{"id":502327,"date":"2026-02-25T03:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502327\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T03:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:45:12","slug":"draws-announced-for-ofc-u-19-mens-championship-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502327\/","title":{"rendered":"Draws announced for OFC U-19 Men\u2019s Championship 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The draws for the OFC U-19 Men\u2019s Championship 2026 and OFC U-19 Men\u2019s Championship 2026 \u2013 Qualifying have been confirmed at the OFC Home of Football \u2013 Te Kahu o Kiwa in Auckland.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The OFC U-19 Men\u2019s Championship 2026 will be held in Samoa from the September 1-14, with the qualifying tournament to be held in the Cook Islands from June 6-12.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champions New Zealand have been drawn alongside Tahiti, Fiji and Vanuatu in Group B of the OFC U-19 Men\u2019s Championship 2026, whilst hosts Samoa are joined by 2024 runners-up New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, and the qualifying tournament winner in Group A of the competition in September.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The OFC U-19 Men\u2019s Championship 2026 \u2013 Qualifying tournament will see hosts Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea and Tonga play each other once in a single group format, with the winner to join Group A of the championship. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The OFC U-19 Men\u2019s Championship 2026 is the 25th edition of the tournament since its inception in 1974, having previously been played at U-20 level between 1974 and 2016.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Match schedule for OFC U-19 Men\u2019s Championship 2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniafootball.com\/draws-announced-for-ofc-u-19-mens-championship-2026\/u-19-mens-championship-match-schedulepng\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67348 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-67348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/U-19-Mens-Championship-Match-Schedulepng.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Match schedule for OFC U-19 Men\u2019s Championship 2026 \u2013 Qualifying<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniafootball.com\/?attachment_id=67353\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67350 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-67353 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/U-19-Mens-Championship-Match-Schedule_YT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The draws for the OFC U-19 Men\u2019s Championship 2026 and OFC U-19 Men\u2019s Championship 2026 \u2013 Qualifying have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-502327","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\/502327","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=502327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}