2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA second round

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The 2006 FIFA World Cup European qualification playoffs were a set of home-and-away playoffs to decide the final three places granted to national football teams from European nations (more precisely, UEFA members) for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

The playoffs were decided by the standard FIFA method of aggregate score, with away goals and, if necessary, extra time with the possibility of a penalty shootout at the end of the second leg. The winner of each playoff was awarded a place in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

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.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	8	Sweden	10	8	0	2	30	4	+26	24	Qualification to 2006 FIFA World Cup
2	6	Poland	10	8	0	2	27	9	+18	24
3	1	Czech Republic	10	7	0	3	23	11	+12	21	Advance to second round (play-offs)
4	7	Spain	10	5	5	0	19	3	+16	20
5	4	Switzerland	10	4	6	0	18	7	+11	18
6	5	Norway	10	5	3	2	12	7	+5	18
7	3	Slovakia	10	4	5	1	17	7	+10	17
8	2	Turkey	10	4	5	1	13	9	+4	17

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.^[2] The division was:

Pot 1 (seeded) Team Rank  Czech Republic 4  Spain 8  Turkey 12

Pot 2 (unseeded) Team Rank  Norway 37   Switzerland 38  Slovakia 45

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.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Spain	6–2	Slovakia	5–1	1–1
Switzerland	4–4 (a)	Turkey	2–0	2–4
Norway	0–2	Czech Republic	0–1	0–1

12 November 2005

22:00 CET

Spain	5–1	Slovakia
García 10', 18', 74' Torres 65' (pen.) Morientes 79'	Report	Németh 49'

Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid

Attendance: 47,210

Referee: Massimo De Santis (Italy)

16 November 2005

20:15 CET

Slovakia	1–1	Spain
Hološko 50'	Report	Villa 71'

Tehelné pole, Bratislava

Attendance: 23,587

Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)

Spain won 6–2 on aggregate.

12 November 2005

20:45 CET

Switzerland	2–0	Turkey
Senderos 41' Behrami 86'	Report

Wankdorf, Bern

Attendance: 31,130

Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)

16 November 2005

20:15 EET

Turkey	4–2	Switzerland
Tuncay 22', 36', 89' Necati 52' (pen.)	Report	Frei 2' (pen.) Streller 84'

Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 42,000

Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)

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

12 November 2005

19:30 CET

Norway	0–1	Czech Republic
	Report	Šmicer 31'

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 24,264

Referee: Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)

16 November 2005

20:15 CET

Czech Republic	1–0	Norway
Rosický 35'	Report

Toyota Arena, Prague

Attendance: 17,464

Referee: Graham Poll (England)

Czech Republic won 2–0 on aggregate.

There were 18 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 3 goals per match.

3 goals

1 goal