The OFC preliminary round opened in Lautoka, Fiji, on FRI 24 AUG 2018, and the host nation opened with a convincing win.

• American Samoa 00-02 Solomon Is: American Samoa’s first Women’s World Cup qualifier in twenty years ended in defeat, as Solomon Is captain Laydah SAMANI scored late in each half.
• Vanuatu 01-05 Fiji: At the age of seventeen, Fiji’s Trina DAVIS made her first cap a hat trick, including two goals in the first ten minutes of the second half. Cema NASAU scored Fiji’s other two goals. Annie GERE put Vanuatu on the scoresheet in the 74th minute, but Fiji came away with the comfortable victory. Fiji and the Solomon Is meet on Monday; the winner will move one step closer to the Women’s Nations Cup.