2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5

The six teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner Poland qualified for the 17th FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan. The runner-up Ukraine advanced to the UEFA Play-off and played against Germany. Poland led the group from the start, with six wins and two draws out of eight, with Ukraine in second place: however, with group victory already sewn up, they unexpectedly went down 4–1 to Belarus, which gave the Belarusians a chance of overtaking Ukraine if they won their final match against Wales and Ukraine failed to win in Poland. However, Belarus failed to reproduce the form of their previous match, and lost 1–0 to hand Wales their only victory of the campaign, Ukraine thus finishing second regardless of their result in Poland (a 1–1 draw).

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Poland	10	6	3	1	21	11	+10	21	Qualification to 2002 FIFA World Cup		—	1–1	3–1	3–0	0–0	4–0
2	Ukraine	10	4	5	1	13	8	+5	17	Advance to UEFA play-offs		1–3	—	0–0	0–0	1–1	3–0
3	Belarus	10	4	3	3	12	11	+1	15			4–1	0–2	—	2–1	2–1	2–1
4	Norway	10	2	4	4	12	14	−2	10			2–3	0–1	1–1	—	3–2	0–0
5	Wales	10	1	6	3	10	12	−2	9			1–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	—	0–0
6	Armenia	10	0	5	5	7	19	−12	5			1–1	2–3	0–0	1–4	2–2	—

Results

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Goalscorers

There were 75 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.5 goals per match.

9 goals

8 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

References

External links

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