TAHITI LEARN FATE AT FIFA U-20 WORLD CUP

Oceania Football Confederation’s U-20 champions Tahiti have been drawn with Spain, Nigeria and Venezuela in Group B of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Egypt 2009 after the official draw took place in Luxor overnight. The draw has thrown up a number of mouth-watering clashes for FIFA’s leading junior competition set to take place from 24…

With Match Day Six of the 2009 OFC O-League underway, Oceaniafootball.com will endeavour to bring you ‘live’ text updates of the action between Waitakere United and Auckland City FC as it happens. Please refresh your browser periodically to keep up with the latest developments. It’s a beautiful day here in Auckland – bue skies, light winds…

AUCKLAND – Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) has moved to clarify New Zealand Football’s involvement in the 2009/2010 O-League by today confirming that two Kiwi clubs will participate in the competition. A decision on whether OFC’s flagship competition would include one or two New Zealand teams had been deferred until the next Executive Committee meeting on 30…

The rivalry is the same but this week there is one difference – Auckland City FC will go into their O-League Group A Match as slight favourites over Waitakere United. After a two-year period of dominance by Waitakere in both the O-League and New Zealand Football Championship, Auckland have taken back the ascendency by beating their…

Oceania Football Confederation is looking for volunteers to take part in the upcoming OFC U-17 Championship New Zealand 2009 to be held at North Harbour Stadium from 20 – 24 April, 2009.  The competition, which includes New Caledonia, New Zealand, Tahiti and Vanuatu, will be  played in a round robin format with the winner representing OFC at the FIFA U-17 World…

Australia is on the verge of a place in the 2010 World Cup™ finals, after winning 2-0 against Uzbekistan at Stadium Australia in Sydney. Second half goals from substitute Josh Kennedy and Harry Kewell from the penalty spot saw Australia home after a fairly laborious first half. Australia will now wait on the result of…

AUCKLAND – Three New Zealand football referees will join the All Whites on the plane to South Africa, after being selected as one of eight teams to officiate at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in June. Referee Mike Hester and assistants Jan Hendrik-Hintz and Mark Rule – fresh from their NZFC Grand Final appointment –…

New Zealand international defender and one-time Oceania All Stars player Steven Old has signed a three-year deal for Scottish Premier League club Kilmarnock it was announced today. The 23-year-old, who appeared for the Oceania All Stars against LA Galaxy in December 2008, has been on trial at Rugby Park for more than two months. "It’s…

AUCKLAND – A brace of goals from All Whites captain Ryan Nelsen earned New Zealand a 2-2 draw with Thailand ‘A’ to finish their Bangkok camp on Wednesday morning. Nelsen struck in the 20th and 58th minutes to draw New Zealand level after twice falling behind in the first half. The Blackburn Rovers defender smashed…

Socceroos goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer is confident that the team will be fully switched on come Wednesday night and they want to make sure they qualify as early as possible. With four games left and results going the way they wanted on Saturday, a win against Uzbekistan and a draw in the Bahrain and Qatar match…