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2014 Qualification

Seeding

• Fourteen team entered the tournament.
• Out of those fourteen, eleven are full members of the OFC.
• Vanuatu qualified automatically as hosts (ranked 190th in the world).
• The remaining thirteen teams were separated into pots for the draw, depending on their world ranking.
• Pot 1 had the top four ranked teams entering qualifying. Pots 2 and 3 both had three ranked teams each, and Pot 4 had the three unranked teams, who are not full members of the OFC or FIFA.
• The world ranking (June 2014) of each team is shown in brackets.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4 (Non-members)
New Zealand (97) New Caledonia (140) Tahiti (161) Solomon Islands (180)	Fiji (188) Samoa (189) Tonga (192)	Papua New Guinea (196) American Samoa (198) Cook Islands (205)	Kiribati (N/A) Niue (N/A) Tuvalu (N/A)

Group Stage

• The teams are split into four groups (one of four teams and three of three).
• Each team will play the others twice (home and away).
• The first place team from each group qualifies for the tournament, joining Vanuatu.
• The second placed team of each group will enter a play-off round with one of the other second placed teams. The winners of the play-offs then also qualify for the tournament.

Legend
Team qualifies for the tournament
Team qualifies for the play-off round
Team does not qualify

Group A

• Group A will have four teams (one from each of the four pots).
• The second placed team from Group A will enter a play-off with the second placed team from Group C.

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Week 1

Tahiti	7-0	American Samoa

Papeete, Tahiti

Week 1

Tonga	3-3	Niue

Nukuʻalofa, Tonga

Week 2

Tonga	1-0	Tahiti

Nukuʻalofa, Tonga

Week 2

Niue	4-4	American Samoa

Alofi, Niue

Week 3

Tahiti	8-1	Niue

Papeete, Tahiti

Week 3

American Samoa	1-0	Tonga

Pago Pago, American Samoa

Week 4

American Samoa	2-3	Tahiti

Pago Pago, American Samoa

Week 4

Niue	0-0	Tonga

Alofi, Niue

Week 5

Tahiti	2-2	Tonga

Papeete, Tahiti

Week 5

American Samoa	0-1	Niue

Pago Pago, American Samoa

Week 6

Niue	0-17	Tahiti

Alofi, Niue

Week 6

Tonga	5-3	American Samoa

Nukuʻalofa, Tonga

Group B

• Group B will have three teams (one from pots 1, 2 and 3 - but none from pot 4).
• The second placed team from Group B will enter a play-off with the second placed team from Group D.

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Week 1

New Caledonia	8-2	Cook Islands

Nouméa, New Caledonia

Week 2

Cook Islands	0-0	Fiji

Avarua, Cook Islands

Week 3

Fiji	1-1	New Caledonia

Suva, Fiji

Week 4

Cook Islands	0-3	New Caledonia

Avarua, Cook Islands

Week 5

Fiji	5-0	Cook Islands

Suva, Fiji

Week 6

New Caledonia	0-1	Fiji

Nouméa, New Caledonia

Group C

• Group C will have three teams (one from pots 1, 2 and 4 - but none from pot 3).
• The second placed team from Group C will enter a play-off with the second placed team from Group A.

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Week 1

Solomon Islands	11-0	Kiribati

Honiara, Solomon Islands

Week 2

Kiribati	1-4	Samoa

Aiwo, Nauru^†

Week 3

Samoa	2-1	Solomon Islands

Apia, Samoa

Week 4

Kiribati	2-6	Solomon Islands

Aiwo, Nauru^†

Week 5

Samoa	8-0	Kiribati

Apia, Samoa

Week 6

Solomon Islands	0-0	Samoa

Honiara, Solomon Islands

• ^†= Kiribati will play their home games in Aiwo in the nearby country of Nauru, as their own stadium in Bairiki has a sand surface pitch, unsuitable for football. The stadium in Aiwo has a hard dirt surface, which is acceptable.

Group D

• Group D will have three teams (one from pots 1, 3 and 4 - but none from pot 2).
• The second placed team from Group D will enter a play-off with the second placed team from Group B.

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Week 1

New Zealand	16-1	Tuvalu

Wellington, New Zealand

Week 2

Tuvalu	2-1	Papua New Guinea

Funafuti, Tuvalu

Week 3

Papua New Guinea	0-3	New Zealand

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Week 4

Tuvalu	0-13	New Zealand

Funafuti, Tuvalu

Week 5

Papua New Guinea	2-2	Tuvalu

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Week 6

New Zealand	vs	Papua New Guinea

Christchurch, New Zealand

Play-off round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tonga	vs	Solomon Islands
New Caledonia	vs	2nd place from Group D

Play-off 1

1st Leg

Week 7

Tonga	vs	Solomon Islands

Nuku'alofa, Tonga

2nd Leg

Week 8

Solomon Islands	vs	Tonga

Honiara, Solomon Islands

Play-off 2

1st Leg

Week 7

New Caledonia	vs	2nd place from Group D

Nouméa, New Caledonia

2nd Leg

Week 8

2nd place from Group D	vs	New Caledonia

2014 Tournament

Qualified nations

Nation	Qualified	Method	World Ranking
Vanuatu	1st	Host nation	190th
New Zealand	2nd	Group D winner	97th
Tahiti	3rd	Group A winner	161st
Fiji	4th=	Group B winner	188th
Samoa	4th=	Group C winner	189th
Example	6th=	Play-off 1 winner	Example
Example	6th=	Play-off 2 winner	Example

Venues

• Vanuatu were chosen as the host nation.
• Two stadiums were announced as venues for the tournament.

Vanuatu

Port Vila	Port Vila		Port Vila
Korman Stadium			Port Vila Municipal Stadium
17°44′2.07″S 168°20′14.54″E			17°43′51.05″S 168°18′57.29″E
Capacity: 6,500			Capacity: 2,000

• The Korman Stadium in Port Vila will host one match in Round 1, one semi-final, the 3rd-place play-off and the final.
• The Port Vila Municipal Stadium in Port Vila will host two matches in Round 1 and one semi-final.

2015 Qualification

Seeding

• Unlike 2014 Qualifying, the teams will not be split into pots based solely on world rankings. Instead, the teams will be split according to a score which is made up through a formula using a combination of both world ranking and performance at the previous tournament.
• This new system will not include the trams who are not full members of the OFC. They will still be placed in the bottom pot (Pot 4).
• The defending champions (TBD, 2014) will automatically be put into the top pot (Pot 1) as top seed going into qualification.

2015 Tournament

• New Zealand have been announced as the hosts for the 2015 tournament.
• Three venues are expected to be put forward. Cities likely to host matches include Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton and Wellington.