World Cup 2006 Qualifying Groups: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

World Cup 2006 Qualifying Draw: Europe

Europe will have 14 slots for the 2006 World Cup. Germany qualifies automatically as host nation. 51 teams will compete for the remaining 13 slots from 8 groups. The 8 group winners and the two best runner-up teams overall qualify automatically for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The other runner-ups will be drawn into home and away playoff-games to complete the final three berths.

European World Cup Qualifiers

Play Offs, Second Leg November 16

The Czech Republic 1 v Norway 0 The Czechs are through to Germany.
Tomas Rosicky's goal seals the win.
Slovakia 1 v Spain 1
Spain books a ticket to the World Cup on goal difference. In a downpour, David Villa gets his first goal for Spain.
Turkey 4 Switzerland 2
The Swiss qualify on away goals with a 4-4 aggregate scoreline.

Play Offs, First Leg November 12

Norway 0 v The Czech Republic 1
Vladimir Smicer's header separated the two teams on a mud-bath in Oslo.
Spain 5 v Slovakia 1
A Luis Garcia hat-trick virtually assures Spain of a ticket to Germany.
Switzerland 2 v Turkey 0
The Swiss have a slight edge after goals from Arsenal's Philippe Senderos and Varon Behrami of Lazio.

The two-legged home and away ties will be played on 12 November and 16 November. The three teams highest in the FIFA world rankings--the Czech Republic (4th), Spain (8th) and Turkey (12th)--were placed in one pot and will play a team drawn from the second pot either Norway (37th), Switzerland (38th) or Slovakia (45th).

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