{"id":729191,"date":"2026-06-11T07:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729191\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T07:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:42:09","slug":"tahiti-withdraw-from-ofc-u-16-womens-championship-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729191\/","title":{"rendered":"Tahiti withdraw from OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tahiti (FTF) has officially withdrawn\u202ffrom the OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026 taking place in Solomon Islands from 6 to 19 September.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Article 6.3 of the OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026 regulations, OFC shall\u202fbe responsible for\u202fmaking any decisions, including but not limited to:<\/p>\n<p>replacing the Participating Association\u00a0that has withdrawn<\/p>\n<p>changing the Match Schedule<\/p>\n<p>The OFC Executive has\u202fapproved that\u202fPapua New Guinea Football Association (PNGFA), who\u202fwere the runner up\u202fin the Qualifying stage of the OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026,\u202fwill\u202fparticipate\u202fin the competition\u202fin Group B\u202fas Tahiti\u2019s\u202freplacement.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the\u00a0groups are comprised as followed:<\/p>\n<p>Group A:\u202f\u00a0Fiji, New Zealand, Cook Islands (qualifiers winner), Solomon Islands<\/p>\n<p>Group B:\u202f\u00a0New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea (direct replacement for\u00a0Tahiti)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tahiti (FTF) has officially withdrawn\u202ffrom the OFC U-16 Women\u2019s Championship 2026 taking place in Solomon Islands from 6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-729191","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\/729191","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=729191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}