Tournament details | |
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Dates | 1–8 May 2012 (preliminary stage) 30 March – 19 May 2013 (final stage) |
Teams | 8 (final stage) 12 (total) (from 11 associations) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Auckland City (5th title) |
Runners-up | Waitakere United |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 36 |
Goals scored | 132 (3.67 per match) |
Top scorer(s) |
Sanni Issa (9 goals) |
Best player | Sanni Issa |
Best goalkeeper | Danny Robinson |
The 2012–13 OFC Champions League was the 12th edition of the Oceanian Club Championship, Oceania's premier club football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), and the 7th season under the current OFC Champions League name.
Auckland City became the first team to win three consecutive title after defeating Waitakere United in an all-New Zealand final. As the winner of the 2013 OFC Champions League, they earned the right to represent the OFC at the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup.
The OFC decided on the following format changes for the 2013 edition:
The following teams entered the competition.
The schedule of the competition was as follows.
Matches played in Tahiti are one day behind the other countries in global time as Tahiti is on the other side of the International Date Line.
The preliminary stage matches were played in Tonga from 1 May to 8 May 2012.
In the preliminary round, the four teams played each other on a round-robin basis. The group winner advanced to the play-off round.