Melanesia Cup 1996

Melanesia Cup 1996

Tournament details
Host country	Papua New Guinea
Dates	16 September - 20 September
Teams	3 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	(in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Papua New Guinea (1st title)
Runners-up	Solomon Islands
Third place	Vanuatu
Tournament statistics
Matches played	3
Goals scored	7 (2.33 per match)

The Melanesia Cup 1996 was the sixth Melanesia-wide tournament ever held. It took place in Papua New Guinea and three teams participated: Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu and served for the first time as FIFA World Cup qualifier. Fiji and New Caledonia pulled out of the competition.

The teams played each other according to a round-robin format with  Papua New Guinea winning the tournament for the first time and qualifying to the next stage of the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC).

All matches played in Lae.

Results

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Papua New Guinea	2	1	1	0	3	2	4
Solomon Islands	2	0	2	0	2	2	2
Vanuatu	2	0	1	1	2	3	1

16 September 1996	Papua New Guinea	1 – 1	Solomon Islands	Lae, Papua New Guinea
	Richard Daniel		Eddie Rukumana

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18 September 1996	Solomon Islands	1 – 1	Vanuatu	Lae, Papua New Guinea
	Noel Berry		Iau Tuan Naukoot

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20 September 1996	Papua New Guinea	2 – 1	Vanuatu	Lae, Papua New Guinea
	Batman Furigi Roy Karang		Reginal Gare

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