Talk:2006 FIFA World Cup qualification

message: It is contended than Germany is equal to West Germany but Russia is not equal to USSR because the formers were a result of unification and the latters of separation. Do I need to point out that West Germany started from a separation (from Germany) thus making the point totally moot? I reverted the changes.
Sebastian Kessel Talk 20:50, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I am with the train of thought including West Germany and Germany as one and the same; West Germany's government system is more akin to Germany's government today, East Germany was radically different, and thus not included. Any thoughts? IanManka 01:44, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Majority rules. I am still in dissent. If the Russian and Yugoslavian split in 1991 makes 2 (or more) teams, the German one in 1947 also does. Sebastian Kessel Talk 02:45, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Germany Revertion 

message: Moved per consensus.  --Pkchan 13:38, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved for consistency 

message: Agree or disagree? --Howard the Duck | talk, 15:49, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose Support. Such a move would make the article an immense size, and readers may lose information about individual games. No thanks. — Ian Manka Talk to me‼ 22:37, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think it'll be relatively short. It's certainly shorter than 2006 FIFA World Cup (qualification UEFA). It'll only include the Asia-CONCACAF Playoff and the Oceania-CONMEBOL Playoff. Take a look here (removed old link). --Howard the Duck | talk, 02:02, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Wow, I am stupid. I misread that entirely. I thought you meant that you wanted to merge all of the continental zones into one article. That is, CONCACAF, AFC, etc. all in one big article. Go ahead and do it. Sorry for any confusion. I can't believe I misread that so badly. — Ian Manka Talk to me‼ 02:16, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Don't worry, I wasn't able to express the idea nicely. But how about the UEFA qualifications? Since they're not intercontinental they'll be left out. How about either adding them to the bottom of the already long European qualification article or instead of creating an intercontinental playoff article, lets make it a qualification playoff article, although that'll make the now proposed intercontinental playoff article a bit longer. --Howard the Duck | talk, 06:43, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge the Intercontinental Playoffs into one article? 

message: Please make it also for 2002 and 1998. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.78.146.186 (talk) 02:55, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please make it also for 2002 and 1998. 

message: How about making a list of top goalscorers in the qualifiers? I'm surprised the article doesn't include this already. Timbouctou (talk) 06:26, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of top goalscorers? 

message: Usually when teams are level on points, FIFA competitions use overall goal difference as the first tiebreaking criterion, unlike competitions organized by UEFA, which give precedence to head-to-head records. Indeed goal difference is listed first in the "Tiebreakers" section of the qualification article. Based on that, Sweden should be the winner and Croatia should be the runner-up of UEFA Group 8, and I just edited the relevant articles to reflect that.
However, I then noticed that archived versions of FIFA's website such as this one and this one go by head-to-head and rank Croatia above Sweden, and so does RSSSF. Rankings are not available in FIFA's current website.
Besides, said section actually contains the sentence , which may be a remnant of some earlier version where head-to-head was first. And also, while the equivalent section of the main tournament page lists goal difference first, it also says, .
Admittedly this doesn't ultimately matter as both Sweden and Croatia qualified directly anyways. But still, how shall we resolve this? --Theurgist (talk) 04:56, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tiebreaking rules