Polynesia Cup
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The Polynesia Cup was a football
tournament for Polynesia
n nations within the Oceania Football Confederation
. It acted along with the Melanesia Cup
as a qualifying tournament for the Oceania Nations Cup. The last edition was played in 2000.
The tournament involved a round-robin format where every team played each other once at the location of the tournament.
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
tournament for Polynesia
Polynesia
Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are termed Polynesians and they share many similar traits including language, culture and beliefs...
n nations within the Oceania Football Confederation
Oceania Football Confederation
The Oceania Football Confederation is one of the six continental confederations of international association football, consisting of Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and island nations such as Tonga, Fiji and other Pacific Island countries...
. It acted along with the Melanesia Cup
Melanesia Cup
The Melanesia Cup is a football championship played between the Melanesian countries, it was used for qualification to the Oceania Nations Cup. The last edition of the cup was in 2001...
as a qualifying tournament for the Oceania Nations Cup. The last edition was played in 2000.
The tournament involved a round-robin format where every team played each other once at the location of the tournament.
Results
Year | Host | Winner | Runner-up | 3rd Place | 4th Place |
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1994 Details Polynesia Cup 1994 The Polynesia Cup 1994 was the first Polynesia-wide tournament ever held. It took place in Samoa and four teams participated: Tahiti, Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga and server for the first time as Oceania Nations Cup qualifyer.... |
Samoa Samoa Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in... |
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1998 Details Polynesia Cup 1998 The Polynesia Cup 1998 was the second Polynesia-wide tournament ever held. It took place in Cook Islands and five teams participated: Tahiti, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga and the hosts Cook Islands for the first time and server for the second time as Oceania Nations Cup qualifyer.The teams played... |
Cook Islands Cook Islands The Cook Islands is a self-governing parliamentary democracy in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand... |
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2000 Details Polynesia Cup 2000 The Polynesia Cup 2000 was the third Polynesia-wide tournament ever held. It took place in Tahiti and five teams participated: Tahiti, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga and Cook Islands and server for the third time as Oceania Nations Cup qualifyer.... |
Tahiti Tahiti Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous... |
Total Wins
3 | Tahiti Tahiti national football team The Tahiti national football team is the national team of French Polynesia and is controlled by the Fédération Tahitienne de Football.They finished second in the OFC Nations Cup in its first three installments, 1973, 1980, and 1996. In 2009 the under 20 team qualified for the FIFA U-20 World Cup in... |
1994, 1998, 2000 |