| Year: | 1996 |
| Num Teams: | 4 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Champion: | AUS |
| Count: | 2 |
| Second: | TAH |
| Matches: | 6 |
| Goals: | 18 |
| Top Scorer: |  Kris Trajanovski (7) |
The Oceania Nations Cup 1996 was not held as a cohesive tournament, but consisted of semi-finals and a final played on a two-legged basis, stretched out between November 1995 and November 1996.
The four participating teams were Australia and New Zealand who qualified as of right, Solomon Islands who qualified as Melanesia Cup holders, and Tahiti who qualified as Polynesia Cup holders.
The semifinals between Australia and New Zealand was also valid for the 1995 Trans-Tasman Cup.
The results were:
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| Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||||||||||||
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| height=6 | November 10, 1995 & November 15, 1995 | |||||||||||||||||||
| height=6 |  New Zealand | align=center style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor=#f9f9f9 | 0 | align=center style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor=#f9f9f9 | 0 | align=center style="border-width:0 0 2px 0; border-style:solid;border-color:black;" | ||||||||||||||
| height=6 | Australia | align=center style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor=#f9f9f9 | 3 | align=center style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor=#f9f9f9 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
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| height=6 | October 7, 1996 & November 1, 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||
| height=6 | align=center style="border-width:0 0 2px 0; border-style:solid;border-color:black;" | Australia | align=center style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor=#f9f9f9 | 6 | align=center style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor=#f9f9f9 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| height=6 | align=center style="border-width:2px 0 0 0; border-style:solid;border-color:black;" | Tahiti | align=center style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor=#f9f9f9 | 0 | align=center style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor=#f9f9f9 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
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| height=6 | November 17, 1995 & May 11, 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||
| height=6 |  Solomon Islands | align=center style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor=#f9f9f9 | 0 | align=center style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor=#f9f9f9 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| height=6 | Tahiti | align=center style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor=#f9f9f9 | 1 | align=center style="border:1px solid #aaa;" bgcolor=#f9f9f9 | 2 | align=center style="border-width:2px 0 0 0; border-style:solid;border-color:black;" | ||||||||||||||