FIFA Club World Championship replaces Toyota Cup

FIFA – Paris/Zurich: The FIFA Club World Championship will replace the Toyota Cup from 2005 onwards. With a new six-team format, the tournament will next be held in Tokyo from 11 to 18 December 2005. Following negotiations with all of the contractual partners of the Toyota Cup, the FIFA Executive Committee, meeting in Paris today,…

OFC Auckland, 19 May 2004: The Stage 1 preliminaries of the 2004 OFC Nations Cup/2006 FIFA World Cup tournament enters the final round of action starting today in the Solomon Islands with the Group 1 final standings to be decided when hosts Solomon Islands take on Tahiti while New Caledonia plays Tonga. Over in Samoa,…

Match 8: Samoa 0-4 Fiji (ht: 0-1 Fiji) – 4pm local time kickoff APIA: Fiji has beaten an injury depleted Samoan side 4-0 in the second match of round 4 in Apia today. Samoa came out firing and held the Fijians to just a one goal in the first half to giant striker Veresa Toma….

APIA: Papua New Guinea has recorded their first win of the 2004 OFC Nations Cup/FIFA World Cup Stage 1 preliminaries with a commanding 10-0 win over the bottom placed side in Group 2, American Samoa in Apia today. Led by New Zealand based striker Reginald Davani who scored four goals, PNG cruised to a 7-0…

APIA: Fiji took a step closer towards confirming its place in the Stage 2 qualifiers with an emphatic 11-0 drubbing of American Samoa in Group 2 round 3 action in Apia on the weekend. Fiji led 7-0 at half-time and was rarely troubled by a determined American Samoan side. American Samoa’s best were the ever…

HONIARA: The Solomons Islands comprehensive 2-0 shutout over Melanesian neighbours New Caledonia in round 3 action last weekend secured the Group 1 hosts their third consecutive win and a guaranteed berth in the Stage 2 OFC Nations Cup/FIFA World Cup preliminaries in Adelaide, Australia from 29 May – 6 June 2004. Buoyed on by some…

HONIARA, Match 8: Tahiti struggled to a 2-0 win over Tonga in the second match of round 4 in the Stage 1 (Group 1) OFC Nations Cup/FIFA World Cup preliminaries in Honiara today. Tonga conceded an early goal when Gabriel Wajoka got Tahiti in front as they searched for a big score to improve their…

HONIARA, Match 7: New Caledonia has beaten the Cook Islands 8-0 in the first match of round 4 of the Stage 1 (Group 1) OFC Nations Cup/FIFA World Cup preliminaries in the Solomon Islands today. New Caledonia led by 6-0 at half-time but was held to just two second half goals as the Cooks tightened…

\APIA: Vanuatu ran away with a convincing 9-1 win over American Samoa while Fiji survived a fierce challenge from the improving Papua New Guinea to win their first up match 4-2 in round 2 action of the Stage 1 (Group 2) Oceania Nations Cup/World Cup preliminaries in Apia, Samoa today. Vanuatu led 3-1 at half-time….

Honiara: Another stout defensive effort by the Cook Islands was not enough to halt the rampant Solomon Islands team from recording its second big win of the OFC Nations Cup/FIFA World Cup Stage 1-Group 1 preliminaries in Honiara. The host team eventually took out the match 5-0 but their stars were kept quiet by the…