2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA second round

Qualified teams

Because some groups had six teams and others had seven, matches against the 7th placed team were discarded. The two best ranked runners-up also qualified to the World Cup. The other six runners-up were drawn into three two-legged knock out matches.

Seeding and draw

By the rules of the UEFA qualifying tournament, the first-place finishers in each of eight groups received automatic berths, along with the two second-place teams that had earned the most points against teams in the top six of their individual groups.

The six remaining second-place teams were divided into two pots based on their standings in the September 2005 FIFA World Rankings. The division was:

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A draw was held on 14 October 2005 at FIFA 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.

Matches

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Torres Morientes

Spain won 6–2 on aggregate.

Behrami

Main article: 2005 Turkey v Switzerland football match

Necati Streller 4–4 on aggregate. Switzerland won on away goals.

Czech Republic won 2–0 on aggregate.

Goalscorers

• Luis García

• Tuncay

• Vladimír Šmicer

• Tomáš Rosický

• Filip Hološko

• Szilárd Németh

• Fernando Morientes

• Fernando Torres

• David Villa

• Valon Behrami

• Alexander Frei

• Philippe Senderos

• Marco Streller

• Necati Ateş

References

References

1. "FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) 2006, football - table and standings".
2. (13 October 2005). "Trio share in final-day joy". [[UEFA]].