2020 OFC Champions League

2020 OFC Champions League
Tournament details
Host countriesQualifying stage:
New Zealand
Group stage:
Papua New Guinea
Vanuatu
New Caledonia
Tahiti
DatesQualifying stage:
25–31 January 2020
Group stage:
15 February – 7 March 2020
Knockout stage:
Cancelled (originally 4 April – 16 May 2020)
TeamsCompetition proper: 16
Total: 18 (from 11 associations)
Final positions
ChampionsNot awarded
Tournament statistics
Matches played24
Goals scored92 (3.83 per match)
Attendance27,400 (1,142 per match)
Top scorer(s)Uruguay Martín Bueno (6 goals)
2019
2021
2022

The 2020 OFC Champions League was the 19th edition of the Oceanian Club Championship, Oceania's premier club football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), and the 14th season under the current OFC Champions League name.

The tournament was suspended in March 2020 after the group stage due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 4 September 2020, the OFC announced that the tournament was abandoned due to the border and travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and no champions would be awarded.[1] The OFC representative at the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar, which would originally be the winners of the 2020 OFC Champions League, was confirmed to be Auckland City on 19 November 2020 following a decision by the OFC Executive Committee, based on the principles within the competition regulations of the OFC Champions League which established a ranking of each team after the group stage, which was topped by Auckland City.[2] However, on 15 January 2021, FIFA announced that Auckland City had withdrawn from the competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related quarantine measures required by the New Zealand authorities,[3] meaning that no OFC representatives competed in the tournament.

Hienghène Sport were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the group stage.

  1. ^ "OFC Champions League 2020 cancelled". Oceania Football Confederation. 4 September 2020.
  2. ^ "Auckland City nominated for CWC". Oceania Football Confederation. 19 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Auckland City FC withdraw from FIFA Club World Cup". FIFA.com. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 15 January 2021.