| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 7 April – 25 November 2001 |
| Teams | 10[1] (from 1 confederation) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 24 |
| Goals scored | 180 (7.5 per match) |
| Attendance | 87,894 (3,662 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | |
←1998 2006→ | |
Below are the dates and results for the2002 FIFA World Cupqualification rounds for theOceanian zone (OFC).
Papua New Guinea chose not to play.
10 teams entered the competition. The Oceanian zone was given 0.5 places (out of 32) in the final tournament.
There would be two rounds of play:
Australia has beaten American Samoa with 31-0. A world record in an international football match. And it broke another record. most goals from a player in a match, Archie Thompson scored 13 times.
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 0 | +66 | 12 | |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 4 | +23 | 9 | |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 30 | −23 | 6 | |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 18 | −9 | 3 | |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 57 | −57 | 0 |
Australia advanced to the Final Round.
| Fiji | 13–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Masi Lal Mateiwai Nasema Samy | [2] |
| Tonga | 0–22 | |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Chipperfield Mori Aloisi Muscat Popovic T.Vidmar Zdrilic Thompson Boutsianis |
| American Samoa | 0–8 | |
|---|---|---|
| [3] | Leututu Gabriel Fa'aiuaso Lemana Michael |
| Australia | 31–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Boutsianis Thompson Zdrilic A.Vidmar Popovic Colosimo De Amicis | [4] |
| Australia | 11–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| A. Vidmar Zdrilic Foxe Popovic Thompson Chipperfield Bureta | Report |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1 | +18 | 12 | |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 6 | +8 | 9 | |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 10 | +7 | 6 | |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 21 | −10 | 3 | |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 25 | −23 | 0 |
New Zealand advanced to the Final Round.
| Solomon Islands | 9–1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Suri Daudau Menapi Firisua Konofilla | Report | Temiha |
| Cook Islands | 1–8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Pukoku | Report | Ben Lauru G. Maki Iwai P. Maki Waiwai |
| Vanuatu | 2–7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Iwai | Report | Wickham Menapi Waita Samani Suri |
| New Zealand | 2–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Hickey | Report |
| Solomon Islands | 1–5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Suri | Report | Coveny Jackson Urlovic |
| Tahiti | 2–0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Garcia Fatupua-Lecaill | Report |
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | 1–6 | 0–2 | 1–4 |
| New Zealand | 0–2 | |
|---|---|---|
| (report) | Emerton |
Australia advanced to theCONMEBOL / OFC Intercontinental Play-off by the aggregate score of 6–1.
There were 180 goals scored in 24 matches (including 2 international play-offs), for an average of 7.5 goals per match.