2002 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8

Qualification for the 2002 FIFA World Cup
UEFA
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Group 9
Play-offs

Main article: 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

See also: 2002 FIFA World Cup

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.

Standings

Final table																	Home							Away
Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts								Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
1.	Italy	8	6	2	0	16	3	+13	20		-	3:0	2:0	1:0	4:0		4	4	0	0	10	0	12	4	2	2	0	6	3	8
2.	Romania	8	5	1	2	10	7	+3	16		0:2	-	1:1	2:0	1:0		4	2	1	1	4	3	7	4	3	0	1	6	4	9
3.	Georgia	8	3	1	4	12	12	0	10		1:2	0:2	-	3:1	2:0		4	2	0	2	6	5	6	4	1	1	2	6	7	4
4.	Hungary	8	2	2	4	14	13	-1	8		2:2	0:2	4:1	-	1:1		4	1	2	1	7	6	5	4	1	0	3	7	7	3
5.	Lithuania	8	0	2	6	3	20	-17	2		0:0	1:2	0:4	1:6	-		4	0	1	3	2	12	1	4	0	1	3	1	8	1

Results

Hungary v Italy

September 3, 2000

Hungary	2–2	Italy
Horváth  29', 78'	Report	Inzaghi  26', 35'

Népstadion, Budapest Referee: Graham Barber (England)

Romania v Lithuania

September 3, 2000

Romania	1–0	Lithuania
Ganea  89'	Report

Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest Referee: Morgan Norman (Sweden)

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Italy v Romania

October 7, 2000

Italy	3–0	Romania
Inzaghi  13' Delvecchio  17' Totti  42'	Report

Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan Referee: Jan Wegereef (Netherlands)

Lithuania v Georgia

October 7, 2000

Lithuania	0–4	Georgia
	Report	Ketsbaia  19', 35' Kinkladze  46' A. Arveladze  84'

Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas Referee: Ryszard Wójcik (Poland)

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Italy v Georgia

October 11, 2000

Italy	2–0	Georgia
Del Piero  47' (pen.), 87' (pen.)	Report

Stadio del Conero, Ancona Referee: Karl-Erik Nilsson (Sweden)

Lithuania v Hungary

October 11, 2000

Lithuania	1–6	Hungary
Buitkus  71'	Report	Illés  25' M. Fehér  36', 61', 72' Horváth  67' Lisztes  84'

Darius and Girenas Stadium, Kaunas Referee: Orhan Erdemir (Turkey)

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Romania v Italy

March 24, 2001

Romania	0–2	Italy
	Report	Inzaghi  29', 33'

Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest Referee: Herbert Fandel (Germany)

Hungary v Lithuania

March 24, 2001

Hungary	1–1	Lithuania
V. Sebők  70' (pen.)	Report	Ražanauskas  74'

Népstadion, Budapest Referee: Vasiliy Melnichuk (Ukraine)

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Italy v Lithuania

March 28, 2001

Italy	4–0	Lithuania
Inzaghi  17', 64' Del Piero  49', 79'	Report

Stadio Nereo Rocco, Trieste Referee: Sergei Shmolik (Belarus)

Georgia v Romania

March 28, 2001

Georgia	0–2	Romania
	Report	C. Munteanu  69' Contra  80'

Boris Paichadze National Stadium, Tbilisi Referee: Rune Pedersen (Norway)

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Georgia v Italy

June 2, 2001

Georgia	1–2	Italy
Gakhokidze  80'	Report	Delvecchio  45' Totti  66'

Boris Paichadze National Stadium, Tbilisi Referee: Eduardo Iturralde González (Spain)

Romania v Hungary

June 2, 2001

Romania	2–0	Hungary
M. Niculae  5', 54'	Report

Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest Referee: Eric Poulat (France)

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Lithuania v Romania

June 6, 2001

Lithuania	1–2	Romania
Fomenka  86'	Report	A. Ilie  31' V. Moldovan  49'

Darius and Girenas Stadium, Kaunas Referee: Anton Stredak (Slovakia)

Hungary v Georgia

June 6, 2001

Hungary	4–1	Georgia
Mátyus  40' V. Sebők  45' (pen.) A. Korsós  55', 62'	Report	Kobiashvili  77'

Népstadion, Budapest Referee: Hartmut Strampe (Germany)

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Lithuania v Italy

September 1, 2001

Lithuania	0–0	Italy
	Report

Darius and Girenas Stadium, Kaunas Referee: Mario van der Ende (Netherlands)

Georgia v Hungary

September 1, 2001

Georgia	3–1	Hungary
S. Arveladze  32' Dzhamarauli  53' Iashvili  64'	Report	Mátyus  43'

Lokomotiv Stadium, Tbilisi Referee: Drago Kos (Slovenia)

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Hungary v Romania

September 5, 2001

Hungary	0–2	Romania
	Report	A. Ilie  11' M. Niculae  27'

Népstadion, Budapest Referee: Hugh Dallas (Scotland)

Georgia v Lithuania

September 5, 2001

Georgia	2–0	Lithuania
Iashvili  81', 83'	Report

Lokomotiv Stadium, Tbilisi Referee: Haim Yakov (Israel)

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Italy v Hungary

October 6, 2001

Italy	1–0	Hungary
Del Piero  45'	Report

Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma Referee: Epifanio González (Paraguay)

Romania v Georgia

October 6, 2001

Romania	1–1	Georgia
Gh. Popescu  88'	Report	Iashvili  55'

Stadionul Steaua, Bucharest Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)

Goalscorers

Pos	Player	Country	Goals
1	Filippo Inzaghi	Italy	7
2	Alessandro Del Piero	Italy	5
3	Aleksandr Iashvili	Georgia	4
4	Ferenc Horváth	Hungary	3
	Miklós Fehér	Hungary
	Marius Niculae	Romania
7	Temuri Ketsbaia	Georgia	2
	Attila Korsós	Hungary
	János Mátyus	Hungary
	Vilmos Sebők	Hungary
	Marco Delvecchio	Italy
	Francesco Totti	Italy
	Adrian Ilie	Romania

1 goal

Georgia

• Archil Arveladze
• Shota Arveladze
• Gocha Dzhamarauli
• Giorgi Gakhokidze
• Georgi Kinkladze
• Levan Kobiashvili

Hungary

• Béla Illés
• Krisztián Lisztes

Lithuania

• Orestas Buitkus
• Tomas Ražanauskas
• Artūras Fomenka

Romania

• Cosmin Contra
• Ioan Ganea
• Viorel Moldovan
• Cătălin Munteanu
• Gheorghe Popescu

Team stats

Italy

Head coach: Giovanni Trapattoni

Pos.	Player	DoB	Games played	Goals	Minutes played	Sub off	Sub on									Club
GK	Christian Abbiati	July 8, 1977	0	0	0	0	0	B	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	A.C. Milan
DF	Daniele Adani	July 10, 1974	0	0	0	0	0	B	-	B	-	-	-	-	B	AC Fiorentina
MF	Demetrio Albertini	August 23, 1971	5	0	432	1	0	90	90	90	90	-	-	-	72	A.C. Milan
MF	Massimo Ambrosini	May 29, 1977	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	B	-	-	-	-	-	A.C. Milan
DF	Valerio Bertotto	January 15, 1973	1	0	90	0	2	-	-	90	-	B	-	B	-	Udinese Calcio
GK	Gianluigi Buffon	January 28, 1978	5	0	450	0	0	-	B	B	90	90	90			A.C. Parma
														90	90	Juventus F.C.
DF	Fabio Cannavaro	September 13, 1973	8	0	720	0	2	90	90	90	90	90	90	90	90	A.C. Parma
FW	Enrico Chiesa	December 29, 1970	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	B	B	-	-	-	AC Fiorentina
DF	Francesco Coco	January 8, 1977	5	0	368	0	1	-	90	90	-	90	-			A.C. Milan
														8	90	FC Barcelona
FW	Alessandro Del Piero	November 9, 1974	8	5	519	5	1	72	9	90	90	82	58	60	58	Juventus F.C.
FW	Marco Delvecchio	April 7, 1973	4	2	219	3	1	18	71	52	-	-	78	-	-	A.S. Roma
MF	Luigi Di Biagio	June 3, 1971	1	0	18	0	0	B	B	-	-	-	-	-	18	Internationale
MF	Angelo Di Livio	July 26, 1966	5	0	230	0	3	-	B	90	90	8	32	-	10	AC Fiorentina
MF	Stefano Fiore	April 17, 1975	6	0	288	4	2	80	55	76	60	15	B			Udinese Calcio
														2	-	S.S. Lazio
MF	Gennaro Gattuso	January 9, 1978	4	0	99	0	4	10	19	38	-	-	-	B	32	A.C. Milan
FW	Filippo Inzaghi	August 9, 1973	6	7	445	3	1	90	81	-	86	69	B			Juventus F.C.
														30	90	A.C. Milan
DF	Mark Iuliano	August 12, 1973	1	0	90	0	0	90	B	B	-	-	-	-	B	Juventus F.C.
DF	Paolo Maldini	June 26, 1968	7	0	630	0	0	90	90	-	90	90	90	90	90	A.C. Milan
DF	Marco Materazzi	August 19, 1973	2	0	120	0	1	-	-	-	-	-	30			Perugia Calcio
														B	90	Internationale
FW	Vincenzo Montella	June 18, 1974	4	0	44	0	4	B	B	7	4	21	12	-	B	A.S. Roma
DF	Alessandro Nesta	March 19, 1976	7	0	600	1	0	90	90	90	90	90	60	90	-	S.S. Lazio
DF	Giuseppe Pancaro	August 26, 1971	5	0	319	0	2	B	35	14	90	B	90	90	-	S.S. Lazio
DF	Gianluca Pessotto	August 11, 1970	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	B	-	-	-	-	Juventus F.C.
DF	Alessandro Pierini	March 22, 1973	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	-	B	-	B	-	-	AC Fiorentina
MF	Alessio Tacchinardi	July 23, 1975	4	0	300	0	1	-	-	-	30	90	90	90	-	Juventus F.C.
GK	Francesco Toldo	December 2, 1971	3	0	270	0	0	90	90	90	B	B	B			AC Fiorentina
														B	B	Internationale
MF	Damiano Tommasi	May 17, 1974	5	0	450	0	0	-	-	-	90	90	90	90	90	A.S. Roma
MF	Francesco Totti	September 27, 1976	7	2	606	3	0	90	90	83	-	75	90	88	90	A.S. Roma
FW	Christian Vieri	July 12, 1973	1	0	90	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	90	-	Internationale
MF	Gianluca Zambrotta	February 19, 1977	6	0	522	2	0	90	-	-	90	90	90	82	80	Juventus F.C.

External links

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

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