# 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup final

The 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup final was a football match to determine the winners of 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup. The match was the tenth final of the OFC Nations Cup, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of Oceania Football Confederation to decide the champions of Oceania. The match was held at the VFF Freshwater Stadium in Port Vila, Vanuatu, on 30 June 2024 and was contested by the winners of the semi-finals.

## Venue

The final was held at the VFF Freshwater Stadium in Port Vila, Vanuatu. In December 2023, OFC announced the 2024 tournament would be held in Vanuatu. The VFF Freshwater Stadium was chosen as the final venue of the tournament along with the Group B matches, and the semi-finals.
The VFF Freshwater Stadium opened in 2022 thanks to financing by FIFA. The stadium was owned by the Vanuatu Football Federation. The Vanuatu national team also occasionally played its home matches at the stadium. The VFF Freshwater Stadium had also hosted other significant matches, including several matches in the 2023 OFC Champions League, which included the final between Auckland City and Suva.

## Route to the final

| New Zealand | New Zealand | Round | Vanuatu | Vanuatu |
| Opponent | Result | Group stage | Opponent | Result |
| New Caledonia | Cancelled | Match 1 | Solomon Islands | 1–0 |
| Solomon Islands | 3–0 | Match 2 | New Caledonia | Cancelled |
| Vanuatu | 4–0 | Match 3 | New Zealand | 0–4 |
| Opponent | Result | Knockout stage | Opponent | Result |
| Tahiti | 5–0 | Semi-finals | Fiji | 2–1 |

## Match
### Details

| New Zealand | Vanuatu |
| GK | 1 | Max Crocombe |
| RB | 2 | Sam Sutton | | 73' |
| CB | 5 | Finn Surman |
| CB | 4 | Tyler Bindon | 78' | 88' |
| LB | 13 | Liberato Cacace (c) |
| DM | 8 | Alex Rufer |
| RM | 11 | Elijah Just | | 81' |
| LM | 14 | Ben Old | | 88' |
| AM | 6 | Cameron Howieson |
| CF | 9 | Ben Waine | | 73' |
| CF | 7 | Kosta Barbarouses |
| Substitutions: ||
| DF | 5 | Tommy Smith | | 73' |
| FW | 25 | Jesse Randall | | 73' |
| FW | 17 | Alex Greive | | 81' |
| DF | 3 | Lukas Kelly-Heald | | 88' |
| FW | 21 | Max Mata | | 88' |
| Manager: ||
| Darren Bazeley ||
| GK | 1 | James Iamar |
| RB | 3 | Timothy Boulet | 8' 75' |
| CB | 6 | Jason Thomas |
| CB | 4 | Brian Kaltak (c) |
| LB | 11 | Tasso Jeffrey | | 65' |
| RM | 13 | Johnathan Spokeyjack |
| CM | 16 | John Alick | | 80' |
| CM | 5 | Jared Clark | 63' | 80' |
| LM | 15 | Godine Tenene |
| CF | 14 | John Wohale | 37' | 80' |
| CF | 9 | Alex Saniel | | 65' |
| Substitutions: ||
| DF | 17 | Kerry Iawak | | 65' |
| FW | 18 | Kensi Tangis | | 65' |
| MF | 8 | Claude Aru | | 80' |
| MF | 20 | Alick Worworbu | | 80' |
| FW | 21 | Joe Moses | | 80' |
| Manager: ||
| Juliano Schmeling ||
| Man of the Match: Liberato Cacace (New Zealand) Assistant referees: Folio Moeaki (Tonga) Malaetala Salanoa (Samoa) Fourth official: Veer Singh (Fiji) Fifth official: Avinesh Narayan (Fiji) | Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of twelve named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time. |