[60] In 2007, FIFA and the 12 host cities received the German Marketing Prize for Sports for the innovative nature and marketing concept of Fan Fests. England struggled against Ecuador but won 10 thanks to a David Beckham free kick. World! Tomorrow, November 6. Besides the eight group winners, two teams progressed automatically as best runners up, namely Poland and Sweden while the playoffs offered a second chance to six others. Germany qualifies automatically as host nation. Further controversy ensued near the end of extra time, when Zidane head-butted Materazzi in the chest in an off-the-ball incident and was sent off. Teams in bold eventually qualified for the final tournament, teams in bold italic qualified for the final tournament through the play-offs, and teams in italic participated in the play-offs but did not qualify for the final tournament. The qualification was composed of three rounds. World Cup 2006 Germany - Top Scorer. As Germany was hosting the 2006 World Cup, they automatically qualified. [41] Argentina and Brazil were eliminated in the quarter-finals, leaving an all-European final four for only the fourth time (after the 1934, 1966 and 1982 tournaments). It involved four bidding nations after Brazil had withdrawn three days earlier: Germany, South Africa, England and Morocco. The vote to choose the hosts of the 2006 tournament was held in July 2000 in Zrich, Switzerland. [107], This article is about the international association football competition. Football's world governing body has revealed its plans for how the 48 places will . [8][9] Makudi additionally received a payment by a company of German media mogul Leo Kirch, who also paid millions for usually worthless TV rights for friendly matches of the Germany team and FC Bayern Munich. Base camps were used by the 32 national squads to stay and train before and during the World Cup tournament. Among the teams who failed to qualify were 2002 third-placed team Turkey, quarter-finalists Senegal, Euro 2004 winners Greece and 2006 Africa Cup of Nations winners Egypt. For the video game, see. Germany qualified automatically as hosts. [58][59] Media coverage of events had an additional positive effect as pictures of fans celebrating in front of giant screens attracted even more visitors from neighbouring European countries that spontaneously decided to take part in celebrations at Fan Fests. Switzerland won on away goals. 4Includes appearances by Czechoslovakia, as FIFA considers Czech Republic as a successor of a team. ", Official match balls of the FIFA World Cup, 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia Official Song 'Live It Up' to be performed by all-star line-up, "FIFAworldcup.com The Official Site of FIFA World Cup", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006_FIFA_World_Cup&oldid=1118674450, Greatest total goal difference in the three group matches, Greatest number of goals scored in the three group matches. During the first weeks of the tournament, there was concerned discussion about the wide display of the German national flag and the German national colours on houses, vehicles and clothing. The Dutch picked up 10 and 21 victories over Serbia and Montenegro and Ivory Coast, respectively. From Wednesday, October 12 through to Sunday, October 16, the European Qualifiers were held in Glasgow, Scotland. A draw determined the pairings between the four teams involved. Teams were awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw and none for a defeat. World Cup 2006 Qualifying: Europe - Group 4 Some teams have all the luck and France have it again with what appears an easy passage to the finals in Germany. In the South American zone, which of the following teams did not qualify for the 2006 World Cup? Recommendations for Public and Private Administration Informed by the Experience of the FIFA World Cup 2006", "No Tickets? For fairness rules, results against the seventh placed team were ignored, in groups of seven teams. In Group B, England and Sweden pushed Paraguay into third place after narrow victories over the South Americans. They also announced, in advance, that Brazil (the defending champion) would be allocated to Group F. The group stage draw was held in Leipzig on 9 December 2005, and the group assignments and order of matches were determined. Out-of-home media reception made the emotional aspect of escape from everyday life more intense for participants. Also, in both cases the teams had tied their match, so the order of ranking criteria made no difference. Italy haven't won a World Cup play-off game since they won the tournament itself in 2006. [1] The division was: A draw was held on 14 October 2005 at FIFA headquarters in Zrich to pair each team from Pot 1 with a team from Pot 2. Fifa is proposing a six-nation play-off tournament to decide the last two slots at the 48-team World Cup in 2026. Eight nations qualified for the finals for the first time: Angola, Czech Republic, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, and Serbia and Montenegro. Each confederation the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe) was allocated a certain number of the 32 places at the tournament. The group comprised Cyprus, Faroe Islands, France, Republic of Ireland, Israel and Switzerland . The two best ranked runners-up also qualified to the World Cup. D. Drew 2 - 2 against Slovakia on October 11th 2021. The six remaining second-place teams were divided into two pots based on their standings in the September 2005 FIFA World Rankings. Despite the early goals that flooded the group stages, the knock-out phase had a much lower goals per match ratio. The US bowed out of the tournament after disappointing results against the Czech Republic and Ghana, 03 and 12, respectively, despite a 11 draw (finishing with 9 vs 10 men) against Italy. 16 Nov. Czech republic beats Norway 1-0 to qualify for 2006 . No player managed to score a hat-trick in this tournament. South Korea won their first World Cup finals match outside their own country in defeating Togo, but four points were not enough to see them through to the round of 16 (the only team for which this was the case), while Togo exited without a point. Huge collection, amazing choice, 100+ million high quality, affordable RF and RM images. The team with most points in each group would qualify to the World Cup. Each team who entered the competition received CHF2million, with the biggest prize being CHF24.5million, awarded to the winner of the tournament. [58] A thought-out implementation of public viewing at such a large-scale football event as the 2006 World Cup became set a precedent. WC Qualifiers CONCACAF WC Qualifiers Africa WC Qualifiers Oceania WC Qualifiers Play-offs Olympic Games Preolmpico Sudamericano Olympic QF CONCACAF Friendlies Club World Cup Cup of Champions Friendlies Clubs Arab Cup J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship Intercontinental Cup Confederations Cup WC Qualifiers AFC/OFC WC Qualifiers AFC . The experience of past World Cups and public viewing was conceptualized in 4-week-long events for football supporters to meet, board, interact, partake in cultural activities and watch all 64 matches on giant video walls. A total of 197 teams entered the qualification process for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In the football world. At the completion of the event, the two highest-placed countries joined England, as the European representatives in Cape Town. Germany, as the host, qualified automatically, leaving 31 spots open for competition. Albania will also be difficult to beat and Georgia and Kazakhstan are tricky away fixtures for all the teams. The away goals rule is again applied after extra time, i.e. Argentina topped the group on goal difference, having hammered Serbia and Montenegro 60 and beaten Ivory Coast 21. Pauleta had two clear chances from 15 metres, but both times hit tame shots that did not trouble keeper Oliver Kahn, who was playing in his last match for the German national team. Germany's Miroslav Klose scored five goals to claim the Golden Boot, the lowest total to win the prize since 1962. However, it is the Oaks who will head to RWC 2023 as Europe 2, after Spain were found to have fielded an ineligible player during the qualification process. Qualifying tournament, Europe. [18] Germany, the host nation, was granted automatic qualification, with the remaining 31 finals places divided among the continental confederations. The race to join hosts Germany at the 2006 FIFA World Cup featured an unlikely winner in Europe, where Ukraine became the first team to qualify, having finished above Turkey, Denmark and Greece in arguably the continent's toughest qualifying group. A cross from the right wing on 88 minutes found fellow substitute Nuno Gomes at the far post, who dived in for the goal. Goal difference 2. He abstained, citing "intolerable pressure" on the eve of the vote. Romania, who secured a crucial 37-27 defeat of Portugal on 12 February, recovered from defeat to Spain to claim third place with a final-round win in the Netherlands. Scores after extra time are indicated by (aet), and penalty shoot-outs are indicated by (pen.). The winner of each playoff was awarded a place in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Draw your own conclusions", "FIFA changes World Cup tie-breaking rules", "South African to learn lessons from Germany", "The dullest game in World Cup history: Switzerland v Ukraine in 2006", "Interview with Match-Fixing Investigator Declan Hill: 'I Am Sure the Game Was Manipulated', "Zinedine Zidane Penalty Kick France V Italy FIFA World Cup Final 2006 HD HQ", "France, Italy dominate World Cup all-star squad", "CHF 24.5 million for the 2006 world champions", "Welcome Fans. Goals scored 3. Miroslav Klose received the Golden Boot for scoring five goals in the World Cup. 2. Germany, the hosts, were already qualified, for a total of 14 European places in the tournament. In Gelsenkirchen, England faced Portugal in a repeat of their Euro 2004 quarter-final. REUTERS/Yves Herman - 2E7M1GW from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors. In total, 64games were played. Both Volkswagen and Bayer announced investments in Thailand and South Korea, whose respective delegates Worawi Makudi and Chung Mong-joon were possible voters for Germany. The World Cup 2006 Fan and Visitor Programme", "Public Viewing Takes on New Dimension at World Cup", "An investigation into 2010 FIFA World Cup planning: a case study of the Eden district municipality, Western Cape, South Africa", "The Feel-good Effect at Mega Sports Events. Each group was a round-robin of three games, where each team played one match against each of the other teams in the same group. 2006 World Cup Potpourri Tough 5. After the 2006 World Cup, David Beckham was left out of the England squad by new boss Steve McClaren saying the team was "looking to go in a different . The following 32 teams qualified for the 2006 FIFA World Cup : 1 Includes 10 appearances by DFB representing West Germany between 1954 and 1990. If no goals are scored during extra time, the tie is decided by penalty shoot-out. The African qualifying zone saw 4 out of 5 finals places going to World Cup debutants (Angola, Togo, Ivory Coast and Ghana). Nevertheless, Klinsmann announced after the tournament that he would not extend his contract as trainer of the national team, since he felt completely burned-out and wished to spend more time with his family in California. In the final, Italian centre-back Marco Materazzi out-jumped Patrick Vieira and headed in the last goal of the 2006 World Cup. [104] A study by the University of Marburg suggested a slight rise in national pride. World Cup . 2006 World Cup Preliminaries Tough 10. They were joined by the group winners, Switzerland, who defeated South Korea 20, and did not concede a goal in the tournament. REUTERS/Yves Herman - 2E89E04 from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors. [1] France qualified automatically for the 2002 FIFA World Cup as title holders, so only their record in UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying was used. Group F included the reigning World Champions Brazil, Croatia, Japan, and Australia. 51 teams will compete for the remaining 13 slots from 8 groups. "[13] The following day, former DFB president Theo Zwanziger publicly accused Niersbach of lying, saying: "It is evident that there was a slush fund for the German World Cup application". In the third stage, the six teams were put in a single group, and played against each other home-and-away. For the first time ever in the FIFA World Cup, the first and last goals of the tournament were scored by defenders. They won't get a chance to win again until 2026. If teams remained level after those criteria, a mini-group would be formed from those teams, who would be ranked on: Most points earned in matches against other teams in the tie, Greatest goal difference in matches against other teams in the tie, Greatest number of goals scored in matches against other teams in the tie, If teams remained level after all these criteria, FIFA would hold a drawing of lots, CHF7million To each team eliminated in the, CHF8.5million To each team eliminated in the, CHF11.5million To each team eliminated in the, Several countries celebrated this major event with the minting of specially high value commemorative coins. Even though security planners and media were sceptical and cautious on the matter of public viewing, the scepticism was cast aside with the beginning of the World Cup. Czech republic, who won the first leg (1-0), secured their ticket to the World Cup finals. DaimlerChrysler invested several hundred million euros in Hyundai, where one of the sons of the company's founder was a member of FIFA's executive committee. Bernardo Silva. Germany and Argentina ended 11 after extra time; the hosts edged out the Argentinians 42 on penalties to go through to the semifinals (this was the first time Argentina had lost a World Cup penalty shootout: up until this match, Argentina and Germany had each participated in three penalty shootouts, winning all of them). The Concacaf confederation of North American, Central American and Caribbean nations has 3.5 berths for the 2006 World Cup. Ianis Zicu: Romania v Macedonia (U21 European . The two best ranked runners-up also qualified to the World Cup. 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 2006 Africa Cup of Nations: Egypt and the Ivory Coast. What distinguishes winning from losing bettors? Sadio Mane and Abdou Diallo were on the scoresheet as Senegal recorded a 2-0 victory over Togo in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 African Qualifiers.From 1-7 S. 2006 World Cup Qualifiers Very Difficult 6. Portugal got a consolation goal with the help of substitute Lus Figo (also playing the final international game of his career), who almost immediately provided the precise distribution needed to unlock the German defence. Zinedine Zidane opened the scoring by converting a controversial seventh-minute penalty kick,[45] which glanced off the underside of the crossbar and bounced beyond the goal line before it spun back up, hit the crossbar again and rebounded out of the goal. Info. On the same day, FIFA contradicted Niersbach's statement, saying: "By our current state of knowledge, no such payment of 10million francs was registered by FIFA in 2002. . Germany, the hosts, were already qualified, for a total of 14 European places in the tournament. 44 Asian teams are affiliated with FIFA, but Cambodia, Philippines, Bhutan and Brunei decided not to take part, and Myanmar was banned from the competition, so a total of 39 teams took part, competing for 4.5 places in the World Cup. The teams in each group would play against each other in a home and away basis. The stadia in Berlin, Munich, Dortmund and Stuttgart hosted six matches each, while the other eight stadia hosted five matches each. To ensure that no group contained three European teams, Serbia and Montenegro was placed in a special pot, as they were the lowest ranked qualified team from Europe on the latest FIFA World Ranking; while it was deemed of less importance they had been seeded higher than Switzerland and Ukraine by the 2006 World Cup seeding tool. 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany Final Tournament Standing 1 Winner Italy 2 Runner-up France 3 Third place Germany 4 Fourth place Portugal TOURNAMENT AWARDS adidas Golden Ball Zinedine ZIDANE France. Ianis Zicu has been called up to the Romanian U21 squad for a European Championship qualifying match, while Nicolas Giani is in Rome with the Italian U19 team. This decision was reconsidered in June 2003 and the previous distribution of places between Oceania and South America was restored. Their last game against Angola ended in 11 draw. Miroslav Klose, Agustn Delgado, Arjen Robben, Z Roberto, Alexander Frei, Michael Ballack and Patrick Vieira each received two awards. 10/08/1994. The runners-up Switzerland entered the UEFA qualification play-offs. W. Won 7 - 1 against Malta on November 11th . The team with the most points in each group qualified to the World Cup. All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2). The other teams had to play in the playoffs. 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. 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 4, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification__UEFA_Group_4&oldid=1092983315, 2004 in Republic of Ireland association football, 2005 in Republic of Ireland association football, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2022, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 13 June 2022, at 21:01. The 21 winners would advance to the Second Round. No need to register, buy now! [20] Some of the stadia also had a lower capacity for the World Cup, as FIFA regulations ban standing room; nonetheless, this was accommodated as several stadia had a UEFA five-star ranking. Kick-off Times; Kick-off times are converted to your local PC time. Germany also experienced a sudden increase in patriotic spirit with flags waving, traditionally frowned upon by German society since World War II whenever the German team played. [7], More irregularities surfaced soon after, including, in the months leading up to the decision, the sudden interest of German politicians and major businesses in the four Asian countries whose delegates were decisive for the vote. The outdated and still-standing Olympiastadion in Munich (69,250), the venue for the 1974 final match was not used for the tournament, even though FIFA's regulations allow one city to use two stadia. Portugal were strong in possession but lacked punch in attack; unable to convert 57% possession into goals. The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro dissolved prior to the start of the World Cup, on 3 June 2006, with Serbia and Montenegro becoming independent countries; their team competed at the World Cup unaffected. [36] Serbia and Montenegro was drawn first, then their group was drawn from the three seeded non-European nations, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The rules were changed to the above in advance of the tournament, but older versions were still available on the FIFA and UEFA websites, causing some confusion among those trying to identify the correct criteria. In the Second round, the six teams were put in a single group, and played against each other once. World Cup 2006 Qualifying Groups: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America World Cup 2006 Qualifying Draw: Europe. Ukraine, despite being beaten 40 by Spain in their first World Cup game, took advantage of the weaker opponents to beat Saudi Arabia 40 and scrape past Tunisia 10 thanks to a 70th-minute penalty by Andriy Shevchenko, to reach the Round of 16. European soccer has dominated the World Cup in recent years: the four teams to have won the tournament since 2002 are all from the continent, and a non-European side other than Brazil has not triumphed since Argentina won on home soil in 1986. Visit UEFA for more information. [12] According to Niersbach, the payment had been agreed upon during a meeting between Franz Beckenbauer and FIFA president Blatter, with the money being provided by Dreyfus. The All-star team is a squad consisting of the 23 most impressive players at the 2006 World Cup, as selected by FIFA's Technical Study Group. The remaining two places were decided by playoffs between AFC and CONCACAF and between CONMEBOL and OFC (Oceania). Germany defeated Portugal 31 to finish in third place. Updated instantly after every game. 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