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2001 OFC Under-17 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Australia New Zealand Samoa Vanuatu
Dates	3 December 2000 – 8 April 2001
Teams	10
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Australia (8th title)
Runners-up	New Zealand
Tournament statistics
Matches played	21
Goals scored	131 (6.24 per match)
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The 2001 OFC U-17 Championship was the 9th edition of the OFC U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by OFC for the men's under-17 national teams of Oceania. Vanuatu and Samoa each hosted one group in the group stage, while the final was played over two legs in the qualifying countries: Australia and New Zealand.

A total of ten teams played in the tournament, following the withdrawals of Cook Islands and New Caledonia. Defending champions Australia retained their title after defeating New Zealand 9–0 on aggregate in the final.

Group stage

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	4	4	0	0	43	0	+43	12	Final
2	Papua New Guinea	4	3	0	1	11	9	+2	9
3	Solomon Islands	4	2	0	2	20	3	+17	6
4	Western Samoa (H)	4	1	0	3	5	17	−12	3
5	American Samoa	4	0	0	4	3	53	−50	0
6	New Caledonia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

Western Samoa	4–3	American Samoa

Papua New Guinea	2–1	Solomon Islands

Australia	30–0	American Samoa

Western Samoa	1–2	Papua New Guinea

Australia	7–0	Papua New Guinea

Western Samoa	0–7	Solomon Islands

Australia	1–0	Solomon Islands

Papua New Guinea	7–0	American Samoa

Western Samoa	0–5	Australia

Solomon Islands	12–0	American Samoa

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	New Zealand	4	4	0	0	14	1	+13	12	Final
2	Vanuatu (H)	4	2	1	1	16	3	+13	7
3	Tahiti	4	1	2	1	1	2	−1	5
4	Fiji	4	1	0	3	9	5	+4	3
5	Tonga	4	0	1	3	0	29	−29	1
6	Cook Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

Tahiti	0–0	Vanuatu

Fiji	0–1	New Zealand

Vanuatu	3–0	Fiji

New Zealand	8–0	Tonga

Tonga	0–12	Vanuatu

Tahiti	1–0	Fiji

New Zealand	2–0	Tahiti

Tonga	0–9	Fiji

Tahiti	Not played (awarded 0–0)	Tonga

Vanuatu	1–3	New Zealand

Final

First leg

Australia	3–0	New Zealand
Holman 47' Agius 66', 90+2'	Report

Second leg

New Zealand	0–6	Australia
	Report	Howe 14' (o.g.) Danze 39' Engele 56', 78' Hunter 70' Smith 74'

References

• Andre Zlotkowski (1 February 2006). "Oceania Preliminary Competition for the U-17 World Cup 2001". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 11 November 2018.

External links

• Oceania Football Confederation website

• OFC U-17 Championship
• 2001 in youth association football