2024 OFC U-19 Men's Championship


The 2024 OFC U-19 Men's Championship was the 24th edition of the OFC U-19/U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation for the men's under-19/under-20 national teams of Oceania.
The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile as the OFC representatives. New Zealand were the defending champions.

Teams

All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC are eligible to enter the tournament.
Starting from 2022, this marked the return of the four-team qualifying stage after absent from 2022.
Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage.
TeamStageAppearancePrevious best performance
Final tournament
23rd
Final tournament
23rd
Final tournament
14th
Final tournament
16th
Final tournament
11th
Final tournament
11th
Final tournament
13th
Qualifying stage7th
Qualifying stage5th
Qualifying stage8th
Qualifying stage17th

Venues

Apia
FFS Football Stadium
Capacity: 3,500

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 5 March with teams seeded into pots based upon their ranking at the 2022 OFC U-19 Championship.

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2005 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Qualifying stage

The draw for the group stage was held 5 March 2024.

Tiebreakers

Tie-breaking criteria for group play
The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:
  1. Total points;
  2. Goal difference in all group matches;
  3. Goals scored in all group matches;
  4. Head-to-head result between tied teams;
  5. # Points in matches among the tied teams;
  6. # Goal difference in matches among the tied teams;
  7. # Goals scored in matches among the tied teams;
  8. Fair play points in all group matches :
  9. *One yellow card: −1 point;
  10. *Two yellow cards : −3 points;
  11. *Direct red card: −4 points;
  12. *Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
  13. Drawing of lots.

Group stage

All times are local, WST.

Group A


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Group B


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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Winners qualify for 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following two teams from OFC qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup[|1]
15 7 20240
15 7 20247

Broadcasting

All games were streamed live and free on FIFA+.