QUALIFYING

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FIFA 2010 NEWS:
QUALIFYING

For every FIFA World Cup Every one of the 32 Nations that participating has to qualify with the exception of the hosts. Therefore the only nation that has qualified currently is South Africa. Qualifying for the 2010 World Cup is broken down into the 6 Confederations.

HOST NATION (SOUTH AFRICA, 1 Position)

SOUTH AMERICA (10 Nations, 4 Positions + 1 Playoff with North America)
Country Played Points
Paraguay 10 23
Brazil 10 17
Argentina 10 16
Chile 10 16
Uruguay 10 13
Ecuador 10 12
Columbia 10 11
Venezuela 10 10
Bolivia 10 9
Peru 10 7

The top 4 nations qualify for the FIFA World Cup and the nation finishing 5th goes into a playoff with the 4th team from North America.

NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA (35 Nations, 3 Positions + 1 Playoff with South America)
Final Qualifying Round

Top 3 automatically qualify for FIFA 2010 World Cup and 4th Place play South America 5th place in a playoff for qualification.
Country
USA
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Mexico
Honduras
Trinidad & Tobago

ASIA (43 Nations, 4 Positions + 1 Playoff with Oceania)
Final Qualifying Round

2 Groups of 5 where the 2 Winners and 2 Runners Up of each group qualify for the World Cup. The 2 third placed nations play each other in a home & away playoff with the winner playing a further playoff with the winner of the Oceania (New Zealand) to qualify for the World Cup.

Group 1 Played Points
Australia 3 9
Japan 3 7
Qatar 4 4
Bahrain 3 1
Uzbekistan 3 1

Group 2 Played Points
Korea Republic 3 7
Iran 3 5
Korea DPR 3 4
Saudi Arabia 3 4
UAE 4 1

OCEANIA (11 Nations. 1 Playoff Position with Asia)
Final Qualifying Round

The winner qualifies for a playoff with Asia’s 5th team.

Country Played Points
New Zealand 6 15
New Caledonia 6 8
Fiji 6 7
Vanuatu 6 4

New Zealand qualify for a playoff with Asia’s 5th team.

EUROPE (53 Nations, 13 Positions)
There are 53 participants in this confederation vying for 13 FIFA World Cup Positions. The teams are separated into 9 Groups (8 Groups of 6 and 1 Group of 5) where each of the Group Winners Automatically qualify for the World Cup. The Best 8 out of the 9 Runner Ups will have a home and away knockout playoff for the remaining 4 positions.

Group 1 Played Points
Denmark 3 7
Sweden 3 5
Portugal 3 4
Hungary 3 4
Albania 3 4
Malta 3 0

Group 2 Played Points
Greece 3 9
Israel 3 7
Switzerland 3 4
Latvia 3 3
Luxembourg 3 3
Moldova 3 0

Group 3 Played Points
Slovakia 4 9
Poland 4 7
Slovenia 4 7
Czech Republic 4 7
Northern Ireland 4 4
San Marino 4 0

Group 4 Played Points
Germany 3 7
Wales 3 6
Finland 2 4
Russia 2 3
Azerbaijan 3 1
Liechtenstein 3 1

Group 5 Played Points
Spain 3 9
Belgium 3 7
Turkey 3 7
Bosnia 3 3
Armenia 3 0
Estonia 3 0

Group 6 Played Points
England 3 9
Ukraine 3 7
Croatia 3 4
Belarus 2 3
Kazakhstan 4 3
Andorra 3 0

Group 7 Played Points
Serbia 3 6
Lithuania 3 6
Austria 3 4
France 3 4
Romania 3 4
Faroe Islands 3 1

Group 8 Played Points
Italy 3 7
Ireland 2 4
Bulgaria 2 2
Montenegro 2 2
Cyprus 2 1
Georgia 3 1

Group 9 Played Points
Netherlands 2 6
Scotland 3 4
Macedonia 2 3
Norway 2 2
Iceland 3 1

AFRICA (53 Nations, 5 Positions)
Final Qualifying Round

5 Groups of 4 in a double qualification for both World Cup 2010 and Nations Cup 2010 to be held in Angola. With both Angola and South Africa not qualifying for this Final Phase, the qualification is straight forward. Each group winner qualifies for the 2010 World Cup and the top 3 of each group qualify for the CAF Nations cup.

Group A
Cameroon
Morocco
Togo
Gabon

Group B
Nigeria
Tunisia
Kenya
Mozambique

Group C
Egypt
Algeria
Zambia
Rwanda

Group D
Ghana
Mali
Sudan
Benin

Group E
Ivory Coast
Guinea
Burkina Faso
Malawi

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