World Cup Fifa 2010 Qualifiers Draw Results
Fifa World Cup 2010 Qualifiers Draw - Results
Here are the groups for the Road to South Africa:
Group 1
In this group Portugal will battle with Scandinavia’s Sweden and Denmark for a place at the World Cup 2010. This will be a hard battle, while only the first team will get the tickets. Denmark have the chance to revenge themselves over their neighbor after the defeat in the Euro 2008 Qualifiers.
Group 2
Greece seems to have a simple task in this group. Main rivals will be Israel and Switzerland.
Group 3
The Czech Republic will start as a favorite in this third group of the World Cup 2010 Qualifiers. Poland will look to upset them and Northern Ireland might want to profit from the battle above.
Group 4
Germany have as always an easy task when it comes to a group stage competition. Their only rivals in group 4 are Russia but the Germans are considered big favourites.
Group 5
Spain and Turkey will clash for winning this group of the Road to South Africa 2010. The Spanish side look to have an edge before the start of the Qualifers.
Group 6
A draw expected by all the United Kingdom. England was given the chance to revenge themselves over Croatia in this World Cup 2010 Qualifiers. Third favorites are Ukraine.
Group 7
France and Romania have to fight for a qualifying spot in the Group 7. France are favourites but Romania could create an upset. The Romanians have won their Euro 2008 Qualifiers group against Netherlands. Serbia are starting the Qualifiers with the third chance.
Group 8
Italy have an easy task at the first look of the Group 8. Bulgaria and Ireland will try to upset them.
Group 9
Netherlands, Scotland and Norway will battle for the reign of this group. This is the only group that contains five teams, the others have six.
FIFA World Cup 2010 Preliminary - Rules
The first placed teams in each Group qualify for the World Cup 2010. Europe have 13 places awarded for the World Cup 2010 from a total of 32 teams that will start the final tournament in South Africa. Back to Europe now. Having 9 groups leaves 4 additional places left along with each group winners. The rest of the places are awarded for the four best placed runners-up from all 9 groups.
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The England National Team has been showing a poor performance for a while, but yesterday’s 2-3 defeat against Croatia was the top of it. With this result, England lost their Euro2008 qualification, and the English team sacked coach Steve McLaren after 15 months.
In fact, it is the first time since 1984 that England does not make it through to the European finals. Fabio Capello has been named as one of the possible replacements for McLaren.
It’s important to mention that the English team has really big names like David Beckham, Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard, Michael Owen, and many more. That makes this result even more devastating for the British nation.
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Qualification Groups
The qualification process commenced in August 2007 and will be completed by November 2009. An initial draw for preliminary qualification (qualifying groups in Oceania, and knockout ties in CAF and the AFC) had been announced for Zurich on 28 May 2007, but none was held.
Initial groups for the Oceania qualification were eventually held in Auckland, New Zealand in early June, with preliminary draws for the Asian and African qualification announced in August.
The draw for the main 2010 World Cup qualifying groups was held in Durban, South Africa on November 25, 2007 (34 teams were eliminated before the actual draw - 6 from the OFC, 5 from CAF and 23 from the AFC). CONMEBOL qualification also has started, and there will be no draw for this confederation, as all 10 members play in the same group, and the order of fixtures is the same as for the 2006 qualification rounds. The 4 remaining teams from OFC started playing the final stage as a single group, so no draw is needed also. Therefore, the draw of 25th November involved 156 FIFA members from the original 205 entries, divided as follows: UEFA – 53 entries in draw; CAF – 48 entries in draw (original 53 minus 5 preliminary round losers and withdrawals); AFC – 20 entries in draw (original 43 minus 23 1st and 2nd round losers and withdrawals); and CONCACAF – 35 entries in draw.
As the host nation, South Africa qualifies automatically. Like in 2006, the holders - Italy - do not qualify automatically. If they do qualify they will be seeded similar to the way Brazil was in the 2006 tournament.
Africa (CAF)
Main article: 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
(53 teams competing for 6 berths, including South Africa as host)
The CAF qualification process began with a preliminary round played on 13 October and 17 November to narrow the field to 48 teams, and then 12 groups of 4 teams were drawn in Durban in November 2007.[3] The 12 winners and 8 best runners-up advance to the next stage, in which they will be drawn to 5 groups of 4 teams. The winners of these groups will qualify to the World Cup finals.
The qualifying competition for the 2010 World Cup will be combined with the qualification process for the 2010 African Cup of Nations. Since South Africa is hosting the World Cup, it has automatically qualified, although it (unlike hosts in previous qualifying tournaments since 1938) plays in the qualifiers themselves to facilitate the African Cup of Nations version of the qualifiers.
Asia (AFC)
Main article: 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)
(43 teams competing for 4 or 5 berths, a playoff against Oceania determines which conference gets the extra berth)
Two preliminary rounds (one in October 2007 and one in the first half of November) narrowed the field from 43 to 20 prior to the group stage draw in Durban on 25 November 2007.[3]
The group stage draw divided the 20 remaining sides into 5 groups of 4, to be played from February to June 2008, from which the winners and runners-up will advance to the final group stage. The winners and runners-up from 2 final groups of 5 nations (playing from September 2008 to June 2009) will qualify automatically for the World Cup finals, with the 2 third-placed sides playing off in September 2009 for the right to compete against the Oceania winner for a final qualification spot (with matches played in October and November 2009).
The knock-out preliminary rounds themselves were somewhat unusual, with all 38 AFC sides that did not qualify for the 2006 World Cup playing in the first knock-out round, but the 11 best-ranked winners from that round receiving byes in the second round (and only the 8 lowest-ranked winners competing to reduce the fields of teams to 20).
Europe (UEFA)
Main article: 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
(53 teams competing for 13 berths)
The European qualification games will start in August 2008 after EURO 2008.[3] Eight groups of six teams and one group of five will contest the European qualifying competition. As a result the nine group-winners will qualify directly, while the best eight of the nine second-placed teams will contest home and away play-off matches for the remaining four places.[4]
North, Central American and Caribbean (CONCACAF)
Main article: 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)
(35 teams competing for 3 or 4 berths, a playoff against South America determines which confederation gets the extra berth)
The CONCACAF qualification process[5] is identical to that for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, except that as Puerto Rico competed this time (they were the only CONCACAF member not to enter 2006 qualification), there were 11 matches instead of 10 in the first preliminary round, and thus 13 teams instead of 14 received a bye to the second preliminary round. The two preliminary rounds, played in the first half of 2008, will reduce the 35 entrants to 24 and then 12 teams, followed by 3 semifinal groups of 4 (likely to occur in the second half of 2008), with the top two in each group advancing to a final 6-team group (timeframe of all of 2009). The top 3 of this group will qualify to the World Cup finals, the 4th team will go to the playoff with CONMEBOL opponent.
Oceania (OFC)
Main article: 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
(10 teams competing for 0 or 1 berth, playoff with Asia to determine exact number. Tuvalu will also play in the qualifying tournament, but is not an entrant to the World Cup qualification)
The qualification process began with a tournament at the 2007 South Pacific Games in August 2007. The top three (New Caledonia, Fiji, and Vanuatu, respectively) joined New Zealand in a 4-team group, playing home and away. The top team will then play a home and away playoff with an Asian nation for a final’s berth. [3]
South America (CONMEBOL)
Main article: 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
(10 teams competing for 4 or 5 berths; a playoff against CONCACAF determines which conference gets the extra berth)
The CONMEBOL qualification process again features a league system (home and away matches) for a single group of 10 associations, with matches played from October 2007 to October 2009. The fixture list is identical to that used in the qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. To limit the amount of travel by European-based players to South America, CONMEBOL’s schedule uses eight ‘double match days’ (with two sets of matches held within a few days of each other) and with the remaining 2 rounds (the fifth and sixth) being held in the European off-season. The top 4 teams will qualify to the World Cup finals, the 5th team will go to a playoff against the 4th-place CONCACAF team, which would be played on November 14 and 18, 2009.