2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
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Dates | 18 August 2004 – 16 November 2005 |
Teams | 51 (from 1 confederation) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 282 |
Goals scored | 778 (2.76 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() |
UEFA European qualifiers |
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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 would play against each other in a home and away basis. The team with the most points in each group would qualify to the World Cup. The runners up would be ranked. For the sake of fairness, in groups with seven teams, 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.
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 play offs in the process. Besides the eight group winners, two teams progressed automatically as best runners up, namely Poland and Sweden while the play offs 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.[1] 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.
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.
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First round[]
Summary[]
Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 | Group 5 | Group 6 | Group 7 | Group 8 |
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![]() Netherlands |
![]() Ukraine |
![]() Portugal |
![]() France |
![]() Italy |
![]() England |
![]() Serbia and Montenegro |
![]() Croatia |
![]() Czech Republic |
![]() Turkey |
![]() Slovakia |
![]() Switzerland |
![]() Norway |
![]() Poland |
![]() Spain |
![]() Sweden |
![]() Romania ![]() Finland ![]() Macedonia ![]() Armenia ![]() Andorra |
![]() Denmark ![]() Greece ![]() Albania ![]() Georgia ![]() Kazakhstan |
![]() Russia ![]() Estonia ![]() Latvia ![]() Liechtenstein ![]() Luxembourg |
![]() Israel ![]() Republic of Ireland ![]() Cyprus ![]() Faroe Islands |
![]() Scotland ![]() Slovenia ![]() Belarus ![]() Moldova |
![]() Austria ![]() Northern Ireland ![]() Wales ![]() Azerbaijan |
![]() Bosnia and Herzegovina ![]() Belgium ![]() Lithuania ![]() San Marino |
![]() Bulgaria ![]() Hungary ![]() Iceland ![]() Malta |
Groups[]
The first round is group play. A win is awarded 3 point, a draw 1 point and a loss 0. The winner of a group is the team with the most points.
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Group 1[]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() |
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12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 3 | +24 | 32 | Qualification to 2006 FIFA World Cup | — | 2–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | |
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12 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 35 | 12 | +23 | 27 | Advance to second round | 0–2 | — | 1–0 | 4–3 | 6–1 | 4–1 | 8–1 | |
3 | ![]() |
12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 10 | +10 | 25 | 0–2 | 2–0 | — | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | ||
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12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 19 | +2 | 16 | 0–4 | 0–3 | 0–1 | — | 5–1 | 3–1 | 3–0 | ||
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12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 24 | −13 | 9 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–3 | — | 3–0 | 0–0 | ||
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12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 25 | −16 | 7 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–2 | — | 2–1 | ||
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12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 34 | −30 | 5 | 0–3 | 0–4 | 1–5 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–3 | — |
Group 2[]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() |
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12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 7 | +11 | 25 | Qualification to 2006 FIFA World Cup | — | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | |
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12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 23 | 9 | +14 | 23 | Advance to second round | 0–3 | — | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | |
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12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 24 | 12 | +12 | 22 | 1–1 | 1–1 | — | 1–0 | 3–1 | 6–1 | 3–0 | ||
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12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 9 | +6 | 21 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | — | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | ||
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12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 20 | −9 | 13 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | — | 3–2 | 2–1 | ||
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12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 25 | −11 | 10 | 1–1 | 2–5 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 2–0 | — | 0–0 | ||
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12 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 29 | −23 | 1 | 1–2 | 0–6 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–2 | — |
Group 3[]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() |
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12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 5 | +30 | 30 | Qualification to 2006 FIFA World Cup | — | 2–0 | 7–1 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 6–0 | |
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12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 8 | +16 | 23 | Advance to second round | 1–1 | — | 0–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 7–0 | 3–1 | |
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12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 23 | 12 | +11 | 23 | 0–0 | 1–1 | — | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 5–1 | ||
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12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 17 | −1 | 17 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | 4–0 | ||
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12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 21 | −3 | 15 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | — | 1–0 | 4–0 | ||
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12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 23 | −10 | 8 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–3 | — | 3–0 | ||
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12 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 48 | −43 | 0 | 0–5 | 0–4 | 0–4 | 0–2 | 3–4 | 0–4 | — |
Group 4[]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() |
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10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 2 | +12 | 20 | Qualification to 2006 FIFA World Cup | — | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | |
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10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 18 | 7 | +11 | 18 | Advance to second round | 1–1 | — | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 6–0 | |
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10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 15 | 10 | +5 | 18 | 1–1 | 2–2 | — | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | ||
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10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 17 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | — | 3–0 | 2–0 | ||
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10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 20 | −12 | 4 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | — | 2–2 | ||
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10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 27 | −23 | 1 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–3 | — |
Group 5[]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() |
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10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 8 | +9 | 23 | Qualification to 2006 FIFA World Cup | — | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 4–3 | 2–1 | |
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10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 18 | Advance to second round | 0–0 | — | 1–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | |
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10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 13 | 1–1 | 0–1 | — | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | ||
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10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | −3 | 12 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 0–3 | — | 1–1 | 3–0 | ||
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10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 14 | −2 | 10 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | — | 4–0 | ||
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10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 16 | −11 | 5 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | — |
Group 6[]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() |
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10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 5 | +12 | 25 | Qualification to 2006 FIFA World Cup | — | 2–1 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | |
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10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 9 | +18 | 24 | 1–2 | — | 3–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 8–0 | ||
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10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 12 | +3 | 15 | 2–2 | 1–3 | — | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | ||
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10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 18 | −8 | 9 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 3–3 | — | 2–3 | 2–0 | ||
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10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 15 | −5 | 8 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 2–2 | — | 2–0 | ||
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10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 21 | −20 | 3 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | — |
Group 7[]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() |
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10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 1 | +15 | 22 | Qualification to 2006 FIFA World Cup | — | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 5–0 | |
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10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 3 | +16 | 20 | Advance to second round | 1–1 | — | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 | |
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10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 16 | 0–0 | 1–1 | — | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–0 | ||
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10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 11 | +5 | 12 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 4–1 | — | 1–1 | 8–0 | ||
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10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 9 | −1 | 10 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | — | 4–0 | ||
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10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 40 | −38 | 0 | 0–3 | 0–6 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | — |
Group 8[]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() |
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10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 5 | +16 | 24 | Qualification to 2006 FIFA World Cup | — | 1–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | |
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10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 4 | +26 | 24 | 0–1 | — | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–1 | 6–0 | ||
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10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 15 | 1–3 | 0–3 | — | 2–0 | 3–2 | 4–1 | ||
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10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 14 | −1 | 14 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | — | 3–2 | 4–0 | ||
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10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 27 | −13 | 4 | 1–3 | 1–4 | 1–3 | 2–3 | — | 4–1 | ||
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10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 32 | −28 | 3 | 1–1 | 0–7 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | — |
Play-offs[]
Ranking of runners-up[]
Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | 8 | ![]() |
10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 4 | +26 | 24 | Qualify for final tournament |
2 | 6 | ![]() |
10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 9 | +18 | 24 | |
3 | 1 | ![]() |
10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 23 | 11 | +12 | 21 | Advance to second round (play-offs) |
4 | 7 | ![]() |
10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 3 | +16 | 20 | |
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10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 18 | 7 | +11 | 18 | |
6 | 5 | ![]() |
10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 7 | +5 | 18 | |
7 | 3 | ![]() |
10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 17 | 7 | +10 | 17 | |
8 | 2 | ![]() |
10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 9 | +4 | 17 |
Matches[]
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Spain ![]() |
6–2 | ![]() |
5–1 | 1–1 |
Switzerland ![]() |
4–4 (a) | ![]() |
2–0 | 2–4 |
Norway ![]() |
0–2 | ![]() |
0–1 | 0–1 |
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Bold face = winner. (a) = away goals |
Qualified teams[]
The following 14 teams from UEFA qualified for the final tournament.
Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup1 |
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Hosts | 6 July 2000 | 15 (1934, 1938, 19542, 19582, 19622, 19662, 19702, 19742, 19782, 19822, 19862, 19902, 1994, 1998, 2002) |
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Group 1 winners | 8 October 2005 | 7 (1934, 1938, 1974, 1978, 1990, 1994, 1998) |
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Group 2 winners | 3 September 2005 | 0 (debut) |
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Group 3 winners | 8 October 2005 | 3 (1966, 1986, 2002) |
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Group 4 winners | 12 October 2005 | 11 (1930, 1934, 1938, 1954, 1958, 1966, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1998, 2002) |
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Group 5 winners | 8 October 2005 | 15 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002) |
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Group 6 winners | 8 October 2005 | 11 (1950, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2002) |
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Group 7 winners | 12 October 2005 | 9 (19303, 19503, 19543, 19583, 19623, 19743, 19823, 19903, 19983) |
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Group 8 winners | 8 October 2005 | 2 (1998, 2002) |
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Top 2 runners-up | 8 October 2005 | 6 (1938, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 2002) |
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Top 2 runners-up | 8 October 2005 | 10 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1958, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1990, 1994, 2002) |
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Play-off winners | 16 November 2005 | 11 (1934, 1950, 1962, 1966, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002) |
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Play-off winners | 16 November 2005 | 7 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1962, 1966, 1994) |
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Play-off winners | 16 November 2005 | 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, Czech Republic competed as Czechoslovakia.
Goalscorers[]
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- 1 own goal
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References[]
- ^ "European Zone Draw for the Preliminary Competition" (PDF). fifaworldcup.yahoo.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 April 2005. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ^ "Regulations 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany" (PDF). 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
External links[]
- UEFA Qualifier results with full game box scores at Scoreshelf.com
- 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
- 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
- FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
- 2004–05 in European football
- 2005–06 in European football