2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
Listed below are the dates and results for the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for UEFA teams.
The European section of the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, which is being held in South Korea and Japan, for national teams which are members of the UEFA. Apart from France, who qualified automatically as defending champions, a total of 13.5 slots in the final tournament were available for UEFA teams.
The 50 teams were divided into nine groups, five groups of six teams and four groups of five teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify. Among the runners-up, Group 2 was drawn randomly to advance to the UEFA–AFC Intercontinental play-off while the remaining eight runners-up would advance to the UEFA play-offs.
In the play-offs, the eight teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The four aggregate winners qualified. The qualifying process started on 2 September 2000, after UEFA Euro 2000, and ended on 14 November 2001.
Qualification seeding (UEFA)
The draw was made in December 1999, and was based on average points per game achieved in 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification and UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying. France qualified automatically as title holders, and because Belgium and Netherlands, as hosts, had not had to qualify for UEFA Euro 2000, only their 1998 World Cup result was used. Andorra made their debut in World Cup qualifying.
Teams in bold eventually qualified for the final tournament, teams in bold italic qualified for the final tournament through the play-offs, and teams in italic participated in the play-offs but did not qualify for the final tournament.
Summary
Table - top row: group winners, second row: group runners-up, third row: others. The winner of each group qualified for the 2002 FIFA World Cup together with winners of play-off. Group 2 was the last team drawn for its runner-up to participate in the UEFA/AFC intercontinental play-off. As runner-up in group 2, Republic of Ireland played a play-off against a team from the AFC confederation, whereas the others played against each other (UEFA play-off).
First round
The winner of each group qualified directly, the runner-up advanced to play-off (either UEFA playoff or UEFA-AFC playoff).
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Group 9
Play-offs
The draw for the play-offs was held on 31 August 2001 at FIFA's headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland. The nine group runners-up were placed into one pot, with eight teams drawn into four pairings (with the first team drawn hosting the first leg). The remaining team then faced an AFC team in the inter-confederation play-offs. UEFA were paired to face the AFC team by decision of the FIFA Executive Committee in October 1999.
UEFA
Belgium qualified by the aggregate score of 2–0.
Germany qualified by the aggregate score of 5–2.
Slovenia qualified by the aggregate score of 3–2.
Turkey qualified by the aggregate score of 6–0.
Inter-confederation play-offs
As the Group 2 runner-up was the last team to be selected in the play-off draw on 31 August 2001, that team then faced an AFC team in the inter-confederation play-offs. UEFA were paired to face the AFC team by decision of the FIFA Executive Committee in October 1999, though the order of legs was decided by the draw on 31 August 2001. The team to meet an AFC team became the Republic of Ireland.
Qualified teams
The following 15 teams from UEFA qualified for the final tournament.
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
2 Competed as Soviet Union.
3 Competed as West Germany. A separate team for East Germany also participated in qualifications during this time, having only competed in 1974.
Goalscorers
There were 594 goals scored in 240 matches (including 2 international play-offs), for an average of 2.48 goals per match.
10 goals
Andriy Shevchenko
9 goals
Ebbe Sand
8 goals
Emmanuel Olisadebe
Pauleta
Henrik Larsson
7 goals
Marc Wilmots
Filippo Inzaghi
Nuno Gomes
Vladimir Beschastnykh
Kubilay Türkyilmaz
6 goals
Michalis Konstantinou
Michael Owen
Michael Ballack
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
Luís Figo
Hakan Şükür
Savo Milošević
5 goals
Raman Vasilyuk
Dimitar Berbatov
Boško Balaban
Pavel Nedvěd
Alessandro Del Piero
Patrick Kluivert
John Carew
Radosław Kałużny
Marcus Allbäck
Alexander Frei
Mateja Kežman
4 goals
Andi Herzog
Bob Peeters
Jon Dahl Tomasson
Mikael Forssell
Aleksandr Iashvili
Ian Harte
Roy Keane
David Healy
Sérgio Conceição
Marius Niculae
Szilárd Németh
Zlatko Zahovič
Raúl
John Hartson
3 goals
Arthur Petrosyan
Michael Baur
Alexander Khatskevich
Bart Goor
Gert Verheyen
Elvir Baljić
Sergej Barbarez
Georgi Ivanov
Ioannis Okkas
Milan Baroš
Dennis Rommedahl
David Beckham
Andres Oper
Aki Riihilahti
Marko Rehmer
Miklós Fehér
Ferenc Horváth
Eyjólfur Sverrisson
Matt Holland
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Clarence Seedorf
Mark Van Bommel
Pierre Van Hooijdonk
Marcin Żewłakow
João Vieira Pinto
Yegor Titov
Billy Dodds
Igor Demo
Milenko Ačimovič
Milan Osterc
Fernando Hierro
Gaizka Mendieta
Anders Svensson
Okan Buruk
Alpay Özalan
2 goals
Ildefons Lima
Thomas Flögel
Vadim Vasilyev
Valentin Belkevich
Mikalay Ryndzyuk
Émile Mpenza
Yves Vanderhaeghe
Krasimir Chomakov
Martin Petrov
Alen Bokšić
Robert Prosinečki
Davor Vugrinec
Marios Agathokleous
Jan Koller
Pavel Kuka
Marek Jankulovski
Vratislav Lokvenc
Tomáš Rosický
Thomas Gravesen
Paul Scholes
Martin Reim
Indrek Zelinski
Jari Litmanen
Temuri Ketsbaia
Sebastian Deisler
Carsten Jancker
Miroslav Klose
Angelos Charisteas
Attila Korsós
János Mátyus
Vilmos Sebők
Ríkharður Daðason
Þórður Guðjónsson
Eiður Guðjohnsen
Tryggvi Guðmundsson
Richard Dunne
Robbie Keane
Kevin Kilbane
Mark Kinsella
Jason McAteer
Haim Revivo
Marco Delvecchio
Francesco Totti
Marians Pahars
Gjorgji Hristov
Artim Šakiri
Serghei Cleşcenco
Marc Overmars
Philip Mulryne
Bård Borgersen
Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Bartosz Karwan
Paweł Kryszałowicz
Pedro Barbosa
Cosmin Contra
Adrian Ilie
Dmitri Khokhlov
Andy Selva
Colin Hendry
Peter Németh
Nastja Čeh
Željko Milinovič
Gerard López
Fernando Morientes
Diego Tristán
Stéphane Chapuisat
Arif Erdem
Andriy Vorobei
Hennadiy Zubov
Nathan Blake
Slaviša Jokanović
Siniša Mihajlović
Predrag Mijatović
Dejan Stanković
1 goal
Alban Bushi
Ervin Fakaj
Bledar Kola
Edvin Murati
Altin Rraklli
Emiliano González Arqués
Roberto Jonas
Justo Ruiz
Hayk Hakobyan
Felix Khojoyan
Artak Minasyan
Andrey Movsisyan
Eduard Glieder
Fərrux İsmayılov
Zaur Tağızadə
Walter Baseggio
Jurgen Cavens
Wesley Sonck
Daniel Van Buyten
Nico Van Kerckhoven
Bruno Akrapović
Mirsad Bešlija
Marijo Dodik
Almedin Hota
Muhamed Konjić
Nermin Šabić
Krasimir Balakov
Svetoslav Todorov
Niko Kovač
Zvonimir Soldo
Davor Šuker
Goran Vlaović
Marios Christodoulou
Milenko Špoljarić
Karel Poborský
Roman Týce
Morten Bisgaard
Jan Heintze
Claus Jensen
Jan Michaelsen
Andy Cole
Robbie Fowler
Steven Gerrard
Emile Heskey
Teddy Sheringham
Marko Kristal
Jevgeni Novikov
Raio Piiroja
Uni Arge
Jens Kristian Hansen
Øssur Hansen
Christian Høgni Jacobsen
Kurt Mørkøre
John Petersen
Joonas Kolkka
Shefki Kuqi
Teemu Tainio
Archil Arveladze
Shota Arveladze
Giorgi Gakhokidze
Gocha Jamarauli
Georgi Kinkladze
Levan Kobiashvili
Marco Bode
Dietmar Hamann
Oliver Neuville
Mehmet Scholl
Georgios Georgiadis
Georgios Karagounis
Nikos Liberopoulos
Nikos Machlas
Themistoklis Nikolaidis
Béla Illés
Krisztián Lisztes
Hermann Hreidarsson
Helgi Sigurðsson
Andri Sigþórsson
Gary Breen
David Connolly
Gary Kelly
Niall Quinn
Yossi Abuksis
Pini Balili
Eyal Berkovich
Shimon Gershon
Yaniv Katan
Alon Mizrahi
Avi Nimni
Idan Tal
Aleksandrs Jeļisejevs
Andrejs Rubins
Andrejs Štolcers
Orestas Buitkus
Artūras Fomenka
Tomas Ražanauskas
Marcel Christophe
René Peters
Sacha Schneider
Jeff Strasser
Argjend Beqiri
Mile Krstev
Toni Micevski
Dragan Načevski
Igor Nikolovski
Žarko Serafimovski
Vančo Trajanov
Gilbert Agius
David Carabott
George Mallia
Michael Mifsud
Ruslan Barburoş
Serghei Covalciuc
Serghei Pogreban
Radu Rebeja
Phillip Cocu
Jeffrey Talan
Giovanni van Bronckhorst
Boudewijn Zenden
Stuart Elliott
Phil Gray
Michael Hughes
George McCartney
Mark Williams
Thorstein Helstad
Frode Johnsen
Ronny Johnsen
Michał Żewłakow
Rui Jorge
Rui Costa
Ricardo Sá Pinto
Ioan Ganea
Viorel Moldovan
Cătălin Munteanu
Gheorghe Popescu
Dmitri Alenichev
Maksim Buznikin
Yuri Kovtun
Aleksandr Mostovoi
Sergei Semak
Aleksandr Shirko
Nicola Albani
Colin Cameron
Matt Elliott
Dougie Freedman
Kevin Gallacher
Don Hutchison
Neil McCann
David Weir
Peter Dzúrik
Ľubomír Meszároš
Tomáš Oravec
Attila Pinte
Ľubomír Reiter
Róbert Tomaschek
Sebastjan Cimirotič
Aleksander Knavs
Mladen Rudonja
Ermin Šiljak
Senad Tiganj
Sašo Udovič
Rubén Baraja
Joseba Etxeberria
Iván Helguera
Javi Moreno
Miguel Ángel Nadal
Niclas Alexandersson
Andreas Andersson
Patrik Andersson
Zlatan Ibrahimović
Sébastien Fournier
Johann Lonfat
Hakan Yakin
Marco Zwyssig
Emre Aşık
Yıldıray Baştürk
Emre Belözoğlu
Ümit Davala
Oktay Derelioğlu
Tayfur Havutçu
Nihat Kahveci
Tayfun Korkut
İlhan Mansız
Andriy Husin
Craig Bellamy
Mark Pembridge
Robbie Savage
Gary Speed
Predrag Đorđević
Miroslav Đukić
Mladen Krstajić
1 own goal
Michael Baur (playing against Israel)
Raio Piiroja (playing against the Netherlands)
Mihails Zemļinskis (playing against Belgium)
Goran Stavrevski (playing against Slovakia)
Igor Mitreski (playing against Turkey)
Broadcasting rights
Europe
: BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5
: TVE-1, Antena 3, Telecinco
: Rai Uno
: ARD, ZDF and Sky Deutschland
: RTP1, RTP Internacional, RTP África, RTP Açores and RTP Madeira
Americas
: ESPN, ESPN 2 and Fox Sports World (in English); Univision, Telemundo, ESPN Deportes and Fox Deportes (in Spanish)
Latin America: ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN 3, ESPN Extra, ESPN Extra 2, ESPN Extra 3, PSN, PSN 2, PSN Plus, PSN Max, PSN Max 2, PSN Max 3 and PSN Max 4 (all matches)
: Rede CNT, SporTV, ESPN Brasil, Fox Sports, BandSports and PSN
: Multicanal, VCC, Cablevisión, BAC, DirecTV and Sky
: ATB, Multivisión, DirecTV and Sky
: TVN, Chilevisión, VTR Cablexpress, Metrópolis Intercom, DirecTV and Sky
: RCN Televisión, DirecTV and Sky
: TC Televisión, SíTV, TV Cable, Univisa, DirecTV and Sky
: Multicanal, VCC, Cablevisión, CMM, Supercanal, DirecTV and Sky
: ATV, Latina Televisión, CMD, DirecTV and Sky
: Multicanal, VCC, Cablevisión, Montecable, TCC, Nuevo Siglo Cable TV, Multiseñal, DirecTV and Sky
: Televen, Meridiano Televisión, DirecTV and Sky
Rest of the World
: SCTV
References
External links
Results
RSSSF – 2002 World Cup Qualification
Allworldcup
UEFA Qualifier results with full game box scores at Scoreshelf.com
UEFA
FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
World
World
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