The draws for the OFC U-16 Men’s Championship 2026 and OFC U-16 Men’s Championship 2026 – Qualifying have been confirmed at the OFC Home of Football – Te Kahu o Kiwa in Auckland.
The OFC U-16 Men’s Championship 2026 will be held in Papua New Guinea from the 12th-25th of July, with the qualifying tournament to be held in Tonga from the 25th-31st of March.
Defending champions New Zealand have been drawn alongside the Solomon Islands, Tahiti, and the qualifying winner in Group B of the OFC U-16 Men’s Championship 2026, whilst hosts Papua New Guinea are joined by 2025 runners-up New Caledonia, Fiji, and Samoa, in Group A of the competition in July.
The OFC U-16 Men’s Championship 2026 – Qualifying tournament will see hosts Tonga, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, and American Samoa, play each other once in a round-robin format, with the winner to join Group B of the championship.
The OFC U-16 Men’s Championship 2026 is the 23rd edition of the tournament since its inception in 1983, with all previous iterations of the tournament at U-17 level between 1983 and 2017.
Match schedule for OFC U-16 Men’s Championship 2026:
Match schedule for OFC U-16 Men’s Championship 2026 – Qualifying:
