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2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)

international football competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ489180 ↗
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Listed below are the dates and results for the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the Oceanian zone (OFC).

A total of 10 teams played in the competition for 0.5 allocated places out of 32 in the final tournament. Papua New Guinea chose not to participate.

Australia's 31–0 win over American Samoa established a World Cup record for the highest margin of victory in a qualifying match.

Format

There would be two rounds of play:

First round: The 10 teams were divided into two groups of five teams each. The teams played against each other once. The group winners advanced to the second round.

Second round: The two teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The winner advanced to the OFC–CONMEBOL inter-confederation play-off.

First round

Group 1

Group 2

Second round

Australia won 6–1 on aggregate and advanced to the OFC–CONMEBOL play-off.

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This entry incorporates text from “2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.