Football at the South Pacific Games

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The South Pacific Games were initially held irregularly but since 1971 they are held every four years. The football (soccer) since the beginning of the Games took part of the competition, except in 1999.

In 2007, the Men's tournament will form the first stage of the Oceania Football Confederation's (OFC) qualification tournament for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and will be the qualification tournament for the 2008 OFC Nations Cup, while the Women's tournament will form the first stage of the OFC's qualification tournament for the 2008 Olympic Games.

Contents 1 Men competition 1.1 Nations 1.2 Winners 1.3 Most South Pacific Games wins 2 Women's competition 2.1 Participate countries

[edit] Men competition

[edit] Nations

Nation	Presences	Last
American Samoa	3	2007
Cook Islands	3	2007
Fiji	10	2007
Guam	4	1995
Kiribati	2	2003
Federated States of Micronesia	1	2003
Niue	1	1983
New Caledonia	12	2007
Papua New Guinea	11	2003
Samoa (Western Samoa)	3	2007
Solomon Islands	10	2007
Tahiti (French Polynesia)	12	2007
Tonga	4	2007
Tuvalu	3	2007
Vanuatu (New Hebrides)	12	2007
Wallis and Futuna	6	1995

[edit] Winners

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Champion	Score	Second Place		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1963 Details	Fiji		New Caledonia	8 - 2	Fiji		Tahiti	18 - 0	Solomon Islands
1966 Details	New Caledonia		Tahiti	2 - 0	New Caledonia		New Hebrides	5 - 2	Papua New Guinea
1969 Details	Papua New Guinea		New Caledonia	2 - 1	Tahiti		Papua New Guinea	2 - 1	Fiji
1971 Details	Tahiti		New Caledonia	7 - 1	New Hebrides		Tahiti	8 - 1	Papua New Guinea
1975 Details	Guam		Tahiti	2 - 1	New Caledonia		Solomon Islands	3 - 2	Fiji
1979 Details	Fiji		Tahiti	3 - 0	Fiji		Solomon Islands	3 - 1	New Caledonia
1983 Details	Western Samoa		Tahiti	1 - 0	Fiji		New Caledonia		Papua New Guinea
1987 Details	New Caledonia		New Caledonia	1 - 0	Tahiti		Papua New Guinea	3 - 1	Vanuatu
1991 Details	Papua New Guinea		Fiji	1 - 1 (pen)	Solomon Islands		New Caledonia	3 - 1	Vanuatu
1995 Details	Tahiti		Tahiti	2 - 0	Solomon Islands		Fiji	3 - 0	Vanuatu
2003 Details	Fiji		Fiji	2 - 0	New Caledonia		Vanuatu	1 - 0	Tahiti
2007 Details	Samoa		New Caledonia	1 - 0	Fiji		Vanuatu	2 - 0	Solomon Islands

[edit] Most South Pacific Games wins

Wins	Nation	Year(s)
5 times	Tahiti	1966, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1995
5 times	New Caledonia	1963, 1969, 1971, 1987, 2007
2 times	Fiji	1991, 2003

[edit] Women's competition

[edit] Participate countries

• 2- Papua New Guinea,  Tonga,  Fiji,  Tahiti
• 1- Guam,  Vanuatu,  Kiribati,  American Samoa,  Samoa,  New Caledonia,  Solomon Islands,  Cook Islands

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