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). Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 World Cup qualification rounds for Oceania. ... The 2006 Football World Cup (officially titled 2006 FIFA World Cup Germanyâ„¢) finals are scheduled to take place in Germany between 9 June and 9 July 2006. ... September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The competition were divided in two Group stages, with Australia and New Zealand seeded into the second stage. The Oceania champion (Australia) qualified for the 2005 Confederations Cup. The 2005 Confederations Cup football tournament was held in Germany, between June 15 and June 29, 2005. ...

First Group Stage

The 10 teams in the first round were divided into two groups of 5 teams each. Within each group, every team played every other team once. The top two teams from each group then progressed to the second group stage where they were joined by the two seeded teams.

Group 1

Results

Country	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Solomon Islands	4	3	1	0	14	1	10
Tahiti	4	2	2	0	5	1	8
New Caledonia	4	2	1	1	16	2	7
Tonga	4	1	0	3	2	17	3
Cook Islands	4	0	0	4	1	17	0

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Match schedule

Solomon Islands and Tahiti progress to the second group stage. Large flag of the Solomon Islands Image originally derived from the public domain flags of the CIA World Factbook. ... File links The following pages link to this file: French Polynesia OFC Nations Cup Flag of French Polynesia User:DanielZm/test2 Flags of non-sovereign nations User:Matthewmayer/Sandbox/Flags Template:French Polynesia Table User:Midom/flags sandbox Football World Cup 2006 - Oceania Qualification Groups List of FIFA country codes... First International Tahiti 2 - 2 New Zealand (Papeete, Tahiti; September 21, 1952) Largest win Tahiti 30 - 0 Cook Islands (Papeete, Tahiti; September 2, 1971) Worst defeat New Zealand 10 - 0 Tahiti (Adelaide, Australia; June 4, 2004) World Cup Appearances none (First in -) Best result - OFC Nations Cup Appearances 7 (First...

Group 2

Results

Country	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Vanuatu	4	3	1	0	16	2	10
Fiji	4	3	0	1	19	5	9
Papua New Guinea	4	2	1	1	17	6	7
Samoa	4	1	0	3	5	11	3
American Samoa	4	0	0	4	1	34	0

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Match schedule

Vanuatu and Fiji progress to the second group stage. Large flag of Vanuatu Image originally derived from the public domain flags of the CIA World Factbook. ... File links The following pages link to this file: Foreign relations of Fiji Fiji Suva Freedom House Atu Ratu-mai-mbula Samulayo Burotu Degei Murimuria Cibaciba and Drakulu Dakuwanga Lewalevu Lingadua Nabangatai Ndauthina Ndengei Ngendi Ngurai Tui Delai Gau Vitu OFC Nations Cup List of national flags Fijian language 1995...

Second Group Stage

The four surviving members (first and second place teams from each group in stage one) of the first stage joined the two seeded teams ( Australia and New Zealand) and took part in a tournament where each team played every other once in a tournament held in Adelaide, Australia. Image File history File links Flag_of_Australia. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Adelaide is the capital city of the Australian state of South Australia. ...

As this doubled as the 2004 Oceania Nations Cup, the top two teams from the second group stage progressed to a two-legged final to determine the winner of the Oceania Nations Cup. These two games on home-and-away basis was separate from World Cup qualifying. The Oceania Cup is the biennial football competition of the Oceanian nations. ... In the Qualification process for the 2006 Football World Cup, the six FIFA confederations were allocated a share of the 32 spots available on the basis of the strength of their teams. ...

The top two teams from this stage also progressed to the final stage of the 2006 Oceania World Cup qualifying tournament.

Results

Country	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Australia	5	4	1	0	21	3	13
Solomon Islands	5	3	1	1	9	6	10
New Zealand	5	3	0	2	17	5	9
Fiji	5	1	1	3	3	10	4
Tahiti	5	1	1	3	2	24	4
Vanuatu	5	1	0	4	5	9	3

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Match schedule

Australia and the Solomon Islands progress to the final stages. Image File history File links Flag_of_Australia. ... Large flag of the Solomon Islands Image originally derived from the public domain flags of the CIA World Factbook. ...

2004 Oceania Nations Cup Final

The final of the 2004 Oceania Nations Cup was a two-legged home and away final between the top two teams from the second group stage.

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Solomon Islands		1:5 (0:4)		Australia	Lawson Tama Stadium, Honiara
Suri 60'			5' Skoko
			18' Milicic
			28' Skoko
			43' Emerton
			79' Elrich

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Australia		6:0 (2:0)		Solomon Islands	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney
Milicic   5'
Kewell   8'
Vidmar 60'
Thompson 79'
Elrich 82'
Emerton 86'

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