2004 OFC Nations Cup - Final Tournament

Final Tournament

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.

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 OFC Nations Cup. These two games on home-and-away basis was separate from World Cup qualifying.

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


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

Australia and the Solomon Islands progressed to the final stage.

29 May 2004
 Vanuatu 0 – 1 Solomon Islands Marden Sports Complex, Adelaide
Attendance: 200
Referee: Mark Shield (Australia)
Report Batram Suri 51' (pen.)
29 May 2004
 Tahiti 0 – 0 Fiji Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Stefano Farina (Italy)
Report
29 May 2004
 Australia 1 – 0 New Zealand Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide
Attendance: 12,130
Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)
Bresciano 40' Report

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