City to confirm pool

LAE City will know which pool they are in when the draw for the Oceania Football Confederation Champions League takes place on Thursday.
All eight teams for the Champions League have now been confirmed following Saturday’s Papua New Guinea playoff in Port Moresby.
Confederation competitions director Chris Kemp will conduct the draw alongside Solomon Islands legend Henry Fa’arodo, who won the tournament in 2010 with PNG’s Hekari United.
Fiji’s Rewa, Solomon Islands’ Central Coast, Tahiti’s AS Vénus and Vanuatu’s Galaxy all qualified via their national playoffs, as did the most recent Champions League victors, 2019 champions Hienghène Sport, of New Caledonia.
According to the confederation, there is no seeding system for this edition of the Champions League, so each team will be drawn from a single pot of eight teams.
Teams will be drawn into two groups of four.
Teams drawn from the pot will be allocated to groups sequentially, the first team drawn going into Group A, the second into Group B, third into Group A and so on until and all eight sides have been drawn. Nikao Sokattak, from the Cook Islands, have been nominated to attend the tournament based on sporting merit, after ongoing travel restrictions and logistical challenges forced the cancellation of the tournament’s qualifying stage.
Auckland City round out the eight teams participating.
The nine-time winners have been nominated by their respective member association to represent New Zealand as 2020–21 New Zealand Football Championship regular season winners.
Confirmed dates and locations for the Champions League will be announced at a later date.
Meanwhile, defender and national men’s team skipper Alwin Komolong is calling on support from the country’s football fraternity for the Lae Biscuit Company-sponsored side’s Champions League campaign.
“Please get behind us,” he told The National.
“We can be from different clubs, but at the end of the day, we are all from Papua New Guinea.
“We all want PNG soccer to do well.
“We’ll be playing for everyone back home, including the city of Lae,” Komolong said after his side secured their spot.