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European Qualification Playoffs

The Football World Cup 2006 - European Qualification Playoffs are a set of home-and-away playoffs to decide the final three places granted to national football teams from European nations (more precisely, UEFA members) for the 2006 World Cup.

By the rules of the UEFA qualifying tournament, the first-place finishers in each of eight groups received automatic berths, along with the two second-place teams that had earned the most points against teams in the top six of their individual groups.

The six remaining second-place teams were divided into two pots based on their standings in the September 2005 FIFA World Rankings. The division was:

Pot 1:

• Czech Republic
• Spain
• Turkey

Pot 2:

• Norway
• Slovakia
•   Switzerland

A draw was held on October 14, 2005 at FIFA headquarters in Z