2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup final

The 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup final was a football match to determine the winners of 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup. The match was the tenth final of the OFC Nations Cup, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of Oceania Football Confederation to decide the champions of Oceania. The match was held at the VFF Freshwater Stadium in Port Vila, Vanuatu, on 30 June 2024 and was contested by the winners of the semi-finals.^[1]

2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup final

The VFF Freshwater Stadium in Port Vila hosted the final.
Event	2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup
New Zealand Vanuatu 3 0
Date	30 June 2024 (2024-06-30)
Venue	VFF Freshwater Stadium, Port Vila
Man of the Match	Liberato Cacace (New Zealand)
Referee	Ben Aukwai (Solomon Islands)
Attendance	10,000
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Venue

Main article: VFF Freshwater Stadium

The final was held at the VFF Freshwater Stadium in Port Vila, Vanuatu. In December 2023, OFC announced the 2024 tournament would be held in Vanuatu.^[2] The VFF Freshwater Stadium was chosen as the final venue of the tournament along with the Group B matches, and the semi-finals.^[1][2]

The VFF Freshwater Stadium opened in 2022 thanks to financing by FIFA. The stadium was owned by the Vanuatu Football Federation. The Vanuatu national team also occasionally played its home matches at the stadium. The VFF Freshwater Stadium had also hosted other significant matches, including several matches in the 2023 OFC Champions League, which included the final between Auckland City and Suva.^[3][4]

Route to the final

New Zealand		Round	Vanuatu
Opponent	Result	Group stage	Opponent	Result
New Caledonia	Cancelled	Match 1	Solomon Islands	1–0
Solomon Islands	3–0	Match 2	New Caledonia	Cancelled
Vanuatu	4–0	Match 3	New Zealand	0–4
Opponent	Result	Knockout stage	Opponent	Result
Tahiti	5–0	Semi-finals	Fiji	2–1

Match

Details

New Zealand	3–0	Vanuatu
Howieson 2' Randall 83' Mata 90+1'	Report

30 June 2024 (2024-06-30)

15:00 VUT

VFF Freshwater Stadium, Port Vila

Attendance: 10,000^[5]

Referee: Ben Aukwai (Solomon Islands)

New Zealand

Vanuatu

GK 1 Max Crocombe RB 2 Sam Sutton  73' CB 5 Finn Surman CB 4 Tyler Bindon  78'  88' LB 13 Liberato Cacace (c) DM 8 Alex Rufer RM 11 Elijah Just  81' LM 14 Ben Old  88' AM 6 Cameron Howieson CF 9 Ben Waine  73' CF 7 Kosta Barbarouses Substitutions: DF 5 Tommy Smith  73' FW 25 Jesse Randall  73' FW 17 Alex Greive  81' DF 3 Lukas Kelly-Heald  88' FW 21 Max Mata  88' Manager: Darren Bazeley

GK 1 James Iamar RB 3 Timothy Boulet  8'  75' CB 6 Jason Thomas CB 4 Brian Kaltak (c) LB 11 Tasso Jeffrey  65' RM 13 Johnathan Spokeyjack CM 16 John Alick  80' CM 5 Jared Clark  63'  80' LM 15 Godine Tenene CF 14 John Wohale  37'  80' CF 9 Alex Saniel  65' Substitutions: DF 17 Kerry Iawak  65' FW 18 Kensi Tangis  65' MF 8 Claude Aru  80' MF 20 Alick Worworbu  80' FW 21 Joe Moses  80' Manager: Juliano Schmeling

Man of the Match: Liberato Cacace (New Zealand)[6] Assistant referees:[7] Folio Moeaki (Tonga) Malaetala Salanoa (Samoa) Fourth official: Veer Singh (Fiji) Fifth official: Avinesh Narayan (Fiji)

Match rules[8] 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of twelve named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time.[note 1]

Notes

1. Each team was given only three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.

See also

• New Zealand at the OFC Nations Cup
• Vanuatu at the OFC Nations Cup