Men in Black is Fijis top qualifier for OFC 2015 BA has been seeded as Fijis top qualifier for the 2015 Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) Champions League. This is despite the Men in Black finishing second to Suva during the Fiji Sun/Skipper Tuna National Football League this season. Fiji Football Association chief executive officer Bob Kumar clarified that Ba being a semi-finalist during the last OFC Champions League was seeded as Fiji 1 whilst Amicale being the finalist was seeded as leaders in Group C at the pool draws. Based on performances from representative clubs in the 2014 edition of the competition, the 12 teams were seeded for the draw, which was conducted in the presence of the OFC executive committee in New Zealand earlier this month. According to the draw procedure outlined by the OFC competitions department, the teams ranked 1-3 were seeded into Groups A, B and C respectively in position 1. Teams ranked 4-6 were drawn by lots in the following order; Group A-position 2, Group B- position 2, Group C-position 2. The same rule applied for positions 3 and 4 in each group with position 3 filled by teams ranked 7-9 and position 4 by teams ranked 10-12. Redrawing of lots only occurred in the case where two teams from the same national association were drawn in the same group. The Men in Black are in Group A with the Tahiti champions, New Caledonian champions and Ole Soaga of Samoa. Suva is in Group B with the New Zealand champions, the Solomon Island champions and the second placed team from the Vanuatu national league. Group C has Amicale, Papua New Guinea champions and the second placed teams from New Zealand and Tahiti. Fiji is set to host the event in 2015 with matches to be split between Govind Park in Ba and ANZ Stadium in Suva in April. Matches will be played on a round robin basis. The teams finishing first in the group and the next best runner-up will contest the semi-finals. The winner of each semi-final will progress to the 2015 OFC Champions League final. Source: fijitimes
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 05:10:37 +0000
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