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2025 OFC Futsal Men's Cup

The 2025 OFC Futsal Nations Cup was the 15th edition of the OFC Futsal Nations Cup (previously called the OFC Futsal Championship), the international futsal championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the men's national teams of Oceania. It was held in Fiji from 20 to 24 September 2025.

New Zealand are the defending champions, after defeating Tahiti in the 2023 final.

Teams

Four of the 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from OFC will enter the tournament. One of two associated OFC member team Tuvalu has entered the cup as well. Tuvalu returned to regional stage after 14 years.

Teams do not enter in the competition:

Squads

Venue

The matches will be played at the Vodafone Arena in Suva.

The original location for the event were Solomon Islands and Honiara. However Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) announced on 15 July 2025 that Fiji has been handed hosting rights for the OFC Futsal Men’s Cup 2025 after the tournament was relocated from the Solomon Islands due to logistical issues.

Media coverage

All games were streamed via FIFA+ platform as Fifa+ holds rights for all OFC competitions in the period 2024-2025.

The commentary was provided from Satish Narain

Oceania Football, website of governing body OFC and independent website Friends of Football NZ provided game reports and tournament news.

Format and draw

Unlike in previous versions of the tournament, the 2025 tournament features a purely round robin format, with the champion being decided directly from the round robin stage, without a later final playoff. As five teams are playing, there will be five two-game rounds, with one team taking a by in each round. The rounds will take place on five consecutive days from Saturday 20 September to Wednesday 24 September.

The draw deciding the matches took place on 19 August 2025 at the OFC Home Of Football in Auckland, New Zealand.

Group stage

All times are local, FJT ().

Main Group

First round

In the first round, the Solomon Islands beat the reigning 2022 champions, New Zealand by 2-1. This was their first win over New Zealand in six years. The tournament hosts, Fiji, beat Vanuatu 5-4.

Second round

After the second round, the Solomon Islands defeated hosts Fiji 5:2.

Third round

The Gideons recorded a first-ever stalemate against Solomon Islands at an OFC Futsal Men’s Cup. Host Fiji earned a 4-1 victory over Tuvalu to progress to a match with New Zealand in the 4th round.

Fourth round

Two so far winless teams met, with Vanuatu defeating Vanuatu. The host Fiji fell in their final match 10-3 to New Zealand.

Fifth round

Kicking off the last day of competition, Vanuatu took on New Zealand for second place. The scores were 3–1 at full time and New Zealand claimed second place overall. Solomon Islands won overall with a 7-0 victory over Tuvalu.

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.

Goalscorers

Match officials

Main Referees

Organising Committee

Fiji FA CEO: Mohammed Yusuf and Vice-president Fiji FA: Mr Ritesh Vee Pratap

References