2006 FIFA World Cup - Oceania-South America Qualification Playoff

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
(CONMEBOL–OFC play-off)

John Aloisi taking the decisive penalty
Event	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
Uruguay Australia 1 1
1–1 on aggregate, Australia won 4–2 on penalties
First leg
Uruguay Australia 1 0
Date	12 November 2005
Venue	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo
Referee	Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)
Attendance	55,000
Weather	Clear 22 °C (72 °F)
Second leg
Australia Uruguay 1 0
Date	16 November 2005
Venue	Telstra Stadium, Sydney
Referee	Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)
Attendance	82,698
Weather	Mostly cloudy 17 °C (63 °F)

The 2006 FIFA World Cup CONMEBOL–OFC qualification play-off was a two-legged home-and-away tie between the winners of the Oceania qualifying tournament, Australia, and the fifth-placed team from the South American qualifying tournament, Uruguay. It still remains as the only match where a country has qualified for the FIFA World Cup Finals on a penalty shoot out.

The games were played on 12 and 16 November 2005 in Montevideo and Sydney respectively. With the home team winning 1–0 in both matches, the aggregate score was tied 1–1, and, with no away goal advantage, the play-off was decided by a penalty shootout, which Australia won 4–2 in order to qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time since the 1974 tournament.

It was the second consecutive FIFA World Cup where the two sides had played each other for a place in the tournament. On the first occasion in 2001, Uruguay won 3–1 on aggregate. The draw for determining the order of the home and away legs was made at a FIFA congress on 10 September 2005. Australia finally won a FIFA World Cup play-off after losing to Scotland (1986), Argentina (1994), Iran (1998) and Uruguay (2002).