddie Krncevic (5)
1996	no fixed host	Australia	Eddie Thomson	Kris Trajanovski (7)
1998	Australia	New Zealand	Ken Dugdale	Damian Mori (10)
2000	Tahiti	Australia	Frank Farina	Craig Foster (5) Clayton Zane (5)
2002	New Zealand	New Zealand	Mick Waitt	Joel Porter (6)
2004	Australia	Australia	Frank Farina	Tim Cahill (6) Vaughan Coveny (6)
2008	no fixed host	New Zealand	Ricki Herbert	Shane Smeltz (8)
2012	Solomon Islands	Tahiti	Eddy Etaeta	Jacques Haeko (6)	Nicolas Vallar
2016	Papua New Guinea	New Zealand	Anthony Hudson	Raymond Gunemba (5)	David Muta

Debut of teams

Year	Debutants	Total
1973	Fiji  New Caledonia  New Hebrides  New Zealand  Tahiti	5
1980	Australia  Papua New Guinea  Solomon Islands	3
1996		0
1998	Cook Islands ( Vanuatu)	1 (+1)
2000		0
2002		0
2004		0
2008		0
2012	Samoa	1
2016		0

Never qualified:  American Samoa,  Kiribati,  Niue,  Tonga,  Tuvalu

Comprehensive team results by tournament

Legend

• 1st – Champions
• 2nd – Runners-up
• 3rd – Third place
• 4th – Fourth place
• SF – Semi-finals (in years without a 3rd/4th play-off)
• 5th — Fifth place
• 6th — Sixth place
• GS – Group stage
• Q — Qualified for an upcoming tournament
•  ••  — Qualified but withdrew
•  •  — Did not qualify
•  ×  — Did not enter / Withdrew / Banned
•    — Hosts

For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.

Team	1973 (5)	1980 (8)	1996 (4)	1998 (6)	2000 (6)	2002 (8)	2004 (6)	2008 (4)	2012 (8)	2016 (8)	Years
New Zealand	1st	GS	SF	1st	2nd	1st	3rd	1st	3rd	1st	10
Tahiti	2nd	2nd	2nd	4th	GS	3rd	5th	•	1st	GS	9
Vanuatu[lower-alpha 1]	4th	GS	•	GS	4th	4th	6th	4th	GS	GS	9
Fiji	5th	4th	•	3rd	••	GS	4th	3rd	GS	GS	8
Solomon Islands	×	GS	SF	•	3rd	GS	2nd	•	4th	SF	7
Australia	×	1st	1st	2nd	1st	2nd	1st	Part of AFC			6
New Caledonia	3rd	3rd	•	•	•	GS	•	2nd	2nd	SF	6
Papua New Guinea	×	GS	•	•	•	GS	•	×	GS	2nd	4
Cook Islands	×	×	×	GS	GS	×	•	•	•	•	2
Samoa[lower-alpha 2]	×	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS	GS	2
American Samoa	×	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	0
Tonga	×	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	0
Tuvalu	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	•	×	×	0
Kiribati	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	0
Niue	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	0

Total hosts

Time(s)	Nation	Year(s)
2	Australia	1998, 2004
2	New Zealand	1973, 2002
1	Tahiti	2000
1	New Caledonia	1980
1	Solomon Islands	2012
1	Papua New Guinea	2016
2	No Host	1996, 2008

Performances by host nations

Year	Host nation	Finish
1973	New Zealand	champions
1980	New Caledonia	third place
1996	no host
1998	Australia	second place
2000	Tahiti	group stage
2002	New Zealand	champions
2004	Australia	champions
2008	no host
2012	Solomon Islands	fourth place
2016	Papua New Guinea	second place

Performances by defending champions

Year	Defending Champion	Finish
1980	New Zealand	Group stage
1996	Australia	Champions
1998	Australia	Second place
2000	New Zealand	Second place
2002	Australia	Second place
2004	New Zealand	Third place
2008	Australia	Did not participate
2012	New Zealand	Third place
2016	Tahiti	Group Stage

All-time table

Up to and including 2016.

Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GDif
New Zealand	44	32	4	8	110	39	+71
Australia	28	24	2	2	142	13	+129
Tahiti	37	18	5	14	80	81	−1
New Caledonia	27	12	4	11	65	52	+13
Fiji	32	9	4	19	39	67	−28
Vanuatu	36	8	2	26	41	85	−44
Solomon Islands	28	7	4	17	31	70	−39
Papua New Guinea	14	3	5	6	23	42	−19
Cook Islands	4	0	0	4	1	41	−40
Samoa	6	0	0	6	1	43	−42

Overall top goalscorers

Goals	Scorers
14	Damian Mori
11	Kris Trajanovski
10	Shane Smeltz
9	Vaughan Coveny
7	Chris Killen, Commins Menapi

Winning coaches

The winning coaches are:

Season	Manager	Team
1973	Barrie Truman	New Zealand
1980	Rudi Gutendorf	Australia
1996	Raul Blanco	Australia
1998	Ken Dugdale	New Zealand
2000	Frank Farina	Australia
2002	Mick Waitt	New Zealand
2004	Frank Farina	Australia
2008	Ricki Herbert	New Zealand
2012	Eddy Etaeta	Tahiti
2016	Anthony Hudson	New Zealand

External links

• Oceania Nations Cup on RSSSF archive
• OFC official website