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This was the first OFC World Cup qualifying campaign since Australia's move from the OFC to the AFC. The first phase began at the 2007 Pacific Games in Samoa, with the football tournament doubling as an OFC World Cup qualifying competition. The gold, silver, and bronze medallists (New Caledonia, Fiji, and Vanuatu, respectively) advanced to the ...
The Hawaii national soccer team is a team representing the people of the Hawaiian Islands, located in the central Pacific Ocean. They are not affiliated with FIFA, CONCACAF or OFC, and therefore cannot compete for the FIFA World Cup, the CONCACAF Gold Cup or the OFC Nations Cup. Instead, they are part of ConIFA and compete in their competitions ...
Australian football chief John O'Neill said in July 2006, "the one part of the world that's never hosted the World Cup, after South Africa has hosted in 2010, is the Pacific Basin. We belong to Asia now but we're also part of the Pacific, and I think the equity issue about the Pacific region not having hosted should be in our favor."
The Oceanian section of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Qatar, for national teams which are members of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC). A total of 0.5 slots in the final tournament were available for OFC teams, which equated to one inter-confederation play-off slot. [1]
The Oceanian section of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification process is taking place from September 2024 to March 2025. [1] The 2026 tournament is the 16th edition of Oceanian qualifiers and marks the first time OFC has a direct qualification slot into the FIFA World Cup .
The tournament also served as part of the OFC's qualifying competition for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. After the cancellation of the 2020 OFC Nations Cup, the tournament was confirmed for 2024 as the 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup. [6] [7] The tournament will follow the same style, but will not serve as World Cup qualifiers. [8]
FIFA currently allocate Oceania one berth at the World Cup [5] and hence only the winners qualify to the World Cup finals. [2] Oceania's governing body for football, the OFC, organise the championship. [6] Cooperation has also come from Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), particularly in the initial tournaments. [7]
Spanning 1,500 miles (2,400 km), the state is physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania. [11] Hawaii's ocean coastline is consequently the fourth-longest in the U.S., at about 750 miles (1,210 km).