Football World Cup 2002 (qualification UEFA)

Listed below are the dates and results for the {{Wc|2002}} qualification rounds for Europe. A total of 50 teams took part, divided in 9 Groups - five groups of 6 teams each and four groups of 5 teams each - striving for 12.5 places in the World Cup. France, the defending champions, were already qualified, for a total of 13.5 places

Related Topics:
Europe - France

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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. For the runners-up, they were drawn into home-and-away knock-out matches, without any seedings (the draw was made before the group matches were completed). Eight of them would play against each other, while the ninth (drawn randomly) would play against the third best team from Asia, with winners of the matches qualifying.

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