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OFC Nations Cup
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Key facts
- Organiser s
- OFC
- Founded
- 1973 ; 53 years ago ( 1973 )
- Region
- Oceania
- Teams
- 8 (finals), 11 (qualification)
- Related competitions
- OFC Women's Nations Cup
- Current champions
- New Zealand (6th title)
- Most championships
- New Zealand (6 titles)
- Broadcaster
- FIFA+
- Website
- oceaniafootball.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Location
- Insular Oceania
- Sport
- association football
- Image
- Trofeo OFC.jpg
- Organizer
- Oceania Football Confederation
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- topic's main category
- Category:OFC Nations Cup
- inception
- 1973-00-00
- event interval
- 4
- month of the year
- May
- number of participants
- 8
- season starts
- May
- season ends
- June
- topic has template
- Template:Oceania Nations Cup
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Encyclopedic overview
The OFC Men's Nations Cup, known as the OFC Nations Cup before the 2024 edition, is the primary association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), determining the continental champion of Oceania. The winning team became the champion of Oceania and until 2016 qualified for the FIFA Confederations Cup.
Historically, a very large gulf separated Australia and New Zealand from the smaller island competitors, and little attention was paid to the tournament by the rest of the football world. The 2012 OFC Nations Cup is the only edition to date not won by either New Zealand or Australia, being won by Tahiti instead and is also the only tournament to date where neither Australia (who joined AFC in 2006 and as a result didn’t participate) nor New Zealand (knocked out in the semifinals) reached the final.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “OFC Nations Cup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.