 PanSa East qualified for the tournament held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea by winning their domestic league.The winner of the tournament would go on to represent Oceania at the 2001 Fifa World Club Championship, until that tournament was cancelled.PanSa competed in "Group B", which also contained Tafea FC from Vanuatu, AS Venus from French Polynesia, Titavi FC from Samoa and Tupapa FC from the Cook Islands.