Football at the Pacific Games

Football at the Pacific Games

Founded	1963
Region	OFC
Current champions	New Caledonia (Men: 6th title) Papua New Guinea (Women: 4rd title)
Most successful team(s)	New Caledonia (Men: 6 titles) Papua New Guinea (Women: 4 titles)
New Caledonia 2015 - Men's New Caledonia 2015 - Women's

Football has been a regular event at the Pacific Games, the multi-sports event for Pacific nations, territories and dependencies, since 1963. Until 2011 the tournament was known as the South Pacific games.

Since 1971 the competition has been held every four years, but was not played in 1999 due to contract issues. In 2007, the men's competition doubled as OFC's preliminary qualifying competition for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

A women's tournament was first introduced in 2003, and has doubled up as the preliminary qualifying competition for the Olympic Games since 2007. The men's tournament also became the Olympic qualifier for Oceania for the 2015 edition.

Men's Tournament

Results

Year	Host	Final			Third Place
		Gold Medal	Score	Silver Medal	Bronze Medal	Score	Fourth Place
1963 details	Fiji	New Caledonia	8 - 2	Fiji	French Polynesia	18 - 0	Solomon Islands
1966 details	New Caledonia	French Polynesia	2 - 0	New Caledonia	New Hebrides	5 - 2	Papua New Guinea
1969 details	Papua New Guinea	New Caledonia	2 - 1	French Polynesia	Papua New Guinea	2 - 1	Fiji
1971 details	Tahiti	New Caledonia	7 - 1	New Hebrides	Tahiti	8 - 1	Papua New Guinea
1975 details	Guam	Tahiti	2 - 1 (a.e.t.)	New Caledonia	Solomon Islands	3 - 2	Fiji
1979 details	Fiji	Tahiti	3 - 0	Fiji	Solomon Islands	3 - 1	New Caledonia
1983 details	Western Samoa	Tahiti	1 - 0	Fiji	New Caledonia	2 - 1	Papua New Guinea
1987 details	New Caledonia	New Caledonia	1 - 0	Tahiti	Papua New Guinea	3 - 1	Vanuatu
1991 details	Papua New Guinea	Fiji	1 - 1 (pen.)	Solomon Islands	New Caledonia	3 - 1	Vanuatu
1995 details	Tahiti	Tahiti	2 - 0	Solomon Islands	Fiji	3 - 0	Vanuatu
2003 details	Fiji	Fiji	2 - 0	New Caledonia	Vanuatu	1 - 0	Tahiti
2007 details	Samoa	New Caledonia	1 - 0	Fiji	Vanuatu	2 - 0	Solomon Islands
2011 details	New Caledonia	New Caledonia	2 - 0	Solomon Islands	Tahiti	2 - 1	Fiji
2015 details	Papua New Guinea	New Caledonia	2 - 0	Tahiti	Papua New Guinea	2 - 1	Fiji
2019 details	Tonga

Medalists

Team	Winner	Runner-up	Third Place	Fourth Place
New Caledonia	7 (63', 69', 71', 87', 07', 11', 15')	3 (66', 75', 03')	2 (83', 91')	1 (79')
Tahiti (French Polynesia)	5 (66', 75', 79', 83', 95')	3 (69', 87', 15')	3 (63', 71', 11')	1 (03')
Fiji	2 (91', 03')	4 (63', 79', 83', 07')	1 (95')	4 (69', 75', 11', 15')
Solomon Islands		3 (91', 95', 11')	2 (75', 79')	2 (63', 07')
Vanuatu (New Hebrides)		1 (71')	3 (66', 03', 07')	3 (87', 91', 95')
Papua New Guinea			3 (69', 87', 15')	3 (66', 71', 83')

Top goalscorers

Year	Player	Goals
1963–1995	Unknown	-
2003	Esala Masi	11
2007	Osea Vakatalesau	10
2011	Bertrand Kaï	10
2015	Jean Kaltack	17

Women's Tournament

Results

Year	Host	Final			Third Place
		Gold Medal	Score	Silver Medal	Bronze Medal	Score	Fourth Place
2003 details	Fiji	Papua New Guinea	Round-robin	Guam	Tonga	Round-robin	Tahiti
2007 details	Samoa	Papua New Guinea	3 – 1	Tonga	Fiji	1 – 0	Tahiti
2011 details	New Caledonia	Papua New Guinea	2 – 1	New Caledonia	Fiji	1 – 0	Tonga
2015 details	Papua New Guinea	Papua New Guinea	1 – 0	New Caledonia	Cook Islands	2 – 0	Samoa
2019 details	Tonga

Medalists

Team	Winner	Runner-up	Third Place	Fourth Place
Papua New Guinea	4 (03', 07', 11', 15')
New Caledonia		2 (11', 15')
Tonga		1 (07')	1 (03')	1 (11')
Guam		1 (03')
Fiji			2 (07', 11')
Cook Islands			1 (15')
Tahiti				2 (03', 07')
Samoa				1 (15')

Top goalscorers

Year	Player	Goals
2003	Unknown	-
2007	Penateti Feke	4
2011	Christelle Wahnawe	12
2015	Christelle Wahnawe	10

External links

• OFC Official Website