The five teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner Italy qualified for the 17th FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan. The runner-up Romania advanced to the UEFA Play-off and played against Slovenia. Italy conceded two unexpected draws against the lowest-ranked sides in the group, but won the big matches comfortably, and were established as group winners long before the end of the campaign. Romania lost both games against Italy but had five wins out of six in the other matches, and second place was likewise ensured early.

Standings

Results

Goalscorers

7 goals

Filippo Inzaghi

5 goals

Alessandro Del Piero

4 goals

Aleksandr Iashvili

3 goals

Miklós Fehér

Ferenc Horváth

Marius Niculae

2 goals

Temuri Ketsbaia

Attila Korsós

János Mátyus

Vilmos Sebők

Marco Delvecchio

Francesco Totti

Adrian Ilie

1 goal

Archil Arveladze

Shota Arveladze

Giorgi Gakhokidze

Gocha Jamarauli

Georgi Kinkladze

Levan Kobiashvili

Béla Illés

Krisztián Lisztes

Orestas Buitkus

Artūras Fomenka

Tomas Ražanauskas

Cosmin Contra

Ioan Ganea

Viorel Moldovan

Cătălin Munteanu

Gheorghe Popescu

External links

FIFA official page

RSSSF - 2002 World Cup Qualification

Allworldcup

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2000–01 in Italian football

Qual

2000 in Lithuanian football

2001 in Lithuanian football

2000–01 in Hungarian football

2001–02 in Hungarian football

2000–01 in Romanian football

2001–02 in Romanian football

2001–02 in Georgian football

2000–01 in Georgian football

2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8