2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2

Football tournament qualification stage The 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 2 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Andorra, Cyprus, Estonia, the Netherlands, Portugal and the Republic of Ireland. The group was won by Portugal, who qualified for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. The runners-up Republic of Ireland entered the UEFA–AFC play-off as the group's play-off berth was randomly drawn by FIFA for the intercontinental play-off against an AFC team not one from its own confederation. Portugal, Ireland, and the Netherlands were clearly the top sides in the group, each handing out six beatings to the three other minnows. Between the top three, four of the matches were drawn, but the Netherlands lost one match each to Portugal and Ireland and had to settle for third place. In the end, Portugal only topped the group ahead of Ireland by virtue of superior goal difference. Standings main WDL Q POR POR IRL IRL NED NED EST EST CYP CYP 1960 AND AND 7 3 0 33 7 7 3 0 23 5 6 2 2 30 9 2 2 6 10 26 2 2 6 13 31 0 0 10 5 36 WC WCPO green1 Qualification to 2002 FIFA World Cup blue1 Advance to inter-confederation play-offs y flag 1–1 2–2 5–0 6–0 3–0 1–1 1–0 2–0 4–0 3–1 0–2 2–2 5–0 4–0 4–0 1–3 0–2 2–4 2–2 1–0 1–3 0–4 0–4 2–2 5–0 1–7 0–3 0–5 1–2 2–3 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 Estonia v Andorra 2000 8 16 y 18:00 UTC+3 EST AND 1–0 Reim 66 pen. Kadriorg Stadium, Tallinn 1,600 Zoran Arsić (FR Yugoslavia) Report Andorra v Cyprus 2000 9 2 y 17:30 UTC+2 AND CYP 1960 2–3 González 45I. Lima 52 Konstantinou 25 pen. 90Agathokleous 77 Estadi Comunal, Andorra la Vella 600 Ihor Yarmenchuk (Ukraine) Report Netherlands v Republic of Ireland 2000 9 2 y 20:30 UTC+2 NED IRL 2–2 Talan 71Van Bronckhorst 84 Robbie Keane 21McAteer 65 Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam 45,000 Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia) Report Estonia v Portugal 2000 9 3 y 17:00 UTC+3 EST POR 1–3 Oper 83 Rui Costa 15Figo 49Sá Pinto 57 Kadriorg Stadium, Tallinn 4,700 Charles Agius (Malta) Report Andorra v Estonia 2000 10 7 y 16:00 UTC+2 AND EST 1–2 Ruiz 90+1 pen. Reim 55Oper 65 Estadi Comunal, Andorra la Vella 650 Dani Koren (Israel) Report Cyprus v Netherlands 2000 10 7 y 20:30 UTC+3 CYP 1960 NED 0–4 Seedorf 69 78Overmars 82Kluivert 90 GSP Stadium, Nicosia 10,250 Graziano Cesari (Italy) Report Portugal v Republic of Ireland 2000 10 7 y 21:00 UTC+1 POR IRL 1–1 Conceição 57 Holland 73 Estádio da Luz, Lisbon 43,500 Atanas Uzunov (Bulgaria) Report Republic of Ireland v Estonia 2000 10 11 y 19:30 UTC+1 IRL EST 2–0 Kinsella 25Dunne 51 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 34,962 Terje Hauge (Norway) Report Netherlands v Portugal 2000 10 11 y 20:30 UTC+2 NED POR 0–2 Conceição 11Pauleta 44 De Kuip, Rotterdam 44,620 Graham Poll (England) Report Cyprus v Andorra 2000 11 15 y 19:00 UTC+2 CYP 1960 AND 5–0 Okkas 10 18Agathokleous 43Christodoulou 73Špoljarić 90 pen. Tsirion Stadium, Limassol 1,193 Sten Johanzon (Sweden) Report Portugal v Andorra 2001 2 28 y 21:00 UTC POR AND 3–0 Figo 1 49Pauleta 36 Estádio dos Barreiros, Funchal 9,000 Paul Allaerts (Belgium) Report Cyprus v Republic of Ireland 2001 3 24 y 20:00 UTC+2 CYP 1960 IRL 0–4 Roy Keane 32 88Harte 42 pen.G. Kelly 80 GSP Stadium, Nicosia 8,854 Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium) Report Andorra v Netherlands 2001 3 24 y 20:30 UTC+1 AND NED 0–5 Kluivert 9Hasselbaink 36Van Hooijdonk 61 70Van Bommel 84 Mini Estadi, Barcelona 3,823 Edo Trivković (Croatia) Report Andorra v Republic of Ireland 2001 3 28 y 18:30 UTC+2 AND IRL 0–3 Harte 33 pen.Kilbane 76Holland 80 Mini Estadi, Barcelona 5,000 Ihor Ishchenko (Ukraine) Report Cyprus v Estonia 2001 3 28 y 19:00 UTC+3 CYP 1960 EST 2–2 Konstantinou 47Okkas 64 Kristal 76Piiroja 78 Tsirion Stadium, Limassol 3,000 Tomasz Mikulski (Poland) Report Portugal v Netherlands 2001 3 28 y 21:00 UTC+1 POR NED 2–2 Pauleta 83Figo 90+1 pen. Hasselbaink 18 pen.Kluivert 48 Estádio das Antas, Porto 42,164 Urs Meier (Switzerland) Report Republic of Ireland v Andorra 2001 4 25 y 19:00 UTC+1 IRL AND 3–1 Kilbane 33Kinsella 36Breen 73 Lima 31 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 35,000 Kristinn Jakobsson (Iceland) Report Netherlands v Cyprus 2001 4 25 y 20:30 UTC+2 NED CYP 1960 4–0 Hasselbaink 29Overmars 35Kluivert 44Van Nistelrooy 81 Philips Stadion, Eindhoven 31,000 Yuri Baskakov (Russia) Report Republic of Ireland v Portugal 2001 6 2 y 15:00 UTC+1 IRL POR 1–1 Roy Keane 68 Figo 78 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 35,000 Knud Erik Fisker (Denmark) Report Estonia v Netherlands 2001 6 2 y 15:00 UTC+3 EST NED 2–4 Oper 65Zelinski 76 Piiroja 68 o.g.Van Nistelrooy 83 90Kluivert 90 Lilleküla Stadium, Tallinn 9,323 Ceri Richards (Wales) Report Estonia v Republic of Ireland 2001 6 6 y 18:00 UTC+3 EST IRL 0–2 Dunne 8Holland 38 Lilleküla Stadium, Tallinn 8,000 Marian Salomir (Romania) Report Portugal v Cyprus 2001 6 6 y 21:00 UTC+1 POR CYP 1960 6–0 Pauleta 36 70Barbosa 55 60João Pinto 76 81 Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon 34,500 Stefano Farina (Italy) Report Estonia v Cyprus 2001 8 15 y 21:00 UTC+3 EST CYP 1960 2–2 Zelinski 51Novikov 86 Konstantinou 39 69 Lilleküla Stadium, Tallinn 5,000 Oleg Chikun (Belarus) Report Republic of Ireland v Netherlands 2001 9 1 y 15:00 UTC+1 IRL NED 1–0 McAteer 68 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 35,400 Hellmut Krug (Germany) Report Andorra v Portugal 2001 9 1 y 22:00 UTC+2 AND POR 1–7 Jonas 42 Nuno Gomes 36 40 45 90Pauleta 39Rui Jorge 45Conceição 58 Camp d'Esports, Lleida 4,876 Terje Hauge (Norway) Report Netherlands v Estonia 2001 9 5 y 20:30 UTC+2 NED EST 5–0 Zenden 16Van Bommel 26 39Cocu 32Van Nistelrooy 43 Philips Stadion, Eindhoven 28,500 Kyros Vassaras (Greece) Report Cyprus v Portugal 2001 9 5 y 20:30 UTC+3 CYP 1960 POR 1–3 Konstantinou 25 Nuno Gomes 48Pauleta 64Conceição 71 Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca 2,878 Karl-Erik Nilsson (Sweden) Report Portugal v Estonia 2001 10 6 y 18:00 UTC+1 POR EST 5–0 João Pinto 30Nuno Gomes 50 65Pauleta 59Figo 80 Estádio da Luz, Lisbon 77,000 Hartmut Strampe (Germany) Report Republic of Ireland v Cyprus 2001 10 6 y 18:00 UTC+1 IRL CYP 1960 4–0 Harte 3Quinn 11Connolly 63Roy Keane 67 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 35,000 Juan Ansuátegui Roca (Spain) Report Netherlands v Andorra 2001 10 6 y 20:30 UTC+2 NED AND 4–0 Van Hooijdonk 3 pen.Seedorf 45Van Nistelrooy 53 89 GelreDome, Arnhem 20,000 Orhan Erdemir (Turkey) Report Goalscorers 114 30 POR Pauleta POR Nuno Gomes CYP Michalis Konstantinou NED Ruud Van Nistelrooy POR Luís Figo NED Patrick Kluivert IRL Roy Keane POR Sérgio Conceição CYP Ioannis Okkas EST Andres Oper IRL Ian Harte IRL Matt Holland NED Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink NED Clarence Seedorf NED Mark Van Bommel NED Pierre Van Hooijdonk POR João Vieira Pinto AND Ildefons Lima CYP Marios Agathokleous EST Martin Reim EST Indrek Zelinski IRL Richard Dunne IRL Kevin Kilbane IRL Mark Kinsella IRL Jason McAteer NED Marc Overmars POR Pedro Barbosa AND Emiliano González Arqués AND Roberto Jonas AND Justo Ruiz CYP Marios Christodoulou CYP Milenko Špoljarić EST Marko Kristal EST Jevgeni Novikov EST Raio Piiroja IRL Gary Breen IRL David Connolly IRL Robbie Keane IRL Gary Kelly IRL Niall Quinn NED Phillip Cocu NED Jeffrey Talan NED Giovanni van Bronckhorst NED Boudewijn Zenden POR Rui Jorge POR Manuel Rui Costa POR Ricardo Sá Pinto EST Raio Piiroja (against the Netherlands) References External links FIFA official page RSSSF - 2002 World Cup Qualification Allworldcup 2 Category:2000–01 in Republic of Ireland association football Qual Category:2000 in Estonian football Category:2001 in Estonian football Category:2000–01 in Dutch football Qual Category:2000–01 in Portuguese football qual Category:2000–01 in Cypriot football Category:2001–02 in Cypriot football Category:2000–01 in Andorran football Category:2001–02 in Andorran football