2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6

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The 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 6 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Austria, Azerbaijan, England, Northern Ireland, Poland and Wales.

The group was won by England, who qualified for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The runners-up Poland also qualified as one of two best runners-up.

Contents

Standings

Legend
Group winners and two best runners-up among all groups directly qualified for the finals
Remaining group runners-up advanced to the play-offs
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 England 10 8 1 1 17 5 +12 25
 Poland 10 8 0 2 27 9 +18 24
 Austria 10 4 3 3 15 12 +3 15
 Northern Ireland 10 2 3 5 10 18 −8 9
 Wales 10 2 2 6 10 15 −5 8
 Azerbaijan 10 0 3 7 1 21 −20 3
 
Austria  – 2–0 2–2 2–0 1–3 1–0
Azerbaijan  0–0 – 0–1 0–0 0–3 1–1
England  1–0 2–0 – 4–0 2–1 2–0
Northern Ireland  3–3 2–0 1–0 – 0–3 2–3
Poland  3–2 8–0 1–2 1–0 – 1–0
Wales  0–2 2–0 0–1 2–2 2–3 –

Results

2004-09-04
15:00
 Northern Ireland  0 – 3  Poland Windsor Park, Belfast
Attendance: 12,487
Referee: Jan Wegereef (Netherlands)
(Report) Żurawski  4'
Włodarczyk  36'
Krzynówek  56'
2004-09-04
20:30
 Austria  2 – 2  England Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
Attendance: 48,000
Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia)
Kollmann  71'
Ivanschitz  72'		 (Report) Lampard  24'
Gerrard  65'
2004-09-04
21:00
 Azerbaijan  1 – 1  Wales Tofiq Bahramov Stadium, Baku
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Edo Trivković (Croatia)
Sadygov  55' (Report) Speed  47'
2004-09-08
20:00
 Wales  2 – 2  Northern Ireland Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Attendance: 63,500
Referee: Domenico Messina (Italy)
Hartson  32'
Earnshaw  74'		 (Report) Whitley  10'
Healy  21'
2004-09-08
20:30
 Poland  1 – 2  England Stadion Śląski, Chorzów
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Stefano Farina (Italy)
Żurawski  47' (Report) Defoe  36'
Głowacki  57' (o.g.)
2004-09-08
20:30
 Austria  2 – 0  Azerbaijan Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
Attendance: 26,400
Referee: Lawrence Sammut (Malta)
Stranzl  23'
Kollmann  44'		 (Report)
2004-10-09
15:00
 England  2 – 0  Wales Old Trafford, Manchester
Attendance: 65,224
Referee: Terje Hauge (Norway)
Lampard  4'
Beckham  76'		 (Report)
2004-10-09
20:30
 Austria  1 – 3  Poland Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
Attendance: 46,100
Referee: Lucílio Batista (Portugal)
Schopp  30' (Report) Kałużny  10'
Krzynówek  78'
Frankowski  90'
2004-10-09
21:30
 Azerbaijan  0 – 0  Northern Ireland Tofiq Bahramov Stadium, Baku
Attendance: 6,460
Referee: Attila Hanacsek (Hungary)
(Report)
2004-10-13
19:45
 Northern Ireland  3 – 3  Austria Windsor Park, Belfast
Attendance: 11,810
Referee: Mark Shield (Australia)
Healy  36'
Murdock  58'
Elliott  93'		 (Report) Schopp  14', 72'
Mayrleb  59'
2004-10-13
20:00
 Wales  2 – 3  Poland Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Attendance: 56,685
Referee: Alain Sars (France)
Earnshaw  56'
Hartson  90'		 (Report) Frankowski  72'
Żurawski  81'
Krzynówek  85'
2004-10-13
21:30
 Azerbaijan  0 – 1  England Tofiq Bahramov Stadium, Baku
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Alain Hamer (Luxembourg)
(Report) Owen  22'
2005-03-26
15:00
 Wales  0 – 2  Austria Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Attendance: 47,760
Referee: Paul Allaerts (Belgium)
(Report) Vastić  81'
Stranzl  85'
2005-03-26
15:00
 England  4 – 0  Northern Ireland Old Trafford, Manchester
Attendance: 62,239
Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)
J. Cole  47'
Owen  52', 54'
Lampard  62'		 (Report)
2005-03-26
18:00
 Poland  8 – 0  Azerbaijan Polish Army Stadium, Warsaw
Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Nicolai Vollquartz (Denmark)
Frankowski  12', 63', 66'
Hajiyev  16' (o.g.)
Kosowski  40'
Krzynówek  72'
Saganowski  84', 90'		 (Report)
2005-03-30
19:45
 England  2 – 0  Azerbaijan St James' Park, Newcastle upon Tyne
Attendance: 49,046
Referee: Paulo Costa (Portugal)
Gerrard  51'
Beckham  62'		 (Report)
2005-03-30
20:00
 Poland  1 – 0  Northern Ireland Polish Army Stadium, Warsaw
Attendance: 13,515
Referee: Peter Fröjdfeldt (Sweden)
Żurawski  87' (Report)
2005-03-30
20:30
 Austria  1 – 0  Wales Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
Attendance: 29,500
Referee: Manuel Mejuto González (Spain)
Aufhauser  87' (Report)
2005-06-04
20:00
 Azerbaijan  0 – 3  Poland Tofiq Bahramov Stadium, Baku
Attendance: 10,458
Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)
(Report) Frankowski  28'
Kłos  57'
Żurawski  81'
2005-09-03
15:00
 Northern Ireland  2 – 0  Azerbaijan Windsor Park, Belfast
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Dejan Stanišić (Montenegro)
Elliott  60'
Feeney  84'		 (Report)
2005-09-03
15:00
 Wales  0 – 1  England Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Attendance: 70,715
Referee: Valentin Ivanov (Russia)
(Report) J. Cole  54'
2005-09-03
20:30
 Poland  3 – 2  Austria Stadion Śląski, Chorzów
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Massimo De Santis (Italy)
Smolarek  13'
Kosowski  22'
Żurawski  67'		 (Report) Linz  61', 80'
2005-09-07
19:45
 Northern Ireland  1 – 0  England Windsor Park, Belfast
Attendance: 14,069
Referee: Massimo Busacca (Switzerland)
Healy  73' (Report)
2005-09-07
20:30
 Poland  1 – 0  Wales Polish Army Stadium, Warsaw
Attendance: 13,500
Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)
Żurawski  52' (Report)
2005-09-07
21:00
 Azerbaijan  0 – 0  Austria Tofiq Bahramov Stadium, Baku
Attendance: 2,800
Referee: Johan Verbist (Belgium)
(Report)
2005-10-08
14:00
 Northern Ireland  2 – 3  Wales Windsor Park, Belfast
Attendance: 13,451
Referee: Ruud Bossen (Netherlands)
Gillespie  47'
Davis  50'		 (Report) Davies  27'
Robinson  37'
Giggs  81'
2005-10-08
16:00
 England  1 – 0  Austria Old Trafford, Manchester
Attendance: 64,822
Referee: Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)
Lampard  24' (pen.) (Report)
2005-10-12
19:45
 Wales  2 – 0  Azerbaijan Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
Attendance: 32,628
Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)
Giggs  3', 51' (Report)
2005-10-12
19:45
 England  2 – 1  Poland Old Trafford, Manchester
Attendance: 65,467
Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)
Owen  44'
Lampard  81'		 (Report) Frankowski  45'
2005-10-12
20:30
 Austria  2 – 0  Northern Ireland Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
Attendance: 12,500
Referee: Athanassios Briakos (Greece)
Aufhauser  44', 90' (Report)

Goalscorers

Pos Player Country Goals
1 Tomasz Frankowski  Poland 7
Maciej Żurawski  Poland
3 Michael Owen  England 5
Frank Lampard  England
5 Jacek Krzynówek  Poland 4
6 René Aufhauser  Austria 3
Markus Schopp  Austria
David Healy  Northern Ireland
Ryan Giggs  Wales

See also

AFC
CAF
CONCACAF
CONMEBOL
OFC
UEFA
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