NEW ZEALAND – FOOTBALL COMMUNITY GETS ITS SAY ON COMPETITONS REVIEW

New Zealand Football has taken its review of competitions on the road, and online, in the second stage of a wide-ranging look at how competition structures meet the needs of players, coaches, referees and fans. While a review panel led by Rhodes Scholar and gold medal-winning former Black Stick Selwyn Maister has already been conducting…

Traditional powerhouse Ba showed why they are the true kings of Fiji football at the weekend when they retained the Inkk Battle of the Giants (BOG) tournament for the fourth year in a row. In a thrilling final at Churchill Park on Sunday, the Men in Black defeated Lautoka 1-0 thanks to a strike from…

The Young All Whites avoided all the traditional heavyweights in this weekend’s draw for the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Nigeria but coach Steve Cain is still wary of their African, European and Central American opposition. Based in the southern Nigerian city of Enugu, New Zealand open their Group D account against Costa Rica on October 25,…

Oceania Football Confederation’s (OFC) U-17 champions New Zealand have been drawn with Burkina Faso, Costa Rica and Turkey in Group D of the FIFA U-17 World Cup Nigeria 2009 after the official draw took place in Abuja overnight (7 August). The FIFA tournament involving 24 teams will be played in Abuja, Bauchi, Calabar, Enugu, Ijebu-Ode,…

Tonga Football Association’s (TFA) Saturday morning Kids Fun Football programme is proving to be a winner in the build up to the launch of the ‘Just Play’ program later this year in the kingdom. Children as young as five years old to 13 years of age are turning up in numbers every Saturday morning from…

Football has taken centre stage at the 40th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Cairns this afternoon with the signing of an AU$4 million partnership agreement between Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), the Government of Australia and Football Federation Australia (FFA). The landmark agreement, which aims to deliver sports-based programs that contribute to community development in the…

It has been a long wait but Solomon Island fans will finally get the chance to welcome home their Bilikiki heroes today when they arrive in Honiara with the OFC Beach Soccer Championship trophy in tow. A huge crowd is expected for the Bilikiki team who, since their victory in Tahiti last week, have been held…

Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) Technical Director, Jim Selby, has successfully completed the FIFA Member Association’s Senior Football Coaching course accreditation, in conjunction with OFC. Last week’s course was the second and last phase for the programme in the Cook Islands first delivered before a two months recess. Selby had only words of praise for the…

Here is Oceania Football Confederation’s photo gallery from the 2009 Beach Soccer Championship final between Solomons and Vanuatu at Temae Beach, Moorea. The reigning OFC Beach Soccer champions defended their title for the third tournament in a row with a thrilling 1-0 victory over a couragous and previously unbeaten Vanuatu side in the final on Friday. Here…

The much anticipated clash in the preliminary round of the 2009 INKK Mobile Battle Of the Giants tournament between Labasa and Suva ended in a 1-1 draw at Subrail Park in Labasa, Fiji, yesterday. Both teams displayed good football and entertained the fans with fast paced and constructive ball work. Roy Krishna, who will return to Auckland…