The 2002 OFC Nations Cup qualification tournament was a

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competition that was played in March 2002 to determine the two of OFC's five lowest-ranked members men's national teams to advance to the

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final tournament played in New Zealand in July 2002. The national teams of six OFC member associations entered the qualifying process.

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withdrew from the competition.

Qualified teams

Format

With the end of the Polynesian and Melanesian Cups between the

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tournaments, (the two competitions formerly served a secondary function as qualifiers for the

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), a new format was created to decide the teams which would be accepted for the Nations Cup. Retaining their round-robin group qualifier style, the OFC this time chose to adopt the FIFA rankings to order all the entrants. With

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not yet a FIFA member, they were placed last by default. The lowest six teams were then made to compete for two places via a round-robin group stage, with the highest-placed two teams qualifying for the Oceania Nations Cup. The Rankings of all the teams involved in the

are below. The positions were taken as of October, 2001, with the eleven ranked teams appearing in the following order:

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in the standings were based on the following criteria (regulations Articles 15): #

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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss) # Overall

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# Overall goals scored # Score from direct # Drawing of lots by the OFC Organising Committee

Schedule

Below was the schedule of the 2002 OFC Nations Cup qualification.

Standings

Matches

Before the first group stage began, the withdrew, resulting in the group stage being played between only five nations. ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- and progress to the second group stage.

Statistics

Goalscorers

References

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