Congratulations to Spain, Russia, England, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Honduras, Ecuador, and Chile, which all have qualified for World Cup.

In Europe, Denmark became the unlucky runner-up missing the playoff. In the draw of the playoff, Croatia, Greece, Portugal, and Ukraine are seeded and will play one of the following countries: France, Iceland, Romania, and Sweden.

In North and Central America Honduras secured qualification aftera draw against Jamaica. Mexico needed to at least draw against Costa Rica to secure playoff against New Zealand, but failed doing so and instead lost with 2-1. Instead Mexico were helped by USA who won against Panama.

In South America everyone expected Chile and Ecuador to draw as that would qualify both countries. Chile had other plans scored twice before Ecuador manage to finalize the scoreboard to 2-1. That gave Uruguay a small chance to win the qualification, if they could beat Argentina. They managed to pull in the victory but with a couple of too few goals, and will now play Jordan in inter-continental playoff.

In Africa the first leg of the final playoff have been played with the following result:

Ivory Coast 3 - 1 Senegal
Ethiopia      1 - 2 Nigeria
Tunisia        0 - 0 Cameroon
Ghana         6 - 1 Egypt
Burkina Fa 3 - 2 Algeria

We now have 20 countries that  have qualified for the finals in Brazil, which means there are 11 more slots to fill; 4 countries from Europe, 5 from Africa, and two from the intercontinental playoffs: Mexico-New Zealand and Uruguay-Jordan.

Below is the table with remaining countries chances as usual.

Country	Qual	Oct-01	May-01	Champ	Oct-01	May-01
Brazil	100	+0.0	+0.0	34.3	-0.3	+8.7
Japan	100	+0.0	+0.0	0.04	-0.0	-0.3
Argentina	100	+0.0	+0.0	7.7	-1.9	-0.3
Netherlands	100	+0.0	+0.0	5.7	+1.3	+0.9
Colombia	100	+0.0	+0.5	2.21	+0.1	+0.8
South Korea	100	+0.0	+1.8	0.009	-0.0	-0.2
Italy	100	+0.0	+4.6	2.24	-1.0	+0.4
United States	100	+0.0	+15.6	0.62	+0.2	+0.5
Australia	100	+0.0	+21.4	0.024	-0.0	-0.1
Costa Rica	100	+0.0	+52.4	0.05	+0.0	+0.0
Iran	100	+0.0	+58.5	0.018	-0.0	+0.0
Spain	100	+0.1	+0.4	20.8	-0.7	-9.3
Switzerland	100	+0.1	+5.2	0.75	+0.1	+0.5
Germany	100	+0.1	+0.7	13.9	+2.8	+0.9
Belgium	100	+0.7	+49.4	1.06	+0.0	+1.0
Chile	100	+1.1	+23.6	0.9	+0.2	+0.7
Ecuador	100	+6.8	+1.2	0.32	+0.0	-0.3
Russia	100	+7.0	+1.0	0.55	-0.1	-0.8
England	100	+9.6	+6.8	3.39	+0.6	-1.1
Honduras	100	+10.9	+43.2	0.011	+0.0	+0.0
Bosnia and Herzegov	100	+11.6	+29.9	0.22	+0.0	+0.2
Ghana	99.87	+50.7	+61.2	0.05	+0.0	+0.0
Nigeria	97.56	+6.1	+45.8	0.05	+0.0	+0.0
Ivory Coast	96.7	+11.2	+8.4	0.26	+0.1	-0.4
Uruguay	90.8	-3.2	+61.1	2.25	-0.2	+2.1
Mexico	72.6	+24.6	-24.3	0.04	+0.0	-2.3
Cameroon	72	+13.8	+49.1	0.001	+0.0	+0.0
Burkina Faso	70.5	+24.7	+65.6	0.001	+0.0	+0.0
Portugal	68.9	-8.6	-4.7	0.92	-0.5	-1.0
Greece	59.8	-7.0	-7.9	0.26	-0.0	+0.1
Ukraine	58.7	+1.9	+47.4	0.22	+0.0	+0.2
France	57.6	+3.7	-10.9	0.65	+0.2	+0.2
Croatia	57.2	-8.8	-31.5	0.17	-0.5	-0.7
Sweden	53.9	-3.1	-11.6	0.42	-0.2	-0.3
Romania	31.6	+15.2	+7.2	0.016	+0.0	-0.0
Algeria	29.5	-24.7	+12.9	0.0004	-0.0	+0.0
Tunisia	28	-13.8	-28.6	0.0002	+0.0	-0.0
New Zealand	27.4	-4.4	-9.0	0.0002	-0.0	-0.0
Iceland	12.3	+7.8	+10.0	0	+0.0	+0.0
Jordan	9.2	-3.8	-8.8	0.0001	+0.0	+0.0
Senegal	3.3	-11.2	-14.0	0	-0.0	+0.0
Ethiopia	2.44	-6.1	-1.2	0	+0.0	+0.0
Egypt	0.13	-50.7	-74.4	0	-0.0	-0.0