2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

May 2020 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) 18 August 2004 – 16 November 2005 51 1 POR Pauleta(11 goals) 2002 2010 FIFA Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for UEFA teams. A total of 51 teams took part, divided in 8 groups – five groups of six teams each and three groups of seven teams each – competing for 13 places in the World Cup. Germany, the hosts, were already qualified, for a total of 14 European places in the tournament. The qualifying process started on 18 August 2004, over a month after the end of UEFA Euro 2004, and ended on 16 November 2005. Kazakhstan, which transitioned from the Asian Football Confederation to UEFA after the end of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, debuted in the European qualifiers. The teams in each group played against each other in a home and away basis. The team with the most points in each group qualified to the World Cup. The runners up were ranked against each other. For fairness rules, results against the seventh placed team were ignored, in groups of seven teams. The two best ranked runners-up also qualified to the World Cup. The other six runners-up were drawn into three two-legged knock out matches, the playoff winners also qualifying. Apart from hosts Germany, debuting Ukraine became the first team to qualify in Europe. France had its first successful World Cup qualifying campaign in twenty years as they had missed the 1990 and 1994 tournaments, then qualified automatically as hosts in 1998 and as defending champions in 2002. Serbia and Montenegro and Croatia also advanced to Germany at the head of their sections, the former forcing Spain into the playoffs in the process. Besides the eight group winners, two teams progressed automatically as best runners up, namely Poland and Sweden while the playoffs offered a second chance to six others. Qualification seeding (UEFA) The draw was made on 5 December 2003 in Frankfurt, Germany. Germany qualified automatically as hosts. The other seedings were determined by points per game in the qualifiers for 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification and UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying.http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com:80/releases/uefa_draw_procedure_en.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20050407120638/http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/releases/uefa_draw_procedure_en.pdf dead 7 April 2005 European Zone Draw for the Preliminary Competition fifaworldcup.yahoo.com Fédération Internationale de Football Association 24 December 2017 France qualified automatically for the 2002 FIFA World Cup as title holders, so only their record in UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying was used. Portugal qualified automatically for UEFA Euro 2004 as hosts, so only their record in World Cup 2002 was used. Kazakhstan were not ranked by this system as they did not participate in either competition.April 2024 This level of detail is not explained in the referenced draw doc For domestic clubs involved in international club competitions reasons, England, France, Italy and Spain were drawn into groups of 6 teams. + Pot A Team Coeff Points per game achieved in 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification and UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying Rank Position in the coefficient FRA 1974 3.00 1 POR 2.40 2 SWE 2.39 3 CZE 2.31 4 ESP 2.31 5 ITA 2003 2.31 6 ENG 2.31 7 TUR 2.22 8+ Pot B Team Coeff Points per game achieved in 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification and UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying Rank Position in the coefficient NED 2.17 9 CRO 2.12 10 BEL 2.06 11 DEN 2.05 12 RUS 2.05 13 IRL 1.94 14 SVN 1.89 15 POL 1.89 16+ Pot C Team Coeff Points per game achieved in 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification and UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying Rank Position in the coefficient BUL 1.89 17 ROU 1.87 18 SCO 1.81 19 SCG 1.72 20 SUI 1.61 21 GRE 1.56 22 SVK 1.50 23 AUT 1.50 24+ Pot D Team Coeff Points per game achieved in 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification and UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying Rank Position in the coefficient UKR 1992 1.50 25 ISL 1.44 26 FIN 1.37 27 NOR 1.33 28 ISR 1.31 29 BIH 1.31 30 LVA 1.25 31 WAL 1.22 32+ Pot E Team Coeff Points per game achieved in 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification and UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying Rank Position in the coefficient HUN 1.19 33 GEO 1990 1.06 34 BLR 1995 1.00 35 CYP 1960 0.89 36 EST 0.89 37 NIR 0.78 38 LTU 1988 0.75 39 MKD Macedonia 0.75 40+ Pot F Team Coeff Points per game achieved in 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification and UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying Rank Position in the coefficient ALB 0.69 41 ARM 0.67 42 MDA 1990 0.67 43 AZE 0.50 44 FRO 0.44 45 MLT 0.11 46 SMR 1862 0.06 47 LIE 0.06 48+ Pot G Team Coeff Points per game achieved in 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification and UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying Rank Position in the coefficient AND 0.00 49 LUX 0.00 50 KAZ 0.00 51 First round Summary #ccffcc Winner of each group and two best runners-up qualified directly for the 2006 FIFA World Cup #BBF3FF The other runners-up advanced to the second round (play-offs) #ffcccc Other teams were eliminated after the first round Group 1Group 2Group 3Group 4Group 5Group 6Group 7Group 8NEDUKR 1992PORFRA 1974ITA 2003ENGSCGCROCZETURSVKSUINORPOLESPSWEROUFINMKD MacedoniaARMANDDENGREALBGEOKAZRUSESTLATLIELUXISRIRLCYP 1960FROSCOSVNBLR 1995MDA 1990AUTNIRWALAZEBIHBELLTUSMR 1862BULHUNISLMLT Group 1 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1 Group 2 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2 Group 3 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3 Group 4 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4 Group 5 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5 Group 6 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6 Group 7 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 7 Group 8 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8 Play-offs 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA second round Ranking of runners-up Because three groups each had seven teams and the others each had six, matches against the 7th placed team were discarded for the purposes of the ranking Matches ESP 6–2 SVK 5–1 1–1 SUI 4–4 (a) TUR 2–0 2–4 NOR 0–2 CZE 0–1 0–1 |} Qualified teams The following 14 teams from UEFA qualified for the final tournament. Team Qualified as Qualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA World Cup1 GER 0 Hosts 6 July 2000 1 15 (1934, 1938, 19542, 19582, 19622, 19662, 19702, 19742, 19782, 19822, 19862, 19902, 1994, 1998, 2002) NED 1 Group 1 winners 8 October 2005 7 (1934, 1938, 1974, 1978, 1990, 1994, 1998) UKR 1992 2 Group 2 winners 3 September 2005 0 (debut) POR 3 Group 3 winners 8 October 2005 1 3 (1966, 1986, 2002) FRA 1974 4 Group 4 winners 12 October 2005 2 11 (1930, 1934, 1938, 1954, 1958, 1966, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1998, 2002) ITA 2003 5 Group 5 winners 8 October 2005 15 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002) ENG 6 Group 6 winners 8 October 2005 2 11 (1950, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2002) SCG 7 Group 7 winners 12 October 2005 2 9 (19303, 19503, 19543, 19583, 19623, 19743, 19823, 19903, 19983) CRO 8 Group 8 winners 8 October 2005 2 (1998, 2002) POL 9 Top 2 runners-up 8 October 2005 6 (1938, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 2002) SWE 10 Top 2 runners-up 8 October 2005 1 10 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1958, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1990, 1994, 2002) ESP PO1 Play-off winners 16 November 2005 11 (1934, 1950, 1962, 1966, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002) SUI PO2 Play-off winners 16 November 2005 7 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1962, 1966, 1994) CZE PO3 Play-off winners 16 November 2005 8 (19344, 19384, 19544, 19584, 19624, 19704, 19824, 19904) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year. 2 Competed as West Germany. A separate team for East Germany also participated in qualifications during this time, having only competed in 1974. 3 From 1930 to 1998, Serbia and Montenegro competed as Yugoslavia. 4 From 1934 to 1990, the Czech Republic competed as Czechoslovakia. Top goalscorers 778 282 POR Pauleta CZE Jan Koller FIN Alexei Eremenko SWE Zlatan Ibrahimović BUL Dimitar Berbatov CZE Tomáš Rosický EST Andres Oper NED Ruud Van Nistelrooy POL Tomasz Frankowski POL Maciej Żurawski POR Cristiano Ronaldo ROU Adrian Mutu ESP Fernando Torres SWE Freddie Ljungberg SUI Alexander Frei TUR Fatih Tekke Below are full goalscorer lists for all groups and the play-off round: 22em Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Play-offs References External links UEFA Qualifier results with full game box scores at Scoreshelf.com UEFA 2006 Category:2004 in European men's international football Category:2005 in European men's international football