2020 OFC U-19 Championship

The 2020 OFC U-19 Championship will be the 23rd edition of the OFC U-19/U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the men's under-19/under-20 national teams of Oceania.

2020 OFC U-19 Championship
Tournament details
Host countrySamoa
DatesTBD
Teams11 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)TBC (in TBC host cities)

The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in the Samoa in July 2020.[1] However, on 14 May 2020, the OFC announced that the tournament had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and will not be held before October 2020 but no later than January 2021.[2] On 28 July 2020, the OFC announced that the tournament would be held in January 2021,[3] provisionally between 23 January and 7 February 2021, as the 2021 OFC U-20 Championship.[4] The OFC announced on 5 November 2020 that a decision on the tournament would be made during the Executive Committee meeting in December.[5] On 16 December 2020, the OFC announced the tournament had been postponed indefinitely until confirmation has been received from FIFA about the status of the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia, scheduled for May–June 2021, of which the top two teams of the tournament will qualify for as the OFC representatives.[6]

New Zealand are the two-time defending champions.

Teams

All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC are eligible to enter the tournament.

Starting from this edition, male youth tournaments no longer have a four-team qualifying stage, and all teams compete in one tournament.[7]

Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (2016 and 2018).

Team Appearance Previous best performance
 American Samoa6thGroup stage (1998, 2011, 2014)
 Cook Islands4thGroup stage (2001, 2016)
 Fiji22ndChampions (2014)
 New Caledonia13thRunners-up (2008)
 New Zealand22ndChampions (1980, 1992, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018)
 Papua New Guinea15thFourth place (1978, 1982)
 Samoa (hosts)10thGroup stage (1988, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007)
 Solomon Islands10thRunners-up (2005, 2011)
 Tahiti12thChampions (1974, 2008)
 Tonga7thGroup stage (1998, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2018)
 Vanuatu16thRunners-up (2014, 2016)

Venues

To be confirmed.

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

References
  1. "Hosts confirmed for 2020 Youth Tournaments". Oceania Football Confederation. 26 February 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  2. "OFC tournaments postponed". Oceania Football Confederation. 14 May 2020.
  3. "OFC tournaments update". Oceania Football Confederation. 28 July 2020.
  4. "OFC U-20 Championship 2021". Oceania Football Confederation.
  5. "OFC announces schedule changes for early 2021". Oceania Football Confederation. 5 November 2020.
  6. "More calendar changes for 2021". Oceania Football Confederation. 16 December 2020.
  7. "OFC male youth tournaments continue to evolve". Oceania Football Confederation. 3 April 2020.
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