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The five teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner Croatia qualified for the 17th FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan. The runner-up Belgium advanced to the UEFA Play-off and played against the Czech Republic. The group had seen a very close three-way battle between Croatia, Scotland and Belgium, with several draws between the top three sides: ultimately it was only decided towards the end when Belgium's defeat of Scotland put paid to all but the mathematical goal-difference chances of the Scots, and left Belgium in first place in the group, only to be defeated by Croatia in the final match, with Croatia thus overtaking them for first place in the group and finishing unbeaten.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Croatia	8	5	3	0	15	2	+13	18	Qualification to 2002 FIFA World Cup		—	1–0	1–1	4–1	4–0
2	Belgium	8	5	2	1	25	6	+19	17	Advance to UEFA play-offs		0–0	—	2–0	3–1	10–1
3	Scotland	8	4	3	1	12	6	+6	15			0–0	2–2	—	2–1	4–0
4	Latvia	8	1	1	6	5	16	−11	4			0–1	0–4	0–1	—	1–1
5	San Marino	8	0	1	7	3	30	−27	1			0–4	1–4	0–2	0–1	—

Matches

Belgium	0–0	Croatia
	Report

Latvia	0–1	Scotland
	Report	McCann 89'

Latvia	0–4	Belgium
	Report	Wilmots 5' B. Peeters 13' Cavens 83' G. Verheyen 90'

San Marino	0–2	Scotland
	Report	Elliott 71' Hutchison 73'

Croatia	1–1	Scotland
Bokšić 16'	Report	K. Gallacher 24'

San Marino	0–1	Latvia
	Report	Jeļisejevs 9'

Belgium	10–1	San Marino
Vanderhaeghe 10', 50' É. Mpenza 13' Goor 26', 60' Baseggio 64' Wilmots 72' B. Peeters 76', 84', 88'	Report	Selva 90'

Croatia	4–1	Latvia
Balaban 8', 42', 45' Vugrinec 89'	Report	Štolcers 60'

Scotland	2–2	Belgium
Dodds 2', 27' (pen.)	Report	Wilmots 58' Van Buyten 90'

Scotland	4–0	San Marino
Hendry 22', 33' Dodds 34' Cameron 63'	Report

Latvia	1–1	San Marino
Pahars 1'	Report	Albani 59'

Croatia	4–0	San Marino
Vlaović 3' Balaban 29' Šuker 54' (pen.) Vugrinec 89'	Report

Belgium	3–1	Latvia
Wilmots 2' É. Mpenza 12' Zemļinskis 50' (o.g.)	Report	Pahars 52'

Latvia	0–1	Croatia
	Report	Balaban 40'

San Marino	1–4	Belgium
Selva 11'	Report	Wilmots 10', 89' (pen.) G.Verheyen 60' Sonck 68'

Scotland	0–0	Croatia
	Report

San Marino	0–4	Croatia
	Report	N. Kovač 40' Prosinečki 48' (pen.), 90' Soldo 77'

Belgium	2–0	Scotland
N. Van Kerckhoven 28' Goor 90'	Report

Croatia	1–0	Belgium
Bokšić 75'	Report

Scotland	2–1	Latvia
Freedman 44' D. Weir 53'	Report	Rubins 21'

Goalscorers

There were 60 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 3 goals per match.

6 goals

• Marc Wilmots

5 goals

• Boško Balaban

4 goals

• Bob Peeters

3 goals

• Bart Goor
• Billy Dodds

2 goals

• Émile Mpenza
• Yves Vanderhaeghe
• Gert Verheyen
• Alen Bokšić
• Robert Prosinečki
• Davor Vugrinec
• Marians Pahars
• Andy Selva
• Colin Hendry

1 goal

• Walter Baseggio
• Jurgen Cavens
• Wesley Sonck
• Daniel Van Buyten
• Nico Van Kerckhoven
• Niko Kovač
• Zvonimir Soldo
• Davor Šuker
• Goran Vlaović
• Aleksandrs Jeļisejevs
• Andrejs Rubins
• Andrejs Štolcers
• Nicola Albani
• Colin Cameron
• Matt Elliott
• Dougie Freedman
• Kevin Gallacher
• Don Hutchison
• Neil McCann
• David Weir

1 own goal

• Mihails Zemļinskis (against Belgium)

References

1. "FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) 2002, football - table and standings". soccer365.me. Retrieved 19 April 2024.

External links

• FIFA official page
• RSSSF - 2002 World Cup Qualification
• Allworldcup

• 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
• 2000–01 in Scottish football
• 2001–02 in Scottish football
• 2000 in Latvian football
• 2001 in Latvian football
• 2000–01 in Croatian football
• Croatia at the 2002 FIFA World Cup
• 2000–01 in Belgian football
• Belgium at the 2002 FIFA World Cup
• 2001–02 in San Marino football
• 2000–01 in San Marino football