The 2002 OFC Nations Cup qualification tournament was a football competition that was played in March 2002 to determine the two of OFC's five lowest-ranked members men's national teams to advance to the 2002 OFC Nations Cup final tournament played in New Zealand in July 2002.

The national teams of six OFC member associations entered the qualifying process.

Retaining their round-robin group qualifier style, the OFC this time chose to adopt the FIFA rankings to order all the entrants.

The Rankings of all the teams involved in the OFC Nations Cup are below.

The positions were taken as of October, 2001, with the eleven ranked teams appearing in the following order: The ranking of teams in the standings were based on the following criteria (regulations Articles 15):[1] Below was the schedule of the 2002 OFC Nations Cup qualification.