1978 OFC U-20 Championship
Tournament details | |
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Host country | New Zealand |
Dates | 11–16 November |
Teams | 4 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Australia (1st title) |
Runners-up | Fiji |
Third place | New Zealand |
Fourth place | Papua New Guinea |
← 1974 1980 → |
International football competition
The 1978 OFC U-20 Championship was a soccer tournament held in New Zealand. As in common with other biennial OFC U-20 Championships it also served as a qualification for an intercontinental play-off. In this case the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship.
Teams
The following teams entered the tournament:
- Australia
- Fiji
- New Zealand (host)
- Papua New Guinea
Matches
It is unclear why Fiji finished second in this group, with a lesser goal difference than New Zealand.
Teams | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 2 | +14 | 6 |
Fiji | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 |
New Zealand | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 3 |
Papua New Guinea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 17 | –17 | 0 |
11 November | Australia | 9–0 | Papua New Guinea |
Fiji | 1–1 | New Zealand | |
14 November | New Zealand | 4–0 | Papua New Guinea |
Australia | 5–1 | Fiji | |
16 November | Fiji | 4–0 | Papua New Guinea |
New Zealand | 1–2 | Australia |
1978 OFC U-20 Championship |
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Australia First title |
Qualification to World Youth Championship
Australia failed to qualify for the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship. They finished last in an intercontinental play-off group with Paraguay and Israel. Matches were played in Asunción, Paraguay.
Teams | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Paraguay | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | +9 | 8 |
Israel | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | –4 | 2 |
Australia | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | –5 | 2 |
7 February | Paraguay | 2–0 | Australia |
9 February | Israel | 0–0 | Australia |
11 February | Paraguay | 3–0 | Israel |
14 February | Australia | 0–0 | Israel |
16 February | Paraguay | 3–0 | Australia |
18 February | Paraguay | 2–1 | Israel |
External links
- Results by RSSSF
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- Tahiti 1974
- New Zealand 1978
- Fiji 1980
- Papua New Guinea 1982
- Australia 1985
- New Zealand 1986
- Fiji 1988
- Fiji 1990
- Tahiti 1992
- Fiji 1994
- Tahiti 1997
- Samoa 1998
- New Caledonia/Cook Islands 2001
- Vanuatu/Fiji 2002
- Solomon Islands 2005
- New Zealand 2007
- Tahiti 2008
- New Zealand 2011
- Fiji 2013
- Fiji 2014
- Vanuatu 2016
- Tahiti 2018
Samoa 2021(U-20, originally 2020 U-19)- Tahiti 2022
- Samoa 2024