page_title: 2019 Pacific Games
section_title: Second bidding process
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 Pacific Games / Bidding process / Second bidding process
caption_attribution_description: Apia Harbour View
context_page_description: The 2019 Pacific Games was the sixteenth edition of the Pacific Games. The Games were held in Apia, Samoa, returning there for the first time since 2007. It was the third time overall that the Pacific Games were held in Samoa.
  The event was initially awarded to Nukuʻalofa, Tonga, but the Tongan government officially withdrew from hosting it in May 2017, amid concerns the country could face economic difficulties if it proceeded.
  These Games included an additional discipline for basketball, which is the 3x3 format, as well as the return of archery and badminton which were not on the 2015 Pacific Games program.
context_section_description: Following the withdrawal of Tonga as hosts, the Pacific Games Council set a deadline date (31 July 2017) of interested countries that would be willing to replace Tonga. By the 31 July deadline, three countries expressed their interest in hosting the games. They are:
   Guam
   Samoa
   French Polynesia (Tahiti)
caption: Apia was selected as the host city of the 2019 Pacific Games
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