Vanuatu withdraw from football World Cup qualifiers

Vanuatu has pulled out of Oceania's qualification tournament for the FIFA World Cup finals in Qatar due to a majority of their players and staff testing positive for COVID-19.

Vanuatu's first match of the tournament against Tahiti was postponed due to a number of positive COVID-19 cases in their camp.

Vanuatu were then scheduled to play Solomon Islands tomorrow morning.

Oceania is staging a mini-tournament in Doha to decide which team advance to an intercontinental playoff against the fourth-best team from North America, Central America and the Caribbean for a place at the finals.

In the matches yesterday, Solomon Islands defeated the Cook Islands 2-0, New Zealand beat Papua New Guinea 1-0 and Fiji overcame New Caledonia 2-1.

[Source: Radio NZ]