2004 OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

September 2020 OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2004 New Zealand Australia 14–22 January 2004 10 1 2 2 AUS 3 NZL 22 116 VAN Jean MalebNZL Shane Smeltz(7 goals) 1999 2008 The 2004 OFC Men's Olympic Football Tournament, the fourth edition of the OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, offered the winning Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) national under-23 side a place to compete at the quadrennial Summer Olympic Games. This was the second time that Australia and New Zealand co-hosted the qualifying tournament with them previously hosting the second round of the 1988 edition. Ten teams competed in the 2004 edition with the teams being separated into two groups of five with the winner of each group to face off in the final. Australia and New Zealand would be the teams that qualified for the final with Australia winning the tie in two-legs to book a spot at the 2004 Olympics Games which was being held in Greece. Summary The original dates of the 2004 edition was originally going to be held in June 2003 but after a meeting in March 2003, it was moved to January 2004 due to the fact that New Zealand was competing at the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup while the other South Pacific nations were competing at the 2003 South Pacific Games which was being held in Fiji.OFC Men’s Olympic Qualifiers moved to January 2004 https://www.oceaniafootball.com/archives-1999/ Oceania Football Confederation 6 July 2025 The matches for the group stage was playing at two venues. That being at Marconi Stadium which played out Group A which featured Australia, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. Group B was played at the North Harbour Stadium which featured New Zealand, Vanuatu, Tonga, Cook Islands and American Samoa. Group A saw Australia not concede a single goal during the group stage as they finished with twenty-six goals from four games and not conceding any in return as they finished top of the group, finishing ahead of Fiji.Thrilling finale to OFC Olympic group qualifiers https://www.oceaniafootball.com/archives-19079/ Oceania Football Confederation 22 June 2021 Coming in third was Samoa who defeated the Solomon Islands to overtake them especially after drawing with Papua New Guinea in the final match-day to record their best result in an OFC tournament.A night of upsets https://www.oceaniafootball.com/archives-8937/ Oceania Football Confederation 6 July 2025 Group B saw New Zealand have a tougher time with a scrappy match against Tonga before falling behind early in the final group game against Vanuatu as they came back from two goals after nineteen minutes to secure a 3-2 win with Brent Fisher getting the winning goal to book their spot in the final. The final round was played over two legs with the first leg being played at Parramatta Stadium. Two second-half goals from Jonathan McKain and Ahmad Elrich gave Australia a two goal advantage heading into the second leg which was played at North Harbour Stadium.Australia dominates NZ in first Olympic play off https://www.oceaniafootball.com/archives-949/ Oceania Football Confederation 22 June 2021 The second leg was a different story with New Zealand having the chances before scoring in the 51st minute from Shane Smeltz. Though Australia would score in the 71st minute when Ryan Griffiths outpaced the New Zealand defender Rupesh Puna to give Australia an away goal in which New Zealand wouldn't be able to respond securing Australia's spot at the 2004 Olympics.Olyroos book ticket to Athens https://www.oceaniafootball.com/archives-12881/ Oceania Football Confederation 22 June 2021 First round Group A main WDL OFC yes AUS, FIJ, SAM, SOL, PNG complete 4 0 0 26 0 H 3 0 1 12 8 1 1 2 5 14 1 0 3 5 12 0 1 3 7 21 23 AUS 23 AUS 23 SAM 23 SAM 23 SOL 23 SOL 23 FIJ 23 FIJ 23 PNG 23 PNG Q green1 Advance to Final FBR null null null null 9–0 6–0 6–0 5–0 4–1 null null null 4–4 0–4 null 1–0 4–2 1–4 null null 14 January 2004 23 SOL 4–2 Report 23 PNG Maemae 32 Sam 63 83 Fa'arodo 65 Sigamata 64 Guti 80 Marconi Stadium, Sydney 2,095 Charles Ariiotima (Tahiti) 14 January 2004 23 AUS 6–0 Report 23 SAM Wilkshire 27 Elrich 49 78 Brosque 54 Thwaite 68 Holman 72 Marconi Stadium, Sydney 2,095 Peter O'Leary (New Zealand) 16 January 2004 23 AUS 9–0 Report 23 PNG MacAllister 8 63 Elrich 30 McKain 38 Dilevski 42 North 55 Carle 66 73 Pelikan 74 Marconi Stadium, Sydney 1,290 Lencie Fred (Vanuatu) 16 January 2004 23 FIJ 4–1 Report 23 SOL Vulivuli 3 Vidovi 12 Toma 64 66 Maemae 75 Marconi Stadium, Sydney 1,290 Ron Wilbur (Vanuatu) 18 January 2004 23 FIJ 4–1 Report 23 PNG Ali 22 Vulivuli 32 70 Vakatalesau 54 Nathaniel Lepani 47 Marconi Stadium, Sydney 200 Peter O'Leary (New Zealand) 18 January 2004 23 SAM 1–0 Report 23 SOL Fa'aiuaso 11 Marconi Stadium, Sydney 200 Neil Fox (New Zealand) 20 January 2004 23 FIJ 4–0 Report 23 SAM Kumar 51 Sabutu 57 Lui 86 o.g. Vulivuli 90+1 Marconi Stadium, Sydney 1,500 Charles Ariiotima (Tahiti) 20 January 2004 23 AUS 5–0 Report 23 SOL Macallister 14 Holman 34 Wilkshire 60 pen. Griffiths 71 Cansdell-Sherriff 90+2 Marconi Stadium, Sydney 2,000 Derek Rugg (New Zealand) 22 January 2004 23 SAM 4–4 Report 23 PNG Toleafoa 26 Fa'aiuaso 55 Timo 57 Bureta 67 Davani 38 pen. 90+1 Nathaniel Lepani 40 65 Marconi Stadium, Sydney 800 Ron Wilbur (Vanuatu) 22 January 2004 23 AUS 6–0 Report 23 FIJ Valeri 5 Holman 6 54 Macallister 78 87 89 Marconi Stadium, Sydney 2,000 Neil Fox (New Zealand) Group B main WDL OFC yes NZL, VAN, TGA, COK, ASA complete 4 0 0 25 2 H 3 0 1 27 3 2 0 2 4 8 1 0 3 3 23 0 0 4 2 25 23 NZL 23 NZL 23 VAN 23 VAN 23 TGA 23 TGA 23 COK 23 COK 23 ASA 23 ASA Q green1 Advance to Final FBR 3–2 2–0 9–0 11–0 null null null null null 0–6 1–0 null null 0–11 null null null 0–8 0–3 2–3 14 January 2004 23 TON 3–0 Report 23 American Samoa Uhutai 54 Papani 69 Feao 90+2 North Harbour Stadium, Auckland 260 Gidas Bayung (Papua New Guinea) 14 January 2004 23 NZL 9–0 Report 23 CKI *Fisher 30 55 59 Jones 32 Pritchett 34 73 Pearce 82 82 Smith 90+4 North Harbour Stadium, Auckland 260 Andrew Moli (Solomon Islands) 16 January 2004 23 NZL 11–0 Report 23 American Samoa *Pearce 8 30 39 Smeltz 12 52 57 66 69 Mulligan 26 Smith 30 Puna 88 North Harbour Stadium, Auckland 250 Intaz Shah (Fiji) 16 January 2004 23 TON 0–6 Report 23 VAN Maleb 5 42 74 Qorig 7 Mahe 65 pen. Manumua 90+2 o.g. North Harbour Stadium, Auckland 250 Simon Micallef (Australia) 18 January 2004 23 CKI 0–11 Report 23 VAN Maleb 5 30 42 Yakeula 23 86 Thompsen 54 79 Kapi 68 Joe 84 Vava 89 Angene 90 o.g. North Harbour Stadium, Auckland 250 Leone Rakaroi (Fiji) 18 January 2004 23 NZL 2–0 Report 23 TON *Bertos 35 Turner 45 North Harbour Stadium, Auckland 250 Constantinos Diomis (Australia) 20 January 2004 23 TON 1–0 Report 23 CKI Moala 25 North Harbour Stadium, Auckland 100 Intaz Shah (Fiji) 20 January 2004 23 American Samoa 0–8 Report 23 VAN Waiwai 9 Thompsen 11 12 30 Qorig 22 Tabe 64 Kapi 81 88 North Harbour Stadium, Auckland 100 Constantinos Diomis (Australia) 22 January 2004 23 CKI 3–2 Report 23 American Samoa T. Tisam 17 46 Best 24 Atuelevao 67 69 North Harbour Stadium, Auckland 200 Andrew Moli (Solomon Islands) 22 January 2004 23 NZL 3–2 Report 23 VAN *Lochhead 42 Smeltz 51 Fisher 62 *Maleb 9 Thompsen 19 North Harbour Stadium, Auckland 1,000 Simon Micallef (Australia) Final 23 AUS 3–1 23 NZL 2–0 1–1 First Leg 26 January 200416:50 AEST 23 AUS 2–0 report 23 NZL McKain 76Elrich 83 Parramatta Stadium, Sydney 7,120 Second Leg 30 January 200419:30 NZST 23 NZL 1–1 report 23 AUS Smeltz 51 Griffiths 71 North Harbour Stadium, Auckland 3,000 Australia won 3–1 on aggregate. fb 2004 OFC Olympic Qualification Championship Australia Third Goalscorers 7 goals VAN Jean Maleb NZL Shane Smeltz 6 goals VAN Lorry Thompsen AUS Dylan Macallister 5 goals NZL Allan Pearce 4 goals 22em NZL Brent Fisher AUS Ahmad Elrich AUS Brett Holman FIJ Thomas Vulivuli 3 goals PNG Nathaniel Lepani VAN Isaac Kapi 2 goals 22em AUS Luke Wilkshire AUS Nicky Carle FIJ Veresa Toma PNG Alexander Davani SAM Richmond Faaiuaso SOL Jerry Sam SOL Alick Maemae American Samoa Duane Atuelevao CKI Tuka Tisam NZL James Pritchett NZL Jarrod Smith VAN Dimitri Yakeula VAN Alphose Qorig References External links RSSSF Results Archive at rsssf.com 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament Olympic Qualifying Tournament Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2004 2004 2004 OFC OFC OFC