Taupo confirmed as host

The tournament will take place at Owen Delany Park from 16-25 March with eight partipating nations including American Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu. Following the group stage, semi-finals and final, the eventual winner will go on to represent OFC at the Olympic Football Tournament in London from…

The OFC Women’s Olympic Qualifier will be held in Tonga from 1-9 March while the OFC Men’s Olympic Qualifier will be staged in New Zealand from 16-25 March. The U-17 and U-20 Women’s Championships, which both act as FIFA World Cup qualifiers, will be played conjointly during the school holidays from 9-14 April in Auckland,…

Canterbury’s ruthless performance was inspired by five-goal hero George Slefendorfas, who equalled Benjamin Totori’s record for most individual goals in a regular season ASB Premiership fixture. The result means Canterbury and Team Wellington, who downed Waikato FC 3-2, both leapfrog Waitakere into the second and third spots respectively, while the West Aucklanders slip to fourth….

First up it was an instructor’s course for the OFC Just Play programme – an initiative which aims to use sport as a tool for development and has involved more than 50,000 youth and 1,000 trainers across the Pacific since 2009. A meeting of the Just Play Project Managers followed from 1-2 February before Technical…

Yet fans in the host nation need wait less than a year and a half to savour a similarly feverish atmosphere in that most tantalising of FIFA World Cup appetisers: the FIFA Confederations Cup. On 15 June 2013, the Estadio Nacional in Brasilia will host the opening match of the next ‘Festival of Champions’, with…