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. 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]

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

The top two teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia as the OFC representatives.

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.[3]

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.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following two teams from OFC qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup1
TBD
TBD
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

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 male youth tournaments continue to evolve". Oceania Football Confederation. 3 April 2020.
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