The winner of the OFC Football World Cup Qualifiers will compete in a two-legged home-and-away playoff with the team ranked fifth in the South American qualifying competition for a place in the 2018 World Cup.
In the 2004 OFC Nations Cup, which doubled as the Oceania qualifying tournament for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the Solomon Islands unexpectedly made the finals after a 2-2 draw with Australia in the last round.