FIFA.com - Oceania's final round drawn

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The third and final round of Oceania Zone qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ has been drawn in Auckland, New Zealand on Tuesday 26 June. The winner of this round will play an intercontinental play-off match against the fourth-placed team from the North, Central America and the Caribbean Zone, with the victor claiming a spot at Brazil 2014.

Below are the matches, which will take place from 7 September 2012 until 26 March 2013. The venues are yet to be decided.

7 September 2012
Solomon Islands-Tahiti
New Caledonia-New Zealand

11 September 2012
Tahiti-New Caledonia
New Zealand-Solomon Islands

12 October 2012
Tahiti-New Zealand
Solomon Islands-New Caledonia

16 October 2012
New Zealand-Tahiti
New Caledonia-Solomon Islands

22 March 2013
Tahiti-Solomon Islands
New Zealand vs New Caledonia

26 March 2013
Solomon Islands-New Zealand
New Caledonia-Tahiti

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musetto (Italy)

07/07/2012 at 12:28

The main issue of OFC is that it isn't, let's say, CONCACAF where there are lots of teams both strong/average (USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, ...) and weak/very weak (Haiti, Curacao, Grenada, ...). OFC has just 4 average/weak teams (the one playing Round 3) and 8 very weak/abysmal. Anyway, the round 3 winner will have more than 6 full months to prepare for the intercontinental play-off which is going to be very, very difficult given the quality of CONCACAF teams. PS: I, too, would like to see a world WORLD CUP where all 6 confederations are represented.

atribefan (Korea Republic)

06/07/2012 at 16:23

go Oceania teams

Redskinsfan8 (Brazil)

05/07/2012 at 14:56

This will be exciting to see if New Zealand can overpower the other 3 teams. You might think its easy for new Zealand but it will be difficult for new Zealand to get 1st place in this group