2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup Group B

Group B of the 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup took take place from 16 to 22 June 2024. The group consisted of Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tahiti and the qualifying winner.^[1][2]

Originally due to take place at the Luganville Soccer Stadium in Luganville, Vanuatu, all six group matches were moved to the HFC Bank Stadium in Suva, Fiji over uncertainty around flight schedules.^[3]

Teams

Draw position	Team	Pot	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Finals appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance	FIFA Rankings
								December 2023[nb 1]	April 2024
B1	Papua New Guinea	1	Automatic	24 January 2024	5th	2016	Runners-up (2016)	165	166
B2	Fiji	2	Automatic	24 January 2024	9th	2016	Third place (1998, 2008)	168	168
B3	Tahiti	2	Automatic	24 January 2024	10th	2016	Winners (2012)	163	162
B4	Samoa	3	Qualifying winner	23 March 2024	3rd	2016	Group Stage (2012, 2016)	186	181

Notes

1. The rankings of December 2023 were used at the time of the draw, although were not taken into account.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fiji (H)	3	3	0	0	15	2	+13	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Tahiti	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
3	Papua New Guinea	3	1	1	1	4	7	−3	4
4	Samoa	3	0	0	3	2	13	−11	0

Source: OFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

In the knockout stage:

• The winners of Group B, Fiji, advanced to play the runners-up of Group A, Vanuatu.
• The runners-up of Group B, Tahiti, advanced to play the winners of Group A, New Zealand.

Matches

All times are local, UTC+12.^[1]

Tahiti v Samoa

Tahiti	2–0	Samoa
Degrumelle 4' T. Tehau 28'	Report

16 June 2024 (2024-06-16)

13:00

HFC Bank Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 500^[4]

Referee: Ben Aukwai (Solomon Islands)

Tahiti

Samoa

Papua New Guinea v Fiji

Papua New Guinea	1–5	Fiji
Semmy 88'	Report	Begg 2' Dunn 43', 52' A. Komolong 55' (o.g.) Krishna 64'

16 June 2024 (2024-06-16)

16:00

HFC Bank Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 1,700^[5]

Referee: Calvin Berg (New Zealand)

Papua New Guinea

Fiji

Papua New Guinea v Tahiti

Papua New Guinea	1–1	Tahiti
Paul 25'	Report	Degrumelle 15'

19 June 2024 (2024-06-19)

16:00

HFC Bank Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 500^[6]

Referee: Campbell-Kirk Kawana-Waugh (New Zealand)

Papua New Guinea

Tahiti

Samoa v Fiji

Samoa	1–9	Fiji
Salisbury 47'	Report	Hughes 3', 61' Dunn 38' Krishna 45+3' (pen.), 53' (pen.) Baravilala 64' Begg 67' Dogalau 83', 89'

19 June 2024 (2024-06-19)

19:00

HFC Bank Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 1,300^[7]

Referee: Calvin Berg (New Zealand)

Samoa

Fiji

Samoa v Papua New Guinea

Samoa	1–2	Papua New Guinea
Trainor 67'	Report	Semmy 26' Kepo 47'

22 June 2024 (2024-06-22)

16:00

HFC Bank Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 500^[8]

Referee: Ben Aukwai (Solomon Islands)

Samoa

Papua New Guinea

Fiji v Tahiti

Fiji	1–0	Tahiti
Krishna 26' (pen.)	Report

22 June 2024 (2024-06-22)

19:00

HFC Bank Stadium, Suva

Attendance: 1,500^[9]

Referee: Campbell-Kirk Kawana-Waugh (New Zealand)

Fiji

Tahiti

Discipline

Fair play points would have been used as tiebreakers if the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:^[10]

• first yellow card: −1 point;
• indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
• direct red card: −4 points;
• yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;

Only one of the above deductions will be applied to a player in a single match.

Team	Match 1				Match 2				Match 3				Points
Papua New Guinea					2				2				−4
Samoa	1				1				2				−4
Fiji	1				3				1				−5
Tahiti	3				1		1		1				−9

See also

• Fiji at the OFC Nations Cup
• Papua New Guinea at the OFC Nations Cup
• Samoa at the OFC Nations Cup
• Tahiti at the OFC Nations Cup