Saturday, September 8, 2007

Schedule for OFC Phase Two

New Zealand will begin its World Cup qualifying campaign in October. In an interesting setup, the OFC Nations Cup is made up of three home-and-away ties, the first in October 2007, the next in November 2007, and the last in September 2008. All four teams remaining in Oceania will play each other twice within a period of a week. The numbers are the squads' current ELO rankings.

October 13, 2007
104 Fiji at 75 New Zealand Postponed

October 17, 2007
New Zealand at Fiji

November 17, 2007
New Zealand at 131 Vanuatu
Fiji at 119 New Caledonia

November 21, 2007
Vanuatu at New Zealand
New Caledonia at Fiji

June 14, 2008
New Caledonia at Vanuatu

June 21, 2008
Vanuatu at New Caledonia

September 6, 2008
New Zealand at New Caledonia
Vanuatu at Fiji

September 10, 2008
New Caledonia at New Zealand
Fiji at Vanuatu

I'm predicting that New Zealand will advance to the AFC-OFC playoff since their two closest rivals in 2006 qualifying are both gone (Australia and the Solomon Islands).

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