2006 FIFA World Cup Qualification - Qualified Teams

Qualified Teams

Team Finals Appearance Streak Last Appearance
Angola 1st 1
Argentina 14th 9 2002
Australia 2nd 1 1974
Brazil 18th 18 2002
Costa Rica 3rd 2 2002
Côte d'Ivoire 1st 1
Croatia 3rd 3 2002
Czech Republic 1st(1) 1 –(1)
Ecuador 2nd 2 2002
England 12th 3 2002
France 12th 3 2002
Germany (h) 16th(2) 14(2) 2002
Ghana 1st 1
Iran 3rd 1 1998
Italy 16th 12 2002
Japan 3rd 3 2002
South Korea 7th 6 2002
Mexico 13th 4 2002
Netherlands 8th 1 1998
Paraguay 7th 3 2002
Poland 7th 2 2002
Portugal 4th 2 2002
Saudi Arabia 4th 4 2002
Serbia and Montenegro 2nd(4) 1 1998
Spain 12th 8 2002
Sweden 11th 2 2002
Switzerland 8th 1 1994
Togo 1st 1
Trinidad and Tobago 1st 1
Tunisia 4th 3 2002
Ukraine 1st(3) 1(3)
United States 8th 5 2002

(h) - qualified automatically as hosts

1Excludes appearances by Czechoslovakia. If those are counted together, this is their 9th appearance, and their previous appearance was in 1990.

2Includes 10 appearances by DFB representing West Germany between 1954 and 1990. Excludes 1 appearance by DVF representing East Germany between 1954 and 1990.

3Excludes appearances by pre-division Soviet Union. If those are counted together, this is their 8th appearance.

4Excludes appearances by pre-division Yugoslavia. If those are counted together, this is their 10th appearance. This is also their first and\ last appearance under this name; at the previous qualifying tournament they had competed as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and the two parts of the country finally split in June 2006.

13 of the 32 teams subsequently failed to qualify for the 2010 finals: Saudi Arabia (whose streak of 4 tournaments ended in 2006); Croatia and Tunisia (both 3); Costa Rica, Ecuador, Poland and Sweden (2); Angola, Czech Republic, Iran, Togo, Trinidad & Tobago, Ukraine (1).

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