2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8

Football tournament qualification stage The five teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner Italy qualified for the 17th FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan. The runner-up Romania advanced to the UEFA Play-off and played against Slovenia. Italy conceded two unexpected draws against the lowest-ranked sides in the group, but won the big matches comfortably, and were established as group winners long before the end of the campaign. Romania lost both games against Italy but had five wins out of six in the other matches, and second place was likewise ensured early. Standings main WDL Q ITA ITA ROM ROM GEO GEO 1990 HUN HUN LTU LTU 1988 6 2 0 16 3 5 1 2 10 7 3 1 4 12 12 2 2 4 14 13 0 2 6 3 20 WC WCPO green1 Qualification to 2002 FIFA World Cup blue1 Advance to UEFA play-offs y flag 3–0 2–0 1–0 4–0 0–2 1–1 2–0 1–0 1–2 0–2 3–1 2–0 2–2 0–2 4–1 1–1 0–0 1–2 0–4 1–6 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 Hungary v Italy 3 September 2000 HUN 2–2 https://web.archive.org/web/20071126044809/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=4395/preliminaries/preliminary=3835/matches/match=19842/report.html ITA Horváth 29 78 Inzaghi 26 35 Népstadion, Budapest 57,000 Graham Barber (England) Romania v Lithuania 3 September 2000 ROU 1–0 Report LTU 1988 Ganea 89 Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest 3,000 Morgan Norman (Sweden) Italy v Romania 7 October 2000 ITA 3–0 Report ROU Inzaghi 13Delvecchio 17Totti 42 Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan 54,297 Jan Wegereef (Netherlands) Lithuania v Georgia 7 October 2000 LTU 1988 0–4 Report GEO 1990 Ketsbaia 19 35Kinkladze 46A. Arveladze 84 Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas 2,317 Ryszard Wójcik (Poland) Italy v Georgia 11 October 2000 ITA 2–0 Report GEO 1990 Del Piero 47 pen. 87 pen. Stadio del Conero, Ancona 26,000 Karl-Erik Nilsson (Sweden) Lithuania v Hungary 11 October 2000 LTU 1988 1–6 Report HUN Buitkus 71 Illés 25M. Fehér 36 61 72Horváth 67Lisztes 84 Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas 498 Orhan Erdemir (Turkey) Romania v Italy 24 March 2001 ROU 0–2 Report ITA Inzaghi 29 33 Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest 24,000 Herbert Fandel (Germany) Hungary v Lithuania 24 March 2001 HUN 1–1 Report LTU 1988 V. Sebők 70 pen. Ražanauskas 74 Népstadion, Budapest 15,200 Vasiliy Melnichuk (Ukraine) Italy v Lithuania 28 March 2001 ITA 4–0 https://www.11v11.com/matches/italy-v-lithuania-28-march-2001-271062/ LTU 1988 Inzaghi 17 64Del Piero 49 79 Stadio Nereo Rocco, Trieste 14,800 Sergei Shmolik (Belarus) Georgia v Romania 28 March 2001 GEO 1990 0–2 Report ROU D. Munteanu 69Contra 80 Boris Paichadze National Stadium, Tbilisi 27,000 Rune Pedersen (Norway) Georgia v Italy 2 June 2001 GEO 1990 1–2 https://www.11v11.com/matches/georgia-v-italy-02-june-2001-271063/ ITA Gakhokidze 80 Delvecchio 45Totti 66 Boris Paichadze National Stadium, Tbilisi 28,000 Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain) Romania v Hungary 2 June 2001 ROU 2–0 Report HUN M. Niculae 5 54 Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest 20,526 Éric Poulat (France) Lithuania v Romania 6 June 2001 LTU 1988 1–2 Report ROU Fomenka 86 A. Ilie 31V. Moldovan 49 Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas 4,900 Anton Stredak (Slovakia) Hungary v Georgia 6 June 2001 HUN 4–1 Report GEO 1990 Mátyus 40V. Sebők 45 pen.A. Korsós 55 62 Kobiashvili 77 Népstadion, Budapest 7,325 Hartmut Strampe (Germany) Lithuania v Italy 1 September 2001 LTU 1988 0–0 https://www.11v11.com/matches/lithuania-v-italy-01-september-2001-271068/ ITA Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas 7,000 Mario van der Ende (Netherlands) Georgia v Hungary 1 September 2001 GEO 1990 3–1 Report HUN S. Arveladze 32Jamarauli 53Iashvili 64 Mátyus 43 Lokomotiv Stadium, Tbilisi 8,000 Drago Kos (Slovenia) Hungary v Romania 5 September 2001 HUN 0–2 Report ROU A. Ilie 11M. Niculae 27 Népstadion, Budapest 6,000 Hugh Dallas (Scotland) Georgia v Lithuania 5 September 2001 GEO 1990 2–0 Report LTU 1988 Iashvili 81 83 Lokomotiv Stadium, Tbilisi 15,000 Haim Yakov (Israel) Italy v Hungary 6 October 2001 ITA 1–0 Report HUN Del Piero 45 Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma 20,545 Epifanio González (Paraguay) Romania v Georgia 6 October 2001 ROU 1–1 Report GEO 1990 Gh. Popescu 88 Iashvili 55 Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest 16,500 Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia) Goalscorers 55 20 ITA Filippo Inzaghi ITA Alessandro Del Piero GEO 1990 Aleksandr Iashvili HUN Miklós Fehér HUN Ferenc Horváth ROU Marius Niculae GEO 1990 Temuri Ketsbaia HUN Attila Korsós HUN János Mátyus HUN Vilmos Sebők ITA Marco Delvecchio ITA Francesco Totti ROU Adrian Ilie GEO 1990 Archil Arveladze GEO 1990 Shota Arveladze GEO 1990 Giorgi Gakhokidze GEO 1990 Gocha Jamarauli GEO 1990 Georgi Kinkladze GEO 1990 Levan Kobiashvili HUN Béla Illés HUN Krisztián Lisztes LTU Orestas Buitkus LTU Artūras Fomenka LTU Tomas Ražanauskas ROU Cosmin Contra ROU Ioan Ganea ROU Viorel Moldovan ROU Cătălin Munteanu ROU Gheorghe Popescu References External links FIFA official page RSSSF - 2002 World Cup Qualification Allworldcup 8 Category:2000–01 in Italian football Qual Category:2000 in Lithuanian football Category:2001 in Lithuanian football Category:2000–01 in Hungarian football Category:2001–02 in Hungarian football Category:2000–01 in Romanian football Category:2001–02 in Romanian football Category:2001–02 in Georgian football Category:2000–01 in Georgian football