The five teams in this group played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner Croatia qualified for the 17th FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan. The runner-up Belgium advanced to the UEFA Play-off and played against the Czech Republic. The group had seen a very close three-way battle between Croatia, Scotland and Belgium, with several draws between the top three sides: ultimately it was only decided towards the end when Belgium's defeat of Scotland put paid to all but the mathematical goal-difference chances of the Scots, and left Belgium in first place in the group, only to be defeated by Croatia in the final match, with Croatia thus overtaking them for first place in the group and finishing unbeaten.

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Croatia 8 5 3 0 15 2 +13 18 Qualification to 2002 FIFA World Cup — 1–0 1–1 4–1 4–0
2  Belgium 8 5 2 1 25 6 +19 17 Advance to UEFA play-offs 0–0 — 2–0 3–1 10–1
3  Scotland 8 4 3 1 12 6 +6 15 0–0 2–2 — 2–1 4–0
4  Latvia 8 1 1 6 5 16 −11 4 0–1 0–4 0–1 — 1–1
5  San Marino 8 0 1 7 3 30 −27 1 0–4 1–4 0–2 0–1 —
Source:

Matches

Belgium 0–0 Croatia
Report
Attendance: 27,510
Latvia 0–1 Scotland
Report McCann 89'
Attendance: 9,200
Referee: Andreas Schluchter (Switzerland)
Latvia 0–4 Belgium
Report Wilmots 5'
B. Peeters 13'
Cavens 83'
G. Verheyen 90'
Attendance: 7,311
San Marino 0–2 Scotland
Report Elliott 71'
Hutchison 73'
Attendance: 4,377
Referee: Gylfi Thor Orrason (Iceland)
Croatia 1–1 Scotland
Bokšić 16' Report K. Gallacher 24'
Attendance: 17,995
San Marino 0–1 Latvia
Report Jeļisejevs 9'
Attendance: 517
Belgium 10–1 San Marino
Vanderhaeghe 10', 50'
É. Mpenza 13'
Goor 26', 60'
Baseggio 64'
Wilmots 72'
B. Peeters 76', 84', 88'		 Report Selva 90'
Attendance: 40,104
Referee: Sten Kaldma (Estonia)
Croatia 4–1 Latvia
Balaban 8', 42', 45'
Vugrinec 89'		 Report Štolcers 60'
Attendance: 13,345
Scotland 2–2 Belgium
Dodds 2', 27' (pen.) Report Wilmots 58'
Van Buyten 90'
Attendance: 37,480
Scotland 4–0 San Marino
Hendry 22', 33'
Dodds 34'
Cameron 63'		 Report
Attendance: 27,313
Referee: Petteri Kari (Finland)
Latvia 1–1 San Marino
Pahars 1' Report Albani 59'
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Karen Nalbandyan (Armenia)
Croatia 4–0 San Marino
Vlaović 3'
Balaban 29'
Šuker 54' (pen.)
Vugrinec 89'		 Report
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Oleg Timofeyev (Estonia)
Belgium 3–1 Latvia
Wilmots 2'
É. Mpenza 12'
Zemļinskis 50' (o.g.)		 Report Pahars 52'
Attendance: 32,000
Referee: Ivan Dobrinov (Bulgaria)
Latvia 0–1 Croatia
Report Balaban 40'
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: John McDermott (Republic of Ireland)
San Marino 1–4 Belgium
Selva 11' Report Wilmots 10', 89' (pen.)
G.Verheyen 60'
Sonck 68'
Attendance: 1,538
Referee: Haim Yakov (Israel)
Scotland 0–0 Croatia
Report
Attendance: 47,584
San Marino 0–4 Croatia
Report N. Kovač 40'
Prosinečki 48' (pen.), 90'
Soldo 77'
Attendance: 1,387
Referee: Knud Stadsgaard (Denmark)
Belgium 2–0 Scotland
N. Van Kerckhoven 28'
Goor 90'		 Report
Attendance: 43,500
Croatia 1–0 Belgium
Bokšić 75' Report
Attendance: 36,077
Scotland 2–1 Latvia
Freedman 44'
D. Weir 53'		 Report Rubins 21'
Attendance: 23,228
Referee: Terje Hauge (Norway)

Goalscorers

6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal

References

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