Dazzla Veteran Posted December 5, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 5, 2003 Didn't see that anyone posted it so here goes: GROUP ONE Czech Republic Netherlands Romania Finland FYR Macedonia Armenia Andorra GROUP TWO Turkey Denmark Greece Ukraine Georgia Albania Kazakhstan GROUP THREE Portugal Russia Slovakia Latvia Estonia Liechtenstein Luxembourg GROUP FOUR France REPUBLIC OF IRELAND Switzerland Israel Cyprus Faroe Islands GROUP FIVE Italy Slovenia SCOTLAND Norway Belarus Moldova GROUP SIX ENGLAND Poland Austria WALES NORTHERN IRELAND Azerbaijan GROUP SEVEN Spain Belgium Serbia & Montenegro Bosnia Lithuania San Marino GROUP EIGHT Sweden Croatia Bulgaria Iceland Hungary Malta That's the European draw with Group 6 being the most exciting obviously :D with 3 home nation teams participating. Group 2 looks like the group of hell to me :pinch: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatnipOligarchy Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 im not a big soccer fan but im not here to troll, im just curious about the world cup concept which may be used in other sports. from what i understand, these teams play the others in their group and the top few in each group advance? and when do these qualifying games normally in relation to the actual world cup? if someone could clear it up for me, i'd appreciate it. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1438727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted December 5, 2003 Author Veteran Share Posted December 5, 2003 This is just the Europe part, then there' Oceana, South America, Africa etc. But from these 51 teams, only 13 from Europe will qualify for the world cup. These are just qualifiers to get into the world cup. I think the 8 group winners qualify, as well as the top 2 runners up. Plus then 3 more from playoffs. Germany qualify automatically because they're hosting it. The actual world cup consists of 8 groups of 4, of which 16 teams qualify into a knockout stage like the picture attached (from World Cup 2002), this is the beginning of the knockout stage: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1438750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatnipOligarchy Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 that makes sense. its good that so many teams have an opportunity to succeed. the commissioner of baseball has talked of starting a world cup, if it was done like this i think it would be a success. thanks for explaining it :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1438756 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadishTM Veteran Posted December 5, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 5, 2003 Group 1 looks quite hard as well, the top 4 of that group are solid .... Radish? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1438763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
larciel Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 i think top 2 teams advance to round of 32 at the WorldCup. (because, Europe gets so many tickets compared to other continents) .. these qualifying rounds happen about 2 years before the actual world cup (i'm not so sure) lemme see. last worldcup Europe: france,portugal,germany,italy,ireland,england,spain,poland,turkey,sweden, slovakia, croatia, denmark,slovenia, russia, belgium (16 teams) Asia&including Austrailia.. (there was big fuss about this):korea,japan(hosts),china,saudi, (usually 3 teams) Africa: cameron, senegal, nigeria,south africa, tunisia (5 teams) N.America: mexico,america, costa rica, (3 teams) S.America: brazil,urugay,argentina,paraguay,ecadour, (5 teams) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1438774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosqutus Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 England, Wales and Northern Ireland....wow Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1438975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxp Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 go go ROMANIA finally they make it so proud to be romanian Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1438987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay C Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 Englands group looks like it will be a walk over for them :D should be good :p Italy got Norway and Scotland :s hopefully they won't be condemned against this year, like they were last time - 6 disallowed goals. OUTRAGE! :crazy: Edit: well, not this year, 2006 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1438995 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creamy Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 Yeahhh!!!Woooot! A World Cup in Germany!! Great! Cant wait for it...I'll try to get some tickets for the 1/2 final...it's near my town here.... And of course Germany is going to be the Winner....Ronaldo won't shoot us out this time... :pinch: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1439004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CdCViRus Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 And of course Germany is going to be the Winner....Ronaldo won't shoot us out this time... :pinch: yeah, of course :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1439035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMac Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 Group 6 looks awesome although my money's on England. Too bad group 3's so weak as Portugal will go undefeated. Shaping up to be an interesting tourney though. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1439836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted December 6, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 6, 2003 ah..these are all euro teams...wheres brazil!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1440121 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomwarren Veteran Posted December 6, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 6, 2003 LOL @ group 6, we got it easy :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1440135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatnipOligarchy Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 LOL @ group 6, we got it easy :D careful, thats the kind of talk that can jinx a team Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1440353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 LOL @ group 6, we got it easy :D Last I checked, Poland had a pretty good team. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/121065-world-cup-2006-draw/#findComment-1441423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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