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)
← 1966 1971 →

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. ^[1]

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 [2]  • 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

14 August 1969

Fiji	5–1	Solomon Islands

Germania Club, Port Moresby

14 August 1969

Tahiti	3–3	New Hebrides

Germania Club, Port Moresby

14 August 1969

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

Germania Club, Port Moresby

Round 2

15 August 1969

Solomon Islands	1–1	New Caledonia

Germania Club, Port Moresby

15 August 1969

Fiji	5–2	New Hebrides

Germania Club, Port Moresby

15 August 1969

Tahiti	3–1	Papua New Guinea

Germania Club, Port Moresby

Round 3

16 August 1969

New Caledonia	2–0	New Hebrides

Germania Club, Port Moresby

16 August 1969

Papua New Guinea	4–0	Solomon Islands

Germania Club, Port Moresby

16 August 1969

Tahiti	2–0	Fiji

Germania Club, Port Moresby

Round 4

18 August 1969

New Caledonia	11–0	Fiji

Germania Club, Port Moresby

18 August 1969

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

Germania Club, Port Moresby

18 August 1969

Tahiti	7–0	Solomon Islands

Germania Club, Port Moresby

Round 5

20 August 1969

Solomon Islands	7–2	New Hebrides

Germania Club, Port Moresby

20 August 1969

Papua New Guinea	1–1	Fiji

Germania Club, Port Moresby

20 August 1969

New Caledonia	w/o*	Tahiti

Germania Club, Port Moresby

* 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

22 August 1969

Papua New Guinea	2–1	Fiji
Jojoga		?

National Stadium, Port Moresby

Gold medal match

22 August 1969

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

National Stadium, Port Moresby

1969 South Pacific Games winners
New Caledonia Second title

Sources