2020 OFC U-16 Championship


The 2020 OFC U-16 Championship will be the 19th edition of the OFC U-16/U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation for the men's under-16/under-17 national teams of Oceania. The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Fiji in September 2020. However, on 28 July 2020, the OFC announced that the tournament had been postponed to April 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The top two teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru as the OFC representatives.
New Zealand are the seven-time defending champions.

Teams

Ten of the 11 FIFA-affiliated national teams from the OFC are eligible to enter the tournament. The Solomon Islands have been banned from entering a team in this edition due to fielding at least one ineligible player in the 2018 OFC U-16 Championship.
Starting from this edition, male youth tournaments no longer have a four-team qualifying stage, and all teams compete in one tournament.
Note: All appearance statistics include those in the qualifying stage.
TeamAppearancePrevious best performance
9th
10th
18th
12th
17th
10th,
9th
14th
10th
15th

;Banned

Venues

To be confirmed.

Squads

Players born on or after [|1] January 2004 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 World Cup

The following two teams from OFC qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA U-17 World Cup1
TBD
TBD