2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6

Football tournament qualification stage The five teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner Croatia qualified for the 17th FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan. The runner-up Belgium advanced to the UEFA Play-off and played against the Czech Republic. The group had seen a very close three-way battle between Croatia, Scotland and Belgium, with several draws between the top three sides: ultimately it was only decided towards the end when Belgium's defeat of Scotland put paid to all but the mathematical goal-difference chances of the Scots, and left Belgium in first place in the group, only to be defeated by Croatia in the final match, with Croatia thus overtaking them for first place in the group and finishing unbeaten. Standings main WDL Q CRO CRO BEL BEL SCO SCO LAT LAT SMR SMR 1862 5 3 0 15 2 5 2 1 25 6 4 3 1 12 6 1 1 6 5 16 1 7 3 30 WC WCPO green1 Qualification to 2002 FIFA World Cup blue1 Advance to UEFA play-offs y flag 1–0 1–1 4–1 4–0 0–0 2–0 3–1 10–1 0–0 2–2 2–1 4–0 0–1 0–4 0–1 1–1 0–4 1–4 0–2 0–1 complete FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) 2002, football - table and standings https://soccer365.me/competitions/739/2002/ soccer365.me 19 April 2024 15 December 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20241215135351/https://soccer365.me/competitions/739/2002/ dead Matches Belgium v Croatia 2000 9 2 y 20:00 UTC+2 BEL CRO 0–0 King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels 27,510 Nikolai Levnikov (Russia) Report Latvia v Scotland 2000 9 2 y 18:00 UTC+3 LVA SCO 0–1 McCann 89 Skonto stadions, Riga 9,200 Andreas Schluchter (Switzerland) Report Latvia v Belgium 2000 10 7 y 20:15 UTC+3 LVA BEL 0–4 Wilmots 5B. Peeters 13Cavens 83G. Verheyen 90 Skonto stadions, Riga 7,311 Leslie Irvine (Northern Ireland) Report San Marino v Scotland 2000 10 7 y 19:45 UTC+2 SMR 1862 SCO 0–2 Elliott 71Hutchison 73 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle 4,377 Gylfi Thor Orrason (Iceland) Report Croatia v Scotland 2000 10 11 y 20:00 UTC+2 CRO SCO 1–1 Bokšić 16 K. Gallacher 24 Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb 17,995 Gilles Veissiere (France) Report San Marino v Scotland 2000 11 15 y 20:30 UTC+1 SMR 1862 LVA 0–1 Jeļisejevs 9 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle 517 Darko Čeferin (Slovenia) Report Belgium v San Marino 2001 2 28 y 21:00 UTC+1 BEL SMR 1862 10–1 Vanderhaeghe 10 50É. Mpenza 13Goor 26 60Baseggio 64Wilmots 72B. Peeters 76 84 88 Selva 90 King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels 40,104 Sten Kaldma (Estonia) Report Croatia v Latvia 2001 3 24 y 18:00 UTC+1 CRO LVA 4–1 Balaban 8 42 45Vugrinec 89 Štolcers 60 Stadion Gradski vrt, Osijek 13,345 Martin Ingvarsson (Sweden) Report Scotland v Belgium 2001 3 24 y 15:00 UTC±0 SCO BEL 2–2 Dodds 2 27 pen. Wilmots 58Van Buyten 90 Hampden Park, Glasgow 37,480 Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark) Report Scotland v San Marino 2001 3 28 y 20:00 UTC+1 SCO SMR 1862 4–0 Hendry 22 33Dodds 34Cameron 63 Hampden Park, Glasgow 27,313 Petteri Kari (Finland) Report Latvia v San Marino 2001 4 25 y 18:30 UTC+3 LVA SMR 1862 1–1 Pahars 1 Albani 59 Skonto stadions, Riga 4,000 Karen Nalbandyan (Armenia) Report Croatia v San Marino 2001 6 2 y 20:15 UTC+2 CRO SMR 1862 4–0 Vlaović 3Balaban 29Šuker 54 pen.Vugrinec 89 Stadion Varteks, Varaždin 15,000 Oleg Timofeyev (Estonia) Report Belgium v Latvia 2001 6 2 y 20:00 UTC+2 BEL LVA 3–1 Wilmots 2É. Mpenza 12Zemļinskis 50 o.g. Pahars 52 King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels 32,000 Ivan Dobrinov (Bulgaria) Report Latvia v Croatia 2001 6 6 y 18:00 UTC+3 LVA CRO 0–1 Balaban 40 Skonto stadions, Riga 5,000 John McDermott (Republic of Ireland) Report San Marino v Belgium 2001 6 6 y 20:30 UTC+2 SMR 1862 BEL 1–4 Selva 11 Wilmots 10 89 pen.G.Verheyen 60Sonck 68 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle 1,538 Haim Yakov (Israel) Report Scotland v Croatia 2001 9 1 y 15:00 UTC+1 SCO CRO 0–0 Hampden Park, Glasgow 47,584 Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia) Report San Marino v Croatia 2001 9 5 y 20:15 UTC+2 SMR 1862 CRO 0–4 N. Kovač 40Prosinečki 48 pen. 90Soldo 77 Stadio Olimpico, Serravalle 1,387 Knud Stadsgaard (Denmark) Report Belgium v Scotland 2001 9 5 y 20:15 UTC+2 BEL SCO 2–0 N. Van Kerckhoven 28 Goor 90 King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels 43,500 Manuel Mejuto González (Spain) Report Croatia v Belgium 2001 10 6 y 18:00 UTC+2 CRO BEL 1–0 Bokšić 75 Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb 36,077 Hellmut Krug (Germany) Report Scotland v Latvia 2001 10 6 y 17:00 UTC+1 SCO LVA 2–1 Freedman 44 D. Weir 53 Rubins 21 Hampden Park, Glasgow 23,228 Terje Hauge (Norway) Report Goalscorers 60 20 BEL Marc Wilmots CRO Boško Balaban BEL Bob Peeters BEL Bart Goor SCO Billy Dodds BEL Émile Mpenza BEL Yves Vanderhaeghe BEL Gert Verheyen CRO Alen Bokšić CRO Robert Prosinečki CRO Davor Vugrinec LVA Marians Pahars SMR 1862 Andy Selva SCO Colin Hendry BEL Walter Baseggio BEL Jurgen Cavens BEL Wesley Sonck BEL Daniel Van Buyten BEL Nico Van Kerckhoven CRO Niko Kovač CRO Zvonimir Soldo CRO Davor Šuker CRO Goran Vlaović LVA Aleksandrs Jeļisejevs LVA Andrejs Rubins LVA Andrejs Štolcers SMR 1862 Nicola Albani SCO Colin Cameron SCO Matt Elliott SCO Dougie Freedman SCO Kevin Gallacher SCO Don Hutchison SCO Neil McCann SCO David Weir LVA Mihails Zemļinskis (against Belgium) References External links FIFA official page RSSSF - 2002 World Cup Qualification Allworldcup 6 Category:2000–01 in Scottish football Category:2001–02 in Scottish football Category:2000 in Latvian football Category:2001 in Latvian football Category:2000–01 in Croatian football qual Category:2000–01 in Belgian football qual Category:2001–02 in San Marino football Category:2000–01 in San Marino football