2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup final

2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup final
	The VFF Freshwater Stadium in Port Vila hosted the final.
Event	2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup
Date	30 June 2024
Venue	VFF Freshwater Stadium, Port Vila
Man of the Match	Liberato Cacace (New Zealand)
Referee	Ben Aukwai (Solomon Islands)
Attendance	10,000
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The 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup final was a football match to determine the winners of 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup. The match was the tenth final of the OFC Nations Cup, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of Oceania Football Confederation to decide the champions of Oceania. The match was held at the VFF Freshwater Stadium in Port Vila, Vanuatu, on 30 June 2024 and was contested by the winners of the semi-finals.^[1]

Venue

The final was held at the VFF Freshwater Stadium in Port Vila, Vanuatu. In December 2023, OFC announced the 2024 tournament would be held in Vanuatu.^[2] The VFF Freshwater Stadium was chosen as the final venue of the tournament along with the Group B matches, and the semi-finals.^[1]^[2]

The VFF Freshwater Stadium opened in 2022 thanks to financing by FIFA. The stadium was owned by the Vanuatu Football Federation. The Vanuatu national team also occasionally played its home matches at the stadium. The VFF Freshwater Stadium had also hosted other significant matches, including several matches in the 2023 OFC Champions League, which included the final between Auckland City and Suva.^[3]^[4]

Route to the final

New Zealand		Round	Vanuatu
Opponent	Result	Group stage	Opponent	Result
New Caledonia	Cancelled	Match 1	Solomon Islands	1–0
Solomon Islands	3–0	Match 2	New Caledonia	Cancelled
Vanuatu	4–0	Match 3	New Zealand	0–4
Opponent	Result	Knockout stage	Opponent	Result
Tahiti	5–0	Semi-finals	Fiji	2–1

Match

Details

30 June 2024

15:00 VUT

New Zealand	3–0	Vanuatu
Howieson 2' Randall 83' Mata 90+1'	Report

VFF Freshwater Stadium, Port Vila

Attendance: 10,000^[5]

Referee: Ben Aukwai (Solomon Islands)

New Zealand

Vanuatu


GK	1	Max Crocombe
RB	2	Sam Sutton		73'
CB	5	Finn Surman
CB	4	Tyler Bindon	78'	88'
LB	13	Liberato Cacace (c)
DM	8	Alex Rufer
RM	11	Elijah Just		81'
LM	14	Ben Old		88'
AM	6	Cameron Howieson
CF	9	Ben Waine		73'
CF	7	Kosta Barbarouses
Substitutions:
DF	5	Tommy Smith		73'
FW	25	Jesse Randall		73'
FW	17	Alex Greive		81'
DF	3	Lukas Kelly-Heald		88'
FW	21	Max Mata		88'
Manager:
Darren Bazeley


GK	1	James Iamar
RB	3	Timothy Boulet	8' 75'
CB	6	Jason Thomas
CB	4	Brian Kaltak (c)
LB	11	Tasso Jeffrey		65'
RM	13	Johnathan Spokeyjack
CM	16	John Alick		80'
CM	5	Jared Clark	63'	80'
LM	15	Godine Tenene
CF	14	John Wohale	37'	80'
CF	9	Alex Saniel		65'
Substitutions:
DF	17	Kerry Iawak		65'
FW	18	Kensi Tangis		65'
MF	8	Claude Aru		80'
MF	20	Alick Worworbu		80'
FW	21	Joe Moses		80'
Manager:
Juliano Schmeling

Man of the Match:
Liberato Cacace (New Zealand)^[6]
Assistant referees:^[7]
Folio Moeaki (Tonga)
Malaetala Salanoa (Samoa)
Fourth official:
Veer Singh (Fiji)
Fifth official:
Avinesh Narayan (Fiji)

Match rules^[8]

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
Maximum of twelve named substitutes.
Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time.^{[note 1]}

Notes

^ Each team was given only three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.

References

^ ^a ^b "NEW CALEDONIA WITHDRAW FROM OFC MEN'S NATIONS CUP 2024". oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation. 6 June 2024. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
^ ^a ^b "OFC competitions calendar confirmed for 2024". Oceania Football Confederation. Archived from the original on 2 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
^ "Auckland City – Suva". oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
^ "Auckland City claim record extending 11th OFC Champions League title in extra time nail-biter". Oceaniafootball. 27 May 2023.
^ "Match Report of New Zealand vs Vanuatu - 2024-06-30 - OFC Nations Cup - Global Sports Archive". globalsportsarchive.com. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
^ "NEW ZEALAND CLAIM SIXTH OFC MEN'S NATIONS CUP TITLE IN HARD-FOUGHT FINAL". oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation. 30 June 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
^ "New Zealand v Vanuatu". oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
^ "OFC Men's Nations Cup 2024". Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 15 June 2024.

External links

Official website
New Zealand vs. Vanuatu - 30 June 2024 at Soccerway

[9] Each team was given only three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.

[BVenue-1] "NEW CALEDONIA WITHDRAW FROM OFC MEN'S NATIONS CUP 2024". oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation. 6 June 2024. Retrieved 16 June 2024.

[COMPETITION_CALENDAR-2] "OFC competitions calendar confirmed for 2024". Oceania Football Confederation. Archived from the original on 2 December 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.

[3] "Auckland City – Suva". oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 17 June 2024.

[4] "Auckland City claim record extending 11th OFC Champions League title in extra time nail-biter". Oceaniafootball. 27 May 2023.

[5] "Match Report of New Zealand vs Vanuatu - 2024-06-30 - OFC Nations Cup - Global Sports Archive". globalsportsarchive.com. Retrieved 8 July 2024.

[6] "NEW ZEALAND CLAIM SIXTH OFC MEN'S NATIONS CUP TITLE IN HARD-FOUGHT FINAL". oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation. 30 June 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.

[7] "New Zealand v Vanuatu". oceaniafootball.com. Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 30 June 2024.

[Regulations-8] "OFC Men's Nations Cup 2024". Oceania Football Confederation. Retrieved 15 June 2024.

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