2002 FIFA World Cup

2002 FIFA World Cup

Tournament details
Host countries	South Korea Japan
Dates	May 31 – June 30
Teams	32 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)	20 (in 20 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Brazil (5th title)
Runners-up	Germany
Third place	Turkey
Fourth place	South Korea
Tournament statistics
Matches played	64
Goals scored	145 (2.27 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ronaldo (8 goals)

Map of competing countries and current standings

The 2002 FIFA World Cup was a football sporting event that was held in South Korea and Japan from May 31 to June 30, 2002. 32 teams took part from many countries. Brazil won the trophy after beating Germany in the final by a score of 2-0. 69,029 people were at the finals at International Stadium, Yokohama.

Participants

Africa

Nigeria 🇳🇬

• Senegal (SEN) • Squad
• South Africa (RSA) • Squad
• Tunisia (TUN) • Squad

Asia

• China PR (CHN) • Squad
• Japan (JPN) • Squad
• South Korea (KOR) • Squad
• Saudi Arabia (KSA) • Squad

Europe

• Belgium (BEL) • Squad
• Croatia (CRO) • Squad
• Denmark (DEN) • Squad
• England (ENG) • Squad
• France (FRA) • Squad
• Germany (GER) • Squad
• Italy (ITA) • Squad
• Poland (POL) • Squad
• Portugal (POR) • Squad
• Republic of Ireland (IRL) • Squad
• Russia (RUS) • Squad
• Slovenia (SVN) • Squad
• Spain (ESP) • Squad
• Sweden (SWE) • Squad
• Turkey (TUR) • Squad

North and Central America

• Costa Rica (CRC) • Squad
• Mexico (MEX) • Squad
• United States (USA) • Squad

South America

• Argentina (ARG) • Squad
• Brazil (BRA) • Squad
• Ecuador (ECU) • Squad
• Paraguay (PAR) • Squad
• Uruguay (URU) • Squad

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	DEN	SEN	URU	FRA	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	Denmark	-	1-1	2-1	2-0	3	2	1	0	5	2	7	Round 2
2	Senegal	1-1	-	3-3	1-0	3	1	2	0	5	4	5	Round 2
3	Uruguay	1-2	3-3	-	0-0	3	0	2	1	4	5	2
4	France	0-2	0-1	0-0	-	3	0	1	2	0	3	1

Group B

Pos	Team	ESP	PAR	RSA	SVN	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	Spain	-	3-1	3-2	3-1	3	3	0	0	9	4	9	Round 2
2	Paraguay	1-3	-	2-2	3-1	3	1	1	1	6	6	4	Round 2
3	South Africa	2-3	2-2	-	1-0	3	1	1	1	5	5	4
4	Slovenia	1-3	1-3	0-1	-	3	0	0	3	2	7	0

Group C

Pos	Team	BRA	TUR	CRC	CHN	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	Brazil	-	2-1	5-2	4-0	3	3	0	0	11	3	9	Round 2
2	Turkey	1-2	-	1-1	3-0	3	1	1	1	5	3	4	Round 2
3	Costa Rica	2-5	1-1	-	2-0	3	1	1	1	5	6	4
4	China PR	0-4	0-3	0-2	-	3	0	0	3	0	9	0

Group D

Pos	Team	KOR	USA	POR	POL	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	South Korea	-	1-1	1-0	2-0	3	2	1	0	4	1	7	Round 2
2	United States	1-1	-	3-2	1-3	3	1	1	1	5	6	4	Round 2
3	Portugal	0-1	2-3	-	4-0	3	1	0	2	6	4	3
4	Poland	0-2	3-1	0-4	-	3	1	0	2	3	7	3

Group E

Pos	Team	GER	IRL	CMR	KSA	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	Germany	-	1-1	2-0	8-0	3	2	1	0	11	1	7	Round 2
2	Republic of Ireland	1-1	-	1-1	3-0	3	1	2	0	5	2	5	Round 2
3	Cameroon	0-2	1-1	-	1-0	3	1	1	1	2	3	4
4	Saudi Arabia	0-8	0-3	0-1	-	3	0	0	3	0	12	0

Group F

Pos	Team	SWE	ENG	ARG	NGA	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	Sweden	-	1-1	1-1	2-1	3	1	2	0	4	3	5	Round 2
2	England	1-1	-	1-0	0-0	3	1	2	0	2	1	5	Round 2
3	Argentina	1-1	0-1	-	1-0	3	1	1	1	2	2	4
4	Nigeria	1-2	0-0	0-1	-	3	0	1	2	1	3	1

Group G

Pos	Team	MEX	ITA	CRO	ECU	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	Mexico	-	1-1	1-0	2-1	3	2	1	0	4	2	7	Round 2
2	Italy	1-1	-	1-2	2-0	3	1	1	1	4	3	4	Round 2
3	Croatia	0-1	2-1	-	0-1	3	1	0	2	2	3	3
4	Ecuador	1-2	0-2	1-0	-	3	1	0	2	2	4	3

Group H

Pos	Team	JPN	BEL	RUS	TUN	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Note
1	Japan	-	2-2	1-0	2-0	3	2	1	0	5	2	7	Round 2
2	Belgium	2-2	-	3-2	1-1	3	1	2	0	6	5	5	Round 2
3	Russia	0-1	2-3	-	2-0	3	1	0	2	4	4	3
4	Tunisia	0-2	1-1	0-2	-	3	0	1	2	1	5	1

Knockout stage

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

15 June - Seogwipo

Germany

1

21 June - Ulsan

Paraguay

0

Germany

1

17 June - Jeonju

United States

0

Mexico

0

25 June - Seoul

United States

2

Germany

1

16 June - Suwon

South Korea

0

Spain (pen.)

1 (3)

22 June - Gwangju

Republic of Ireland

1 (2)

Spain

0 (3)

18 June - Daejeon

South Korea (pen.)

0 (5)

South Korea (aet)

2

30 June - Yokohama

Italy

1

Germany

0

15 June - Niigata

Brazil

2

Denmark

0

21 June - Shizuoka

England

3

England

1

17 June - Kobe

Brazil

2

Brazil

2

26 June - Saitama

Belgium

0

Brazil

1

16 June - Ōita

Turkey

0

Third place

Sweden

1

22 June - Osaka

29 June - Daegu

Senegal (aet)

2

Senegal

0

South Korea

2

18 June - Miyagi

Turkey (aet)

1

Turkey

3

Japan

0

Turkey

1

Goalscorers

3 goals

• Miroslav Klose

2 goals

• John Dahl Tomasson

1 goal

• Papa Bouba Diop
• Patrick M'Boma
• Matt Holland
• Darío Rodríguez
• Michael Ballack
• Carsten Jancker
• Thomas Linke
• Oliver Bierhoff
• Bernd Schneider
• Gabriel Batistuta
• Roque Santa Cruz
• Francisco Arce
• Teboho Mokoena
• Quinton Fortune
• Sol Campbell
• Niclas Alexandersson
• Raúl
• Juan Carlos Valerón
• Fernando Hierro
• Sebastjan Cimirotič

References

• FIFA Archived 2017-09-18 at the Wayback Machine