2017 OFC Champions League
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host countries |
Qualifying stage: TongaGroup stage:  New Caledonia New Zealand Tahiti
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| Dates |
Qualifying stage: 28 January – 3 February 2017 Competition proper: 25 February – 6 May 2017 |
| Teams |
Competition proper: 16 Total: 18 (from 11 associations) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 30 |
| Goals scored | 140 (4.67 per match) |
| Attendance | 17,550 (585 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
 Guilherme Guedes Tony Kaltack(5 goals each) |
The 2017 OFC Champions League is the 16th edition of the Oceanian Club Championship, Oceania's premier club football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), and the 11th season under the current OFC Champions League name.
The winners of the 2017 OFC Champions League will qualify as the OFC representative at the 2017 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. Auckland City are the six-time defending champions.
The OFC decided to expand the tournament and change the format for the 2017 edition:
A total of 18 teams from all 11 OFC member associations enter the competition.
The schedule of the competition is as follows.
The draw of the qualifying stage and group stage was held on 24 August 2016, 12:30 NZST (UTC+12), at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand.
For the qualifying stage, the four teams were drawn into each of the four positions 1–4 to determine the fixtures.
For the group stage, the 16 teams (14 teams which entered the group stage and two qualifiers from the qualifying stage) were drawn into four groups of four, with each group containing one team from each of the four pots 1–4, which also represented the positions in each group to determine the fixtures. Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group. The teams were seeded based on the following:
In the qualifying stage, the four teams played each other on a round-robin basis. The winner and runner-up advanced to the group stage to join the 14 direct entrants.
Matches took place between 28 January – 3 February 2017 in Tonga. All times were local, TOT (UTC+13).
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