2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox international football competition Template:Qualification for championships (UEFA) 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.

The race to join hosts Germany at the 2006 FIFA World Cup featured an unlikely winner in Europe, where Ukraine became the first team to qualify, having finished above Turkey, Denmark and Greece in arguably the continent's toughest qualifying group.

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. 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.

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 Rank Template:Fb 3.00 1 Template:Fb 2.40 2 Template:Fb 2.39 3 Template:Fb 2.31 4 Template:Fb 2.31 5 Template:Fb 2.31 6 Template:Fb 2.31 7 Template:Fb 2.22 8	Pot B Team Coeff Rank Template:Fb 2.17 9 Template:Fb 2.12 10 Template:Fb 2.06 11 Template:Fb 2.05 12 Template:Fb 2.05 13 Template:Fb 1.94 14 Template:Fb 1.89 15 Template:Fb 1.89 16	Pot C Team Coeff Rank Template:Fb 1.89 17 Template:Fb 1.87 18 Template:Fb 1.81 19 Template:Fb 1.72 20 Template:Fb 1.61 21 Template:Fb 1.56 22 Template:Fb 1.50 23 Template:Fb 1.50 24
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Pot G Team Coeff Rank Template:Fb 0.00 49 Template:Fb 0.00 50 Template:Fb 0.00 51

First round

Summary

  Winner of each group and two best runners-up qualified directly for the 2006 FIFA World Cup

  The other runners-up advanced to the second round (play-offs)

  Other teams were eliminated after the first round

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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

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

Team 1	Template:Abbrlink	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Template:Fb-rt	6–2	Template:Fb	5–1	1–1
Template:Fb-rt	4–4 (a)	Template:Fb	2–0	2–4
Template:Fb-rt	0–2	Template:Fb	0–1	0–1

Qualified teams

The following 14 teams from UEFA qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup1
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:Dts	15 (1934, 1938, 19542, 19582, 19622, 19662, 19702, 19742, 19782, 19822, 19862, 19902, 1994, 1998, 2002)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:Dts	7 (1934, 1938, 1974, 1978, 1990, 1994, 1998)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:Dts	0 (debut)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:Dts	3 (1966, 1986, 2002)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:Dts	11 (1930, 1934, 1938, 1954, 1958, 1966, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1998, 2002)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:Dts	15 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:Dts	11 (1950, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2002)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:Dts	9 (19303, 19503, 19543, 19583, 19623, 19743, 19823, 19903, 19983)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:Dts	2 (1998, 2002)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:Dts	6 (1938, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 2002)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:Dts	10 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1958, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1990, 1994, 2002)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:Dts	11 (1934, 1950, 1962, 1966, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:Dts	7 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1962, 1966, 1994)
Template:Fb	Template:Sort	Template:Dts	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

Below are full goalscorer lists for all groups and the play-off round: Template:Div col

• Group 1
• Group 2
• Group 3
• Group 4
• Group 5
• Group 6
• Group 7
• Group 8
• Play-offs

External links

• UEFA Qualifier results with full game box scores at Scoreshelf.com