2005 OFC Club Championship

The 2005 OFC Club Championship was the 4th edition of the top-level Oceanic club football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), and the 1st since 2001. The tournament was held in Papeete, Tahiti. The preliminary rounds were played from 10 February until 6 April 2005, with the finals beginning on 30 May and ending on 10 June 2005.

2005 OFC Club Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Tahiti
Dates	Qualifying: 10 February – 6 April 2005 Competition proper: 31 May – 10 June 2005
Teams	Competition proper: 8 Total: 13 (from 12 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Sydney FC (1st title)
Runners-up	AS Magenta
Third place	Tafea
Fourth place	AS Pirae
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	75 (4.69 per match)
Top scorer(s)	David Zdrilic (9 goals)
← 2001 2006 →

The tournament was initially planned to take place in September 2002, in anticipation of the upcoming FIFA Club World Championship in the following year, in order to decide which team would represent Oceania at the tournament. However, this tournament was cancelled, and therefore so too was the Oceanic competition. With the return of the tournament in 2005, the OFC Club Championship went ahead, and the winner went on to represent Oceania at the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship.

The winner of the tournament was Sydney FC of Australia, who beat AS Magenta of New Caledonia in the final.

Participants

Manumea

Sydney FC

Nikao Sokattack

Ba

Magenta

Auckland
City

Sobou

Tuanaimoto
Breeze

Makuru

Pirae

Manu Ura

Lotoha'apai

Tafea

Location of teams of the 2005 OFC Club Championship.
Automatic entrants
Preliminary round entrants

The following teams entered the competition.

Association	Team	Qualifying method
Teams entering the group stage
Australia	Sydney FC	2005 Australian Club World Championship Qualifying Tournament winner
Tahiti	AS Manu Ura	2003–04 Tahiti Division Fédérale champion
	AS Pirae	2003–04 Tahiti Division Fédérale runner-up
Teams entering the preliminary round
American Samoa	Manumea FC	2003 ASFA Soccer League champion
Cook Islands	Nikao Sokattak	2004 Cook Islands Round Cup champion
Fiji	Ba Electric	2004–05 Fiji Club Franchise League champion
New Caledonia	AS Magenta	2003–04 New Caledonia Super Ligue champion
New Zealand	Auckland City	2004–05 New Zealand Football Championship grand final champion
Papua New Guinea	Sobou FC	2004 Papua New Guinea National Club Championship champion
Samoa	Tuanaimato Breeze	2004 Samoa National League champion
Solomon Islands	Makuru FC	2004 Honiara FA League champion
Tonga	Lotoha'apai United	2004 Tonga Major League champion
Vanuatu	Tafea FC	2004 Port Vila Football League champion

Preliminary round

A preliminary round was held, with the format being a two-legged playoff to determine who went through to the final round. The preliminary round began on 10 February and ended on 6 April 2005.^[1] Ten teams competed in the preliminary round of the 2005 OFC Club Championship.

The Australian representative (Sydney FC), as the representative of the strongest OFC Nation, and the two Tahitian Teams (AS Pirae and AS Manu Ura), as hosts, were seeded to the main draw.

The travelling team played two matches in the host country. The aggregate scores are shown.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Manumea	w/o[note 1]	Auckland City	—	—
Nikao Sokattak	1–9	AS Magenta	0–4	1–5
Sobou	7–0	Tuinaimato Breeze	5–0	2–0
Lotohaʻapai	1–7	Tafea	1–2	0–5
Ba Electric	2–8	Makuru	1–4	1–4

Manumea	Cancelled	Auckland City
	Report

Auckland City	Cancelled	Manumea
	Report

Auckland City won on walkover.^{[note 1]}

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10 February 2005

18:00

Nikao Sokattak	0–4	AS Magenta
	Report	Hmaé 38', 41' (pen.), 45' (pen.) Jules 62'

OFC Academy Grounds, Auckland

12 February 2005

14:00

AS Magenta	5–1	Nikao Sokattak
Sinédo ?', ?' Kaudre ?', ?' Hmaé ?'	Report	Willis 45' (pen.)

OFC Academy Grounds, Auckland

AS Magenta won 9–1 on aggregate.

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4 March 2005

Sobou	5–0	Tuinaimato Breeze
	Report

6 March 2005

Tuinaimato Breeze	0–2	Sobou
	Report	Daniel ?' Laskam ?'

Sobou won 7–0 on aggregate.

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21 March 2005

Lotohaʻapai	1–2	Tafea
	Report

23 March 2005

Tafea	5–0	Lotohaʻapai
Obed ?', ?' Poida ?' Garae ?' Nako ?'	Report

Tafea won 7–1 on aggregate.

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2 April 2005

Ba Electric	1–4	Makuru
	Report

6 April 2005

Makuru	4–1	Ba Electric
Maemae ?', ?', ?' Suri ?'	Report	Masi ?' (pen.)

Makuru won 8–2 on aggregate.

Group stage

The eight remaining teams were separated into two groups, each team playing the other teams once. The top two teams from each group progressed to the semi-finals. The draw for the group stage was held on 16 April 2005.^[3]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sydney FC	3	3	0	0	18	4	+14	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	AS Pirae	3	2	0	1	6	7	−1	6
3	Auckland City	3	1	0	2	8	5	+3	3
4	Sobou	3	0	0	3	4	20	−16	0

Source: RSSSF

31 May 2005

18:30

Sydney FC	3–2	Auckland City
Ceccoli 32' Packer 47' Corica 90+3'	Report	Seaman 37' Smith 78'

Stade Peter, Papeete

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Leonie Rakaroi (Fiji)

31 May 2005

Sobou	1–5	AS Pirae
Kassam 87'	Report	Bennett 9', 35', 49' Zaveroni 14', 28'

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2 June 2005

AS Pirae	1–0	Auckland City
Bennett 50'	Report

2 June 2005

21:00

Sobou	2–9	Sydney FC
Wate 57' Daniel 90'	Report	Fyfe 5' Petrovski 14', 43', 71' Zdrilic 19', 40', 42' Brodie 79' Salazar 82'

Stade Peter, Papeete

Attendance: 3,000

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4 June 2005

15:00

Sydney FC	6–0	AS Pirae
Zdrilic 11', 25', 35', 39' Buonavoglia 43' Carney 85'	Report

Stade Peter, Papeete

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: Lencie Fred (Vanuatu)

5 June 2005

20:30

Auckland City	6–1	Sobou
Mulrooney 6', 30' Urlovic 13' Coombes 18' Uhlmann 21' McIvor 87'	Report	Deno 45'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	AS Magenta	3	2	1	0	10	2	+8	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Tafea	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	7
3	Makuru	3	1	0	2	4	9	−5	3
4	AS Manu-Ura	3	0	0	3	2	8	−6	0

Source: RSSSF

1 June 2005

Tafea	3–2	Makuru
Poida 4' Obed 18' (pen.) Naprapol 56'	Report	Suri 54' Maemae 79' (pen.)

1 June 2005

AS Magenta	4–1	AS Manu-Ura
Watrone 32', 56' Wajoka 43' Poatinda 62'	Report	Diake 46'

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3 June 2005

AS Magenta	1–1	Tafea
Watrone 39'	Report	Naprapol 13'

3 June 2005

AS Manu-Ura	1–2	Makuru
Maemae 6' (pen.)	Report	Lee-Tham 4' Afia 66'

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5 June 2005

AS Manu-Ura	0–2	Tafea
	Report	Qorig 18' Naprapol 54'

5 June 2005

Makuru	0–5	AS Magenta
	Report	Hmae 33', 62', 81' Elmour 76' (pen.) Kaudre 81+'

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	7 June – Papeete
	Sydney FC	6
					10 June – Papeete
	Tafea	0
					Sydney FC	2
	7 June – Papeete
					AS Magenta	0
	AS Magenta	4
	AS Pirae	1
					Third place play-off
					10 June – Papeete
					AS Pirae	1
					Tafea	3

Semi-finals

7 June 2005

18:00

Sydney FC	6–0	Tafea
Petrovski 26' Zdrilic 39' Talay 44' (pen.) Corica 65', 90' Salazar 87'	Report

Stade Pater, Papeete

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Rajendra Singh (Fiji)

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7 June 2005

AS Magenta	4–1	AS Pirae
Elmour 45' Sinédo 61' Kaudre 90', 90+1'	Report	Wadriako 17' (o.g.)

Third place play-off

10 June 2005

AS Pirae	1–3	Tafea
Bennett 74'	Report	Poida 30' Mermer 48', 69'

Final

Main article: 2005 OFC Club Championship final

The final was played on 10 June 2005 at Stade Pater in Papeete.^[4] The match was attended by approximately 4,000 spectators.^[5]

10 June 2005

Sydney FC	2–0	AS Magenta
Matthew Bingley 16' David Zdrilic 59'	Report

Stade Pater, Papeete

Attendance: 4,000

Referee: Neil Fox (New Zealand)

Sydney FC

AS Magenta

GK 1 Clint Bolton DF 3 Alvin Ceccoli DF 2 Iain Fyfe DF 8 Matthew Bingley DF 14 Andrew Packer MF 7 Robbie Middleby  76' MF 15 Terry McFlynn  84' MF 6 Ufuk Talay  53'  62' MF 12 David Carney FW 9 David Zdrilic (c)  88'  89' FW 11 Sasho Petrovski Substitutes: GK 20 Mitchell Blowes DF 5 Steve Laurie MF 10 Steve Corica  62' FW 13 Alejandro Salazar  89' MF 16 Todd Brodie  76' DF 18 Wade Oostendorp DF 19 Brendan Renaud FW 21 John Buonavoglia Manager: Pierre Littbarski

GK 1 Michel Hne  83' DF 4 Andre Sinedo DF 5 Jacky Wiako DF 6 Gil Elmour DF 17 Robert Wadriako MF 8 Jules Wea MF 10 Pierre Wajoka  41' MF 2 Nicolas Ouka MF 7 Steevens Longue FW 9 Michel Hmae  77' FW 11 Paul Poatinda  46' Substitutes: GK 20 Joel Zohune DF 3 Eric Ouka DF 12 Georges Wadreges DF 13 Elia Kaudre MF 14 Wilfred Wadriako FW 15 Francis Watrone  77' FW 16 Noel Kaudre  46' Manager: Jean Paul Cureau

Man of the Match: Terry McFlynn

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of eight named substitutes. Maximum of three substitutions.

Top scorers

NB: This table does not include Preliminary round results

#	Player	Team	Goals
1	David Zdrilic	Sydney FC	9

Notes

1. Manumea was withdrawn by the OFC, due to administration concerns from the American Samoa Football Association and not guranteeing the facilities and infrastructure to host an international match.^[2]