The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) is FIFA's smallest by population and has nine of their nations in the bottom 25 of FIFA's rankings.
Australia went to two World Cup finals as Oceania champions before they joined the Asian Football Confederation in 2006 while New Zealand have also been to two World Cups.
While Oceania club champions Auckland City have performed credibly at Club World Cups, finishing third last year, no national side from the far-flung region have truly made their mark on world soccer.
With a population of just 900,000 Fiji are more well known for the exploits of their rugby sevens side and are appearing in their first FIFA tournament of any kind.
Even then, their qualification was made easier because Oceania's top-ranked nation New Zealand are the tournament hosts.
Fiji were hammered 8-1 by world soccer heavyweights Germany in their opening game in Christchurch on Monday but on Thursday, Frank Farina's side looked far from the team that had appeared pleased to have just scored their first goal at a World Cup.
First-half goals within five minutes of each other from Ratu Waranaivalu and Saula Waqa had given the Fijians a surprise 2-0 lead after 20 minutes.
They extended their lead with a third right on the brink of half time when an Atonio Tuivuna header from a corner was deflected past Cristian Hernandez to give the Fijians a surprising 3-0 lead at the break.
Honduras, who had beaten Uzbekistan 4-3 in their opening encounter, did everything but score in the second half, and were denied several times by the post and some superb saves from close range by Misiwani Nairube.
In New Plymouth, Nigeria managed to get their campaign back on track with a 4-0 victory over North Korea after their 4-2 opening loss to Brazil. - Reuters
