2015 Lovia-Pacific Cup

The 2015 Lovia-Pacific Cup is a beach soccer tournament that will take place in April-May 2015. The competition has been organized by the Lovia national beach soccer team and the Lovian Football Association.

Initially it was to feature a mixture of Pacific (OFC) and Caribbean (CONCACAF) teams, but this fell through, and the competition was created as the 2015 Lovia-Pacific Cup as a parallel to the OFC Beach Soccer Championship, which was cancelled for 2015. The organisers intend to have as many teams participate as possible, similarly to the 2012 Pacific Islands Cup for rugby sevens.

The tournament will be held in four venues: Noble City, Adoha, Sofasi and Portland.

Teams

The following teams will participate:

• American Samoa
• Cook Islands
• Fiji
• Guam
• Kiribati
• Lovia (hosts)
• Marshall Islands
• Mauritius (guest/invitee)
• Micronesia (Federated States of)
• Nauru
• Niue
• New Caledonia
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• Solomon Islands
• Tahiti
• Timor-Leste
• Tokelau
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu
• Wallis and Futuna

Squads

See 2015 Lovia-Pacific Cup/Squads.

Seeding

The 24 teams will be divided into four groups of six. Each group will contain 1 team from Pot 1, 1 team from Pot 2 and 4 from Pot 3. (Within each group, the schedule-slots are also randomized.)

• Pot 1
  • Lovia (assigned to A1)
  • Tahiti
  • Solomon Islands
  • New Caledonia
• Pot 2
  • Vanuatu
  • Fiji
  • Cook Islands
  • Mauritius
• Pot 3
  • American Samoa
  • Guam
  • Kiribati
  • Marshall Islands
  • Micronesia
  • Nauru
  • Niue
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Palau
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Samoa
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tonga
  • Tokelau
  • Tuvalu
  • Wallis and Futuna

Draw

The following groups were drawn:

• Group A
  • Lovia
  • Cook Islands
  • Wallis and Futuna
  • Tuvalu
  • Palau
  • Samoa
• Group B
  • Tahiti
  • Vanuatu
  • Tokelau
  • Niue
  • Kiribati
  • Micronesia
• Group C
  • Solomon Islands
  • Mauritius
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Guam
  • Nauru
  • Marshall Islands
• Group D
  • New Caledonia
  • Fiji
  • Tonga
  • Papua New Guinea
  • American Samoa
  • Timor-Leste