OFC Olympic Qualifying

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  1. toad455

    toad455 Member+

    Nov 28, 2005
    The winner of the Pacific Games will advance to a play-off against New Zealand.

    Pacific Games 2015, to be played July 4 - 18:
    Papua New Guinea(hosts)
    American Samoa
    Samoa
    Tonga
    Fiji
     
  2. toad455

    toad455 Member+

    Nov 28, 2005
    The Cook Islands, Solomon Islands & New Caledonia have also entered the competition.
     
  3. toad455

    toad455 Member+

    Nov 28, 2005
    Draw
    GROUP A
    New Caledonia
    Tonga
    Samoa
    Solomon Islands

    GROUP B
    Papua New Guinea
    Cook Islands
    Fiji

    American Samoa withdrew.
     
  4. toad455

    toad455 Member+

    Nov 28, 2005
    GROUP A
    July 6
    New Caledonia 8 - Solomon Islands 1
    Samoa 1 - Tonga 0

    July 8
    Tonga 2 - Solomon Islands 0
    New Caledonia 2 - Samoa 2

    July 11
    New Caledonia 6 - Tonga 0
    Samoa 2 - Solomon Islands 1

    GROUP B
    July 6
    Papua New Guinea 5 - Fiji 1

    July 8
    Fiji 1 - Cook Islands 1

    July 11
    Papua New Guinea 2 - Cook Islands 0

    SEMIFINALS
    July 13
    New Caledonia 5 - Cook Islands 1
    Papua New Guinea 3 - Samoa 0

    Third Place
    July 16
    Cook Islands 2 - Samoa 0

    Final
    Papua New Guinea 1 - New Caledonia 0
     
  5. toad455

    toad455 Member+

    Nov 28, 2005
    OFC Olympic Play-off
    Oct. 1
    New Zealand vs. Papua New Guinea

    Oct. 4
    Papua New Guinea vs. New Zealand
     
  6. toad455

    toad455 Member+

    Nov 28, 2005
    anyone have info on the re-scheduled matches for the OFC play-off? The original matches were scheduled for Oct. 1 & 4, then rescheduled for Oct. 30 & Nov. 1. Those dates have been cancelled.
     
  7. toad455

    toad455 Member+

    Nov 28, 2005
    the rescheduled [again] final legs are to take place January 23 & 26.
     
  8. toad455

    toad455 Member+

    Nov 28, 2005
    First leg held today on Papua New Guinea:

    New Zealand 7 - Papua New Guinea 1

    Second leg scheduled for Jan. 26 in Auckland, New Zealand.
     
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  9. lil_one

    lil_one Member+

    Nov 26, 2013
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #9 lil_one, Jan 26, 2016
    Last edited: Jan 26, 2016
    Papua New Guinea withdrew from the second leg. New Zealand has qualified for the Olympics.

    EDIT: Apparently PNG players did not receive visas to enter New Zealand for the second match. The Football Ferns had to quickly organize a match against some guest players so fans had a match to watch. Story here. The match against the guest players starts in 15 minutes, if anyone is interested.
     
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  10. shlj

    shlj Member+

    Apr 16, 2007
    London
    Club:
    FC Nantes
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    It is sad that they did not get their visa. But crazy as well. You can imagine the uproar if the same thing had happened to a top 10 nations.
     
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  11. toad455

    toad455 Member+

    Nov 28, 2005
    so sad for PNG. But I highly doubt they would have won anyways.
     
  12. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    So why did they not have visas? Did they just not apply for them in time for the process to go through, or were they denied for some reason? If nations aren't granting visas for top-level sporting events, even sporting events that are in relatively unpopular/unknown sports, that's just messed up.
     
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  13. lil_one

    lil_one Member+

    Nov 26, 2013
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #13 lil_one, Jan 26, 2016
    Last edited: Jan 26, 2016
    I have the same question. There's not much I can find other than that the team "did not receive" visas, not that they were denied, so it could be they didn't apply in time as PNG is not a visa-waiver country for New Zealand, or it could be that they were denied. The wording is vague enough to go either way. According to fifa.com, "the withdrawal is being analysed by the chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee, which will decide on whether further steps or investigation is required."

    EDIT: Just found this article that FIFA has opened a disciplinary case on PNG, but still no clear answer...
     

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