New Zealand has gotten the chance to participate in a football World Cup for the third time. The team won the final of the Oceania qualifier for the championship at the end of the year in Qatar in Doha against outsiders Solomon Islands 5-0 (2-0).
Bill Tuiloma (23rd minute, 69th) with a brace and Chris Wood (39th), Joe Bell (49th) and Matthew Jimmy David Garbett (90th + 1) scored the goals for the favorite. In the battle for their third World Cup participation after 1982 and 2010, New Zealand will now play again in Qatar on June 13 or 14 against the fourth-placed Concacaf qualifiers from North and Central America.