The five teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner Italy qualified for the 17th
FIFA World Cup
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held in
South Korea
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and
Japan
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. The runner-up Romania advanced to the UEFA Play-off and played against Slovenia. Italy conceded two unexpected draws against the lowest-ranked sides in the group, but won the big matches comfortably, and were established as group winners long before the end of the campaign. Romania lost both games against Italy but had five wins out of six in the other matches, and second place was likewise ensured early.
Standings
Results
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Goalscorers
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Filippo Inzaghi
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;5 goals
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Alessandro Del Piero
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;4 goals
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Aleksandr Iashvili
Alexandr Iashvili ( ka, ალექსანდრე მამულის ძე იაშვილი; born 23 October 1977) is a Georgian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Club career
Early years
Born in Tbilisi, Ia ...
;3 goals
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Miklós Fehér
Miklós "Miki" Fehér (; 20 July 1979 – 25 January 2004) was a Hungarian professional footballer who played as a striker.
He spent most of his nine-year career in Portugal, representing four clubs and amassing Primeira Liga totals of 80 game ...
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Ferenc Horváth
Ferenc Horváth (born 6 May 1973) is a Hungarian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is now a manager, most recently coaching at Budapest Honvéd FC.
He made his debut for the Hungary national team in 1996, and got 32 ...
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Marius Niculae
Marius Constantin Niculae (born 16 May 1981), nicknamed (''Arrow'' in Romanian) is a Romanian retired footballer who played as a centre forward.
Niculae started his career with Dinamo București, progressing through their youth system to the ...
;2 goals
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Temuri Ketsbaia
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Club career
After beginning his pro ...
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Attila Korsós
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World Cup 2002 Qualifier
From 2000 to 2001, Attila Korsós participated in four World Cup qualifying matches for Hungary.
Career in NBII
In 2003, he left ...
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János Mátyus
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Vilmos Sebők
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Marco Delvecchio
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Francesco Totti
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Adrian Ilie
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He represented the Romania national team in one World Cup and two European Championships.
Club career
Ilie began h ...
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Archil Arveladze
Archil Arveladze ( ka, არჩილ არველაძე; born 22 February 1973) is a Georgian former professional footballer who played as a striker for various sides in Europe.
Club career
Born in Tbilisi, Arveladze spent his youth ca ...
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Shota Arveladze
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Arveladze played at Dinamo Tb ...
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Giorgi Gakhokidze
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Gocha Jamarauli
Gocha Jamarauli ( ka, გოჩა ჯამარაული; born 23 July 1971) is a Georgian former professional football midfielder.
He collected 62 caps and as of 2008 is the fourth most capped player in Georgia.
Club career
His club car ...
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Georgi Kinkladze
Georgi Kinkladze ( ka, გიორგი ქინქლაძე, ; born 6 July 1973), also spelled Georgiou, or Giorgi, or shortened to Gio, is a Georgian former footballer who played as a playmaking midfielder.
Born in the Georgian capital ...
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Levan Kobiashvili
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He playe ...
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Béla Illés
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He was only ...
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Krisztián Lisztes Krisztián Lisztes may refer to:
* Krisztián Lisztes (footballer, born 1976), Hungarian football midfielder
* Krisztián Lisztes (footballer, born 2005), Hungarian football midfielder and son of the above
{{hndis, Lisztes, Krisztian ...
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Orestas Buitkus
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As of May 2006 Buitkus has scored 6 goals in 29 appearances for the Lithuanian national team ...
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Artūras Fomenka
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Career
He played two games in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2000 for FC Rostselmash Rostov-on-Don. From 2008 to ...
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Tomas Ražanauskas
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He played in the position of midfielder and was also a member of the Lithuania ...
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Cosmin Contra
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Primarily an attacking-minded right-back, he was also deployed as a midfielder. He played professionally in three countries his own notwithstanding, ...
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Ioan Ganea
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Viorel Moldovan
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Career
Moldovan was born in Bistrița.
At club level, ...
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Cătălin Munteanu
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Club career
Cătălin Munteanu, nicknamed "Cap de Zmeu" ''(Head of Zmeu)'' was born on 26 January 1 ...
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Gheorghe Popescu
Gheorghe "Gică" Popescu (; born 9 October 1967) is a Romanian former professional football who played as a defender.
He notably played in La Liga where he is a former captain of FC Barcelona. He played for a string of European clubs in tha ...
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2000–01 in Italian football
Qual
2000 in Lithuanian football
2001 in Lithuanian football
2000–01 in Hungarian football
2001–02 in Hungarian football
2000–01 in Romanian football
2001–02 in Romanian football
2001–02 in Georgian football
2000–01 in Georgian football