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Historically, a very large gulf separated Australia and New Zealand from the smaller island competitors. Little attention was paid to the tournament by the rest of the football world, but the competition has increased in importance as it now qualifies the winner for the lucrative Confederations Cup and for a play-off for the 2010 World Cup. The Confederations Cup The FIFA Confederations Cup is a football (soccer) tournament for national teams, held every four years (previously every two years) by FIFA. It is contested by the winners of each of the six FIFA confederation championships (CAF, CONMEBOL, UEFA, AFC, OFC, CONCACAF), along with the FIFA World...

Australia ceased to be a member of the OFC on January 1, 2006, having elected to join the Asian Football Confederation, and hence will no longer be involved in this competition. is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The 46 member Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of football in Asia, excluding Cyprus and Israel but including Australia. ...

History

This tournament began in 1973 as the "Oceania Cup". A second edition took place in 1980, then the tournament was discontinued.

In the early editions non-FIFA members were allowed to participate such as New Hebrides, which became Vanuatu after gaining independence in 1980. The New Hebrides are an island group in the South Pacific that now form the nation of Vanuatu. ...

In 1996 it reappeared as the "Oceania Nations Cup" and served as a qualifier for the Confederations Cup, as the Oceania Football Confederation had recently become a separate FIFA confederation. World map exhibiting a common interpretation of Oceania; other interpretations may vary. ... The International Federation of Football Association (French: ), commonly known by its acronym, FIFA, is the international governing body of association football. ...

Format

For the first three tournaments, Australia and New Zealand were seeded into the tournament automatically, while the remaining ten nations played to qualify. The Polynesian and Melanesian Cups, each played between five nations grouped on a geographical basis, served as qualifications via a round-robin tournament, with the highest ranked two teams in each competition qualifying for the actual OFC Nations Cup, in a six-way round-robin tournament. The Polynesia Cup was a football (soccer) tournament for Polynesian nations within the Oceania Football Confederation. ... The Melanesia Cup is a soccer championship played between the Melanesian countries, it was used (along with the Polynesia Cup) for qualification to the Oceania Nations Cup. ... A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a type of group tournament in which each participant plays every other participant an equal number of times. ...

With the postponement and then cancellation of the Melanesian Cup, and a similar fate befalling its Polynesian equivalent, the format of the tournament changed in 2002. FIFA rankings determined the seedings of all twelve teams, and the lower six teams played a group stage for two qualifier positions into the main tournament. The Actual 2002 Cup tournament was played with two groups of four teams (again in round-robin style), which led into a 4-way knockout stage, playing for the top four positions. The Final Tournament of 2002 Oceania Nations Cup was held in Auckland, New Zealand, from July 5, 2002 to July 15. ...

In 2004, the format changed once again, returning to a format similar to that of the 1996-2000 tournaments, with five teams each playing in two qualifying groups and Australia and New Zealand seeded to the actual tournament, played as a group stage of six, with a home and away Final played between the two highest-placed teams. The 2004 Oceania Nations Cup doubled as the qualification tournament to the 2006 Football World Cup, except the two-legged final (A separate playoff (between Australia and Solomon Islands) was held in September 2005, for World Cup Qualifying purposes). ... The Oceania Nations Cup 1996 was not held as a cohesive tournament, but consisted of semi-finals and a final played on a two-legged basis, stretched out between November 1995 and November 1996. ... The Oceania Nations Cup 2000 was held in Papeete, Tahiti. ...

For the 2008 tournament, the format has altered once more. The 2007 South Pacific Games football tournament will act as a qualification tournament, with the gold, silver and bronze winning nations progressing to the main tournament. The finals will be played in a round-robin format, with New Zealand qualifying automatically. The winner of the 2008 OFC Nations Cup will playoff with a team from the AFC for a place in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification for Oceania Football Confederation will select one nation to compete against the fifth ranked AFC in a playoff for a spot in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. ... The 2007 South Pacific Games Football will be held at the Toleafoa J.S. Blatter Complex in Apia Samoa in from 24 August to 7 September 2007. ... Round Robin = A sexual act between two partners. ... The 46 member Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of football in Asia, excluding Cyprus and Israel but including Australia. ... The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, an international tournament for football, that is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. ...

Results

Year	Host	Winner	result	Runner-up	3rd Place	result	4th Place
1973 Details	New Zealand	New Zealand	2 - 0	Tahiti	New Caledonia	2 - 1	New Hebrides
1980 Details	New Caledonia	Australia	4 - 2	Tahiti	New Caledonia	2 - 1	Fiji
1996 Details	No Fixed Venue	Australia	6 - 0 5 - 0	Tahiti	Solomon Islands  New Zealand
1998 Details	Australia	New Zealand	1 - 0	Australia	Fiji	4 - 2	Tahiti
2000 Details	Tahiti	Australia	2 - 0	New Zealand	Solomon Islands	2 - 1	Vanuatu
2002 Details	New Zealand	New Zealand	1 - 0	Australia	Tahiti	1 - 0	Vanuatu
2004 Details	Australia	Australia	5 - 1 6 - 0	Solomon Islands	New Zealand	BY TABLE	Fiji
2008 Details	No Fixed Venue

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Successful national teams

Team	Champions	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth-place
Australia	4 (1980, 1996, 2000, 2004*)	2 (1998, 2002)	-	-
New Zealand	3 (1973*, 1998, 2002*)	1 (2000)	2 (1996, 2004)	-
Tahiti	-	3 (1973, 1980, 1996)	1 (2002)	1 (1998)
Solomon Islands	-	1 (2004)	1 (2000)	1 (1996)
New Caledonia	-	-	2 (1973, 1980*)	-
Fiji	-	-	1 (1998)	2 (1980, 2004)
Vanuatu	-	-	-	3 (1973^, 2000, 2002)

• ^This 1973 fourth place was achieved by Vanuatu under its former name New Hebrides.

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Total Wins

(1) Australia is no longer an OFC member.

4	Australia(1)	1980, 1996, 2000, 2004
3	New Zealand	1973, 1998, 2002

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Total Hosts

3	Australia	1996^, 1998, 2004
3	New Zealand	1973, 1996^, 2002
2	Tahiti	1996^, 2000
1	New Caledonia	1980
1	Solomon Islands	1996^

• ^ Australia, New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, and Tahiti four-way co-hosted the 1996 OFC Nations Cup.

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