The 2008 OFC Nations Cup was the eighth edition of the OFC Nations Cup and the first under a new format. It took place as a series of as a home-and-away round-robin tournament on FIFA match dates in 2007 and 2008. Doubling as the qualification tournament for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the tournament was substantially different from earlier editions: 2004 champions Australia did not compete after leaving the Oceania Football Confederation for the Asian Football Confederation and for the first time since the 1996 OFC Nations Cup, no fixed venue was used. Unlike the 2004 OFC Nations Cup, which had featured six teams from the Oceania Football Confederation, the 2008 tournament had just four.

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2008 OFC Nations Cup

Tournament details
Dates	17 October 2007 – 19 November 2008
Teams	4 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	New Zealand (4th title)
Runners-up	New Caledonia
Third place	Fiji
Fourth place	Vanuatu
Tournament statistics
Matches played	12
Goals scored	39 (3.25 per match)
Attendance	44,989 (3,749 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Shane Smeltz (8 goals)
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The cup was won by New Zealand, who as a result qualified for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa and the World Cup qualifying play-off with the Asian 5th-placed team, Bahrain, in which New Zealand were successful.

The four qualified teams for the 2008 OFC Nations Cup were:

•  New Zealand (automatic qualifier)
•  New Caledonia (gold medalists at the 2007 South Pacific Games)
•  Fiji (silver medalists at the 2007 South Pacific Games)
•  Vanuatu (bronze medalists at the 2007 South Pacific Games)

See 2008 OFC Nations Cup squads

There were 39 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 3.25 goals per match.

8 goals

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal