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2007 OFC U-17 Championship

Championnat d'Océanie de football des moins de 17 ans 2007
Tournament details
Host country	Tahiti
Dates	21 March – 25 March
Teams	4 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	New Zealand (2nd title)
Runners-up	Tahiti
Third place	Fiji
Fourth place	New Caledonia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	6
Goals scored	13 (2.17 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kosta Barbarouses (5 goals)
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The 2007 OFC Under-17 Tournament was association football competition in Oceania. It was the 12th edition of the OFC Under 17 Qualifying Tournament which was held in Tahiti from March 21 to March 25, 2007 at the Stade Pater Te Hono Nui. Only four team participated in the tournament; Tahiti, Fiji, New Caledonia and New Zealand. It served as a qualifying tournament to the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Solomon Islands were supposed to compete in this tournament but withdrew because of the escalating costs for travel between the Solomon Islands and Tahiti.

Results

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
New Zealand	3	3	0	0	9	2	+7	9
Tahiti	3	0	2	1	1	2	-1	2
Fiji	3	0	2	1	2	4	-2	2
New Caledonia	3	0	2	1	1	5	-4	2

Fiji	1–3	New Zealand
Getia 68'	Report	Chettleburgh 44' Barbarouses 58' Mathews 68'

Tahiti	0–0	New Caledonia

Tahiti	1–2	New Zealand
Faatiarau 18'	Report	Hofmann 5' Barbarouses 61'

Fiji	1–1	New Caledonia
Taware 19'	Report	Kayara 44' (pen.)

New Caledonia	0–4	New Zealand
	Report	Barbarouses 42', 73', 84' Mathews 90'

Tahiti	0–0	Fiji
	Report

By winning, New Zealand qualified to the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Winner

2007 OFC U-17 Championship winner
New Zealand Second title

Goal scorers

5 goals

• Kosta Barbarouses

2 goals

• Jacob Mathews

1 goal

• Solomon Getia
• Joshua Taware
• Roy Kayara
• Chris Chettleburgh
• Stephane Faatiarau

References

General

• "OFC U-17 Championship Stade Pater, Tahiti 20 March - 24 March 2007 Event Report" (PDF). Oceania Football Confederation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 February 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2016.

Specific

1. "SIFF withdraws from OFC U17 in Tahiti". sportingpulse.com. 18 March 2007. Retrieved 26 February 2013.

External links

• RSSSF, 2007 results

• OFC U-17 Championship
• 2007–08 in OFC football
• International association football competitions hosted by French Polynesia
• 2007 in French Polynesian sport
• 2007 in youth association football