2024 MSG Prime Minister's Cup

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2024 MSG Prime Minister's Cup
Tournament details

Host country	Solomon Islands
City	Honiara
Dates	9–21 December
Teams	5 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Papua New Guinea (2nd title)
Runners-up	Fiji
Third place	Solomon Islands
Tournament statistics
Matches played	10
Goals scored	31 (3.1 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Don Keana Rovu Boyers Alwin Komolong Sairusi Nalaubu (3 goals)
← 2023 TBD →

International football competition

The 2024 MSG Prime Minister's Cup is being held from 9–21 December. The Solomon Islands are hosting the competition, with matches being played in Honiara at the Lawson Tama Stadium and at the National Stadium.

The Solomon Islands is the defending champion after winning the 2023 edition of the tournament. Usual participants New Caledonia withdrew from the competition.

Papua New Guinea won the competition for its second-ever title.

Format

The five competing teams faced each other once in a round-robin style tournament the winner of the group wins the 2024 MSG Prime Minister's Cup. A total of 10 matches will be played on five matchdays.

Matches

All times are local, (UTC+11).

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Papua New Guinea (C)	4	3	1	0	7	4	+3	10	Champion
2	Fiji	4	2	2	0	8	3	+5	8
3	Solomon Islands (H)	4	2	0	2	9	7	+2	6
4	Vanuatu	4	1	1	2	6	8	−2	4
5	Solomon Islands "B"	4	0	0	4	1	9	−8	0

Source:
(C) Champions; (H) Hosts

9 December 202413:00

Solomon Islands "B"	0–1	Papua New Guinea
		A. Komolong 27' (pen.)

Lawson Tama Stadium, Honiara 9 December 202415:00

Solomon Islands	4–1	Vanuatu
Boyers 22' (pen.), 48' Keana 30', 79'		King 52'

Lawson Tama Stadium, Honiara 12 December 202413:00

Fiji	1–1	Vanuatu
Nalaubu 60'		Saniel 90+3'

Lawson Tama Stadium, Honiara 12 December 202415:00

Solomon Islands	2–0	Solomon Islands "B"
Leslie 50' Hou 85'

Lawson Tama Stadium, Honiara 15 December 202415:00

Papua New Guinea	1–1	Fiji
Gunemba 23'		Nalaubu 76'

National Stadium, Honiara 15 December 202418:00

Vanuatu	3–1	Solomon Islands "B"
Saniel 45' Kalo 77' (pen.) J. Kaltak 81'		Francis 64'

National Stadium, Honiara 18 December 202416:00

Solomon Islands	2–3	Papua New Guinea
Boyers 21' Keana 87'		Komolong 28', 90+4' Rani 72'

National Stadium, Honiara 18 December 202418:00

Fiji	3–0	Solomon Islands "B"
Hughes 72' Tirau 73' Begg 87'

National Stadium, Honiara 21 December 202416:00

Vanuatu	1–2	Papua New Guinea
J. Kaltak 84'		Kepo 13' Gunemba 58'

National Stadium, Honiara 21 December 202418:00

Fiji	3–1	Solomon Islands
Matanisiga 33' Nalaubu 45+2' Dunn 56'		Kaua 79'

National Stadium, Honiara

Goalscorers

There were 31 goals scored in 10 matches, for an average of 3.1 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

References

^ Chand, Simran (4 December 2024). "No overseas players for Prime Ministers Cup". Fiji Broadcasting Corporation News. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
"Solomon Islands signs agreement to host third MSG Prime Minister's Cup". Pacific Islands News Association. 25 October 2024. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
^ "Honiara confident of hosting a successful MSG Prime Minister's Cup". Solomon Islands Government. 1 December 2024.
"All remaining MSG PM's Cup matches at main stadium". Solomon Star. 15 December 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
Mamu, Moffat (12 November 2024). "Preparations to host MSG cup underway". Solomon Star News. Retrieved 3 December 2024.

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