Before the introduction of penalty shoot-outs, lotteries were sometimes used to decide football matches. This isn't necessary now for individual matches, but lotteries can still be used to decide group standings. This just happened in the Gulf Cup, after Oman and Iraq were level on all other criteria (points, head-to-head, goal difference, etc).
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