2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA second round

Football tournament qualification stage July 2022 The 2006 FIFA World Cup European qualification playoffs were a set of home-and-away playoffs to decide the final three places granted to national football teams from European nations (more precisely, UEFA members) for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The playoffs were decided by the standard FIFA method of aggregate score, with away goals and, if necessary, extra time with the possibility of a penalty shoot-out at the end of the second leg. The winner of each playoff was awarded a place in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Qualified teams Because some groups had six teams and others had seven, matches against the 7th placed team were discarded. 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. main WDL Qualification Q y SWE 8 SWE POL 6 POL CZE 1 CZE ESP 7 ESP SUI 4 SUI NOR 5 NOR SVK 3 SVK TUR 2 TUR 8 0 2 30 4 8 0 2 27 9 7 0 3 23 11 5 5 0 19 3 4 6 0 18 7 5 3 2 12 7 4 5 1 17 7 4 5 1 13 9 Q Q PO PO PO PO PO PO green1 Qualification to 2006 FIFA World Cup blue1 Advance to second round (play-offs) complete FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) 2006, football - table and standings https://soccer365.me/competitions/739/2006/ soccer365.me 15 April 2024 30 May 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240530232444/https://soccer365.me/competitions/739/2006/ dead Seeding and draw By the rules of the UEFA qualifying tournament, the first-place finishers in each of eight groups received automatic berths, along with the two second-place teams that had earned the most points against teams in the top six of their individual groups. The six remaining second-place teams were divided into two pots based on their standings in the September 2005 FIFA World Rankings.https://www.uefa.com/european-qualifiers/news/01ae-0f847aff7079-cae797822448-1000--trio-share-in-final-day-joy/ Trio share in final-day joy UEFA 13 October 2005 30 June 2022 The division was: + Pot 1 (seeded) Team Rank Position in the September 2005 FIFA World Ranking CZE 4 ESP 8 TUR 12+ Pot 2 (unseeded) Team Rank Position in the September 2005 FIFA World Ranking NOR 37 SUI 38 SVK 45 A draw was held on 14 October 2005 at FIFA headquarters in Zürich to pair each team from Pot 1 with a team from Pot 2. A second draw at the same time and location determined the order of the fixtures. 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 |} Spain v Slovakia 12 November 2005 22:00 CET ESP 5–1 Report SVK García 10 18 74Torres 65 pen.Morientes 79 Németh 49 Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid 47,210 Massimo De Santis (Italy) Slovakia v Spain 16 November 2005 20:15 CET SVK 1–1 Report ESP Hološko 50 Villa 71 Tehelné pole, Bratislava 23,587 Markus Merk (Germany) Spain won 6–2 on aggregate. Switzerland v Turkey 12 November 2005 20:45 CET SUI 2–0 Report TUR Senderos 41Behrami 86 Wankdorf, Bern 31,130 Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia) 2005 Turkey v Switzerland football match Turkey v Switzerland 16 November 2005 20:15 EET TUR 4–2 Report SUI Tuncay 22 38 89Necati 52 pen. Frei 2 pen.Streller 84 Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, Istanbul 42,000 Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium) 4–4 on aggregate. Switzerland won on away goals. Norway v Czech Republic 12 November 2005 19:30 CET NOR 0–1 Report CZE Šmicer 31 Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo 24,264 Massimo Busacca (Switzerland) Czech Republic v Norway 16 November 2005 20:15 CET CZE 1–0 Report NOR Rosický 35 Toyota Arena, Prague 17,464 Graham Poll (England) Czech Republic won 2–0 on aggregate. Goalscorers 18 6 ESP Luis García TUR Tuncay CZE Vladimír Šmicer CZE Tomáš Rosický SVK Filip Hološko SVK Szilárd Németh ESP Fernando Morientes ESP Fernando Torres ESP David Villa SUI Valon Behrami SUI Alexander Frei SUI Philippe Senderos SUI Marco Streller TUR Necati Ateş References Playoff UEFA Play Category:2005–06 in Slovak football play Category:2005–06 in Turkish football Category:2005–06 in Swiss football Category:2005 in Norwegian football