2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for Oceania. 12 teams took part, competing for a place in the intercontinental play-off against the fifth-placed team from South America. The winner of this play-off qualified for the World Cup.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)

Tournament details
Dates	10 May 2004 (2004-05-10) – 16 November 2005 (2005-11-16)
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	39
Goals scored	175 (4.49 per match)
Attendance	227,596 (5,836 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tim Cahill Veresa Toma (7 goals each)
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This qualifying tournament also doubled as the 2004 OFC Nations Cup, up to the final play-off stage.

First round

Main article: 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – OFC first round

The competition was composed of three rounds. Australia and New Zealand entered the competition directly in the Second Round. The other 10 teams were divided in two groups of five teams each, and played against each other once. The two teams with most points in each group advanced to the Second Round.

Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Solomon Islands (H)	4	3	1	0	14	1	+13	10	Advance to 2004 OFC Nations Cup		—	1–1	2–0	6–0	5–0
2	Tahiti	4	2	2	0	5	1	+4	8			—	—	0–0	2–0	2–0
3	New Caledonia	4	2	1	1	16	2	+14	7			—	—	—	8–0	8–0
4	Tonga	4	1	0	3	2	17	−15	3			—	—	—	—	2–1
5	Cook Islands	4	0	0	4	1	17	−16	0			—	—	—	—	—

Source: FIFA
(H) Hosts

Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Vanuatu	4	3	1	0	16	2	+14	10	Advance to 2004 OFC Nations Cup		—	—	—	—	—
2	Fiji	4	3	0	1	19	5	+14	9			0–3	—	4–2	—	11–0
3	Papua New Guinea	4	2	1	1	17	6	+11	7			1–1	—	—	—	—
4	Samoa (H)	4	1	0	3	5	11	−6	3			0–3	0–4	1–4	—	4–0
5	American Samoa	4	0	0	4	1	34	−33	0			1–9	—	0–10	—	—

Source: FIFA
(H) Hosts

Second round

Main article: 2004 OFC Nations Cup

In the Second round, the six teams were put in a single group, and played against each other once. The two teams with most points advanced to a play-off, and played against each other home and away. The winner of this play-off advanced to the intercontinental play-off.

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	5	4	1	0	21	3	+18	13	Advance to final		—	—	1–0	6–1	9–0	—
2	Solomon Islands	5	3	1	1	9	6	+3	10			2–2	—	—	—	—	—
3	New Zealand	5	3	0	2	17	5	+12	9			—	3–0	—	—	10–0	—
4	Fiji	5	1	1	3	3	10	−7	4			—	1–2	0–2	—	—	1–0
5	Tahiti	5	1	1	3	2	24	−22	4			—	0–4	—	0–0	—	2–1
6	Vanuatu	5	1	0	4	5	9	−4	3			0–3	0–1	4–2	—	—	—

Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Solomon Islands	1–11	Australia	1–5	0–6

Australia and the Solomon Islands progressed to the final stage.

Final round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Australia	9–1	Solomon Islands	7–0	2–1

3 September 2005

19:30

Australia	7–0	Solomon Islands
Culina 20' Viduka 36', 43' Cahill 57' Chipperfield 64' Thompson 68' Emerton 89'	Report

Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh (Malaysia)

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6 September 2005

13:00

Solomon Islands	1–2	Australia
Fa'arodo 49' (pen.)[2]	Report	Thompson 19' Emerton 58'

Lawson Tama, Honiara

Attendance: 16,000

Referee: Shamsul Maidin (Singapore)

Australia won 9–1 on aggregate and advanced to the CONMEBOL–OFC play-off against Uruguay.

Inter-confederation play-offs

Main article: 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL–OFC play-off)

The final round winners then played the fifth-placed team of CONMEBOL qualifying, Uruguay, in a home-and-away play-off. The winner of this play-off qualified for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Uruguay	1–1 (2–4 p)	Australia	1–0	0–1 (a.e.t.)

Qualified teams

The following team from OFC qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup1
Australia	CONMEBOL-OFC play-off winners	16 November 2005	1 (1974)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Top goalscorers

There were 175 goals scored in 39 matches, for an average of 4.49 goals per match.

7 goals

• Tim Cahill
• Veresa Toma

6 goals

• Brett Emerton
• Michel Hmae
• Vaughan Coveny
• Reginald Davani

5 goals

• Henry Fa'arodo

4 goals

• Laisiasa Gataurua
• Seveci Rokotakala
• Brent Fisher
• Andrew Lepani
• Commins Menapi
• Batram Suri
• Jean Maleb
• Etienne Mermer

Below are full goalscorer lists for each round:

• First round
• Second round
• Final round