The 2014 OFC Champions League Group Stage will take place in Lautoka and Ba, Fiji from 7-15 April.

12 clubs from eight OFC member associations –Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti and Vanuatu – are taking part in the tournament which will reveal the four clubs for the home and away semi-finals to be played in April/May.

Media interested in attending the tournament are kindly requested to fill out the attached application form and send by return email to OFC Head of Media and Communications Gordon Watson no later than 31 March, 2014.
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Background information

The OFC Champions League Group Stage tournament will be held at Churchill Park in Lautoka and Govind Park in Ba from April 7-15 with the participating teams being host clubs Ba and Nadi, Auckland City FC and Waitakere United, Amicale and Tafea FC, Hekari United, AS Dragon and AS Pirae, Solomon Warriors, AS Magenta and Kiwi FC.

All 12 teams will compete for OFC’s sole qualification spot at the FIFA Club World Cup Morocco 2014, set to be held in December this year.

The teams will play each other once in their respective four team groups based on a league system with the group winners and the best placed runner-up advancing to the home and away semi-finals.

The OFC Club Championship was first held in Fiji in 1999 when South Melbourne defeated Nadi 5-1 in the inaugural final.

Since that first championship 15 years ago, the tournament has been held another 10 times, making this the 12th edition of the Pacific’s premier club event. It has been held at various intervals in the past but now takes place annually to find OFC’s qualifier for the FIFA Club World Cup.

Australia (which left OFC for the Asian Football Confederation in 2006) and New Zealand clubs have dominated the competition since its inception, Australian teams earning three title wins to New Zealand’s seven. The only team to break that stranglehold has been Hekari United of Papua New Guinea with its triumph in 2010.

OFC Champions League Group Stage 2014
7-15 April
Ba, Lautoka,
Fiji

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