Group 2 consisted of five of the 34 teams entered into the European zone:[1] Belgium, Republic of Ireland, France, Netherlands and Cyprus. These five teams competed on a home-and-away basis for two of the 14 spots in the final tournament allocated to the European zone, with the group's winner and runner-up claiming those spots.
| width=30 | Rank | width=165 style="text-align:left;" | Team | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | width=20 | ||||||||
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| 1 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | +3 | |||||||||||
| 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 8 | +12 | |||||||||||
| 3 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 11 | +6 | |||||||||||
| 4 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | +4 | |||||||||||
| 5 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 29 | -25 |
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