OFC

The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) is a continental association football confederation with 13 full members and two associate members, promoting the game in Oceania and enabling member nations to qualify for the FIFA World Cup.
OFC is the only confederation without at least one international title, with Australia reaching the final of the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup.
==History==
The OFC was established in 1966 following Australia and New Zealand's unsuccessful attempts to join the Asian Football Confederation (AFC),http://www.sportshistory.club/2asoif13foo7ofc.html with its founding members being:
*the Australian Soccer Federation (from 2005: Football Australia)
*New Zealand Soccer (subsequently New Zealand Football)
*the Fiji Football Association
*the Papua New Guinea Football Association
Australia resigned from the OFC in 1972 to join the AFC, but rejoined in 1978.https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.oceaniafootball.com/index.cgi?sID=23http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Page/straitstimes19760301-1.1.24.aspx In 1974, the Socceroos became the first Oceanians to play at a FIFA World Cup, but failed to score a goal.https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/soccer-australia-upbeat-despite-loss-to-brazil/QXQAT4TM2PYBVSV67UQENJDANM/ New Zealand's All Whites played in their first World Cup eight years later, but suffered heavier defeats than Australia at the 1982 tournament.https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/1982-soccer-world-cup/results
Taiwan was expelled from the AFC in 1974http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Page/straitstimes19740916-1.1.28.aspx and was admitted as a provisional member of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) in 1976.https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.oceaniafootball.com/index.cgi?sID=23 However, membership was suspended due to "naming issues" in the 1978 AFC and OFC World Cup qualification. Taiwan was re-admitted in 1982 before rejoining the AFC in 1989.https://eaff.com/about/
Australia's national team faced significant challenges in Oceania,https://www.oceaniafootball.com/looking-back-the-ofc-nations-cup-2002/ with many uncompetitive matches in the 1990s and 2000s. Their 1997 qualification games for the 1998 FIFA World Cup included a 13-0 defeat of the Solomon Islands,https://web.archive.org/web/20071014044619/http://fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=1013/preliminaries/preliminary=897/index.html followed by a 16-0 defeat of the Cook Islands at the 1998 OFC Nations Cuphttps://www.rsssf.org/tables/98oc.html and 17-0 defeat of the Cook Islands at the 2000 OFC Nations Cup.https://www.rsssf.org/tables/00oc.html In 2001, Australia's uncompetitive results escalated, with a 22-0 win over Tonga, a 31-0 win over American Samoa,https://www.socceroos.com.au/news/watch-australia-31-0-american-samoa-20-years-ago-today and an 11-0 win over Samoa.https://www.irishtimes.com/news/only-eleven-for-the-aussies-this-time-1.380789 This game became the largest international victory in sport history.https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/american-samoa-finally-get-17-year-monkey-off-their-back-26795800.html
On January 1, 2006, Football Federation Australia transitioned from the OFC to the AFC,https://web.archive.org/web/20141217101940/http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/worldcup/timeline.shtml with the aim of improving the country's chances of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup and allowing A-League clubs to compete in the AFC Champions League.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-06-17/australia-gets-presidents-blessing-to-join-afc-in/1595226
==Member nations==
The OFC comprises 11 full member associations and two associate members, who are associate members of the OFC but not FIFA members.https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230758/http://www.oceaniafootball.com/ofc/MemberAssociations/tabid/1016/language/en-US/Default.aspx
Code	Association 	Founded	Membership	FIFA affiliation	OFC affiliation	IOC member
ASA 	American Samoa 	1984 	Full 	1998 	1998 	Yes
COK 	Cook Islands 	1971 	Full 	1994 	1994 	Yes
FIJ 	Fiji 	1938 	Full 	1964 	1966 	Yes
KIR 	Kiribati 	1980 	Associate 	N/A 	2007 	Yes
NCL 	New Caledonia 	1928 	Full 	2004 	1999 	No
NZL 	New Zealand 	1891 	Full 	1948 	1966 	Yes
PNG 	Papua New Guinea	1962 	Full 	1966 	1966 	Yes
SAM 	Samoa 	1968 	Full 	1986 	1986 	Yes
SOL 	Solomon Islands 	1979 	Full 	1988 	1988 	Yes
TAH 	Tahiti 	1989 	Full 	1990 	1990 	No
TGA 	Tonga 	1965 	Full 	1994 	1994 	Yes
TUV 	Tuvalu 	1979 	Associate 	N/A 	2006 	Yes
VAN 	Vanuatu 	1934 	Full 	1988 	1988 	Yes
==References==
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