{"id":487273,"date":"2026-02-18T05:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487273\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T05:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:25:12","slug":"draws-confirmed-for-ofc-u-16-womens-championship-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487273\/","title":{"rendered":"Draws confirmed for OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The draws for the OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026 and OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026 \u2013 Qualifying have been confirmed at the OFC Home of Football \u2013 Te Kahu o Kiwa in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>The OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026 will be held in the Solomon Islands from the 6th -19th of September, with the qualifying tournament to be held in Papua New Guinea from the 18th-24th of April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniafootball.com\/draws-confirmed-for-ofc-u-16-womens-championship-2026\/ashleigh-cox-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67214 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-67214 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ashleigh-Cox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/a>OFC Women\u2019s Football Manager Ashleigh Cox drawing hosts Solomon Islands into Group A of the OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship. Photo credit: OFC Media.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hosts Solomon Islands have been drawn alongside defending champions New Zealand, Fiji, and the qualifying winner in Group A of the OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026, whilst 2025 finalists Samoa join Tonga, New Caledonia and Tahiti in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>The OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026 \u2013 Qualifying tournament will see American Samoa join hosts Papua New Guinea and the Cook Islands, and are scheduled to play each other once in a round-robin format, with the winner to join Group A of the championship.<\/p>\n<p>The OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026 becomes the eighth edition of the tournament, with three previous iterations at U-17 level played between 2010 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Match schedule for OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniafootball.com\/draws-confirmed-for-ofc-u-16-womens-championship-2026\/u-16-womens-championship-match-schedule-2-copyas\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67212 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-67212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/U-16-Womens-Championship-Match-Schedule-2-copyas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Match schedule for OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026 \u2013 Qualifying:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniafootball.com\/draws-confirmed-for-ofc-u-16-womens-championship-2026\/v1-u-16-womens-championship-match-schedule_yt-copy-2a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67213 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-67213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/V1-U-16-Womens-Championship-Match-Schedule_YT-copy-2a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The draws for the OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026 and OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026 \u2013 Qualifying have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-487273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}