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![[The flag of Oceania Football Confederation]](../images/i/int@ofc11.gif)
image by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 1 March 2011
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And so it was in 1966, that FIFA formally approved our proposal and the Oceania Football Confederation was officially born. We had been recognised as a confederation but we were still voiceless - not having representation on either the FIFA executive committee or any of the other committees. But the point was Oceania was born!
The founding members of the OFC were Australia, Fiji, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. (New Caledonia were involved and were very supportive but at this date they are provisional members not having sports autonomy from France.) The OFC's first-ever congress was held two years later and the delegates - responding, to the proposal by both Australia and New Zealand - agreed that Sir William Walkley and Ian McAndrew be appointed chairman and secretary/treasurer respectively. Both were from Australia.
Sir William's fine opening remarks at the 1968 congress called on "all nations (to) work together for the development of football in the South Pacific". His words were true then and remain true today.
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The current OFC football association members are:
Codes from FIFA OFC Full members (11) Country ABREVIATION FIFA MEMBER FOUNDED ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AMERICAN SAMOA ASA 1998 1984 AUSTRALIA AUS 1963 1961 COOK ISLANDS COK 1994 1971 FIJI FIJ 1963 1938 NEW CALEDONIA NCL 2004 1928 NEW ZEALAND NZL 1948 1891 PAPUA NEW GUINEA PNG 1963 1962 SAMOA SAM 1986 1968 SOLOMON ISLANDS SOL 1988 1978 TAHITI (FRENCH POLYNESIA) TAH 1990 1989 TONGA TGA 1994 1965 VANUATU VAN 1988 1946 OFC Associate members (2) Country ABREVIATION FIFA MEMBER FOUNDED ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kiribati KIR N/A 1980 Tuvalu TUV N/A 1979
The OFC used a white flag with the logo in the center.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, March 6, 2003.
Current OFC emblem
On Wednesday January 19, 2011, the OFC, the umbrella football body for the South
Pacific and a FIFA member confederation adopted a new logo.
http://www.oceaniafootball.com/ofc/News/ViewArticle/tabid/125/Article/88503eb4-c76e-4e9e-96a4-60daf8ade5ae/language/en-US/Default.aspx
The flags was first hoist in the U-17 Championships in New Zealands, just to
be flown again in Tahiti during the continental Beach tournament in which Tahiti
earned a place in the World Cup, the second world appearance for the archipelago
after the U-20 World Cup in Egypt in 2009.
The logo is taken from:
http://210.48.80.94/OFC/Portals/0/Images/Articles/OFC%20BRAND.pdf
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 1 March 2011
The 61st FIFA congress was held at Hellenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland on 31
May - 01 June 2011 (www.fifa.com).
Flags of the 208 member associations plus those of FIFA six continental
confederations, International Olympic Committee,
United Nations and FIFA itself
were hoisted on the ceiling of Hellenstadion convention center.
Out of the photo gallery published by FIFA in its official website, I share the
following notes:
- Chinese Taipei flag was a blue one with old
association's emblem: plum blosoom with sun, ying-yang and footballs.
- The Curazao flag (blue with yellow stripe and white stars) is already hoisted,
there is no flag for the defunc Netherlands Antilles.
- The Somalia flag was hoisted upside-down, e.g. downwar five-pointed star.
- The OFC flag is white withe the new emblem and abbreviation.
- The AFC flag is white.
- The UEFA flag is blue with the confederation's emblem
- The CONCACAF is white.
- The CAF flag bears the new logo on white background.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 04 June 2011
Previous Flag and OFC emblem
![[The flag of Oceania Football Confederation]](../images/i/int@ofc.gif)
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, March 6, 2003.
Emblem by Antoni Mysona, from High Quality Football Logos.
The previous emblem consists on circular field bearing of the upper half a green palm-tree over a rising-sun
bellow a constellation of 10 (ten) white five-pointed stars. The lower half bears the half of a football ball
above the body's name in black capital letters.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, March 6, 2003.
Old OFC emblem
![[The flag of Oceania Football Confederation with the old emblem]](../images/i/i@ofc_o.gif)
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, March 6, 2003.
Emblem by Jaroslav Rapcan, from High Quality Football Logos.
The oldest OFC emblem was a circular depiction on blue of a seascape: palm-trees, sunset, sea and beach.
With the text OCEANIA in the upper semicircle and the body's abbreviation (O.F.C.) on the lower one.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, March 6, 2003.
![[The flag of OFC Oceania Nations Cup]](../images/i/int@onc.gif)
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, March 6, 2003.
Just like the other continental football confederations, the OFC organizes every two years an international competition named OFC Nations Cup on which took part the 11 (eleven) OFC members and New Caledonia.
There is a special flag for the tournament, consisting on the emblem on a green field.
The emblem is a depiction of a white-blue football ball
with sun-glasses and smiling mouth, and the tournament's name on black.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, March 6, 2003.
In the past preliminary competition qualifying for the final tournament held in Apia, Samoa, was seen a
variant of the OFC Nations Cup's flag. In the case the ball of the emblem was not white but green.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, March 6, 2003.
![[The flag of OFC Nations Cup - variant]](../images/i/i@onc-a.gif)
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, March 6, 2003.