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qualification competition was a series of tournaments organised by the six
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confederations. Each confederation – the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean),
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(South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe) – was allocated a certain number of the 32 places at the tournament. A total of 197 teams entered the qualification process for the
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. In 2001 FIFA ended automatic qualification of the reigning champion, so that
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champions Brazil became first to participate in the qualifying tournament. The hosts ( Germany) retained their automatic spot. The original distribution of places between the six confederations called for Oceania to be given one full spot in the final 32; this idea was seen as virtually guaranteeing a place in the finals to
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, by far the strongest footballing nation in the region. This decision was reconsidered in June 2003 and the previous distribution of places between Oceania and South America was restored. The draw for five of the six qualification tournaments took place on 5 December 2003 in Frankfurt, whilst all of the members of the South American federation (
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) competed in a single group. Qualification itself began in September 2003.


Qualified teams

The following 32 teams qualified for the
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: 1Includes 10 appearances by ''DFB'' representing West Germany between 1954 and 1990. Excludes 1 appearance by ''DVF'' representing East Germany between 1954 and 1990. 2Participated as a part of Soviet Union between 1930 and 1990. 3Includes appearances by pre-division Yugoslavia, as FIFA considers Serbia and Montenegro as a successor of a team. 4Includes appearances by Czechoslovakia, as FIFA considers Czech Republic as a successor of a team.


Qualification process

A total of 197 teams entered the qualification process for the
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, competing for a total of 32 spots in the final tournament. Germany, as the host, qualified automatically, leaving 31 spots open for competition. Starting with these qualifiers, the defending champion ( Brazil) was not granted automatic qualification for the first time. FIFA announced the decision in December 2001 at the draw for the 2002 Finals Tournament. The official reason was that the friendly matches to which previous champions were restricted provided inferior preparation to the competitive qualification matches others would have played. Media also noted that the change released an extra place for the contentious distribution of places by confederation. The final distribution was as follows: The distribution by confederation for the 2006 FIFA World Cup was: * AFC (Asia): 4 or 5 places * CAF (Africa): 5 places * CONCACAF (North, Central American and Caribbean): 3 or 4 places *
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(South America): 4 or 5 places * OFC (Oceania): 0 or 1 place(s) * UEFA (Europe): 13 places (+ Germany qualified automatically as host nation for a total of 14 places) UEFA and CAF have a guaranteed number of places, whereas the number of qualifiers from other confederations is dependent on play-offs between AFC's fifth-placed team and CONMEBOL's fifth-placed team, and between CONCACAF's fourth-placed team and OFC's first-placed team. A draw determined the pairings between the four teams involved. After the 2006 FIFA World Cup group stage of 2006 FIFA World Cup finals, the percentage of teams from each confederation that passed through to the round of 16 was as follows: * AFC (Asia): 0% (0 of 4 places) * CAF (Africa): 20% (1 of 5 places) * CONCACAF (North, Central American and Caribbean): 25% (1 of 4 places) *
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(South America): 75% (3 of 4 places) * OFC (Oceania): 100% (1 of 1 places) * UEFA (Europe): 77% (10 of 14 places)


Summary of qualification


Tiebreakers

For FIFA World Cup qualifying stages using a league format, the method used for separating teams level on points is the same for all Confederations. The rules for separating teams level on points are decided by FIFA and can be found in article 18 part 6d to 6g of the FIFA Regulations 2006 World Cup Germany If teams are even on points at the end of group play, the tied teams will be ranked by: # greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned # goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned # greatest number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned # goal difference in all group matches # greatest number of goals scored in all group matches # a play-off on neutral ground. If, after 90 minutes, this match ends in a draw, extra time of twice 15 minutes will be played. If the score is level after extra time, penalty kicks will be taken to determine the winner. For FIFA World Cup qualifying stages using a home-and-away knockout format, the team that has the higher aggregate score over the two legs progresses to the next round. In the event that aggregate scores finish level, the
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is applied, i.e. the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs progresses. If away goals are also equal, then thirty minutes of
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are played, divided into two fifteen-minutes halves. The away goals rule is again applied after extra time, i.e. if there are goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score is still level, the visiting team qualifies by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals are scored during extra time, the tie is decided by penalty shoot-out. This is a change from the 2002 FIFA World Cup, where total goal difference was the first tiebreaker. A total of 194 teams played at least one qualifying match. A total of 847 qualifying matches were played, and 2464 goals were scored (an average of 2.91 per match).


Confederation qualification


AFC

44 Asian teams are affiliated with
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, but Cambodia, Philippines, Bhutan and Brunei decided not to take part, and
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was banned from the competition, so a total of 39 teams took part, competing for 4.5 places in the World Cup. The qualification was composed of three rounds. *First Round: The 14 last ranked teams according to FIFA were paired 2-by-2 and played home-and-away knock-out matches. *Second Round: The 7 winners joined the other 25 teams where those 32 teams were divided in 8 groups of four teams each. The teams in each group would play against each other home-and-away, and the team with most points in each group would advance to the Third Round. *Third Round: The 8 remaining teams were divided in two groups of 4 teams each, that would again play against each other in a home-and-away basis. The two teams with most points in each group would qualify to the World Cup. The two third placed teams would play-off against each other home-and-away. Winner of this play-off would play against the fourth placed team in the Final Round of CONCACAF in an intercontinental play-off for a place in the World Cup.


Final positions (Third Round)


Play-off for 5th place (Fourth Round)

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.


CAF

The qualification was composed of two Rounds. 9 teams entered the competition directly on the Second Round: the 5 teams that qualified for the 2002 World Cup Finals ( Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tunisia) and the 4 highest-ranking teams in the June 25, 2003
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world rankings ( Congo DR,
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, Egypt, and Morocco). The other 42 teams were paired 2-by-2 and played knock-out matches home-and-away. The 21 winners would advance to the Second Round. In the Second Round, the 30 teams were divided in 5 groups of 6 teams each. 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. The competition also constituted the qualification competition for the
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with the top three nations of each group qualifying (except for Egypt, which qualifies as the host nation, the fourth nation in Egypt's group qualifying in Egypt's place). The African qualifying zone saw 4 out of 5 finals places going to World Cup debutants (Angola, Togo, Ivory Coast and Ghana). Nigeria missed out on a fourth consecutive finals appearance while Cameroon did not reach their fifth consecutive finals. The African zone also featured a group of death – Group 3 – which brought together Africa's most frequent World Cup qualifier Cameroon with the two eventual finalists of the
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: Egypt and the Ivory Coast.


Final positions (Second Round)


CONCACAF

The qualification process was divided in three stages. In the first stage, the 34 teams were divided in 10 groups of three teams each and two groups of two teams each. Groups with three teams had two rounds, with the best ranked team according to
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in each group entering the competition in the second round. In each group, teams were paired 2-by-2 and played home-and-away matches. The 12 winners of the first stage advanced to the second stage, where they were divided into three groups of four teams each. Teams in each group would play against each other home-and-away, and the two teams with most points in each group would advance to the Final Round. In the third stage, the six teams were put in a single group, and played against each other home-and-away. The three teams with most points qualified to the World Cup. The fourth placed team advanced to the AFC–CONCACAF play-off against the winner of a play-off between third placed teams in the Third Round of Asia.


Final positions (Fourth Round)


CONMEBOL

10 teams took part, all in a single group. The rules were very simple: the teams would play against each other in a home-and-away basis, with the four teams with most points qualifying to the
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. The fifth ranked team would have to play-off against the best team from Oceania, with the winner of this play-off also qualifying. For the first time, Brazil, the defending champion, was required to go through qualification and was not automatically qualified for the tournament.


Final positions


OFC

12 teams took part, competing for a place in the intercontinental play-off against the fifth-placed team from South America. The winner of this play-off qualified for the World Cup.


Final positions (Second Round)

In the Second round, the six teams were put in a single group, and played against each other once. The two teams with most points advanced to a play-off, and played against each other home and away. The winner of this play-off advanced to the intercontinental play-off.


Final round

Australia and the Solomon Islands progressed to the final stage.


UEFA

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. 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. The runners up would be ranked. As some groups had seven teams and others had six, 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.


Play-offs

Poland and Sweden qualified directly to the World Cup. The other teams had to play in the playoffs. A draw was held on 14 October 2005 at
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headquarters in Zürich to pair each team from Pot 1 with a team from Pot 2. A second draw at the same time and location determined the order of the fixtures.


Inter-confederation play-offs

There were two scheduled inter-confederation playoffs to determine the final two qualification spots to the finals. The first legs were played on 12 November 2005, and the second legs were played on 16 November 2005.


CONCACAF v AFC


CONMEBOL v OFC


Withdrawals

* * *


Did not enter

* * * * * * * *


Excluded

* (for refusing to play a qualifier in Iran during 2002 qualifying).


Top goalscorers

;14 goals * Jared Borgetti ;12 goals *
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;11 goals *
Jaime Lozano Jaime Arturo "Jimmy" Lozano Espín (born 29 September 1978) is a Mexican professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. Lozano spent the majority of his playing career with Club Universidad Nacional, playing in ov ...
* Pauleta * Emmanuel Adebayor ;10 goals *
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* Carlos Ruiz ;9 goals *
Didier Drogba Didier Yves Drogba Tébily (; born 11 March 1978) is an Ivorian retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the all-time top scorer and former captain of the Ivory Coast national team. He is best known for his career at ...
* Jan Koller * Ali Daei * Francisco Fonseca ;8 goals * Paulo Wanchope *
Alexei Eremenko Alexei Eremenko (born Aleksei Alekseyevich Yeryomenko; russian: Алексей Алексеевич Ерёменко; born 24 March 1983) is a former professional footballer. He is from a footballing family, with his father, Alexei Eremenko Sr. ...
*
Obafemi Martins Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins (born 28 October 1984) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is known for his speed on the ball. After leaving Nigeria for Italy at age 16, he has since played for a number of top-di ...
* Zlatan Ibrahimović


References


External links


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