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2025 OFC U-16 Men's Championship

The 2025 OFC U-16 Men's Championship was the 22nd edition of the OFC U-16/U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the men's under-16/under-17 national teams of Oceania. The final tournament was played in Honiara, Solomon Islands, from 17 to 30 August 2025. Players born on or after 1 January 2009 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2026 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar as the OFC representatives. New Zealand successfully defended the title from 2024.

Teams

All 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC entered the tournament, but only 8 played in the final tournament

Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage (2016 and 2018).

Venues

Qualifying stage

The draw for the group stage was held 20 March 2025.

Tiebreakers

Qualifying group

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 20 March with teams seeded into pots based upon their ranking at the 2024 OFC U-16 Men's Championship. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>

Group stage

All times are local, SBT ().

Group A

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Group B

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7th place match

5th place match

Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for the 2026 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Third place match

Winner qualified for the 2026 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Final

Broadcasting

All games will be streamed live and free on FIFA+.

Awards

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

Goalscorers

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following three teams from OFC qualified for the 2026 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar.

<div id="1"><sup>1</sup> Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.</div>

Notes

References