Oceania Preliminary Competition for the U-17 World Cup 1999


Venues:

Prince Charles Park, Nadi
Ba Sports Complex, Ba

[on Fiji]

Round 1 [May 1]
Group A
Australia         2-1 Fiji    
Vanuatu          11-0 Cook Islands
Papua New Guinea  8-0 American Samoa
Group B
Solomon Islands   6-1 Tahiti
Western Samoa     4-0 Tonga
New Caledonia bye

Round 2 [May 3]
Group A
Australia         8-0 Papua New Guinea
Cook Islands      2-2 American Samoa
Fiji              5-2 Vanuatu
Group B
Tahiti            6-0 Western Samoa 
Solomon Islands   5-0 New Caledonia
Tonga bye

Round 3 [May 5]
Group A
Australia         8-0 Cook Islands
Fiji             10-1 Papua New Guinea
Vanuatu          11-1 American Samoa
Group B
Tahiti            2-0 Tonga
New Caledonia     4-0 Western Samoa 
Solomon Islands bye

Round 4 [May 7]
Australia        15-0 American Samoa
Fiji              9-0 Cook Islands
Vanuatu           8-0 Papua New Guinea
Group B
New Caledonia     0-0 Tonga
Solomon Islands   3-0 Western Samoa 
Tahiti bye

Round 5 [May 10]
Fiji              8-0 American Samoa
Australia         9-0 Vanuatu
Papua New Guinea  1-0 Cook Islands
Group B
Tahiti            2-3 New Caledonia
Tonga             0-2 Solomon Islands
Western Samoa bye

Group A

 1.Australia             5  5  0  0  42- 1 15
 2.Fiji                  5  4  0  1  33- 5 12
 3.Vanuata               5  3  0  2  32-15  9
 4.Papua New Guinea      5  2  0  3  10-26  6
 5.Cook Islands          5  0  1  4   2-31  1
 6.American Samoa        5  0  1  4   3-44  1

Group B

 1.Solomon Islands       4  4  0  0  16- 1 12
 2.New Caledonia         4  2  1  1   7- 7  7
 3.Tahiti                4  2  0  2  11- 9  6
 4.Western Samoa         4  1  0  3   4-13  3
 5.Tonga                 4  0  1  3   0- 8  1

Semifinals [May 12]
[Stadium "Prince Charles Park", Nandi, Fiji]
Australia         8-0 New Caledonia
[Stadium "Churchill Park", Lautoka, Fiji]
Fiji              4-3 Solomon Islands         [on penalties]

Third Place Match [May 14]
[Stadium "Churchill Park", Lautoka, Fiji]
Solomon Islands   s/d New Caledonia

Final [May 14]
[Stadium "Churchill Park", Lautoka, Fiji]
Australia         5-0 Fiji

Australia play off against Bahrain (3rd in Asian U-16 championship 1998)
for a place in New Zealand.

Playoff:
First Leg [Aug 14, Canberra]
Australia         2-1 Bahrain

Second Leg [Aig 27, Manama]
Bahrain           0-1 Australia

Australia qualified.

[matches originally scheduled for May 22 and Jun 4, but postponed due to 
 disagreements on Asia's places at World Cup 2002; the Bahraini FA claimed
 players could not come for study reasons]
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About this document

Prepared and maintained by Francisco Fernández for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Author: Francisco Fernández (ffernandez@espectador.com.uy)
Last updated: 10 Feb 2000