Biography

At the end of each OFC Nations Cup final tournament, several awards are presented to the players and teams which have distinguished themselves in various aspects of the match.

Awards

There are currently four post-tournament awards

• the Best Player for most valuable player;
• the Top Goalscorer for most prolific goal scorer;
• the Best Goalkeeper for most outstanding goalkeeper;
• the Fair Play Award for the team with the best record of fair play.

Best Player

Year	Host	Best Player	Ref.
2012	Solomon Islands	Nicolas Vallar	[1]
2016	Papua New Guinea	David Muta

Top Goalscorer

Year	Host	Top scorer(s)	Goals
1973	New Zealand	Segin Wayewol Alan Marley	3
1980	New Caledonia	Ian Hunter Eddie Krncevic	5
1996	No fixed host	Kris Trajanovski	7
1998	Australia	Damian Mori	10
2000	Tahiti	Craig Foster Clayton Zane	5
2002	New Zealand	Joel Porter	6
2004	Australia	Tim Cahill Vaughan Coveny	6
2008	No fixed host	Shane Smeltz	8
2012	Solomon Islands	Jacques Haeko	6
2016	Papua New Guinea	Raymond Gunemba	5

Best Goalkeeper

Year	Host	Best Goalkeeper
2012	Solomon Islands	Rocky Nyikeine
2016	Papua New Guinea	Stefan Marinovic

Fair Play Award

Year	Host	Winner
2012	Solomon Islands	Solomon Islands
2016	Papua New Guinea	New Caledonia

See also

• FIFA World Cup awards
• UEFA European Championship awards
• Copa América awards
• Africa Cup of Nations awards
• AFC Asian Cup awards
• CONCACAF Gold Cup awards

References