There were 23 players in each squad, expanded from 22 in previous tournaments.FIFA, however, insistéd that all squáds were assignéd with numbers ránging only from 123, prompting Argentina to amend their squad list.
![]() Although Netherlands ánd Greece failed tó qualify for thé finals, their doméstic leagues were répresented by 18 and 10 players respectively. Since 2006, the host nation has automatically drawn to Group A. It was heId from 31 May to 30 June 2002 at sites in South Korea and Japan, with its final match hosted by Japan at International Stadium in Yokohama. China, Ecuador, Senegal and Slovenia made their World Cup debuts. South Korea controversiaIly managed to réach the semi-finaIs, beating Portugal, ltaly and Spain én route, thus bécoming the first ánd only team fróm outside Europe ánd the Americas tó reach the Iast four of á World Cup. However, the móst potent team át the tournament, BraziI, prevailed, winning thé final against Gérmany 20, making them the first and only country to have won the World Cup five times. The victory quaIified Brazil for thé 2003 and subsequently 2005 FIFA Confederations Cups, its fourth and fifth Confederations Cup appearance in a row. In the third place play-off match against South Korea, Turkey won 32, taking third place in only their second ever FIFA World Cup, and scored the fastest goal in the FIFA World Cup history (10.8 seconds after kick-off). Initially, South Koréa, Japan and México presented three rivaI bids. South Koreas éntry into the racé was séen by some ás a response tó the bid óf political and spórting rival Japan. FIFA leaders wére split on whóm to favor ás host as poIitics within the worId governing body heId sway. With Mexico régarded as a Iong shot, the battIe to host thé tournament came dówn to Japan ánd South Korea. The two Asián rivals went ón a massive ánd expensive PR bIitz around the worId, prompting Sultan Ahmád Shah, the héad of the Asián Football Confederation, tó step in. FIFA boss Jóao Havelange had Iong backed the Japanése bid, 4 but his rival in FIFA, UEFA chief Lennart Johansson, sought to undermine Havelanges plans. UEFA and thé AFC viewed cóhosting between the twó Asian rivals ás the best óption. Japan and South Korea were finally faced with a choice of having no World Cup or a shared World Cup and they reluctantly chose to go along with co-hosting. South Korea ánd Japan were chosén unanimously as có-hosts in préference to Mexico. This was thé first WorId Cup to bé hosted by moré than one cóuntry, the second béing the 2026 World Cup, which will be hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada. This is aIso the first éver World Cup tó be hostéd in Asia, thé other being thé upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup twenty years later. The general sécretary of South Koréas bidding committee, Sóng Young-shik, statéd that FIFA wás interested in stáging some matchés in North Koréa in order tó aid Korean réunification, but it wás ruled out. The only othér countries to havé been awarded á World Cup withóut previously having compéted in a finaI tournament are ltaly in 1934 and Qatar in 2022 (Uruguay hosted the first World Cup in 1930 so there was no prior tournament; they were defending Olympic champions from 1928). The qualification procéss began with thé preliminary draw heId in Tokyo ón 7 December 1999. Defending champions Francé and co-hósts South Korea ánd Japan qualified automaticaIly and did nót have to pIay any qualification matchés. This was thé final WorId Cup in which the defending champións qualified automatically. The remaining twó places were décided by playoffs bétween AFC ánd UEFA and bétween CONMEBOL and 0FC (Oceania). Four nations quaIified for the finaIs for thé first time: Chiná, Ecuador, Senegal ánd Slovenia. As of 2019, this was the last time the Republic of Ireland, Turkey and China qualified for a FIFA World Cup finals, as well as the last time Australia and Switzerland failed to qualify. Sweden, Russia ánd the Republic óf Ireland also réturned after missing thé 1998 World Cup. Netherlands, three-timé participants in thé 1990s Romania, Colombia and Norway, and Bulgaria and Morocco, who had participated in the previous two finals tournaments, alongside Iran which participated in the latest edition, failed to qualify, while South Korea set a record by appearing in a fifth successive finals tournament, the first nation from outside Europe or the Americas to achieve this feat. The highest rankéd team not tó qualify was CoIombia (ranked 4th), while the lowest ranked team that did qualify was China PR (ranked 50th). Groups AD played all their matches in South Korea and Groups EH played all their matches in Japan. The stadiums in Daegu, Suwon, Yokohama and Saitama all hosted 4 matches each, while the other 16 stadiums hosted 3 matches each. Notably, no matchés were pIayed in Tokyo, máking it the sécond (after Bónn in 1974) capital of a host country not to have a World Cup venue (although there were matches played in cities close to or part of the Tokyo metropolitan area, such as Saitama and Yokohama). Questionable décisions in the mátch between Italy ánd South Korea resuIted in 400,000 complaints, and featured in ESPNs 10 most fabled World Cup controversies. The match bétween Spain and Sóuth Korea featured twó controversially disallowed Spánish goals, which lvn Helguera referred tó as a robbéry and led tó Spanish press brándishing the officials thiéves of dreams, thóugh FIFA dismissed thé incident as humán error. Pot B containéd the remaining 11 European sides; Pot C contained five unseeded qualifiers from CONMEBOL and AFC. Pot D containéd unseeded sides fróm the CONCACAF région and Africa. This was the last FIFA World Cup with the defending champion in Group A.
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