Melanesia Cup

The Melanesia Cup is a football (soccer) championship played between the Melanesian countries, it was used (along with the Polynesia Cup) for qualification to the Oceania Nations Cup. The last edition of the cup was in 2001. The tournament used a round-robin format involving every team playing each other once at the tournaments location.In 1994 Solomon Islands won the championship for the first and only time despite being stunned by Nauru 2-1 earlier in the year this was also the only international game Nauru have competed in.

In 2008, the Wantok Cup was established as a competition between Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It was described by the Oceania Football Confederation as "a tournament reminiscent of the now defunct Melanesian Cup".^[1]

Participants

•  Fiji
•  Papua New Guinea
•  New Caledonia
•  Solomon Islands
•  Vanuatu

Total wins

5	Fiji	1988, 1989, 1992, 1998, 2000
1	Vanuatu	1990
1	Solomon Islands	1994
1	Papua New Guinea	1996

Results

Year	Host	Winner	Runner-up	3rd Place	4th Place
1988 Details	Solomon Islands	Fiji	Solomon Islands	New Caledonia	Vanuatu
1989 Details	Fiji	Fiji	New Caledonia	Solomon Islands	Papua New Guinea
1990 Details	Vanuatu	Vanuatu	New Caledonia	Fiji	Solomon Islands
1992 Details	Vanuatu	Fiji	New Caledonia	Solomon Islands	Vanuatu
1994 Details	Solomon Islands	Solomon Islands	Fiji	Papua New Guinea	New Caledonia
1996 Details	Papua New Guinea	Papua New Guinea	Solomon Islands	Vanuatu
1998 Details	Vanuatu	Fiji	Vanuatu	Solomon Islands	Papua New Guinea
2000 Details	Fiji	Fiji	Solomon Islands	Vanuatu	New Caledonia

See also

• Polynesia Cup
• Wantok Cup

References

1. ^ "Wantok Cup Honiara 2008 - Solomon Islands name 64-man squad", Oceania Football Confederation, June 19, 2008