The five teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner Croatia qualified for the 17th
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams of the members of the FIFA, Fédération Internatio ...
held in
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...
and Japan. The runner-up Belgium advanced to the UEFA Play-off and played against the Czech Republic. The group had seen a very close three-way battle between Croatia, Scotland and Belgium, with several draws between the top three sides: ultimately it was only decided towards the end when Belgium's defeat of Scotland put paid to all but the mathematical goal-difference chances of the Scots, and left Belgium in first place in the group, only to be defeated by Croatia in the final match, with Croatia thus overtaking them for first place in the group and finishing unbeaten.
Standings
Matches
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Goalscorers
References
External links
FIFA official pageAllworldcup
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2000–01 in Scottish football
2001–02 in Scottish football
2000 in Latvian football
2001 in Latvian football
2000–01 in Croatian football
qual
2000–01 in Belgian football
qual
2001–02 in San Marino football
2000–01 in San Marino football