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Football at the 1969 South Pacific Games

Tournament details
Host country	Papua New Guinea
Dates	14–22 August
Teams	6 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	New Caledonia (2nd title)
Runners-up	Tahiti
Third place	Papua New Guinea
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	77 (4.81 per match)
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The 1969 South Pacific Games was the third games where football was played. The tournament was held at Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea during August 1969. In the final, New Caledonia scored in the 88th minute to defeat Tahiti 2–1 and claim the gold medal.

Round robin stage

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
New Caledonia	9	5	4	1	0	18	2	+16
Tahiti	7	5	3	1	1	15	4	+11
Papua New Guinea	5	5	2	1	2	9	9	0
Fiji	5	5	2	1	2	11	17	–6
Solomon Islands	3	5	1	1	3	9	19	–10
New Hebrides	1	5	0	1	4	8	19	–11
Correct as at: 20 August 1969 Source: rsssf.com  • Teams ranked 1st and 2nd (Green background) met in the Gold final.  • Teams ranked 3rd and 4th (Blue background) met in the Bronze final.

Round 1

Fiji	5–1	Solomon Islands

Tahiti	3–3	New Hebrides

New Caledonia	4–1	Papua New Guinea
Poithily 50' Zeoula 53', 80' Delmas 56'		Kumalau 29'

Round 2

Solomon Islands	1–1	New Caledonia

Fiji	5–2	New Hebrides

Tahiti	3–1	Papua New Guinea

Round 3

New Caledonia	2–0	New Hebrides

Papua New Guinea	4–0	Solomon Islands

Tahiti	2–0	Fiji

Round 4

New Caledonia	11–0	Fiji

Papua New Guinea	2–1	New Hebrides
Kau 20' Raka 90'		? 41'

Tahiti	7–0	Solomon Islands

Round 5

Solomon Islands	7–2	New Hebrides

Papua New Guinea	1–1	Fiji

New Caledonia	w/o*	Tahiti

* Note: French Polynesia (Tahiti) forfeited the match as they were unable to field a team due to injuries to 11 of their 19-man squad.

Bronze medal match

Papua New Guinea	2–1	Fiji
Jojoga		?

Gold medal match

New Caledonia	2–1	Tahiti
Teamboueon 50' Fi 88'		Cholita 32'

1969 South Pacific Games winners
New Caledonia Second title

Sources

1. "Pipes and a song end games". The Canberra Times. 25 August 1969. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
2. "South Pacific Games 1969 (Papua New Guinea)". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 1969. Retrieved 16 May 2015.

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