wevil
04-13-2007, 02:26 PM
The first phase will begin at the 2007 Pacific Games in Samoa with the football tournament doubling as an OFC preliminary World Cup qualifying competition. The gold, silver and bronze medallists will advance to the second phase.
The three medallists will join New Zealand in a home and away round-robin tournament on FIFA match dates in 2007 and 2008.
The winner of this final group will be crowned OFC Nations Cup champions, and will also be included in the final round of Asian World Cup qualification.
Entrants
Country FIFA Rank
American Samoa 199th
Cook Islands 198th
Fiji 153rd
New Caledonia 175th
Papua New Guinea 177th
Samoa 188th
Country FIFA Rank
Solomon Islands 163rd
Tahiti 173rd
Tonga 190th
Tuvalu na*
Vanuatu 167th
So we would all know that without australia NZ would dominate the Oceania region. SO they would go through to the final stage where there will be two pool of four & the top 2 goto the world up
or a play off
here my example
Group A
AustraliaQ
KoreaQ
Saudi Arabia P
Kuwait
Group B
JapanQ
IranQ
Bahrain P
North Korea
in the 2 leg play off Bahrain & saudi arabia face each other in arabia & Bahrain & the winner would go through to meet NZ in the final play off
The three medallists will join New Zealand in a home and away round-robin tournament on FIFA match dates in 2007 and 2008.
The winner of this final group will be crowned OFC Nations Cup champions, and will also be included in the final round of Asian World Cup qualification.
Entrants
Country FIFA Rank
American Samoa 199th
Cook Islands 198th
Fiji 153rd
New Caledonia 175th
Papua New Guinea 177th
Samoa 188th
Country FIFA Rank
Solomon Islands 163rd
Tahiti 173rd
Tonga 190th
Tuvalu na*
Vanuatu 167th
So we would all know that without australia NZ would dominate the Oceania region. SO they would go through to the final stage where there will be two pool of four & the top 2 goto the world up
or a play off
here my example
Group A
AustraliaQ
KoreaQ
Saudi Arabia P
Kuwait
Group B
JapanQ
IranQ
Bahrain P
North Korea
in the 2 leg play off Bahrain & saudi arabia face each other in arabia & Bahrain & the winner would go through to meet NZ in the final play off