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FIFA managed to confuse a whole bunch of “reliable” sites, such as the BBC, by revising the group sorting criteria back in Feb. There are loads of people using the old rules out there. The BBC corrected their site after I, and presumably others, emailed them.
For the qualifiers, head-to-head results were used before group goal difference. The original tournament regulations stated this would apply to the finals tournament too – as is the case in the Spanish domestic leagues, Champions League and European Championships.
FIFA then re-issued the regulations in February, in which head-to-head results had been relegated to be used only if goal difference and goals scored did not separate tied teams – as was the case in the 2002 finals.
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