| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | 16 August 2000 – 15 November 2001 |
| Teams | 50 (from 1 confederation) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 238 |
| Goals scored | 677 (2.84 per match) |
| Attendance | 4,786,293 (20,110 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | (10 goals) |
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Listed below are the dates and results for the2002 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds forUEFA teams.
The European section of the2002 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the2002 FIFA World Cup, which was held in South Korea and Japan, for national teams which are members of theUEFA. Apart fromFrance, who qualified automatically as defending champions, a total of 13.5 slots in the final tournament were available for UEFA 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, Group 2 was drawn randomly to advance to the UEFA–AFC Intercontinental play-off while the remaining eight runners-up would advance to the UEFA play-offs.[1]
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, afterUEFA Euro 2000, and ended on 14 November 2001.
The draw was made on 7 December 1999, and was based on average points per game achieved in1998 FIFA World Cup qualification andUEFA Euro 2000 qualifying.France qualified automatically as title holders, and becauseBelgium andNetherlands, as hosts, had not had to qualify forUEFA Euro 2000, only their 1998 World Cup result was used.Andorra made their debut in World Cup qualifying.
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Table -top row: group winners,second row: group runners-up,third row: others. The winner of each group qualified for the2002 FIFA World Cup together with winners ofplay-off. Group 2 was the last team drawn for its runner-up to participate in the UEFA/AFC intercontinental play-off. As runner-up in group 2, Republic of Ireland played a play-off against a team from the AFC confederation, whereas the others played against each other (UEFA play-off).
The winner of each group qualified directly, the runner-up advanced to play-off (either UEFA playoff or UEFA-AFC playoff).
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 5 | +13 | 23 | Qualification to2002 FIFA World Cup | — | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 2 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 17 | 9 | +8 | 20 | Advance toUEFA play-offs | 2–1 | — | 1–1 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–0 | ||
| 3 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 8 | +14 | 19 | 0–1 | 1–1 | — | 1–1 | 2–0 | 6–2 | |||
| 4 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 12 | +6 | 14 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | — | 5–1 | 5–0 | |||
| 5 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 23 | −17 | 7 | 0–3 | 2–2 | 0–6 | 0–1 | — | 1–0 | |||
| 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 28 | −24 | 0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–2 | — |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 7 | +26 | 24 | Qualification to2002 FIFA World Cup | — | 1–1 | 2–2 | 5–0 | 6–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 2 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 5 | +18 | 24 | Advance tointer-confederation play-offs | 1–1 | — | 1–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 3–1 | ||
| 3 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 30 | 9 | +21 | 20 | 0–2 | 2–2 | — | 5–0 | 4–0 | 4–0 | |||
| 4 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 26 | −16 | 8 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 2–4 | — | 2–2 | 1–0 | |||
| 5 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 31 | −18 | 8 | 1–3 | 0–4 | 0–4 | 2–2 | — | 5–0 | |||
| 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 36 | −31 | 0 | 1–7 | 0–3 | 0–5 | 1–2 | 2–3 | — |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 22 | 6 | +16 | 22 | Qualification to2002 FIFA World Cup | — | 2–1 | 1–1 | 6–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | ||
| 2 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 8 | +12 | 20 | Advance toUEFA play-offs | 0–0 | — | 6–0 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 3–2 | ||
| 3 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 15 | −1 | 17 | 0–2 | 0–1 | — | 2–1 | 4–3 | 3–0 | |||
| 4 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 20 | −6 | 13 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–1 | — | 1–0 | 3–0 | |||
| 5 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 12 | −1 | 11 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | — | 1–0 | |||
| 6 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 24 | −20 | 1 | 0–5 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–4 | 0–1 | — |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 3 | +17 | 26 | Qualification to2002 FIFA World Cup | — | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 6–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 2 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 21 | Advance toUEFA play-offs | 1–2 | — | 1–1 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 9 | +7 | 17 | 0–0 | 0–1 | — | 2–0 | 4–2 | 3–1 | |||
| 4 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 18 | −7 | 7 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–5 | — | 2–2 | 3–0 | |||
| 5 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 20 | −14 | 6 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | — | 2–0 | |||
| 6 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 17 | −13 | 5 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | — |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 11 | +10 | 21 | Qualification to2002 FIFA World Cup | — | 1–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 4–0 | ||
| 2 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 8 | +5 | 17 | Advance toUEFA play-offs | 1–3 | — | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 11 | +1 | 15 | 4–1 | 0–2 | — | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | |||
| 4 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 14 | −2 | 10 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 1–1 | — | 3–2 | 0–0 | |||
| 5 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 12 | −2 | 9 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | — | 0–0 | |||
| 6 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 19 | −12 | 5 | 1–1 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 2–2 | — |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 2 | +13 | 18 | Qualification to2002 FIFA World Cup | — | 1–0 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 4–0 | ||
| 2 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 6 | +19 | 17 | Advance toUEFA play-offs | 0–0 | — | 2–0 | 3–1 | 10–1 | ||
| 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 15 | 0–0 | 2–2 | — | 2–1 | 4–0 | |||
| 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 16 | −11 | 4 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 0–1 | — | 1–1 | |||
| 5 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 30 | −27 | 1 | 0–4 | 1–4 | 0–2 | 0–1 | — |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 4 | +17 | 20 | Qualification to2002 FIFA World Cup | — | 4–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 5–0 | ||
| 2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 15 | Advance toUEFA play-offs | 1–1 | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | ||
| 3 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 12 | 1–1 | 1–1 | — | 3–1 | 2–0 | |||
| 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | — | 5–0 | |||
| 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 23 | −23 | 0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–3 | — |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 3 | +13 | 20 | Qualification to2002 FIFA World Cup | — | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | ||
| 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | +3 | 16 | Advance toUEFA play-offs | 0–2 | — | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | ||
| 3 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 1–2 | 0–2 | — | 3–1 | 2–0 | |||
| 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 13 | +1 | 8 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 4–1 | — | 1–1 | |||
| 5 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 20 | −17 | 2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–4 | 1–6 | — |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | +10 | 17 | Qualification to2002 FIFA World Cup | — | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | ||
| 2 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 10 | +4 | 17 | Advance toUEFA play-offs | 1–5 | — | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | ||
| 3 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 12 | 0–0 | 2–2 | — | 5–1 | 2–1 | |||
| 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 17 | −10 | 7 | 0–2 | 2–4 | 1–0 | — | 1–0 | |||
| 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 14 | −9 | 3 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 2–0 | — |
The draw for the play-offs was held on 31 August 2001 at FIFA's headquarters inZürich, Switzerland.[1] The nine group runners-up were placed into one pot, with eight teams drawn into four pairings (with the first team drawn hosting the first leg). The remaining team then faced an AFC team in theinter-confederation play-offs.[3] UEFA were paired to face the AFC team by decision of theFIFA Executive Committee in October 1999.[4]
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | |
| Ukraine | 2–5 | 1–1 | 1–4 | |
| Slovenia | 3–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | |
| Austria | 0–6 | 0–1 | 0–5 |
As theGroup 2 runner-up was the last team to be selected in the play-off draw on 31 August 2001, that team then faced an AFC team in theinter-confederation play-offs.[3] UEFA were paired to face the AFC team by decision of theFIFA Executive Committee in October 1999,[4] though the order of legs was decided by the draw on 31 August 2001. The team to meet an AFC team became the Republic of Ireland.[5]
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republic of Ireland | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 |
The following 15 teams from UEFA qualified for the final tournament.
There were 677 goals scored in 238 matches, for an average of 2.84 goals per match.
10 goals
9 goals
8 goals
7 goals
6 goals
Below are full goalscorer lists for all groups and the play-offs: