2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup qualification

Tournament details
Host country	Tonga
Dates	20–26 March
Teams	3 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	3
Goals scored	7 (2.33 per match)
Attendance	1,300 (433 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Nathan Viliamu (2 goals)
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The 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup qualifying round served as qualification for the 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup. This tournament marked the first time since 2002 that qualification for the OFC Nations Cup was not held in conjunction with the FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for OFC. Tonga was confirmed as qualification hosts on 1 December 2023.^[1] The tournament took place from 20 to 26 March 2024.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament[A]
Vanuatu[B]	Co-hosts	1 December 2023	9 (1973, 1980, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016)
Fiji		24 January 2024	8 (1973, 1980, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016)
New Caledonia[C]	Automatic qualification	24 January 2024	6 (1973, 1980, 2002, 2008, 2012, 2016)
New Zealand		24 January 2024	10 (1973, 1980, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016)
Papua New Guinea		24 January 2024	4 (1980, 2002, 2012, 2016)
Solomon Islands		24 January 2024	7 (1980, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2012, 2016)
Tahiti		24 January 2024	9 (1973, 1980, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2012, 2016)
Samoa	Qualifying winner	23 March 2024	2 (2012, 2016)

Three teams played a single round-robin tournament held in Tonga. All matches were held at the Teufaiva Sport Stadium in Nuku'alofa. The winner qualified for the 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup, to join the other seven teams which received byes into the group stage.

Three teams entered qualification. This edition marked the first time since the 1996 edition that American Samoa did not enter the tournament.^[3] Numbers in brackets refer to each team's ranking in the December 2023 FIFA World Rankings.^[4]

The schedule of the competition was as follows.

Qualifiyng tournament venues being played in Tonga in one host citie in Nuku'alofa.

Tonga
Nuku'alofa
Teufaiva Sport Stadium
Capacity: 10,000
Nuku'alofa

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Samoa	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	6	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–0	—
2	Cook Islands	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	3			—	—	1–0
3	Tonga (H)	2	0	0	2	1	5	−4	0			1–4	—	—

20 March 2024 (2024-03-20)

14:00 UTC+13

Tonga	1–4	Samoa
Kite 90+5'	Report	Tumua 11' (pen.) Viliamu 45+1', 60' Stowers 89'

Teufaiva Sport Stadium, Nukuʻalofa

Attendance: 500^[6]

Referee: Luke Gardner (New Zealand)

23 March 2024 (2024-03-23)

11:00 UTC+13

Samoa	1–0	Cook Islands
Taualai 88'	Report

Teufaiva Sport Stadium, Nukuʻalofa

Attendance: 300^[7]

Referee: Pari Oito (Tahiti)

26 March 2024 (2024-03-26)

14:00 UTC+13

Cook Islands	1–0	Tonga
Saghabi 38'	Report

Teufaiva Sport Stadium, Nukuʻalofa

Attendance: 500^[8]

Referee: Laurie Fairamoa (Solomon Islands)

There were 7 goals scored in 3 matches, for an average of 2.33 goals per match.

2 goals

1 goal

Source: OFC^[5]