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| Organiser(s) | OFC |
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| Founded | 1987; 38 years ago (1987) (rebranded in 2007) |
| Region | Oceania |
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| Qualifier for | FIFA Club World Cup FIFA Intercontinental Cup |
| Current champions |  Auckland City(13th title) |
| Most championships | Auckland City (13 titles) |
| Broadcaster | FIFA+ (live streaming) |
| Website | oceaniafootball.com/ofcchampionsleague |
 2025 OFC Men's Champions League | |
TheOFC Men's Champions League is the premier men's clubfootball competition inOceania. It is organised by theOFC, Oceania's football governing body. Beginning as theOceania Club Championship (1987–2006), it has been organised since 2007 under its current format.
The first four Club Championship titles were won by Australian clubs. Since 2006, when Australia left the OFC, 16 OFC titles have been won by clubs fromNew Zealand, one by aPapua New Guinean club and one by aNew Caledonian club.
Trophies for OFC tournament winners are made by London-based silversmithsThomas Lyte.[1]
The winning club used to qualify for theFIFA Intercontinental Cup, entering at the African–Asian–Pacific Cup play-off stage. Additionally, the best-ranked champion in a 4-year period,Auckland City FC, qualified for the2025 edition of theFIFA Club World Cup. Qualifications for those tournaments are now handled by theOFC Professional League.[2]
| Season | Winners | |
|---|---|---|
| Oceania Club Championship | ||
| 1987 |  Adelaide City | |
| 1988–1998: Not held | ||
| 1999 | South Melbourne | |
| 2000: Not held | ||
| 2001 | Wollongong Wolves | |
| 2002–2004: Not held | ||
| 2005 | Sydney FC | |
| 2006 | Auckland City | |
| OFC Champions League | ||
| 2007 | Waitakere United | |
| 2007–08 | Waitakere United (2) | |
| 2008–09 | Auckland City (2) | |
| 2009–10 |  Hekari United | |
| 2010–11 | Auckland City (3) | |
| 2011–12 | Auckland City (4) | |
| 2012–13 | Auckland City (5) | |
| 2013–14 | Auckland City (6) | |
| 2014–15 | Auckland City (7) | |
| 2016 | Auckland City (8) | |
| 2017 | Auckland City (9) | |
| 2018 | Team Wellington | |
| 2019 |  Hienghène Sport | |
| 2020–2021: Not held | ||
| 2022 | Auckland City (10) | |
| 2023 | Auckland City (11) | |
| 2024 | Auckland City (12) | |
| 2025 | Auckland City (13) | |
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The Oceania Club Championship was played in one or two venues, in one host country. There were two or three groups with single round-robin format, semi-finals and final. The tournament usually lasted about ten days, with matches being played every two days.
At first, this competition was played as a single play-off match between champions of New Zealand and Australia. That competition was held in 1987 andAdelaide City won the inaugural season. Then a twelve year pause came, until the OFC organised the next, all-Oceania Cup. In January 1999, the Oceania Club Championship was held in the Fijian cities ofNadi andLautoka. Nine teams took part, with Australian sideSouth Melbourne winning the trophy. They also qualified for the following year'sFIFA Club World Cup.
The next competition was held two years later, with an Australian team again winning the title.Wollongong Wolves won it, beating Vanuatu representativeTafea in the final. Two more editions were held under this name and format, withSydney andAuckland City winning titles. Sydney could not defend its title in 2006 as Australia left the OFC that year to join the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The main reasons were to face stronger competition, improve player development, and have a more reliable path to World Cup qualification, as Australia often dominated OFC teams but then struggled in intercontinental play-offs to qualify for the World Cup.
For 2007 OFC decided to change the competition format and name, to being known as the OFC Champions League until 2024.
The OFC decided to change competition format, to make its main competition more interesting and more important to competing clubs.
The first two seasons saw competition with two groups of three teams each, and from the third edition onwards it consists of two groups of four teams each. Group winners progress to the final, played in double playoff format, with the winner taking the title. Unlike its previous format, the OFC Champions League lasts more than a half year, starting in October and ending the following April. The OFC Champions League qualifies toFIFA Club World Cup, entering the competition in the playoff round.
For the2012–13 season the OFC Champions League changed its format with the introduction of qualifying stage, with the champions of the four weakest leagues competing for a play-off spot with the representative of country with the worst record from the previous tournament. Later rather were also scheduling and format changes for the main tournament. That competition was played between March and May 2013 with introduction of semifinal stage and final played on neutral venue. The first OFC Champions League single leg final was played inAuckland, and was the first OFC Champions League final between two teams from the same country, withAuckland City defeatingWaitakere United to win its 5th title.
The OFC Champions League saw another change for2013–14 season, with the group stage played in a pre-determined location and the semifinals and final played on a home-and-away basis.Fiji was selected as host. The Preliminary stage was played six months before the group stage, and the winner entered the group stage.
In 2014, both finalists of the OFC Champions League participated in theOFC President's Cup, an invitational tournament organised by the OFC. However, President's Cup was held only once.
In the2014–15 season, the tournament was sponsored byFiji Airways and renamed theFiji Airways OFC Champions League for that season.[3]
Another format change came in2017 when the group stage was expanded to 16 teams, with the whole competition being played in one year (preliminary stage followed by group stage and later knock-out stage). Each of four groups was hosted by one of the teams from the group, meaning more countries and teams were included. Group winners qualified for the semi-finals. The semi-finals and final were both played on a home-and-away basis. Following the success of the 2017 season, the OFC added a quarter-final round for the2018 edition, meaning that the top two teams from each group qualified for the knockout stage.
The2019 final between New Caledonian sidesHienghène Sport andAS Magenta marked the first time since2005 that there was no side from New Zealand qualified for the title-deciding tie.
In 2024, the competition was renamed from OFC Champions League to OFC Men's Champions League.
Since 2024, due to FIFA's restructuring of its club competitions, the winners of the OFC Men's Champions League of each year qualify to the newFIFA Intercontinental Cup, entering at the African–Asian–Pacific Cup play-off stage. Additionally, with the introduction of the newFIFA Club World Cup, the best-ranked club among the champions in the 4-year period before the competition will gain a spot in the group stage. Auckland City FC were OFC's first participants in the inaugural edition in2025.
The OFC Men's Champions League currently features eight teams split into two groups of four, with each team playing the others in their group once. The top two teams from each group advance to the knockout stage, starting with the semi-finals.
The number of teams that each federation enters into the OFC Champions League is based on the federations development criteria before the OFC, where the developed associations receive two places, which are Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tahiti and Vanuatu, and those considered developing associations receive a single place, where the associations are American Samoa, Cook Islands, Samoa and Tonga.
The current qualifying format for the group stage is determined by the two classifieds of the developed associations playing home and away games calledNational play-offs, while the teams from the developing associations play against each other in round-robin regime in a centralized location, where the best-scoring team qualifies for the group stage.
From the 2024 season, all games are live streamed onFIFA+.[4][5]
| † | Match was won duringextra time |
| * | Match was won on apenalty shoot-out |
| & | Finals decided onaway goals |
| Club | Title(s) | Runners-up | Seasons won | Seasons runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auckland City | 13 | — | 2006,2009,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2022,2023,2024,2025 | — |
| Waitakere United | 2 | 2 | 2007,2008 | 2010,2013 |
| Team Wellington | 1 | 3 | 2018 | 2015,2016,2017 |
| Hekari United | 1 | 1 | 2010 | 2025 |
| Adelaide City | 1 | — | 1987 | — |
| South Melbourne | 1 | — | 1999 | — |
| Wollongong Wolves | 1 | — | 2001 | — |
| Sydney FC | 1 | — | 2005 | — |
| Hienghène Sport | 1 | — | 2019 | — |
 Pirae | — | 2 | — | 2006,2024 |
| Magenta | — | 2 | — | 2005,2019 |
 Amicale | — | 2 | — | 2011,2014 |
| Uni-Mount Bohemian | — | 1 | — | 1987 |
 Nadi | — | 1 | — | 1999 |
| Tafea | — | 1 | — | 2001 |
| Ba | — | 1 | — | 2007 |
 Kossa | — | 1 | — | 2008 |
| Koloale | — | 1 | — | 2009 |
| Tefana | — | 1 | — | 2012 |
| Lautoka | — | 1 | — | 2018 |
| Vénus | — | 1 | — | 2022 |
| Suva | — | 1 | — | 2023 |
| Nation | Winners | Runners-up | Winning clubs | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | 16 | 6 | Auckland City (13) Waitakere United (2) Team Wellington (1) | Waitakere United (2) Team Wellington (3) Uni-Mount Bohemian (1) |
| Australia[a] | 4 | 0 | Adelaide City (1) South Melbourne (1) Wollongong Wolves (1) Sydney FC (1) | — |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 2 | Hienghène Sport (1) | AS Magenta (2) |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1 | Hekari United (1) | Hekari United (1) |
| Fiji | 0 | 4 | — | Nadi (1) Ba (1) Lautoka (1) Suva (1) |
| Tahiti | 0 | 4 | — | AS Pirae (2) AS Tefana (1) AS Vénus (1) |
| Vanuatu | 0 | 3 | — | Amicale (2) Tafea (1) |
| Solomon Islands | 0 | 2 | — | Kossa (1) Koloale (1) |
| Nation | Titles | Runners-up | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | 16 | 6 | 22 |
| Australia[a] | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Fiji | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Tahiti | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Vanuatu | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Solomon Islands | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Best Finish | Winner | Runners-up | Semi-finals | Quarter-finals |
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auckland City (20) | 115 | 85 | 21 | 9 | 333 | 82 | +251 | 276 |
| 2 | Waitakere United (8) | 49 | 26 | 12 | 11 | 99 | 47 | +52 | 90 |
| 3 | Hekari United (13) | 58 | 26 | 11 | 21 | 103 | 76 | +27 | 89 |
| 4 | Magenta (11) | 50 | 25 | 10 | 15 | 110 | 63 | +47 | 85 |
| 5 | Ba (13) | 55 | 24 | 7 | 24 | 79 | 90 | −11 | 79 |
| 6 | Tafea (9) | 38 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 97 | 64 | +33 | 62 |
| 7 | Team Wellington (5) | 27 | 19 | 4 | 4 | 94 | 26 | +68 | 61 |
| 8 | AS Pirae (8) | 35 | 17 | 6 | 12 | 85 | 58 | +27 | 57 |
| 9 |  Tupapa Maraerenga (10) | 38 | 17 | 4 | 17 | 110 | 116 | −6 | 55 |
| 10 | Amicale (6) | 35 | 16 | 5 | 14 | 50 | 40 | +10 | 53 |
| Rank | Club | Years | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | RU | SF | QF | 16 | GS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auckland City | 20 | 112 | 83 | 20 | 9 | 326 | 81 | +245 | 321 | 13 | 2 | 4 |
* Number in parentheses show number of participations. In silver, defunct teams.
| # | League | Teams Apps | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | RU | SF | QF | 16 | GS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Zealand National League | 40 | 193 | 128 | 37 | 28 | 557 | 165 | +392 | 421 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 8 |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Zealand | 193 | 128 | 37 | 28 | 557 | 165 | +392 | 421 |
| 2 | Fiji | 119 | 47 | 16 | 56 | 187 | 242 | −55 | 157 |
| 3 | Vanuatu | 109 | 44 | 22 | 43 | 205 | 188 | +17 | 154 |
| 4 | New Caledonia | 97 | 38 | 16 | 43 | 178 | 187 | −9 | 130 |
| 5 | Tahiti | 108 | 38 | 15 | 55 | 224 | 221 | +3 | 129 |
| 6 | Solomon Islands | 102 | 36 | 18 | 48 | 203 | 225 | −22 | 126 |
| 7 | Papua New Guinea | 89 | 28 | 14 | 47 | 143 | 239 | −96 | 98 |
| 8 |  Samoa | 54 | 19 | 4 | 31 | 112 | 176 | −64 | 61 |
| 9 | Cook Islands | 44 | 16 | 5 | 23 | 99 | 128 | −29 | 53 |
| 10 | Australia[b] | 17 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 9 | +81 | 49 |
| 11 |  Tonga | 34 | 6 | 5 | 23 | 46 | 153 | −107 | 23 |
| 12 |  American Samoa | 22 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 25 | 128 | −103 | 5 |
| 13 |  Palau[c] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 |
The OFC Professional League will become the qualifying pathway for Oceania's representative at the FIFA Intercontinental Cup and the newly formatted, quadrennial FIFA Club World Cup 2029
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