Group Five Round-up
Manchester United starlet Darren Fletcher came off the bench to fire Scotland into the Euro 2004 play-offs.
The substitute netted the only goal against Lithuania at Hampden in a game the Scots had to win, to guarantee another chance at qualification.
Germany finished top of Group Five earning automatic qualification after a comfortable 3-0 win over Iceland at the AOL Arena in Hamburg.
Goals from Michael Ballack, Fredi Bobic and Kevin Kuranyi earned the Germans the victory and helped Scotland with their task.
But the triumph comes at the end of a campaign which has failed to mask the shortcomings of Rudi Voller's side.
Since reaching the World Cup final, they have dropped points against Lithuania, Scotland and Iceland while they also laboured to beat the Faroe Islands.
Ballack put Germany ahead in the ninth minute after he was played by a clever Bobic backheel.
The Bayern Munich midfielder curled the ball into the bottom right-hand corner on the half-volley.
Iceland had their first chance around the quarter-hour mark but Indridi Sigurdsson's shot was off-target.
But the Germans looked comfortably in charge throughout the first half with the visitors limited to sporadic counter-attacking.
Voller's outfit continued to dominate in the second half and Bobic all but put the game out of Iceland's reach 14 minutes after the break when he volleyed in Kuranyi's cross.
The Stuttgart striker then added salt into Nordic wounds by netting the third goal after getting on the end of a great run by Miroslav Klose.
The win secured, the Germans played out time with the Icelanders, broken-hearted by Scotland's win, chasing the ball.