0.5 finals berths
1st stage
The nine-lowest ranked countries of the 10 entrants* played a preliminary qualifying competition.
*Tuvalu are not members of FIFA and could not enter the World Cup qualifying competition; they participated in the 1st stage tournament because it doubled as the South Pacific Games football competition.
Played in Apia, Samoa
Group A
25.08.07 Tahiti 0-1 New Caledonia
25.08.07 Fiji 16-0 Tuvalu
27.08.07 New Caledonia 1-0 Tuvalu
27.08.07 Fiji 4-0 Cook Islands
29.08.07 Tahiti 1-1 Tuvalu
29.08.07 New Caledonia 3-0 Cook Islands
01.09.07 Cook Islands 4-1 Tuvalu
01.09.07 Fiji 4-0 Tahiti
03.09.07 Fiji 1-1 New Caledonia
03.09.07 Tahiti 1-0 Cook Islands
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
Pts |
|
| Fiji | 4 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
25 |
1 |
10 |
| New Caledonia | 4 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
1 |
10 |
| Tahiti | 4 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
4 |
| Cook Islands | 4 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
4 |
9 |
3 |
| Tuvalu | 4 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
22 |
1 |
Group B
25.08.07 Solomon Is 12-1 Amer. Samoa
25.08.07 Samoa 0-4 Vanuatu
27.08.07 Solomon Islands 4-0 Tonga
27.08.07 Samoa 7-0 American Samoa
29.08.07 Vanuatu 15-0 American Samoa
29.08.07 Samoa 2-1Tonga
01.09.07 Tonga 4-0 American Samoa
01.09.07 Solomon Islands 2-0 Vanuatu
03.09.07 Samoa 0-3 Solomon Islands
03.09.07 Vanuatu 4-1 Tonga
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
Pts |
|
| Solomon Is | 4 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
21 |
1 |
12 |
| Vanuatu | 4 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
23 |
3 |
9 |
| Samoa | 4 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
9 |
8 |
6 |
| Tonga | 4 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
6 |
10 |
3 |
| American Samoa | 4 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
38 |
0 |
Semi-finals
05.09.07 Solomon Is-New Caledonia 2-3
05.09.07 Fiji-Vanuatu 3-0
Third-place play-off
07.09.07 Solomon Is-Vanuatu 0-2
Final
07.09.07 New Caledonia-Fiji 1-0
New Caledonia, Fiji and Vanuatu qualified for the 2nd stage, to which New Zealand, Oceania’s highest-ranked country, received a bye.
2nd stage
The four countries are playing in a single round-robin group.
Results/Fixtures
17.10.07 Fiji 0-2 New Zealand
17.11.07 Fiji 3-3 New Caledonia
17.11.07 Vanuatu 1-2 New Zealand
21.11.07 New Caledonia 4-0 Fiji
21.11.07 New Zealand 4-1Vanuatu
tba New Zealand-Fiji
14.06.08 Vanuatu-New Caledonia
21.06.08 New Caledonia-Vanuatu
06.09.08 Fiji-Vanuatu
06.09.08 New Caledonia-New Zealand
10.09.08 New Zealand-New Caledonia
10.09.08 Vanuatu-Fiji
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
Pts |
|
| New Zealand | 3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
2 |
9 |
| New Caledonia | 2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
7 |
3 |
4 |
| Fiji | 3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
9 |
1 |
| Vanuatu | 2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
0 |