2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

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Listed below are the dates and results for the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the European zone (UEFA). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification.

A total of 51 UEFA teams entered the competition. The European zone was allocated 14.5 places (out of 32) in the final tournament. France, the defending champions, qualified automatically leaving 13.5 spots open for competition between 50 teams.

The 50 teams were divided into nine groups, five groups of six teams and four groups of five teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify. Among the runners-up, the runner-up of Group 2 was drawn randomly to advance to the UEFA / AFC Intercontinental play-off. The other runners-up would advance to the UEFA play-offs.

In the play-offs, the eight teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The four aggregate winners qualified. The Qualifying Process Started on 2 September 2000, After UEFA Euro 2000, and ended on 14 November 2001.

Qualification seeding (UEFA)

The draw was made in December 1999, and was based on average points per game achieved in 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification and UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying.

Notable things:

France qualified automatically as title holders.
Belgium and Netherlands did not have to qualify to UEFA Euro 2000 (hosts), so only their 1998 World Cup result was used.
Andorra competed for the first time in World Cup.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
Spain 2.61 Romania 2.60 Norway 2.50 Sweden 2.39 Netherlands 2.38 Czech Republic 2.30 Germany 2.28 Belgium 2.25 Yugoslavia 2.22	Austria 2.11 Portugal 2.10 Italy 2.06 Scotland 2.05 England 2.00 Russia 2.00 Ukraine 2.00 Denmark 1.94 Turkey 1.94	Republic of Ireland 1.89 Croatia 1.88 Slovakia 1.65 Bulgaria 1.63 Israel 1.63 Greece 1.61 Switzerland 1.50 Poland 1.44 Lithuania 1.40	Cyprus 1.38 Hungary 1.33 Finland 1.31 Iceland 1.20 Macedonia 1.17 Latvia 1.15 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.11 Slovenia 1.00 Wales 1.00	Georgia 0.83 Armenia 0.80 Estonia 0.75 Northern Ireland 0.67 Albania 0.55 Faroe Islands 0.45 Azerbaijan 0.39 Belarus 0.39 Moldova 0.25 Liechtenstein 0.20 Andorra 0.00 Luxembourg 0.00 Malta 0.00 San Marino 0.00

First round

Summary

Winner of each group qualified directly for the 2002 FIFA World Cup

The Runners-up advanced to the second round (play-offs)

Other teams were eliminated after the first round

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7	Group 8	Group 9
Russia	Portugal	Denmark	Sweden	Poland	Croatia	Spain	Italy	England
Slovenia	Republic of Ireland	Czech Republic	Turkey	Ukraine	Belgium	Austria	Romania	Germany
Yugoslavia Switzerland Faroe Islands Luxembourg	Netherlands Estonia Cyprus Andorra	Bulgaria Iceland Northern Ireland Malta	Slovakia Macedonia Moldova Azerbaijan	Belarus Norway Wales Armenia	Scotland Latvia San Marino	Israel Bosnia and Herzegovina Liechtenstein	Georgia Hungary Lithuania	Finland Greece Albania

Legend
Countries that directly qualified for the 2002 World Cup
Countries that advanced to the play-offs

Group 1

Main article: 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Russia	10	7	2	1	18	5	13	23
Slovenia	10	5	5	0	17	9	8	20
Yugoslavia	10	5	4	1	22	8	14	19
Switzerland	10	4	2	4	18	12	6	14
Faroe Islands	10	2	1	7	6	23	−17	7
Luxembourg	10	0	0	10	4	28	−24	0


Faroe Islands	–	1–0	0–3	2–2	0–1	0–6
Luxembourg	0–2	–	1–2	1–2	0–3	0–2
Russia	1–0	3–0	–	1–1	4–0	1–1
Slovenia	3–0	2–0	2–1	–	2–2	1–1
Switzerland	5–1	5–0	0–1	0–1	–	1–2
Yugoslavia	2–0	6–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	–

Russia qualified. Slovenia advanced to the UEFA Play-offs.

Group 2

Main article: 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Portugal	10	7	3	0	33	7	26	24
Republic of Ireland	10	7	3	0	23	5	18	24
Netherlands	10	6	2	2	30	9	21	20
Estonia	10	2	2	6	10	26	−16	8
Cyprus	10	2	2	6	13	31	−18	8
Andorra	10	0	0	10	5	36	−31	0


Andorra	–	2–3	1–2	0–3	0–5	1–7
Cyprus	5–0	–	2–2	0–4	0–4	1–3
Estonia	1–0	2–2	–	0–2	2–4	1–3
Republic of Ireland	3–1	4–0	2–0	–	1–0	1–1
Netherlands	4–0	4–0	5–0	2–2	–	0–2
Portugal	3–0	6–0	5–0	1–1	2–2	–

Portugal qualified. Republic of Ireland advanced to the UEFA / AFC Intercontinental Play-off

Group 3

Main article: 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Denmark	10	6	4	0	22	6	16	22
Czech Republic	10	6	2	2	20	8	12	20
Bulgaria	10	5	2	3	14	15	−1	17
Iceland	10	4	1	5	14	20	−6	13
Northern Ireland	10	3	2	5	11	12	−1	11
Malta	10	0	1	9	4	24	−20	1


Bulgaria	–	0–1	0–2	2–1	3–0	4–3
Czech Republic	6–0	–	0–0	4–0	3–2	3–1
Denmark	1–1	2–1	–	6–0	2–1	1–1
Iceland	1–1	3–1	1–2	–	3–0	1–0
Malta	0–2	0–0	0–5	1–4	–	0–1
Northern Ireland	0–1	0–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	–

Denmark qualified. Czech Republic advanced to the UEFA Play-offs.

Group 4

Main article: 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	10	8	2	0	20	3	17	26
Turkey	10	6	3	1	18	8	10	21
Slovakia	10	5	2	3	16	9	7	17
Macedonia	10	1	4	5	11	18	−7	7
Moldova	10	1	3	6	6	20	−14	6
Azerbaijan	10	1	2	7	4	17	−13	5


Azerbaijan	–	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–1	0–1
Macedonia	3–0	–	2–2	0–5	1–2	1–2
Moldova	2–0	0–0	–	0–1	0–2	0–3
Slovakia	3–1	2–0	4–2	–	0–0	0–1
Sweden	3–0	1–0	6–0	2–0	–	1–1
Turkey	3–0	3–3	2–0	1–1	1–2	–

Sweden qualified. Turkey advanced to the UEFA Play-offs.

Group 5

Main article: 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Poland	10	6	3	1	21	11	10	21
Ukraine	10	4	5	1	13	8	5	17
Belarus	10	4	3	3	12	11	1	15
Norway	10	2	4	4	12	14	−2	10
Wales	10	1	6	3	10	12	−2	9
Armenia	10	0	5	5	7	19	−12	5


Armenia	–	0–0	1–4	1–1	2–3	2–2
Belarus	2–1	–	2–1	4–1	0–2	2–1
Norway	0–0	1–1	–	2–3	0–1	3–2
Poland	4–0	3–1	3–0	–	1–1	0–0
Ukraine	3–0	0–0	0–0	1–3	–	1–1
Wales	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–2	1–1	–

Poland qualified. Ukraine advanced to the UEFA Play-offs.

Group 6

Main article: 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Croatia	8	5	3	0	15	2	13	18
Belgium	8	5	2	1	25	6	19	17
Scotland	8	4	3	1	12	6	6	15
Latvia	8	1	1	6	5	16	−11	4
San Marino	8	0	1	7	3	30	−27	1


Belgium	–	0–0	3–1	10–1	2–0
Croatia	1–0	–	4–1	4–0	1–1
Latvia	0–4	0–1	–	1–1	0–1
San Marino	1–4	0–4	0–1	–	0–2
Scotland	2–2	0–0	2–1	4–0	–

Croatia qualified. Belgium advanced to the UEFA Play-offs.

Group 7

Main article: 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 7

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Spain	8	6	2	0	21	4	17	20
Austria	8	4	3	1	10	8	2	15
Israel	8	3	3	2	11	7	4	12
Bosnia and Herzegovina	8	2	2	4	12	12	0	8
Liechtenstein	8	0	0	8	0	23	−23	0


Austria	–	2–0	2–1	2–0	1–1
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–1	–	0–0	5–0	1–2
Israel	1–1	3–1	–	2–0	1–1
Liechtenstein	0–1	0–3	0–3	–	0–2
Spain	4–0	4–1	2–0	5–0	–

Spain qualified. Austria advanced to the UEFA Play-offs.

Group 8

Main article: 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	8	6	2	0	16	3	13	20
Romania	8	5	1	2	10	7	3	16
Georgia	8	3	1	4	12	12	0	10
Hungary	8	2	2	4	14	13	1	8
Lithuania	8	0	2	6	3	20	−17	2


Georgia	–	3–1	1–2	2–0	0–2
Hungary	4–1	–	2–2	1–1	0–2
Italy	2–0	1–0	–	4–0	3–0
Lithuania	0–4	1–6	0–0	–	1–2
Romania	1–1	2–0	0–2	1–0	–

Italy qualified. Romania advanced to the UEFA Play-offs.

Group 9

Main article: 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 9

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
England	8	5	2	1	16	6	10	17
Germany	8	5	2	1	14	10	4	17
Finland	8	3	3	2	12	7	5	12
Greece	8	2	1	5	7	17	−10	7
Albania	8	1	0	7	5	14	−9	3


Albania	–	1–3	0–2	0–2	2–0
England	2–0	–	2–1	0–1	2–2
Finland	2–1	0–0	–	2–2	5–1
Germany	2–1	1–5	0–0	–	2–0
Greece	1–0	0–2	1–0	2–4	–

England qualified. Germany advanced to the UEFA Play-offs.

Germany lost a World Cup qualifying match for only the second time on 1 September 2001, when they were defeated 5–1 by England in Munich. They had played 62 World Cup qualifying matches before (47 wins, 14 draws, 1 loss). Apart from Germany, no team having played more than 20 World Cup qualifying matches has lost less than three of them.

Play-offs

Main article: 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA play-off)

Republic of Ireland qualified to the UEFA / AFC Intercontinental Play-off. The other teams qualified to the UEFA play-offs.

Matches

Belgium v Czech Republic

10 November 2001
9:15 pm

Belgium	1–0	Czech Republic
G. Verheyen 28'	Report

Stade Roi Baudouin, Brussels
Attendance: 39,000
Referee: Urs Meier (Switzerland)

Czech Republic v Belgium

14 November 2001
8:45 pm

Czech Republic	0–1	Belgium
	Report	Wilmots 85' (pen.)

Letná Stadium, Prague
Attendance: 18,996
Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

Belgium qualified by the aggregate score of 2–0.

Ukraine v Germany

10 November 2001
9:45 pm

Ukraine	1–1	Germany
Zubov 18'	Report	Ballack 31'

Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex, Kiev
Attendance: 83,000
Referee: Stefano Braschi (Italy)

Germany v Ukraine

14 November 2001
8:45 pm

Germany	4–1	Ukraine
Ballack 4', 51' Neuville 11' Rehmer 15'	Report	Shevchenko 90'

Westfalenstadion, Dortmund
Attendance: 52,400
Referee: Vítor Melo Pereira (Portugal)

Germany qualified by the aggregate score of 5–2.

Slovenia v Romania

10 November 2001

Slovenia	2–1	Romania
Ačimovič 41' Osterc 70'	Report	M. Niculae 26'

Bežigrad Stadium, Ljubljana
Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)

Romania v Slovenia

14 November 2001

Romania	1–1	Slovenia
Contra 65'	Report	Rudonja 55'

Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest
Attendance: 24,500
Referee: Hellmut Krug (Germany)

Slovenia qualified by the aggregate score of 3–2.

Austria v Turkey

10 November 2001

Austria	0–1	Turkey
	Report	Buruk 60'

Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Manuel Mejuto González (Spain)

Turkey v Austria

14 November 2001

Turkey	5–0	Austria
Baştürk 21' Şükür 31' Buruk 45' Erdem 69', 85'	Report

Ali Sami Yen, Istanbul
Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)

Turkey qualified by the aggregate score of 6–0.

External links

Results
RSSSF – 2002 World Cup Qualification
Allworldcup
UEFA Qualifier results with full game box scores at Scoreshelf.com

2002 FIFA World Cup qualifiers

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