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2008 OFC U-23 Olympic Qualifying Tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Fiji
Dates	1–9 March 2008
Teams	6 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	New Zealand (2nd title)
Runners-up	Solomon Islands
Third place	Fiji
Fourth place	Papua New Guinea
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	89 (5.93 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Benjamin Totori Malakai Tiwa (8 goals)
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The 2008 OFC Men's Olympic Football Tournament functioned as the qualifying tournament to the association football competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing for the member nations of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC). The tournament consisted of a single round-robin tournament played in Fiji from 1 March to 9 March 2008. New Zealand won the tournament and qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games.

Final standings

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
New Zealand	5	5	0	0	19	3	+16	15
Solomon Islands	5	4	0	1	25	5	+20	12
Fiji	5	3	0	2	21	6	+15	9
Papua New Guinea	5	2	0	3	18	20	–2	6
Vanuatu	5	1	0	4	6	16	–10	3
Cook Islands	5	0	0	5	0	39	–39	0

Matches

New Zealand	2–1	Fiji
Peverley 33' Old 90'		Tiwa 41'

Cook Islands	0–4	Vanuatu
		Nimanian 16' Sakama 47' (pen.) Chillia 83'

Papua New Guinea	1–6	Solomon Islands
Apo 65'		Totori 9', 16', 68' Nawo 12' Rande 51' Saie 80'

Solomon Islands	11–0	Cook Islands
Rande 9' Maemae 17', 24' Totori 47', 56', 68', 75' Nawo 62' Waroi 77', 78' Forau 82'

Fiji	7–1	Papua New Guinea
Suwamy 18' Tiwa 23', 55', 68' Dunadamu 32', 70' Rao 76'		Winnie 72'

Vanuatu	0–2	New Zealand
		Barbarouses 15' Brockie 40'

Fiji	9–0	Cook Islands
Singh 16', 23', 58' Krishna 38' Tiwa 59', 75', 76' Rao 66' Samy 81'

Papua New Guinea	2–5	New Zealand
Gunemba 17', 86'		Ellensohn 43', 58' Barbarouses 60', 69' Brockie 85'

Solomon Islands	5–0	Vanuatu
Maemae 39', 62', 75' Totori 55' Nawo 73'

New Zealand	2–0	Solomon Islands
Old 5' Henderson 69'

Cook Islands	0–7	Papua New Guinea
		Muta 16' Winnie 19', 50' Gunemba 29' Upaiga 54' Mobbs 64' Hans 75'

Vanuatu	0–2	Fiji
		Tiwa 28' (pen.) Krishna 41'

Cook Islands	0–8	New Zealand
		Old 8' Brockie 16' Hayne 52', 79' Messam 64' Ellensohn 67' Barbarouses 75' Scott 90+2'

Vanuatu	2–7	Papua New Guinea
Kaltack 52' Masauvakolo 79'		Kini 10' Winnie 13', 68', 90+2' Muta 18' (pen.) Gunemba 63' Upaiga 75'

Solomon Islands	3–2	Fiji
Waroi 28', 42' Fifii 39'		Krishna 6' Dunadamu 23'

2008 OFC Olympic Qualification Championship
New Zealand Second title

Goal scorers

8 goals

• Benjamin Totori
• Malakai Tiwa

6 goals

• Tau Winnie

5 goals

• Alick Maemae

4 goals

• Costa Barbarouses
• Joachim Waroi
• Raymond Gunemba

3 goals

• Steven Old
• Jeremy Brockie
• Daniel Ellensohn
• Alvin Singh
• Roy Krishna
• Macui Dunadamu
• Jason Nawo

2 goals

• Jason Hayne
• Shameel Rao
• Joachim Rande
• David Muta
• Koriak Upaiga
• Jefferey Nimanian

1 goal

• Avinesh Waran Suwamy
• Krishna Samy
• Cole Peverley
• Craig Henderson
• Sam Messam
• Aaron Scott
• Franklin Forau
• Nelson Saie Kilifa
• Michael Fifii
• William Mobbs
• Samuel Kini
• Neil Hans
• Mathias Apo
• Francois Sakama
• Tony Chillia
• Michael Kaltack
• Fenedy Masauvakolo

External links

• Olympic Tournament Qualifying

• Football qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics
• OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
• 2007–08 in OFC football
• International association football competitions hosted by Fiji
• 2007–08 in New Zealand association football