2006 FIFA World Cup qualification

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification 6 September 2003 – 16 November 2005 197 6 MEX Jared Borgetti(14 goals) 2002 2010 The 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification competition was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations. Each confederation – the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe) – was allocated a certain number of the 32 places at the tournament. A total of 197 teams entered the qualification process for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In 2001 FIFA ended automatic qualification of the reigning champion,Soccer: World Cup winners must qualify for Germany 2006 https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/soccer/soccer-world-cup-winners-must-qualify-for-germany-2006-31685.html 18 July 2019 www.irishexaminer.com 30 November 2001 en Next summer's World Cup winners will have to qualify for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, FIFA have announced. so that 2002 champions Brazil became first to participate in the qualifying tournament. The hosts (Germany) retained their automatic spot. The original distribution of places between the six confederations called for Oceania to be given one full spot in the final 32; this idea was seen as virtually guaranteeing a place in the finals to Australia, by far the strongest footballing nation in the region. This decision was reconsidered in June 2003 and the previous distribution of places between Oceania and South America was restored. The draw for five of the six qualification tournaments took place on 5 December 2003 in Frankfurt, whilst all of the members of the South American federation (CONMEBOL) competed in a single group. Qualification itself began in September 2003. Qualified teams thumb|center|700px|#000cff Country qualified for World Cup #ffb400 Country failed to qualify #000000 Country did not enter World Cup #ababab Country not a FIFA member The following 32 teams qualified for the 2006 FIFA World Cup: Team Method ofqualification Date ofqualification Finalsappearance Consecutivefinalsappearances Previous bestperformance FIFARankingat startofeventFIFA/Coca Cola World Ranking (17 May 2006) https://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/ranking-table/men/rank=144/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160919173123/http://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/ranking-table/men/rank=144/index.html dead September 19, 2016 FIFA.com FIFA 13 July 2010 17 May 2006GER UEFA Host 016 July 2000 16th (1) 14 Winners (1954, 1974, 1990) 19JPN AFC third round Group 2 winners 038 June 2005 3rd 3 Round of 16 (2002) 18KSA AFC third round Group 1 winners 028 June 2005 4th 4 Round of 16 (1994) 34KOR 1997 AFC third round Group 1 runners-up 048 June 2005 7th 6 Fourth place (2002) 29IRN AFC third round Group 2 runners-up 058 June 2005 3rd 1 (last: 1998) Group stage (1978, 1998) 23ARG CONMEBOL runners-up 068 June 2005 14th 9 Winners (1978, 1986) 9UKR 1992 UEFA Group 2 winners 073 September 2005 1st — — 45USA CONCACAF fourth round winners 073 September 2005 8th 5 Third place (1930) 5BRA CONMEBOL winners 085 September 2005 18th 18 Winners (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002) 1MEX CONCACAF fourth round runners-up 097 September 2005 13th 4 Quarter-finals (1970, 1986) 4GHA CAF second round Group 2 winners 108 October 2005 1st — — 48TOG CAF second round Group 1 winners 108 October 2005 1st — — 61ENG UEFA Group 6 winners 108 October 2005 12th 3 Winners (1966) 10POL UEFA Group 6 runners-up 108 October 2005 7th 2 Third place (1974, 1982) 29ANG CAF second round Group 4 winners 108 October 2005 1st — — 57CIV CAF second round Group 3 winners 108 October 2005 1st — — 32TUN CAF second round Group 5 winners 108 October 2005 4th 3 Group stage (1978, 1998, 2002) 21CRO UEFA Group 8 winners 118 October 2005 3rd 3 Third place (1998) 23NED UEFA Group 1 winners 128 October 2005 8th 1 (last: 1998) Runners-up (1974, 1978) 3ITA 2003 UEFA Group 5 winners 128 October 2005 16th 12 Winners (1934, 1938, 1982) 13POR UEFA Group 3 winners 138 October 2005 4th 2 Third place (1966) 7CRC CONCACAF fourth round third place 098 October 2005 3rd 2 Round of 16 (1990) 26ECU 1900 CONMEBOL third place 088 October 2005 2nd 2 Group stage (2002) 39PAR 1990 CONMEBOL fourth place 088 October 2005 7th 3 Round of 16 (1986, 1998, 2002) 33SWE UEFA Group 8 runners-up 1312 October 2005 11th 2 Runners-up (1958) 16SCG UEFA Group 7 winners 1312 October 2005 10th (3) 1 (last: 1998) Fourth place (1930, 1962) 44FRA 1974 UEFA Group 4 winners 1312 October 2005 12th 3 Winners (1998) 8AUS CONMEBOL v OFC Play-off winners 3216 November 2005 2nd 1 (last: 1974) Group stage (1974) 42TTO AFC v CONCACAF Play-off winners 3116 November 2005 1st — — 47CZE UEFA Play-off winners 1316 November 2005 9th (4) 1 (last: 1990) Runners-up (1934, 1962) 2ESP UEFA Play-off winners 1316 November 2005 12th 8 Fourth place (1950) 5SUI UEFA Play-off winners 1316 November 2005 8th 1 (last: 1994) Quarter-finals (1934, 1938, 1954) 35 1Includes 10 appearances by DFB representing West Germany between 1954 and 1990. Excludes 1 appearance by DVF representing East Germany between 1954 and 1990. 3Includes appearances by pre-division Yugoslavia, as FIFA considers Serbia and Montenegro as a successor of a team. 4Includes appearances by Czechoslovakia, as FIFA considers both the Czech Republic and Slovakia as a successor of a team. Qualification process A total of 197 teams entered the qualification process for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, competing for a total of 32 spots in the final tournament. Germany, as the host, qualified automatically, leaving 31 spots open for competition. Starting with these qualifiers, the defending champion (Brazil) was not granted automatic qualification for the first time. FIFA announced the decision in December 2001 at the draw for the 2002 Finals Tournament. The official reason was that the friendly matches to which previous champions were restricted provided inferior preparation to the competitive qualification matches others would have played. Media also noted that the change released an extra place for the contentious distribution of places by confederation.Bond David Winners will have to qualify; World Cup shock Evening Standard C Edition 30 Nov 2001 London 88 The final distribution was as follows: The distribution by confederation for the 2006 FIFA World Cup was:Qualifiers https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080302162313/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/index.html dead March 2, 2008 FIFA 8 October 2011 AFC (Asia): 4 or 5 places CAF (Africa): 5 places CONCACAF (North, Central American and Caribbean): 3 or 4 places CONMEBOL (South America): 4 or 5 places OFC (Oceania): 0 or 1 place(s) UEFA (Europe): 13 places (+ Germany qualified automatically as host nation for a total of 14 places) UEFA and CAF have a guaranteed number of places, whereas the number of qualifiers from other confederations is dependent on play-offs between AFC's fifth-placed team and CONMEBOL's fifth-placed team, and between CONCACAF's fourth-placed team and OFC's first-placed team. A draw determined the pairings between the four teams involved. Summary of qualification 450x450pxConfederationAvailable slots in finalsTeams startedTeams eliminatedTeams qualifiedQualifying start dateQualifying end dateAFC4 or 53834419 November 200316 November 2005CAF55146510 October 20038 October 2005CONCACAF3 or 43430418 February 200416 November 2005CONMEBOL4 or 510646 September 200320 November 2005OFC0 or 11211110 May 200416 November 2005UEFA13+151+13813+118 August 200416 November 2005Total31+1196+116531+16 September 200316 November 2005 Tiebreakers For FIFA World Cup qualifying stages using a league format, the method used for separating teams level on points is the same for all Confederations. The rules for separating teams level on points are decided by FIFA and can be found in article 18 part 6d to 6g of the FIFA Regulations 2006 World Cup Germany If teams are even on points at the end of group play, the tied teams will be ranked by:http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/fwc06_regulations_en_1558.pdf Regulations 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 2021-03-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20090219120151/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/fwc06_regulations_en_1558.pdf 2009-02-19 greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned greatest number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned goal difference in all group matches greatest number of goals scored in all group matches a play-off on neutral ground. If, after 90 minutes, this match ends in a draw, extra time of twice 15 minutes will be played. If the score is level after extra time, penalty kicks will be taken to determine the winner. For FIFA World Cup qualifying stages using a home-and-away knockout format, the team that has the higher aggregate score over the two legs progresses to the next round. In the event that aggregate scores finish level, the away goals rule is applied, i.e. the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs progresses. If away goals are also equal, then thirty minutes of extra time are played, divided into two fifteen-minutes halves. The away goals rule is again applied after extra time, i.e. if there are goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score is still level, the visiting team qualifies by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals are scored during extra time, the tie is decided by penalty shoot-out. This is a change from the 2002 FIFA World Cup, where total goal difference was the first tiebreaker. A total of 194 teams played at least one qualifying match. A total of 847 qualifying matches were played, and 2464 goals were scored (an average of 2.91 per match). Confederation qualification AFC 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC) 44 Asian teams are affiliated with FIFA, but Cambodia, Philippines, Bhutan and Brunei decided not to take part, and Myanmar was banned from the competition, so a total of 39 teams took part, competing for 4.5 places in the World Cup. The qualification was composed of three rounds. First Round: The 14 last ranked teams according to FIFA were paired 2-by-2 and played home-and-away knock-out matches. Second Round: The 7 winners joined the other 25 teams where those 32 teams were divided in 8 groups of four teams each. The teams in each group would play against each other home-and-away, and the team with most points in each group would advance to the Third Round. Third Round: The 8 remaining teams were divided in two groups of 4 teams each, that would again play against each other in a home-and-away basis. The two teams with most points in each group would qualify to the World Cup. The two third placed teams would play-off against each other home-and-away. Winner of this play-off would play against the fourth placed team in the final round of CONCACAF in an intercontinental play-off for a place in the World Cup. Final positions (third round) 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC third round Group 1 Group 1 y n Group 2 Group 2 y n Play-off for 5th place (fourth round) 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC fourth round UZB 1–1 (a) BHR 1–1 0–0 Bahrain advanced to the AFC–CONCACAF play-off on the away goals rule. CAF 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF) The qualification was composed of two Rounds. 9 teams entered the competition directly on the second round: the 5 teams that qualified for the 2002 World Cup Finals (Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tunisia) and the 4 highest-ranking teams in the June 25, 2003 FIFA world rankings (Congo DR, Ivory Coast, Egypt, and Morocco). The other 42 teams were paired 2-by-2 and played knock-out matches home-and-away. The 21 winners would advance to the second round. In the second round, the 30 teams were divided in 5 groups of 6 teams each. Teams in each group would play against each other in a home-and-away basis. The team with most points in each group would qualify to the World Cup. The competition also constituted the qualification competition for the 2006 African Nations Cup with the top three nations of each group qualifying (except for Egypt, which qualifies as the host nation, the fourth nation in Egypt's group qualifying in Egypt's place). The African qualifying zone saw 4 out of 5 finals places going to World Cup debutants (Angola, Togo, Ivory Coast and Ghana). Nigeria missed out on a fourth consecutive finals appearance while Cameroon did not reach their fifth consecutive finals. The African zone also featured a group of death – Group 3 – which brought together Africa's most frequent World Cup qualifier Cameroon with the two eventual finalists of the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations: Egypt and the Ivory Coast. Final positions (second round) 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF second round Group 1Group 2Group 3Group 4Group 5 CONCACAF 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF) The qualification process was divided in three stages. In the first stage, the 34 teams were divided in 10 groups of three teams each and two groups of two teams each. Groups with three teams had two rounds, with the best ranked team according to FIFA in each group entering the competition in the second round. In each group, teams were paired 2-by-2 and played home-and-away matches. The 12 winners of the first stage advanced to the second stage, where they were divided into three groups of four teams each. Teams in each group would play against each other home-and-away, and the two teams with most points in each group would advance to the final round. In the third stage, the six teams were put in a single group, and played against each other home-and-away. The three teams with most points qualified to the World Cup. The fourth placed team advanced to the AFC–CONCACAF play-off against the winner of a play-off between third placed teams in the Third Round of Asia. Final positions (fourth round) 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF fourth round CONMEBOL 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) 10 teams took part, all in a single group. The rules were very simple: the teams would play against each other in a home-and-away basis, with the four teams with most points qualifying to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The fifth ranked team would have to play-off against the best team from Oceania, with the winner of this play-off also qualifying. For the first time, Brazil, the defending champion, was required to go through qualification and was not automatically qualified for the tournament. Final positions OFC 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC) 12 teams took part, competing for a place in the intercontinental play-off against the fifth-placed team from South America. The winner of this play-off qualified for the World Cup. Final positions (second round) 2004 OFC Nations Cup In the Second round, the six teams were put in a single group, and played against each other once. The two teams with most points advanced to a play-off, and played against each other home and away. The winner of this play-off advanced to the intercontinental play-off. y n Final round Australia and the Solomon Islands progressed to the final stage. AUS 9–1 SOL 7–0 2–1 |} UEFA 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) 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. The teams in each group would play against each other in a home and away basis. The team with most points in each group would qualify to the World Cup. The runners up would be ranked. As some groups had seven teams and others had six, results against the seventh placed team were ignored. The two best ranked runners up would also qualify to the World Cup. The other six runners up were drawn into three home and away knock out matches, winners of those matches also qualifying. Group 1n yGroup 2n yGroup 3n yGroup 4n yGroup 5n yGroup 6n yGroup 7n yGroup 8n y Play-offs 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA second round Poland and Sweden qualified directly to the World Cup. The other teams had to play in the playoffs. 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. 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 |} Inter-confederation play-offs 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs) There were two scheduled inter-confederation playoffs to determine the final two qualification spots to the finals. The first legs were played on 12 November 2005, and the second legs were played on 16 November 2005. CONCACAF v AFC 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF–AFC play-off) playoff1 CONMEBOL v OFC 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL–OFC play-off) playoff2 Withdrawals CAF GUM NEP Did not enter BHU BRU CAM COM DJI PHI PUR TLS Excluded MYA 1974 (for refusing to play a qualifier in Iran during 2002 qualifying) Top goalscorers 2476 849 MEX Jared Borgetti TRI Stern John MEX Jaime Lozano POR Pauleta TOG Emmanuel Adebayor BRA Ronaldo GUA Carlos Ruiz MEX Francisco Fonseca CIV Didier Drogba CZE Jan Koller IRN Ali Daei CRC Paulo Wanchope FIN Alexei Eremenko NGA Obafemi Martins SWE Zlatan Ibrahimović Below are goalscorer lists for all confederations and the inter-confederation play-offs: 22em AFC CAF CONCACAF CONMEBOL OFC UEFA Inter-confederation play-offs References External links 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification at RSSSF.com Qualification Category:FIFA World Cup qualification