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The Football World Cup 2006 - European Qualification Playoffs
are 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 World Cup.
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:
A draw was held on
October 14, 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.
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 World Cup.