Tourney Name: | OFC Champions League |
Year: | 2018 |
Country: | Qualifying stage: American Samoa |
Country2: | Group stage: Vanuatu Tahiti New Zealand Solomon Islands |
Dates: | Qualifying stage: Competition proper: |
Num Teams: | Competition proper: 16 Total: 18 |
Associations: | 11 |
Champion Other: | Team Wellington |
Count: | 1 |
Second Other: | Lautoka |
Matches: | 40 |
Goals: | 177 |
Player: | Roy Kayara |
Goalkeeper: | Eñaut Zubikarai |
Fair Play: | Auckland City |
Prevseason: | 2017 |
Nextseason: | 2019 |
The 2018 OFC Champions League was the 17th edition of the Oceanian Club Championship, Oceania's premier club football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and the 12th season under the current OFC Champions League name.
In the final, Team Wellington defeated Lautoka 10–3 on aggregate and qualified as the OFC representative at the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. Auckland City are the defending champions, having won the last seven titles straight, but they were eliminated in the semi-finals.
For this season, the top two teams of each group (instead of only the group winners) in the group stage advanced to the knockout stage, which included a quarter-final round played as a single match hosted by the group winners.[1]
A total of 18 teams from all 11 OFC member associations enter the competition.
width=150 | Association | width=150 | Team | width=500 | Qualifying method |
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Fiji | Lautoka | 2017 Fiji Premier League champions | |||
Ba | 2017 Fiji Premier League runners-up | ||||
New Caledonia | Magenta | 2016 New Caledonia Super Ligue champions | |||
Lössi | 2016 New Caledonia Super Ligue runners-up | ||||
New Zealand | Team Wellington | 2016–17 New Zealand Football Championship finals series champions | |||
Auckland City | 2016–17 New Zealand Football Championship regular season premiers | ||||
Papua New Guinea | Toti City | 2017 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League regular season premiers | |||
Madang | 2017 Papua New Guinea National Soccer League regular season runners-up | ||||
Solomon Islands | Solomon Warriors | 2017–18 Solomon Islands S-League champions | |||
Marist | 2017–18 Solomon Islands S-League runners-up | ||||
Tahiti | Dragon | 2016–17 Tahiti Ligue 1 champions | |||
Vénus | 2016–17 Tahiti Ligue 1 runners-up | ||||
Vanuatu | Nalkutan | 2016–17 VFF National Super League grand final champions | |||
Erakor Golden Star | 2016–17 VFF National Super League grand final runners-up |
width=150 | Association | width=150 | Team | width=500 | Qualifying method |
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American Samoa | Pago Youth | 2016 FFAS Senior League champions | |||
Cook Islands | Tupapa Maraerenga | 2017 Cook Islands Round Cup champions | |||
Samoa | Lupe o le Soaga | 2017 Samoa National League champions | |||
Tonga | Veitongo | 2017 Tonga Major League champions |
The schedule of the competition is as follows.[2] [3] [4]
Stage | Draw date | Match dates |
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Qualifying stage | 15 September 2017 (Auckland, New Zealand) | 20–26 January 2018 |
Group stage |
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Quarter-finals | 5 March 2018 (Auckland, New Zealand) | 7–8 April 2018 |
Semi-finals |
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Final |
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See main article: article and 2018 OFC Champions League qualifying stage.
See main article: article and 2018 OFC Champions League group stage.
See main article: article and 2018 OFC Champions League knockout stage.
Rank | Player | Team |    |    |    | Total | ||||||||
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1 | Angus Kilkolly | Team Wellington | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||||||
Emiliano Tade | Auckland City | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
2 | Ross Allen | Team Wellington | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |||||||
Sean Latimer | Tupapa Maraerenga | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
4 | Suivai Ataga | Lupe o le Soaga | 5 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||
Maro Bonsu-Maro | Tupapa Maraerenga | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
7 | Tamatoa Tetauira | Dragon | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
8 | Raymond Gunemba | Toti City | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
Nathanael Hailemariam | Team Wellington | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
Azariah Soromon | Nalkutan | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
Lapalapa Toni | Lupe o le Soaga | 2 | 1 | 1 |
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.[5]
Award | Player | Team | |
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Golden Ball | Roy Kayara | Team Wellington | |
Golden Boot | Angus Kilkolly | Team Wellington | |
Golden Glove | Eñaut Zubikarai | Auckland City | |
Fair Play Award | — | Auckland City |