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Oceania Football Conference
(OFC)
Homepage: http://www.oceaniafootball.com/
History:
OFC has been representing
the soccer region of Australia, New Zealand
and South Pacific island nations since it
was founded in 1966. Discussions leading
to the creation of OFC started during the
1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and resulted
from the Asian Football Confederation's
refusal to accept either Australia or New
Zealand for membership.
It took 24 years for FIFA
to upgrade Oceania's status to that of a
'geographical entity', in preparation for
a six-year trial period to determine whether
the body merited confirmation as a full
confederation. Finally, in 1996, FIFA put
forward a motion to accept OFC as a full
confederation at the FIFA Congress in Zurich.
To date, OFC’s
membership includes American Samoa, Australia,
Cook Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand,
Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands,
Tahiti, Tonga, and Vanuatu. OFC is based
in Auckland, New Zealand and is headed by
New Zealander president Charles Dembsey
and New Zealander general secretary Josephine
King.
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