Soccer World Cup 2010 / Qualification

Countries participating in the 2010 World Cup:

Countries that have qualified to participate

Countries that did not qualify

countries not participating in the qualification process

For the qualification (or preliminary round) for the Soccer World Cup 2010 , in addition to hosts South Africa, 204 other associations had registered their national teams ; this represented a new record of participation. Only Laos , Brunei and the Philippines did not send their teams. In addition, the report from Papua New Guinea was only submitted after the reporting deadline, so that it could no longer be considered.

Regulations

As usual, the hosts - this time South Africa - were automatically seeded for the finals. This time, the future World Cup host will nevertheless play the qualification, because it also served as qualification for the 2010 African Cup in Angola. South Africa did not have to pass the qualification in terms of sport in order to get a starting place for the 2010 World Cup in its own country, the same applied to Angola in terms of the African Cup of Nations.

The Central African Republic , Eritrea as well as São Tomé and Príncipe (all African countries), Guam and Bhutan (both Asia) withdrew their participation after the report. Montenegro (Europe), Comoros (Africa), Myanmar and East Timor (Asia) took part in a World Cup qualification for the first time. In the end, a total of 200 teams played for 32 World Cup starting places.

The starting places for the final round were allocated as follows:

• UEFA ( Europe ): 13 starting places for 53 qualifying participants
• CAF ( Africa ): 6 starting places (with host South Africa) for 50 qualifying participants (3 of 53 registered teams did not take part in the qualification)
• AFC ( Asia ): 4 or 5 starting places for 41 qualification participants (Guam and Bhutan did not take part in the qualification)
• OFC ( Oceania ): 0 or 1 starting place for 11 qualifying participants
• CONMEBOL ( South America ): 4 or 5 starting places for 10 qualifying participants
• CONCACAF ( North and Central America and the Caribbean ): 3 or 4 starting places for 35 qualifying participants

There was a play-off between the CONMEBOL-fifth and the CONCACAF-fourth in the 4th round after the completion of the respective qualifying rounds , as well as between the winner of the play-off between the two third-placed in the groups of the AFC qualification and the winner of the OFC qualification.

The drawing of the groups for the qualification in Europe, North and Central America, Asia and Africa took place on November 25, 2007 in Durban . The selection of the group heads as well as the further allocation of the lottery pots was based on the FIFA seeding list for soccer world championships (AFC) and the FIFA world rankings (UEFA, CONCACAF and CAF).

The rankings in each group were determined as follows in accordance with Article 17, Paragraph 6 of the regulations:

a) Number of points from all group matches

b) Goal difference from all group matches

c) Number of goals scored in all group matches

If two or more teams finished tied on these criteria, their placement was determined according to the following criteria:

d) Number of points from direct encounters between teams with the same number of points in group matches

e) Goal difference from the direct encounters of the teams with the same points in the group matches

f) Number of goals scored in group matches between teams with equal points

g) drawing of lots by the FIFA Organizing Committee

Provided the FIFA Organizing Committee gave the appropriate approval and the coordinated international match calendar permitted, the decision could also be determined through playoffs instead of drawing lots. In the event of a tie after 90 minutes, there will be an extension of 15 minutes twice. In the event of a tie after extra time, the winner will be determined in a penalty shoot-out.

For qualifying games with a home and return leg, the following applies: If both teams have scored the same number of goals after the games, the team with the higher number of away goals qualifies. If both teams have scored the same number of away goals, the second leg will be extended. If no goal was scored in extra time, a penalty shoot-out was played.

Teams qualified for the World Cup

nation	qualified as	at the	FIFA rank	Participation in the finals	last participation
South Africa	CAF; host	05/15/2004	83	03	2002
Japan	AFC; 4th round, second Gr. 1	06/06/2009	45	04th	2006
Australia	AFC; 4th round, first Gr. 1	06/06/2009	20th	03	2006
South Korea	AFC; 4th round, first Gr. 2	06/06/2009	47	08th	2006
Netherlands	UEFA; 1st round, first size 9	06/06/2009	4th	09	2006
North Korea	AFC; 4th round, second Gr. 2	06/17/2009	105	02	1966
Brazil	CONMEBOL; First	09/05/2009	1	19th	2006
Ghana	CAF; 3rd round, first Gr. 4th	09/06/2009	32	02	2006
England	UEFA; 1st round, first size 6th	09/09/2009	8th	13	2006
Spain	UEFA; 1st round, first size 5	09/09/2009	2	13	2006
Paraguay	CONMEBOL; Third	09/09/2009	31	08th	2006
Ivory Coast	CAF; 3rd round, first Gr. 5	10/10/2009	27	02	2006
Germany	UEFA; 1st round, first size 4th	10/10/2009	6th	17th	2006
Denmark	UEFA; 1st round, first size 1	10/10/2009	36	04th	2002
Serbia	UEFA; 1st round, first size 7th	10/10/2009	15th	01	-
Italy	UEFA; 1st round, first size 8th	10/10/2009	5	17th	2006
Chile	CONMEBOL; Second	10/10/2009	18th	07th	1998
Mexico	CONCACAF; Second	10/10/2009	17th	14th	2006
United States	CONCACAF; First	10/10/2009	14th	09	2006
Switzerland	UEFA; 1st round, first size 2	October 14, 2009	24	09	2006
Slovakia	UEFA; 1st round, first size 3	October 14, 2009	34	01	-
Argentina	CONMEBOL; Fourth	October 14, 2009	7th	15th	2006
Honduras	CONCACAF; Third	October 14, 2009	38	02	1982
New Zealand	OFC; Winner relegation AFC	11/14/2009	78	02	1982
Nigeria	CAF; 3rd round, first Gr. 2	11/14/2009	21st	04th	2002
Cameroon	CAF; 3rd round, first Gr. 1	11/14/2009	19th	06th	2002
Algeria	CAF; 3rd round, first Gr. 3	11/18/2009	30th	03	1986
Greece	UEFA; 2nd round, winner	11/18/2009	13	02	1994
Slovenia	UEFA; 2nd round, winner	11/18/2009	25th	02	2002
Portugal	UEFA; 2nd round, winner	11/18/2009	3	05	2006
France	UEFA; 2nd round, winner	11/18/2009	9	13	2006
Uruguay	CONMEBOL; Rel. CONCACAF	11/18/2009	16	11	2002

Remarks:

1. ↑ As of April 2010
2. ↑ including the 2010 World Cup
3. ↑ The predecessors of the Serbian national soccer team were Yugoslavia (eight participations between 1950 and 1990), Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1998) and Serbia and Montenegro (2006).
4. ↑ Czechoslovakia took part in eight World Cup finals from 1930 to 1990; Politically, the succession has the Czech Republic, FIFA treats both states as successors.

European Zone / UEFA

mode

All 53 UEFA associations were registered to take part in the qualification . For the draw on November 25, 2007 in Durban, the teams were divided into six pots, the composition of which was based on their position in the FIFA world rankings valid at the time.

In the European qualification there were nine groups (eight groups of six, one group of five), of which the group winners qualified directly for the 2010 World Cup. The remaining four places were awarded in play-offs between the eight best runners-up in the group. The worst runners-up was eliminated. As was customary in the past, the games of the runners-up against the bottom of the table within the groups of six were not counted for comparability between the runners-up in the groups.

First round

Overview

Group 1	FIFA rank	Group 2	FIFA rank	Group 3	FIFA rank
1. Portugal	8th	1. Greece	11	1. Czech Republic	6th
2. Sweden	24	2. Israel	26th	2. Poland	23
3. Denmark	31	3. Switzerland	44	3. Northern Ireland	32
4. Hungary	52	4. Moldova	53	4. Slovakia	50
5. Albania	82	5. Latvia	88	5. Slovenia	83
6. Malta	139	6. Luxembourg	152	6. San Marino	197
Group 4	FIFA rank	Group 5	FIFA rank	Group 6	FIFA rank
1. Germany	6th	1. Spain	4th	1. Croatia	10
2. Russia	22nd	2. Turkey	16	2. England	12
3. Finland	36	3. Belgium	49	3. Ukraine	29
4. Wales	58	4. Bosnia and Herzegovina	51	4. Belarus	60
5. Azerbaijan	118	5. Armenia	90	5. Kazakhstan	110
6. Liechtenstein	123	6. Estonia	128	6. Andorra	174
Group 7	FIFA rank	Group 8	FIFA rank	Group 9	FIFA rank
1. France	7th	1. Italy	3	1. Netherlands	9
2. Romania	13	2. Bulgaria	18th	2. Scotland	14th
3. Serbia	30th	3. Ireland	35	3. Norway	28
4. Lithuania	61	4. Cyprus	65	4. Macedonia	59
5. Austria	91	5. Georgia	77	5. Iceland	89
6. Faroe Islands	195	6. Montenegro	172

Group 1

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Denmark	10	6th	3	1	16: 05	21st
2	Portugal	10	5	4th	1	17: 05	19th
3	Sweden	10	5	3	2	13: 05	18th
4th	Hungary	10	5	1	4th	10: 08	16
5	Albania	10	1	4th	5	06:13	07th
6th	Malta	10	0	1	9	00:26	01

Game results

09/06/2008	Budapest	Hungary	-	Denmark	0-0
09/06/2008	Tirana	Albania	-	Sweden	0-0
09/06/2008	Ta 'Qali	Malta	-	Portugal	0: 4 (0: 1)
09/10/2008	Solna	Sweden	-	Hungary	2: 1 (0: 0)
09/10/2008	Tirana	Albania	-	Malta	3: 0 (1: 0)
09/10/2008	Lisbon	Portugal	-	Denmark	2: 3 (1: 0)
10/11/2008	Solna	Sweden	-	Portugal	0-0
10/11/2008	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Malta	3: 0 (2: 0)
10/11/2008	Budapest	Hungary	-	Albania	2: 0 (0: 0)
10/15/2008	Braga	Portugal	-	Albania	0-0
10/15/2008	Ta 'Qali	Malta	-	Hungary	0: 1 (0: 1)
02/11/2009	Ta 'Qali	Malta	-	Albania	0-0
03/28/2009	postage	Portugal	-	Sweden	0-0
03/28/2009	Tirana	Albania	-	Hungary	0: 1 (0: 1)
03/28/2009	Ta 'Qali	Malta	-	Denmark	0: 3 (0: 2)

04/01/2009	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Albania	3: 0 (2: 0)
04/01/2009	Budapest	Hungary	-	Malta	3: 0 (1: 0)
06/06/2009	Solna	Sweden	-	Denmark	0: 1 (0: 1)
06/06/2009	Tirana	Albania	-	Portugal	1: 2 (1: 1)
06/10/2009	Gothenburg	Sweden	-	Malta	4: 0 (1: 0)
09/05/2009	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Portugal	1: 1 (1: 0)
09/05/2009	Budapest	Hungary	-	Sweden	1: 2 (0: 1)
09/09/2009	Budapest	Hungary	-	Portugal	0: 1 (0: 1)
09/09/2009	Tirana	Albania	-	Denmark	1: 1 (0: 1)
09/09/2009	Ta 'Qali	Malta	-	Sweden	0: 1 (0: 0)
10/10/2009	Lisbon	Portugal	-	Hungary	3: 0 (1: 0)
10/10/2009	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Sweden	1: 0 (0: 0)
October 14, 2009	Guimarães	Portugal	-	Malta	4: 0 (2: 0)
October 14, 2009	Solna	Sweden	-	Albania	4: 1 (3: 0)
October 14, 2009	Copenhagen	Denmark	-	Hungary	0: 1 (0: 1)

Group 2

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Switzerland	10	6th	3	1	18: 08	21st
2	Greece	10	6th	2	2	20:10	20th
3	Latvia	10	5	2	3	18:15	17th
4th	Israel	10	4th	4th	2	20:10	16
5	Luxembourg	10	1	2	7th	04:25	05
6th	Moldova	10	0	3	7th	06:18	03

Game results

09/06/2008	Tiraspol	Moldova	-	Latvia	1: 2 (0: 2)
09/06/2008	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	-	Greece	0: 3 (0: 2)
09/06/2008	Ramat Gan	Israel	-	Switzerland	2: 2 (0: 1)
09/10/2008	Chișinău	Moldova	-	Israel	1: 2 (1: 2)
09/10/2008	Riga	Latvia	-	Greece	0: 2 (0: 1)
09/10/2008	Zurich	Switzerland	-	Luxembourg	1: 2 (1: 1)
10/11/2008	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	-	Israel	1: 3 (1: 1)
10/11/2008	St. Gallen	Switzerland	-	Latvia	2: 1 (0: 0)
10/11/2008	Piraeus	Greece	-	Moldova	3: 0 (2: 0)
10/15/2008	Riga	Latvia	-	Israel	1: 1 (0: 0)
10/15/2008	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	-	Moldova	0-0
10/15/2008	Piraeus	Greece	-	Switzerland	1: 2 (0: 1)
03/28/2009	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	-	Latvia	0: 4 (0: 1)
03/28/2009	Ramat Gan	Israel	-	Greece	1: 1 (0: 1)
03/28/2009	Chișinău	Moldova	-	Switzerland	0: 2 (0: 1)

04/01/2009	Riga	Latvia	-	Luxembourg	2: 0 (1: 0)
04/01/2009	Heraklion	Greece	-	Israel	2: 1 (1: 0)
04/01/2009	Geneva	Switzerland	-	Moldova	2: 0 (1: 0)
09/05/2009	Ramat Gan	Israel	-	Latvia	0: 1 (0: 0)
09/05/2009	Chișinău	Moldova	-	Luxembourg	0-0
09/05/2009	Basel	Switzerland	-	Greece	2: 0 (0: 0)
09/09/2009	Ramat Gan	Israel	-	Luxembourg	7: 0 (4: 0)
09/09/2009	Riga	Latvia	-	Switzerland	2: 2 (0: 1)
09/09/2009	Chișinău	Moldova	-	Greece	1: 1 (0: 1)
10/10/2009	Athens	Greece	-	Latvia	5: 2 (1: 2)
10/10/2009	Ramat Gan	Israel	-	Moldova	3: 1 (1: 0)
10/10/2009	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	-	Switzerland	0: 3 (0: 3)
October 14, 2009	Riga	Latvia	-	Moldova	3: 2 (2: 1)
October 14, 2009	Heraklion	Greece	-	Luxembourg	2: 1 (2: 0)
October 14, 2009	Basel	Switzerland	-	Israel	0-0

Group 3

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Slovakia	10	7th	1	2	22:10	22nd
2	Slovenia	10	6th	2	2	18: 04	20th
3	Czech Republic	10	4th	4th	2	17: 06	16
4th	Northern Ireland	10	4th	3	3	13: 09	15th
5	Poland	10	3	2	5	19:14	11
6th	San Marino	10	0	0	10	01:47	00

Game results

09/06/2008	Bratislava	Slovakia	-	Northern Ireland	2: 1 (0: 0)
09/06/2008	Wroclaw	Poland	-	Slovenia	1: 1 (1: 1)
09/10/2008	Serravalle	San Marino	-	Poland	0: 2 (0: 1)
09/10/2008	Belfast	Northern Ireland	-	Czech Republic	0-0
09/10/2008	Maribor	Slovenia	-	Slovakia	2: 1 (1: 0)
10/11/2008	Chorzów	Poland	-	Czech Republic	2: 1 (1: 0)
10/11/2008	Serravalle	San Marino	-	Slovakia	1: 3 (1: 2)
10/11/2008	Maribor	Slovenia	-	Northern Ireland	2: 0 (0: 0)
10/15/2008	Bratislava	Slovakia	-	Poland	2: 1 (0: 0)
10/15/2008	Belfast	Northern Ireland	-	San Marino	4: 0 (2: 0)
10/15/2008	Teplice	Czech Republic	-	Slovenia	1: 0 (0: 0)
11/19/2008	Serravalle	San Marino	-	Czech Republic	0: 3 (0: 0)
02/11/2009	Serravalle	San Marino	-	Northern Ireland	0: 3 (0: 2)
03/28/2009	Belfast	Northern Ireland	-	Poland	3: 2 (1: 1)
03/28/2009	Maribor	Slovenia	-	Czech Republic	0-0

04/01/2009	Prague	Czech Republic	-	Slovakia	1: 2 (1: 1)
04/01/2009	Kielce	Poland	-	San Marino	10: 0 (4: 0)
04/01/2009	Belfast	Northern Ireland	-	Slovenia	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/06/2009	Bratislava	Slovakia	-	San Marino	7: 0 (5: 0)
08/12/2009	Maribor	Slovenia	-	San Marino	5: 0 (2: 0)
09/05/2009	Bratislava	Slovakia	-	Czech Republic	2: 2 (0: 0)
09/05/2009	Chorzów	Poland	-	Northern Ireland	1: 1 (0: 1)
09/09/2009	Belfast	Northern Ireland	-	Slovakia	0: 2 (0: 1)
09/09/2009	Maribor	Slovenia	-	Poland	3: 0 (2: 0)
09/09/2009	Uherské Hradiště	Czech Republic	-	San Marino	7: 0 (3: 0)
10/10/2009	Prague	Czech Republic	-	Poland	2: 0 (0: 0)
10/10/2009	Bratislava	Slovakia	-	Slovenia	0: 2 (0: 0)
October 14, 2009	Chorzów	Poland	-	Slovakia	0: 1 (0: 1)
October 14, 2009	Serravalle	San Marino	-	Slovenia	0: 3 (0: 1)
October 14, 2009	Prague	Czech Republic	-	Northern Ireland	0: 0 (0: 0)

Group 4

table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	10	8th	2	0	026: 500	+21	26th
2.	Russia	10	7th	1	2	019: 600	+13	22nd
3.	Finland	10	5	3	2	014:140	± 0	18th
4th	Wales	10	4th	0	6th	009:120	−3	12
5.	Azerbaijan	10	1	2	7th	004:140	−10	05
6th	Liechtenstein	10	0	2	8th	002:230	−21	02

Game results

09/06/2008	Cardiff	Wales	-	Azerbaijan	1: 0 (0: 0)
09/06/2008	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	-	Germany	0: 6 (0: 1)
09/10/2008	Moscow	Russia	-	Wales	2: 1 (1: 0)
09/10/2008	Baku	Azerbaijan	-	Liechtenstein	0-0
09/10/2008	Helsinki	Finland	-	Germany	3: 3 (2: 2)
10/11/2008	Dortmund	Germany	-	Russia	2: 1 (2: 0)
10/11/2008	Helsinki	Finland	-	Azerbaijan	1: 0 (0: 0)
10/11/2008	Cardiff	Wales	-	Liechtenstein	2: 0 (1: 0)
10/15/2008	M'gladbach	Germany	-	Wales	1: 0 (0: 0)
10/15/2008	Moscow	Russia	-	Finland	3: 0 (1: 0)
03/28/2009	Leipzig	Germany	-	Liechtenstein	4: 0 (2: 0)
03/28/2009	Moscow	Russia	-	Azerbaijan	2: 0 (1: 0)
03/28/2009	Cardiff	Wales	-	Finland	0: 2 (0: 1)
04/01/2009	Cardiff	Wales	-	Germany	0: 2 (0: 1)
04/01/2009	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	-	Russia	0: 1 (0: 1)

06/06/2009	Helsinki	Finland	-	Liechtenstein	2: 1 (1: 1)
06/06/2009	Baku	Azerbaijan	-	Wales	0: 1 (0: 1)
06/10/2009	Helsinki	Finland	-	Russia	0: 3 (0: 1)
08/12/2009	Baku	Azerbaijan	-	Germany	0: 2 (0: 1)
09/05/2009	St. Petersburg	Russia	-	Liechtenstein	3: 0 (3: 0)
09/05/2009	Lənkəran	Azerbaijan	-	Finland	1: 2 (0: 0)
09/09/2009	Hanover	Germany	-	Azerbaijan	4: 0 (1: 0)
09/09/2009	Cardiff	Wales	-	Russia	1: 3 (0: 1)
09/09/2009	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	-	Finland	1: 1 (0: 0)
10/10/2009	Moscow	Russia	-	Germany	0: 1 (0: 1)
10/10/2009	Helsinki	Finland	-	Wales	2: 1 (1: 1)
10/10/2009	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	-	Azerbaijan	0: 2 (0: 0)
October 14, 2009	Hamburg	Germany	-	Finland	1: 1 (0: 1)
October 14, 2009	Baku	Azerbaijan	-	Russia	1: 1 (0: 1)
October 14, 2009	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	-	Wales	0: 2 (0: 1)

Group 5

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Spain	10	10	0	0	28: 05	30th
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10	6th	1	3	25:13	19th
3	Turkey	10	4th	3	3	13:10	15th
4th	Belgium	10	3	1	6th	13:20	10
5	Estonia	10	2	2	6th	09:24	08th
6th	Armenia	10	1	1	8th	06:22	04th

Game results

09/06/2008	Murcia	Spain	-	Bosnia heart.	1: 0 (0: 0)
09/06/2008	Liege	Belgium	-	Estonia	3: 2 (1: 0)
09/06/2008	Yerevan	Armenia	-	Turkey	0: 2 (0: 0)
09/10/2008	Istanbul	Turkey	-	Belgium	1: 1 (0: 1)
09/10/2008	Zenica	Bosnia heart.	-	Estonia	7: 0 (2: 0)
09/10/2008	Albacete	Spain	-	Armenia	4: 0 (2: 0)
10/11/2008	Brussels	Belgium	-	Armenia	2: 0 (2: 0)
10/11/2008	Istanbul	Turkey	-	Bosnia heart.	2: 1 (0: 1)
10/11/2008	Tallinn	Estonia	-	Spain	0: 3 (0: 2)
10/15/2008	Zenica	Bosnia heart.	-	Armenia	4: 1 (2: 0)
10/15/2008	Brussels	Belgium	-	Spain	1: 2 (1: 1)
10/15/2008	Tallinn	Estonia	-	Turkey	0-0
03/28/2009	Genk	Belgium	-	Bosnia heart.	2: 4 (0: 1)
03/28/2009	Yerevan	Armenia	-	Estonia	2: 2 (1: 1)
03/28/2009	Madrid	Spain	-	Turkey	1: 0 (0: 0)

04/01/2009	Zenica	Bosnia heart.	-	Belgium	2: 1 (2: 0)
04/01/2009	Tallinn	Estonia	-	Armenia	1: 0 (0: 0)
04/01/2009	Istanbul	Turkey	-	Spain	1: 2 (1: 0)
09/05/2009	Yerevan	Armenia	-	Bosnia heart.	0: 2 (0: 1)
09/05/2009	A Coruña	Spain	-	Belgium	5: 0 (1: 0)
09/05/2009	Kayseri	Turkey	-	Estonia	4: 2 (2: 1)
09/09/2009	Yerevan	Armenia	-	Belgium	2: 1 (1: 0)
09/09/2009	Zenica	Bosnia heart.	-	Turkey	1: 1 (1: 1)
09/09/2009	Merida	Spain	-	Estonia	3: 0 (1: 0)
10/10/2009	Tallinn	Estonia	-	Bosnia heart.	0: 2 (0: 1)
10/10/2009	Yerevan	Armenia	-	Spain	1: 2 (0: 1)
10/10/2009	Brussels	Belgium	-	Turkey	2: 0 (1: 0)
October 14, 2009	Zenica	Bosnia heart.	-	Spain	2: 5 (0: 2)
October 14, 2009	Tallinn	Estonia	-	Belgium	2: 0 (1: 0)
October 14, 2009	Bursa	Turkey	-	Armenia	2: 0 (2: 0)

Group 6

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	England	10	9	0	01	34: 06	27
2	Ukraine	10	6th	3	01	21: 06	21st
3	Croatia	10	6th	2	02	19:13	20th
4th	Belarus	10	4th	1	05	19:14	13
5	Kazakhstan	10	2	0	08th	11:29	06th
6th	Andorra	10	0	0	10	03:39	00

Game results

08/20/2008	Almaty	Kazakhstan	-	Andorra	3: 0 (3: 0)
09/06/2008	Zagreb	Croatia	-	Kazakhstan	3: 0 (2: 0)
09/06/2008	Barcelona	Andorra	-	England	0: 2 (0: 0)
09/06/2008	Lviv	Ukraine	-	Belarus	1: 0 (0: 0)
09/10/2008	Almaty	Kazakhstan	-	Ukraine	1: 3 (0: 1)
09/10/2008	Andorra la V.	Andorra	-	Belarus	1: 3 (0: 1)
09/10/2008	Zagreb	Croatia	-	England	1: 4 (0: 1)
10/11/2008	Kharkiv	Ukraine	-	Croatia	0-0
10/11/2008	London	England	-	Kazakhstan	5: 1 (0: 0)
10/15/2008	Zagreb	Croatia	-	Andorra	4: 0 (2: 0)
10/15/2008	Minsk	Belarus	-	England	1: 3 (1: 1)
04/01/2009	London	England	-	Ukraine	2: 1 (1: 0)
04/01/2009	Andorra la V.	Andorra	-	Croatia	0: 2 (0: 2)
04/01/2009	Almaty	Kazakhstan	-	Belarus	1: 5 (1: 0)
06/06/2009	Zagreb	Croatia	-	Ukraine	2: 2 (1: 1)

06/06/2009	Almaty	Kazakhstan	-	England	0: 4 (0: 2)
06/06/2009	Hrodna	Belarus	-	Andorra	5: 1 (2: 0)
06/10/2009	Kiev	Ukraine	-	Kazakhstan	2: 1 (1: 1)
06/10/2009	London	England	-	Andorra	6: 0 (3: 0)
08/12/2009	Hrodna	Belarus	-	Croatia	1: 3 (0: 1)
09/05/2009	Kiev	Ukraine	-	Andorra	5: 0 (2: 0)
09/05/2009	Zagreb	Croatia	-	Belarus	1: 0 (1: 0)
09/09/2009	London	England	-	Croatia	5: 1 (2: 0)
09/09/2009	Minsk	Belarus	-	Ukraine	0: 0 (0: 0)
09/09/2009	Andorra la V.	Andorra	-	Kazakhstan	1: 3 (0: 3)
10/10/2009	Dnepropetrovsk	Ukraine	-	England	1: 0 (1: 0)
10/10/2009	Brest	Belarus	-	Kazakhstan	4: 0 (1: 0)
October 14, 2009	Astana	Kazakhstan	-	Croatia	1: 2 (1: 1)
October 14, 2009	Andorra la V.	Andorra	-	Ukraine	0: 6 (0: 1)
October 14, 2009	London	England	-	Belarus	3: 0 (1: 0)

Group 7

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Serbia	10	7th	1	2	22: 08	22nd
2	France	10	6th	3	1	18: 09	21st
3	Austria	10	4th	2	4th	14:15	14th
4th	Lithuania	10	4th	0	6th	010:11	12
5	Romania	10	3	3	4th	012:18	12
6th	Faroe Islands	10	1	1	8th	05:20	4th

Game results

09/06/2008	Cluj-Napoca	Romania	-	Lithuania	0: 3 (0: 1)
09/06/2008	Belgrade	Serbia	-	Faroe Islands	2: 0 (1: 0)
09/06/2008	Vienna	Austria	-	France	3: 1 (2: 0)
09/10/2008	Tórshavn	Faroe Islands	-	Romania	0: 1 (0: 0)
09/10/2008	Marijampolė	Lithuania	-	Austria	2: 0 (0: 0)
09/10/2008	Saint-Denis	France	-	Serbia	2: 1 (0: 0)
10/11/2008	Constanța	Romania	-	France	2: 2 (2: 1)
10/11/2008	Belgrade	Serbia	-	Lithuania	3: 0 (2: 0)
10/11/2008	Tórshavn	Faroe Islands	-	Austria	1: 1 (0: 0)
10/15/2008	Kaunas	Lithuania	-	Faroe Islands	1: 0 (1: 0)
10/15/2008	Vienna	Austria	-	Serbia	1: 3 (0: 3)
03/28/2009	Constanța	Romania	-	Serbia	2: 3 (0: 2)
03/28/2009	Kaunas	Lithuania	-	France	0: 1 (0: 0)
04/01/2009	Saint-Denis	France	-	Lithuania	1: 0 (0: 0)
04/01/2009	Klagenfurt	Austria	-	Romania	2: 1 (2: 1)

06/06/2009	Belgrade	Serbia	-	Austria	1: 0 (1: 0)
06/06/2009	Marijampolė	Lithuania	-	Romania	0: 1 (0: 1)
06/10/2009	Tórshavn	Faroe Islands	-	Serbia	0: 2 (0: 1)
08/12/2009	Tórshavn	Faroe Islands	-	France	0: 1 (0: 1)
09/05/2009	Saint-Denis	France	-	Romania	1: 1 (0: 0)
09/05/2009	Graz	Austria	-	Faroe Islands	3: 1 (2: 0)
09/09/2009	Bucharest	Romania	-	Austria	1: 1 (0: 0)
09/09/2009	Belgrade	Serbia	-	France	1: 1 (1: 1)
09/09/2009	Toftir	Faroe Islands	-	Lithuania	2: 1 (2: 1)
10/10/2009	Guingamp	France	-	Faroe Islands	5: 0 (2: 0)
10/10/2009	Belgrade	Serbia	-	Romania	5: 0 (1: 0)
10/10/2009	innsbruck	Austria	-	Lithuania	2: 1 (1: 0)
October 14, 2009	Saint-Denis	France	-	Austria	3: 1 (2: 0)
October 14, 2009	Piatra Neamț	Romania	-	Faroe Islands	3: 1 (1: 0)
October 14, 2009	Kaunas	Lithuania	-	Serbia	2: 1 (1: 0)

Group 8

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Italy	10	7th	3	0	18: 07	24
2	Ireland	10	4th	6th	0	12: 08	18th
3	Bulgaria	10	3	5	2	17:13	14th
4th	Cyprus	10	2	3	5	14:16	9
5	Montenegro	10	1	6th	3	09:14	9
6th	Georgia	10	0	3	7th	07:19	3

Game results

09/06/2008	Larnaka	Cyprus	-	Italy	1: 2 (1: 1)
09/06/2008	Mainz 1	Georgia	-	Ireland	1: 2 (0: 1)
09/06/2008	Podgorica	Montenegro	-	Bulgaria	2: 2 (0: 1)
09/10/2008	Podgorica	Montenegro	-	Ireland	0-0
09/10/2008	Udine	Italy	-	Georgia	2: 0 (1: 0)
10/11/2008	Sofia	Bulgaria	-	Italy	0-0
10/11/2008	Tbilisi	Georgia	-	Cyprus	1: 1 (0: 0)
10/15/2008	Lecce	Italy	-	Montenegro	2: 1 (2: 1)
10/15/2008	Dublin	Ireland	-	Cyprus	1: 0 (1: 0)
10/15/2008	Tbilisi	Georgia	-	Bulgaria	0-0
02/11/2009	Dublin	Ireland	-	Georgia	2: 1 (0: 1)
03/28/2009	Podgorica	Montenegro	-	Italy	0: 2 (0: 1)
03/28/2009	Larnaka	Cyprus	-	Georgia	2: 1 (1: 0)
03/28/2009	Dublin	Ireland	-	Bulgaria	1: 1 (1: 0)
04/01/2009	Bari	Italy	-	Ireland	1: 1 (1: 0)

04/01/2009	Sofia	Bulgaria	-	Cyprus	2: 0 (1: 0)
04/01/2009	Tbilisi	Georgia	-	Montenegro	0-0
06/06/2009	Larnaka	Cyprus	-	Montenegro	2: 2 (2: 0)
06/06/2009	Sofia	Bulgaria	-	Ireland	1: 1 (1: 1)
09/05/2009	Tbilisi	Georgia	-	Italy	0: 2 (0: 0)
09/05/2009	Larnaka	Cyprus	-	Ireland	1: 2 (1: 1)
09/05/2009	Sofia	Bulgaria	-	Montenegro	4: 1 (1: 1)
09/09/2009	Turin	Italy	-	Bulgaria	2: 0 (2: 0)
09/09/2009	Podgorica	Montenegro	-	Cyprus	1: 1 (0: 0)
10/10/2009	Dublin	Ireland	-	Italy	2: 2 (1: 1)
10/10/2009	Larnaka	Cyprus	-	Bulgaria	4: 1 (2: 1)
10/10/2009	Podgorica	Montenegro	-	Georgia	2: 1 (1: 1)
October 14, 2009	Parma	Italy	-	Cyprus	3: 2 (0: 1)
October 14, 2009	Dublin	Ireland	-	Montenegro	0-0
October 14, 2009	Sofia	Bulgaria	-	Georgia	6: 2 (6: 1)

¹ Due to the involvement of Georgia in the Caucasus conflict , the game between Georgia and Ireland was relocated to a neutral venue in the Bruchweg Stadium in Mainz .

Group 9

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Netherlands	8th	8th	0	0	17: 02	24
2	Norway	8th	2	4th	2	09: 07	10
3	Scotland	8th	3	1	4th	06:11	10
4th	Macedonia	8th	2	1	5	05:11	07th
5	Iceland	8th	1	2	5	07:13	05

Game results

09/06/2008	Oslo	Norway	-	Iceland	2: 2 (1: 1)
09/06/2008	Skopje	Macedonia	-	Scotland	1: 0 (1: 0)
09/10/2008	Skopje	Macedonia	-	Netherlands	1: 2 (0: 0)
09/10/2008	Reykjavík	Iceland	-	Scotland	1: 2 (0: 1)
10/11/2008	Rotterdam	Netherlands	-	Iceland	2: 0 (1: 0)
10/11/2008	Glasgow	Scotland	-	Norway	0-0
10/15/2008	Oslo	Norway	-	Netherlands	0: 1 (0: 0)
10/15/2008	Reykjavík	Iceland	-	Macedonia	1: 0 (1: 0)
03/28/2009	Amsterdam	Netherlands	-	Scotland	3: 0 (2: 0)
04/01/2009	Amsterdam	Netherlands	-	Macedonia	4: 0 (3: 0)

04/01/2009	Glasgow	Scotland	-	Iceland	2: 1 (1: 0)
06/06/2009	Skopje	Macedonia	-	Norway	0-0
06/06/2009	Reykjavík	Iceland	-	Netherlands	1: 2 (0: 2)
06/10/2009	Rotterdam	Netherlands	-	Norway	2: 0 (1: 0)
06/10/2009	Skopje	Macedonia	-	Iceland	2: 0 (1: 0)
08/12/2009	Oslo	Norway	-	Scotland	4: 0 (2: 0)
09/05/2009	Glasgow	Scotland	-	Macedonia	2: 0 (0: 0)
09/05/2009	Reykjavík	Iceland	-	Norway	1: 1 (1: 1)
09/09/2009	Glasgow	Scotland	-	Netherlands	0: 1 (0: 0)
09/09/2009	Oslo	Norway	-	Macedonia	2: 1 (2: 0)

Second round

Ranking of the runners-up

The best eight of the nine runners-up in the group carried out play-offs. To determine the ranking, only the results of the encounters against the first and third to fifth of the respective group were evaluated. The games against the group sixth were not counted so that the second in group 9, which consisted of only five teams, also had a chance of reaching the play-offs.

Due to the qualifying games, the following table resulted; Norway was eliminated as the worst runners-up in the group:

Pl.	team	group	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.	FIFA Rank 1
1	Russia	4th	8th	5	1	2	15: 06	16	12
2	Greece	2	8th	5	1	2	16: 08	16	16
3	Ukraine	6th	8th	4th	3	1	10: 06	15th	22nd
4th	France	7th	8th	4th	3	1	12: 09	15th	9
5	Slovenia	3	8th	4th	2	2	10: 04	14th	49
6th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	5	8th	4th	1	3	19:12	13	42
7th	Portugal	1	8th	3	4th	1	09: 05	13	10
8th	Ireland	8th	8th	2	6th	0	08: 06	12	34
9	Norway	9	8th	2	4th	2	09: 07	10	37

¹ As of October 16, 2009

Play-off matches

The teams in places one to eight were drawn against each other in four pairings with a return game after the first round was completed on October 19, 2009 in Zurich . They were divided into two pots depending on their placement in the FIFA world rankings, which had been updated three days earlier . This classification caused criticism because it was not originally intended.

Pot 1: France Portugal Russia Greece       

Pot 2: Ukraine Ireland Bosnia and Herzegovina Slovenia       

	total		First leg	Return leg
Greece	1-0	Ukraine	0: 0 (0: 0)	1: 0 (1: 0)
Portugal	2-0	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1: 0 (1: 0)	1: 0 (0: 0)
Ireland	1: 2	France	0: 1 (0: 0)	1: 1 n.V. (1: 0, 1: 0)
Russia	(a) 2: 2 (a)	Slovenia	2: 1 (1: 0)	0: 1 (0: 1)

Portugal had to play both games without Cristiano Ronaldo . At home they reached a 1-0. With four Bundesliga players, but without Misimović from Wolfsburg , the Bosnians also lost the second leg 0-1. The departure of the Russians trained by Guus Hiddink was a surprise . Hiddink led the Netherlands to the World Cup in 1998 and Australia in 2006, and in 2002 looked after South Korea, which was automatically qualified as host. In the 1-0 win for Slovenia in the second leg, two Russian players were sent off the field. Bochum's Dedič scored the winning goal . Otto Rehhagel , German coach of the Greeks, was under pressure after his team's weak 0-0 draw. In his 100th game as a coach for Greece, however, he made it 1-0 in the second leg. The second leg between France and Ireland caused a stir. After Ireland took the lead, it was extended. After a wide free kick from midfield, Henry used his hand twice. While the Irish protested, Gallas headed a close range.

On November 30, 2009, Ireland applied to be the 33rd team to participate in the 2010 World Cup. FIFA President Blatter promised that the Executive Committee would deal with this proposal, but gave the Irish little hope: "Then you would have to allow Costa Rica, which lost to Uruguay because of an offside goal" .

As part of an investigation into corruption at FIFA , it became known in June 2015 that FIFA had paid the Irish federation five million dollars to deal with its complaint.

South American Zone / CONMEBOL

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All ten teams that belong to the South American football association CONMEBOL played in a group with home and away legs. The four best-placed teams qualified directly for the 2010 World Cup, the fifth-placed team played another place with the fourth in the CONCACAF group.

Qualifying round

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
01	Brazil	18th	9	7th	2	33:11	34
02	Chile	18th	10	3	5	32:22	33
03	Paraguay	18th	10	3	5	24:16	33
04th	Argentina	18th	8th	4th	6th	23:20	28
05	Uruguay	18th	6th	6th	6th	28:20	24
06th	Ecuador	18th	6th	5	7th	22:26	23
07th	Colombia	18th	6th	5	7th	14:18	23
08th	Venezuela	18th	6th	4th	8th	23:29	22nd
09	Bolivia	18th	4th	3	11	22:36	15th
10	Peru	18th	3	4th	11	11:34	13

Game results

Matchday 1
10/13/2007	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Bolivia	5: 0 (2: 0)
10/13/2007	Buenos Aires	Argentina	-	Chile	2: 0 (2: 0)
10/13/2007	Quito	Ecuador	-	Venezuela	0: 1 (0: 0)
10/13/2007	Lima	Peru	-	Paraguay	0-0
10/14/2007	Bogotá	Colombia	-	Brazil	0-0
Matchday 2
10/16/2007	Maracaibo	Venezuela	-	Argentina	0: 2 (0: 2)
10/17/2007	La Paz	Bolivia	-	Colombia	0-0
10/17/2007	Asunción	Paraguay	-	Uruguay	1: 0 (1: 0)
10/17/2007	Santiago	Chile	-	Peru	2: 0 (1: 0)
10/17/2007	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	-	Ecuador	5: 0 (1: 0)
Matchday 3
11/17/2007	Buenos Aires	Argentina	-	Bolivia	3: 0 (1: 0)
11/17/2007	Bogotá	Colombia	-	Venezuela	1: 0 (0: 0)
11/17/2007	Asunción	Paraguay	-	Ecuador	5: 1 (2: 0)
11/18/2007	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Chile	2: 2 (1: 0)
11/18/2007	Lima	Peru	-	Brazil	1: 1 (0: 1)
Matchday 4
11/20/2007	San Cristobal	Venezuela	-	Bolivia	5: 3 (2: 2)
11/20/2007	Bogotá	Colombia	-	Argentina	2: 1 (0: 1)
11/21/2007	Quito	Ecuador	-	Peru	5: 1 (3: 0)
11/21/2007	São Paulo	Brazil	-	Uruguay	2: 1 (1: 1)
11/21/2007	Santiago	Chile	-	Paraguay	0: 3 (0: 2)
Matchday 5
06/14/2008	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Venezuela	1: 1 (1: 0)
06/14/2008	Lima	Peru	-	Colombia	1: 1 (1: 1)
06/15/2008	Asunción	Paraguay	-	Brazil	2: 0 (1: 0)
06/15/2008	Buenos Aires	Argentina	-	Ecuador	1: 1 (0: 0)
06/15/2008	La Paz	Bolivia	-	Chile	0: 2 (0: 1)
Matchday 6
06/17/2008	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Peru	6: 0 (2: 0)
06/18/2008	La Paz	Bolivia	-	Paraguay	4: 2 (2: 0)
06/18/2008	Quito	Ecuador	-	Colombia	0-0
06/18/2008	Belo Horizonte	Brazil	-	Argentina	0-0
06/19/2008	Puerto La Cruz	Venezuela	-	Chile	2: 3 (0: 0)
Matchday 7
09/06/2008	Buenos Aires	Argentina	-	Paraguay	1: 1 (0: 1)
09/06/2008	Quito	Ecuador	-	Bolivia	3: 1 (1: 1)
09/06/2008	Bogotá	Colombia	-	Uruguay	0: 1 (0: 1)
09/06/2008	Lima	Peru	-	Venezuela	1: 0 (1: 0)
07.09.2008	Santiago	Chile	-	Brazil	0: 3 (0: 2)
Matchday 8
09/09/2008	Asunción	Paraguay	-	Venezuela	2: 0 (2: 0)
09/10/2008	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Ecuador	0-0
09/10/2008	Santiago	Chile	-	Colombia	4: 0 (2: 0)
09/10/2008	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	-	Bolivia	0-0
09/10/2008	Lima	Peru	-	Argentina	1: 1 (0: 0)
Matchday 9
10/11/2008	La Paz	Bolivia	-	Peru	3: 0 (2: 0)
10/11/2008	Buenos Aires	Argentina	-	Uruguay	2: 1 (2: 1)
10/11/2008	Bogotá	Colombia	-	Paraguay	0: 1 (0: 1)
10/12/2008	San Cristobal	Venezuela	-	Brazil	0: 4 (0: 3)
10/12/2008	Quito	Ecuador	-	Chile	1: 0 (0: 0)

Matchday 10
10/14/2008	La Paz	Bolivia	-	Uruguay	2: 2 (2: 0)
10/15/2008	Asunción	Paraguay	-	Peru	1: 0 (0: 0)
10/15/2008	Santiago	Chile	-	Argentina	1: 0 (1: 0)
10/15/2008	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	-	Colombia	0-0
10/15/2008	Puerto La Cruz	Venezuela	-	Ecuador	3: 1 (0: 1)
Matchday 11
03/28/2009	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Paraguay	2: 0 (1: 0)
03/28/2009	Bogotá	Colombia	-	Bolivia	2: 0 (1: 0)
03/28/2009	Buenos Aires	Argentina	-	Venezuela	4: 0 (1: 0)
03/29/2009	Lima	Peru	-	Chile	1: 3 (1: 2)
03/29/2009	Quito	Ecuador	-	Brazil	1: 1 (0: 0)
Matchday 12
March 31, 2009	Maturín	Venezuela	-	Colombia	2: 0 (0: 0)
04/01/2009	La Paz	Bolivia	-	Argentina	6: 1 (3: 1)
04/01/2009	Porto Alegre	Brazil	-	Peru	3: 0 (2: 0)
04/01/2009	Santiago	Chile	-	Uruguay	0-0
04/01/2009	Quito	Ecuador	-	Paraguay	1: 1 (0: 0)
Matchday 13
06/06/2009	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Brazil	0: 4 (0: 2)
06/06/2009	La Paz	Bolivia	-	Venezuela	0: 1 (0: 1)
06/06/2009	Buenos Aires	Argentina	-	Colombia	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/06/2009	Asunción	Paraguay	-	Chile	0: 2 (0: 1)
06/07/2009	Lima	Peru	-	Ecuador	1: 2 (0: 1)
Matchday 14
06/10/2009	Quito	Ecuador	-	Argentina	2: 0 (0: 0)
06/10/2009	Medellin	Colombia	-	Peru	1: 0 (1: 0)
06/10/2009	Puerto Ordaz	Venezuela	-	Uruguay	2: 2 (1: 0)
06/10/2009	Santiago	Chile	-	Bolivia	4: 0 (1: 0)
06/10/2009	Recife	Brazil	-	Paraguay	2: 1 (1: 1)
Matchday 15
09/05/2009	Medellin	Colombia	-	Ecuador	2: 0 (0: 0)
09/05/2009	Lima	Peru	-	Uruguay	1: 0 (0: 0)
09/05/2009	Asunción	Paraguay	-	Bolivia	1: 0 (1: 0)
09/05/2009	Rosario	Argentina	-	Brazil	1: 3 (0: 2)
09/05/2009	Santiago	Chile	-	Venezuela	2: 2 (1: 2)
Matchday 16
09/09/2009	La Paz	Bolivia	-	Ecuador	1: 3 (0: 1)
09/09/2009	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Colombia	3: 1 (1: 0)
09/09/2009	Asunción	Paraguay	-	Argentina	1: 0 (1: 0)
09/09/2009	Puerto la Cruz	Venezuela	-	Peru	3: 1 (1: 1)
09/09/2009	Salvador da Bahia	Brazil	-	Chile	4: 2 (2: 1)
Matchday 17
10/10/2009	Medellin	Colombia	-	Chile	2: 4 (1: 2)
10/10/2009	Quito	Ecuador	-	Uruguay	1: 2 (0: 0)
10/10/2009	Puerto Ordaz	Venezuela	-	Paraguay	1: 2 (0: 0)
10/10/2009	Buenos Aires	Argentina	-	Peru	2: 1 (0: 0)
10/11/2009	La Paz	Bolivia	-	Brazil	2: 1 (2: 0)
Matchday 18
October 14, 2009	Asunción	Paraguay	-	Colombia	0: 2 (0: 0)
October 14, 2009	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Argentina	0: 1 (0: 0)
October 14, 2009	Santiago	Chile	-	Ecuador	1: 0 (0: 0)
October 14, 2009	Campo Grande	Brazil	-	Venezuela	0-0
October 14, 2009	Lima	Peru	-	Bolivia	1: 0 (0: 0)

North, Central American and Caribbean Zones / CONCACAF

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The qualification in the CONCACAF zone was played in four rounds. First, 12 teams were determined in two knockout rounds with a home and return leg, which played a group stage in the third round. Six teams who played off the World Cup participants in a group qualified for the fourth round.

First round

In the first round, the 22 worst -ranked teams in the FIFA world rankings competed against each other in a knockout system with a return leg. The following games were drawn. The eleven winners of the first round advanced to the second round.

02/03/2008	Hamilton	Bermuda	-	Cayman Islands	1: 1 (1: 0)
03/30/2008	Georgetown	Cayman Islands	-	Bermuda	1: 3 (0: 2)
02/06/2008	Guatemala City ( Guatemala )	Belize	-	St. Kitts and Nevis	3: 1 (3: 1)
03/26/2008	Basseterre	St. Kitts and Nevis	-	Belize	1: 1 (0: 1)
02/06/2008	Diriamba	Nicaragua	-	Netherlands Antilles	0: 1 (0: 1)
03/26/2008	Willemstad	Netherlands Antilles	-	Nicaragua	2: 0 (1: 0)
02/06/2008	Roseau	Dominica	-	Barbados	1: 1 (1: 1)
03/26/2008	Bridgetown	Barbados	-	Dominica	1: 0 (0: 0)
02/06/2008	San Salvador	El Salvador	-	Anguilla	12: 0 (4: 0)
03/26/2008	Washington, DC ( USA )	Anguilla	-	El Salvador	0: 4 (0: 4)
02/06/2008	Providenciales	Turks and Caicos Islands	-	St. Lucia	2: 1 (1: 0)
03/26/2008	Vieux Fort	St. Lucia	-	Turks and Caicos Islands	2: 0 (1: 0)
02/06/2008	Oranjestad	Aruba	-	Antigua and Barbuda	0: 3 (0: 3)
03/26/2008	St. John's	Antigua and Barbuda	-	Aruba	1: 0 (0: 0)
03/26/2008	Nassau	Bahamas	-	British Virgin Islands	1: 1 (0: 0)
03/30/2008	Nassau ( Bahamas )	British Virgin Islands	-	Bahamas	2: 2 (0: 1) 1
03/26/2008	Bayamón	Puerto Rico	-	Dominican Republic	1: 0 a.d. 2
03/26/2008	St. George's	Grenada	-	American Virgin Islands	10: 0 (5: 0) 2
03/26/2008	Macoya ( Trinidad and Tobago )	Montserrat	-	Suriname	1: 7 (0: 2) 2

¹ Between the British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas, the away goals rule decided in favor of the Bahamas. Curiously, both games took place in the Bahamas, so the team - geographically speaking - did not score an away goal at all. According to the draw, the second leg counted as the “home game” of the Virgin Islands with the aforementioned effect.

² The three matches were only decided in one game each.

Second round

The eleven first-round winners played against the 13 best-placed teams in the FIFA rankings with a bye for the first round, using a knockout system with two legs to determine the twelve participants in the third round.

The following 13 teams qualified automatically for the second round: Costa Rica • Guatemala • Guyana • Haiti • Honduras • Jamaica • Canada • Cuba • Mexico • Panama • St. Vincent and the Grenadines • Trinidad and Tobago • United States

Group 1

06/15/2008	Carson	United States	-	Barbados	8: 0 (3: 0)
06/22/2008	Bridgetown	Barbados	-	United States	0: 1 (0: 1)
06/14/2008	Guatemala City	Guatemala	-	St. Lucia	6: 0 (3: 0)
06/21/2008	Los Angeles ( USA )	St. Lucia	-	Guatemala	1: 3 (1: 2)
06/15/2008	Macoya	Trinidad and Tobago	-	Bermuda	1: 2 (1: 2)
06/22/2008	Fort Prospect	Bermuda	-	Trinidad and Tobago	0: 2 (0: 1)
06/17/2008	St. John's	Antigua and Barbuda	-	Cuba	3: 4 (2: 2)
06/22/2008	Havana	Cuba	-	Antigua and Barbuda	4: 0 (2: 0)

Group 2

06/15/2008	Houston ( USA )	Belize	-	Mexico	0: 2 (0: 0)
06/21/2008	Monterrey	Mexico	-	Belize	7: 0 (3: 0)
06/15/2008	Kingston	Jamaica	-	Bahamas	7: 0 (3: 0)
06/18/2008	Trelawny	Bahamas	-	Jamaica	0: 6 (0: 5)
06/04/2008	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	-	Puerto Rico	4: 0 (1: 0)
06/14/2008	Bayamón	Puerto Rico	-	Honduras	2: 2 (2: 1)
06/15/2008	Kingstown	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	-	Canada	0: 3 (0: 2)
06/20/2008	Montreal	Canada	-	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	4: 1 (2: 0)

Group 3

06/14/2008	St. George's	Grenada	-	Costa Rica	2: 2 (2: 1)
06/21/2008	San Jose	Costa Rica	-	Grenada	3: 0 (2: 0)
06/14/2008	Paramaribo	Suriname	-	Guyana	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/22/2008	Georgetown	Guyana	-	Suriname	1: 2 (0: 2)
06/15/2008	Panama City	Panama	-	El Salvador	1: 0 (1: 0)
06/22/2008	San Salvador	El Salvador	-	Panama	3: 1 (0: 1)
06/15/2008	Port-au-Prince	Haiti	-	Netherlands Antilles	0-0
06/22/2008	Willemstad	Netherlands Antilles	-	Haiti	0: 1 (0: 0)

Third round

The twelve winners of the second round were divided into three groups of four teams each for the third round. The winners and runners-up qualified for the fourth round.

Overview

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3
United States	Mexico	Costa Rica
Guatemala	Jamaica	Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago	Honduras	El Salvador
Cuba	Canada	Haiti

Group 1

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	United States	6th	5	0	1	14: 03	15th
2	Trinidad and Tobago	6th	3	2	1	09: 06	11
3	Guatemala	6th	1	2	3	06: 07	05
4th	Cuba	6th	1	0	5	05:18	03

Game results

08/20/2008	Guatemala	Guatemala	-	United States	0: 1 (0: 0)
08/20/2008	Havana	Cuba	-	Trinid. & T.	1: 3 (0: 1)
09/06/2008	Havana	Cuba	-	United States	0: 1 (0: 1)
09/06/2008	Port of Spain	Trinid. & T.	-	Guatemala	1: 1 (0: 0)
09/10/2008	Bridgeview	United States	-	Trinid. & T.	3: 0 (2: 0)
09/10/2008	Guatemala	Guatemala	-	Cuba	4: 1 (1: 1)

10/11/2008	Guatemala	Guatemala	-	Trinid. & T.	0-0
10/11/2008	Washington, DC	United States	-	Cuba	6: 1 (2: 1)
10/15/2008	Port of Spain	Trinid. & T.	-	United States	2: 1 (0: 0)
10/15/2008	Havana	Cuba	-	Guatemala	2: 1 (1: 0)
11/19/2008	Port of Spain	Trinid. & T.	-	Cuba	3: 0 (0: 0)
11/19/2008	Commerce City	United States	-	Guatemala	2: 0 (0: 0)

Group 2

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Honduras	6th	4th	0	2	9: 05	12
2	Mexico	6th	3	1	2	9: 06	10
3	Jamaica	6th	3	1	2	6: 06	10
4th	Canada	6th	0	2	4th	6:13	02

Game results

08/20/2008	Toronto	Canada	-	Jamaica	1: 1 (0: 0)
08/20/2008	Mexico city	Mexico	-	Honduras	2: 1 (0: 1)
09/06/2008	Montreal	Canada	-	Honduras	1: 2 (1: 0)
09/06/2008	Mexico city	Mexico	-	Jamaica	3: 0 (2: 0)
09/10/2008	Tuxtla Gutiérrez	Mexico	-	Canada	2: 1 (0: 0)
09/10/2008	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	-	Jamaica	2: 0 (0: 0)

10/11/2008	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	-	Canada	3: 1 (1: 0)
10/11/2008	Kingston	Jamaica	-	Mexico	1: 0 (1: 0)
10/15/2008	Kingston	Jamaica	-	Honduras	1: 0 (1: 0)
10/15/2008	Edmonton	Canada	-	Mexico	2: 2 (1: 1)
11/19/2008	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	-	Mexico	1: 0 (0: 0)
11/19/2008	Kingston	Jamaica	-	Canada	3: 0 (1: 0)

Group 3

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Costa Rica	6th	6th	0	0	20: 03	18th
2	El Salvador	6th	3	1	2	11: 04	10
3	Haiti	6th	0	3	3	04:13	03
4th	Suriname	6th	0	2	4th	04:19	02

Game results

08/20/2008	San Jose	Costa Rica	-	El Salvador	1: 0 (0: 0)
08/20/2008	Port-au-Prince	Haiti	-	Suriname	2: 2 (0: 2)
09/06/2008	San Jose	Costa Rica	-	Suriname	7: 0 (2: 0)
09/06/2008	San Salvador	El Salvador	-	Haiti	5: 0 (2: 0)
09/10/2008	Paramaribo	Suriname	-	El Salvador	0: 2 (0: 2)
09/10/2008	Port-au-Prince	Haiti	-	Costa Rica	1: 3 (1: 1)

10/11/2008	Paramaribo	Suriname	-	Costa Rica	1: 4 (0: 2)
10/11/2008	Port-au-Prince	Haiti	-	El Salvador	0-0
10/15/2008	San Jose	Costa Rica	-	Haiti	2: 0 (1: 0)
10/15/2008	San Salvador	El Salvador	-	Suriname	3: 0 (2: 0)
11/19/2008	San Salvador	El Salvador	-	Costa Rica	1: 3 (1: 2)
11/19/2008	Paramaribo	Suriname	-	Haiti	1: 1 (1: 1)

Fourth round

The six remaining teams played in a group a normal championship system with home and away legs. The best three qualified for the final round, the fourth placed played in the relegation against the fifth placed in the South America qualification.

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	United States	10	6th	2	2	19:13	20th
2	Mexico	10	6th	1	3	18:12	19th
3	Honduras	10	5	1	4th	17:11	16
4th	Costa Rica	10	5	1	4th	15:15	16
5	El Salvador	10	2	2	6th	09:15	08th
6th	Trinidad and Tobago	10	1	3	6th	10:22	06th

Game results

02/11/2009	San Jose	Costa Rica	-	Honduras	2: 0 (0: 0)
02/11/2009	San Salvador	El Salvador	-	Trinid. & T.	2: 2 (0: 2)
02/11/2009	Columbus	United States	-	Mexico	2: 0 (1: 0)
03/28/2009	Mexico city	Mexico	-	Costa Rica	2: 0 (1: 0)
03/28/2009	Port of Spain	Trinid. & T.	-	Honduras	1: 1 (0: 0)
03/28/2009	San Salvador	El Salvador	-	United States	2: 2 (1: 0)
04/01/2009	San Jose	Costa Rica	-	El Salvador	1: 0 (0: 0)
04/01/2009	Nashville	United States	-	Trinid. & T.	3: 0 (1: 0)
04/01/2009	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	-	Mexico	3: 1 (2: 0)
06/03/2009	San Jose	Costa Rica	-	United States	3: 1 (2: 0)
06/06/2009	Port of Spain	Trinid. & T.	-	Costa Rica	2: 3 (1: 1)
06/06/2009	San Salvador	El Salvador	-	Mexico	2: 1 (1: 0)
06/06/2009	Chicago	United States	-	Honduras	2: 1 (1: 1)
06/10/2009	Mexico city	Mexico	-	Trinid. & T.	2: 1 (1: 1)
06/10/2009	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	-	El Salvador	1: 0 (1: 0)

08/12/2009	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	-	Costa Rica	4: 0 (1: 0)
08/12/2009	Port of Spain	Trinid. & T.	-	El Salvador	1: 0 (1: 0)
08/12/2009	Mexico city	Mexico	-	United States	2: 1 (1: 1)
09/05/2009	San Jose	Costa Rica	-	Mexico	0: 3 (0: 0)
09/05/2009	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	-	Trinid. & T.	4: 1 (2: 0)
09/05/2009	Sandy	United States	-	El Salvador	2: 1 (2: 1)
09/09/2009	San Salvador	El Salvador	-	Costa Rica	1: 0 (0: 0)
09/09/2009	Port of Spain	Trinid. & T.	-	United States	0: 1 (0: 0)
09/09/2009	Mexico city	Mexico	-	Honduras	1: 0 (0: 0)
10/10/2009	San Jose	Costa Rica	-	Trinid. & T.	4: 0 (1: 0)
10/10/2009	Mexico city	Mexico	-	El Salvador	4: 1 (1: 0)
10/10/2009	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	-	United States	2: 3 (0: 0)
October 14, 2009	Washington, DC	United States	-	Costa Rica	2: 2 (0: 2)
October 14, 2009	Port of Spain	Trinid. & T.	-	Mexico	2: 2 (1: 0)
October 14, 2009	San Salvador	El Salvador	-	Honduras	0: 1 (0: 0)

Asian Zone / AFC

mode

The first two rounds of the Asian qualification took place in the knockout system . Group matches followed in the third round. The fourth round also took place in two groups, whose winners and runners-up then qualified for the World Cup, while the third-placed players play for a place in the playoffs against the winner of the OFC qualification.

Australia , South Korea , Saudi Arabia , Japan and Iran had a bye to the third round as the top five in the Asian ranking.

First round

In the first round, the teams in the rankings 6 to 24 met teams in the rankings 25 to 43. At the draw on August 6, 2007 in Kuala Lumpur ( Malaysia ), the following games were determined for the first round:

10/08/2007	Dhaka	Bangladesh	-	Tajikistan	1: 1 (0: 0)
10/28/2007	Dushanbe	Tajikistan	-	Bangladesh	5: 0 (0: 0)
10/08/2007	Bangkok	Thailand	-	Macau	6: 1 (2: 1)
10/15/2007	Macau	Macau	-	Thailand	1: 7 (0: 3)
10/08/2007	Sidon	Lebanon	-	India	4: 1 (1: 1)
10/30/2007	Panaji	India	-	Lebanon	2: 2 (1: 0)
10/08/2007	Hanoi	Vietnam	-	United Arab Emirates	0: 1 (0: 0)
10/28/2007	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	-	Vietnam	5: 0 (2: 0)
10/08/2007	Damascus	Syria	-	Afghanistan	3: 0 (0: 0)
10/26/2007	Dushanbe ( Tajikistan )	Afghanistan	-	Syria	1: 2 (1: 1)
10/08/2007	Doha ( Qatar )	Palestine	-	Singapore	0: 4 (0: 1)
10/28/2007	Singapore	Singapore	-	Palestine	3: 0 1
10/08/2007	Muscat	Oman	-	Nepal	2: 0 (2: 0)
10/28/2007	Kathmandu	Nepal	-	Oman	0: 2 (0: 1)
10/08/2007	Sanaa	Yemen	-	Maldives	3: 0 (1: 0)
10/28/2007	Times	Maldives	-	Yemen	2: 0 (1: 0)
10/11/2007	Phnom Penh	Cambodia	-	Turkmenistan	0: 1 (0: 0)
10/28/2007	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan	-	Cambodia	4: 1 (1: 1)
10/13/2007	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	-	Chinese Taipei	9: 0 (5: 0)
10/28/2007	Taipei	Chinese Taipei	-	Uzbekistan	0: 2 (0: 0)
10/18/2007	Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan	-	Jordan	2: 0 (1: 0)
10/28/2007	Amman	Jordan	-	Kyrgyzstan	2: 0 n.V., 6: 5 i. E.
10/21/2007	Ulan Bator	Mongolia	-	North Korea	1: 4 (0: 3)
10/28/2007	Pyongyang	North Korea	-	Mongolia	5: 1 (3: 1)
10/21/2007	Gianyar ( Indonesia )	East Timor	-	Hong Kong	2: 3 (1: 2)
10/28/2007	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	-	East Timor	8: 1 (2: 0)
10/21/2007	Colombo	Sri Lanka	-	Qatar	0: 1 (0: 0)
10/28/2007	Doha	Qatar	-	Sri Lanka	5: 0 (2: 0)
10/21/2007	Manama	Bahrain	-	Malaysia	4: 1 (2: 1)
10/28/2007	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	-	Bahrain	0-0
10/21/2007	Foshan	People's Republic of China	-	Myanmar	7: 0 (2: 0)
10/28/2007	Kuala Lumpur ( Malaysia )	Myanmar	-	People's Republic of China	0: 4 (0: 4)
10/22/2007	Lahore	Pakistan	-	Iraq	0: 7 (0: 2)
10/28/2007	Aleppo ( Syria )	Iraq	-	Pakistan	0-0
		Bhutan	-	Kuwait	-: -
0	0	Kuwait	-	Bhutan	-: - 2
		Guam	-	Indonesia	-: -
		Indonesia	-	Guam	-: - 3

¹ The game was rated 3-0 for Singapore by FIFA as the Palestinian Territories did not play for the second leg.
² Kuwait continues without a fight as Bhutan has withdrawn.
³ Indonesia continued without a fight as Guam has withdrawn.

Second round

In the second round, of the 19 winners of the first round, only the eight worst-placed teams according to the Asian ranking list competed.

11/09/2007	Sanaa	Yemen	-	Thailand	1: 1 (1: 1)
11/18/2007	Bangkok	Thailand	-	Yemen	1: 0 (1: 0)
11/09/2007	Jakarta	Indonesia	-	Syria	1: 4 (1: 3)
11/18/2007	Damascus	Syria	-	Indonesia	7: 0 (2: 0)
11/09/2007	Singapore	Singapore	-	Tajikistan	2: 0 (2: 0)
11/18/2007	Dushanbe	Tajikistan	-	Singapore	1: 1 (1: 1)
11/10/2007	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	-	Turkmenistan	0-0
11/18/2007	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan	-	Hong Kong	3: 0 (1: 0)

Third round

The eleven best-placed winners of the first round and all winners of the second round as well as the teams in the rankings 1 to 5, who had bye until now, were divided into five groups of four teams each. These played a normal championship system with back and forth legs. The winners and runners-up in each group qualified for the fourth round. The draw took place as part of the main qualification draw on November 25, 2007 in Durban.

Overview

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3
1. Australia	1. Japan	1. South Korea
2. People's Republic of China	2. Bahrain	2. North Korea
3. Iraq	3. Oman	3. Jordan
4. Qatar	4. Thailand	4. Turkmenistan
Group 4	Group 5
1. Saudi Arabia	1. Iran
2. Uzbekistan	2. Kuwait 1
3. Lebanon	3. United Arab Emirates
4. Singapore	4. Syria

¹ FIFA had provisionally excluded Kuwait from qualifying because the association had not implemented decisions made by FIFA and the AFC. On November 9, 2007, FIFA temporarily lifted the suspension. Should the Kuwaiti Football Association fail to meet its obligations, the suspension will come back into force.

Group 1

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Australia	6th	3	1	2	07: 03	10
2	Qatar	6th	3	1	2	05: 06	10
3	Iraq	6th	2	1	3	04: 06	07th
4th	People's Republic of China	6th	1	3	2	03: 04	06th

Game results

02/06/2008	Dubai	Iraq	-	China	1: 1 (0: 0)
02/06/2008	Melbourne	Australia	-	Qatar	3: 0 (3: 0)
03/26/2008	Kunming	China	-	Australia	0-0
03/26/2008	Doha	Qatar	-	Iraq	2: 0 (1: 0)
06/01/2008	Brisbane	Australia	-	Iraq	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/02/2008	Doha	Qatar	-	China	0-0

06/07/2008	Dubai	Iraq	-	Australia	1: 0 (1: 0)
06/07/2008	Tianjin	China	-	Qatar	0: 1 (0: 1)
06/14/2008	Tianjin	China	-	Iraq	1: 2 (1: 1)
06/14/2008	Doha	Qatar	-	Australia	1: 3 (0: 1)
06/22/2008	Sydney	Australia	-	China	0: 1 (0: 1)
06/22/2008	Dubai	Iraq	-	Qatar	0: 1 (0: 0)

Group 2

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Japan	6th	4th	1	1	12: 03	13
2	Bahrain	6th	3	2	1	07: 05	11
3	Oman	6th	2	2	2	05: 07	08th
4th	Thailand	6th	0	1	5	05:14	01

Game results

02/06/2008	Muscat	Oman	-	Bahrain	0: 1 (0: 1)
02/06/2008	Saitama	Japan	-	Thailand	4: 1 (1: 1)
03/26/2008	Manama	Bahrain	-	Japan	1: 0 (0: 0)
03/26/2008	Bangkok	Thailand	-	Oman	0: 1 (0: 1)
06/02/2008	Yokohama	Japan	-	Oman	3: 0 (2: 0)
06/02/2008	Bangkok	Thailand	-	Bahrain	2: 3 (2: 2)

06/07/2008	Muscat	Oman	-	Japan	1: 1 (1: 0)
06/07/2008	Manama	Bahrain	-	Thailand	1: 1 (0: 0)
06/14/2008	Bangkok	Thailand	-	Japan	0: 3 (0: 2)
06/14/2008	Manama	Bahrain	-	Oman	1: 1 (1: 0)
06/22/2008	Saitama	Japan	-	Bahrain	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/22/2008	Muscat	Oman	-	Thailand	2: 1 (0: 1)

Group 3

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	South Korea	6th	3	3	0	10: 03	12
2	North Korea	6th	3	3	0	04: 00	12
3	Jordan	6th	2	1	3	06: 06	07th
4th	Turkmenistan	6th	0	1	5	01:12	01

Game results

02/06/2008	Amman	Jordan	-	North Korea	0: 1 (0: 1)
02/06/2008	Seoul	South Korea	-	Turkmenistan	4: 0 (1: 0)
03/26/2008	Shanghai 1	North Korea	-	South Korea	0-0
03/26/2008	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan	-	Jordan	0: 2 (0: 1)
05/31/2008	Seoul	South Korea	-	Jordan	2: 2 (1: 0)
06/02/2008	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan	-	North Korea	0-0

06/07/2008	Amman	Jordan	-	South Korea	0: 1 (0: 1)
06/07/2008	Pyongyang	North Korea	-	Turkmenistan	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/14/2008	Pyongyang	North Korea	-	Jordan	2: 0 (1: 0)
06/14/2008	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan	-	South Korea	1: 3 (0: 1)
06/22/2008	Seoul	South Korea	-	North Korea	0-0
06/22/2008	Amman	Jordan	-	Turkmenistan	2: 0 (0: 0)

¹ Since the North Korean federation refused to play the South Korean national anthem and to hoist the South Korean flag in the North Korean capital Pyongyang , the game was moved to a neutral location in Shanghai .

Group 4

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Uzbekistan	6th	5	0	1	17: 07	15th
2	Saudi Arabia	6th	5	0	1	15: 05	15th
3	Singapore	6th	2	0	4th	07:16	06th
4th	Lebanon	6th	0	0	6th	03:14	00

Game results

02/06/2008	Beirut	Lebanon	-	Uzbekistan	0: 1 (0: 1)
02/06/2008	Riad	Saudi Arabia	-	Singapore	2: 0 (1: 0)
03/26/2008	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	-	Saudi Arabia	3: 0 (1: 0)
03/26/2008	Singapore	Singapore	-	Lebanon	2: 0 (2: 0)
06/02/2008	Riad	Saudi Arabia	-	Lebanon	4: 1 (1: 1)
06/02/2008	Singapore	Singapore	-	Uzbekistan	3: 7 (2: 5)

06/07/2008	Riad	Lebanon	-	Saudi Arabia	1: 2 (0: 1)
06/07/2008	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	-	Singapore	3: 0 rating (originally 1: 0)
06/14/2008	Singapore	Singapore	-	Saudi Arabia	0: 3 rating (originally 0: 2)
06/14/2008	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	-	Lebanon	3: 0 (0: 0)
06/22/2008	Beirut	Lebanon	-	Singapore	1: 2 (0: 0)
06/22/2008	Riad	Saudi Arabia	-	Uzbekistan	4: 0 (2: 0)

Singapore's games on June 7th and 14th were subsequently rated 0: 3, as Qui Li, an unauthorized player, was used.

Group 5

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Iran	6th	3	3	0	07: 02	12
2	United Arab Emirates	6th	2	2	2	07: 07	08th
3	Syria	6th	2	2	2	07: 08	08th
4th	Kuwait	6th	1	1	4th	08:12	04th

Game results

02/06/2008	Tehran	Iran	-	Syria	0-0
02/06/2008	Abu Dhabi	UAE	-	Kuwait	2: 0 (1: 0)
03/26/2008	Damascus	Syria	-	UAE	1: 1 (1: 0)
03/26/2008	Kuwait City	Kuwait	-	Iran	2: 2 (1: 2)
06/02/2008	Damascus	Syria	-	Kuwait	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/02/2008	Tehran	Iran	-	UAE	0-0

06/07/2008	Al-Ain	UAE	-	Iran	0: 1 (0: 1)
06/08/2008	Kuwait City	Kuwait	-	Syria	4: 2 (2: 2)
06/14/2008	Damascus	Syria	-	Iran	0: 2 (0: 0)
06/14/2008	Kuwait City	Kuwait	-	UAE	2: 3 (0: 2)
06/22/2008	Tehran	Iran	-	Kuwait	2: 0 (1: 0)
06/22/2008	Al-Ain	UAE	-	Syria	1: 3 (0: 1)

Fourth round

The ten participants in the fourth round were divided into two groups of five teams each, a normal championship system with home and away matches was played. The group draw took place on June 27, 2008.

The winners and runners-up from both groups qualified for the World Cup. The third-placed (Bahrain and Saudi Arabia) played a playoff in a two-legged match against each other. The winner (Bahrain) competed in the relegation against New Zealand, the winner of the OFC qualification. New Zealand won this duel with a 0-0 first leg and a 1-0 home win in the second leg in Wellington.

Overview

Group 1	Group 2
Australia	South Korea
Japan	Iran
Bahrain	Saudi Arabia
Qatar	North Korea
Uzbekistan	United Arab Emirates

Group 1

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Australia	8th	6th	2	0	12: 01	20th
2	Japan	8th	4th	3	1	11: 06	15th
3	Bahrain	8th	3	1	4th	06: 08	10
4th	Qatar	8th	1	3	4th	05:14	06th
5	Uzbekistan	8th	1	1	6th	05:10	04th

Game results

09/06/2008	Manama	Bahrain	-	Japan	2: 3 (0: 2)
09/06/2008	Doha	Qatar	-	Uzbekistan	3: 0 (1: 0)
09/10/2008	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	-	Australia	0: 1 (0: 1)
09/10/2008	Doha	Qatar	-	Bahrain	1: 1 (1: 0)
10/15/2008	Brisbane	Australia	-	Qatar	4: 0 (2: 0)
10/15/2008	Saitama	Japan	-	Uzbekistan	1: 1 (1: 1)
11/19/2008	Manama	Bahrain	-	Australia	0: 1 (0: 0)
11/19/2008	Doha	Qatar	-	Japan	0: 3 (0: 1)
02/11/2009	Yokohama	Japan	-	Australia	0-0
02/11/2009	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	-	Bahrain	0: 1 (0: 0)

03/28/2009	Saitama	Japan	-	Bahrain	1: 0 (0: 0)
03/28/2009	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	-	Qatar	4: 0 (2: 0)
04/01/2009	Sydney	Australia	-	Uzbekistan	2: 0 (0: 0)
04/01/2009	Manama	Bahrain	-	Qatar	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/06/2009	Doha	Qatar	-	Australia	0-0
06/06/2009	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	-	Japan	0: 1 (0: 1)
06/10/2009	Sydney	Australia	-	Bahrain	2: 0 (0: 0)
06/10/2009	Yokohama	Japan	-	Qatar	1: 1 (1: 0)
06/17/2009	Melbourne	Australia	-	Japan	2: 1 (0: 1)
06/17/2009	Manama	Bahrain	-	Uzbekistan	1: 0 (0: 0)

Group 2

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	South Korea	8th	4th	4th	0	12: 04	16
2	North Korea	8th	3	3	2	07: 05	12
3	Saudi Arabia	8th	3	3	2	08: 08	12
4th	Iran	8th	2	5	1	08: 07	11
5	United Arab Emirates	8th	0	1	7th	06:17	01

Game results

09/06/2008	Riad	Saudi Arabia	-	Iran	1: 1 (1: 0)
09/06/2008	Abu Dhabi	UAE	-	North Korea	1: 2 (0: 0)
09/10/2008	Shanghai 1	North Korea	-	South Korea	1: 1 (0: 0)
09/10/2008	Abu Dhabi	UAE	-	Saudi Arabia	1: 2 (1: 0)
10/15/2008	Seoul	South Korea	-	UAE	4: 1 (2: 0)
10/15/2008	Tehran	Iran	-	North Korea	2: 1 (1: 0)
11/19/2008	Riad	Saudi Arabia	-	South Korea	0: 2 (0: 0)
11/19/2008	Abu Dhabi	UAE	-	Iran	1: 1 (1: 0)
02/11/2009	Tehran	Iran	-	South Korea	1: 1 (0: 0)
02/11/2009	Pyongyang	North Korea	-	Saudi Arabia	1: 0 (1: 0)

03/28/2009	Tehran	Iran	-	Saudi Arabia	1: 2 (0: 0)
03/28/2009	Pyongyang	North Korea	-	UAE	2: 0 (0: 0)
04/01/2009	Seoul	South Korea	-	North Korea	1: 0 (0: 0)
04/01/2009	Riad	Saudi Arabia	-	UAE	3: 2 (1: 2)
06/06/2009	Abu Dhabi	UAE	-	South Korea	0: 2 (0: 2)
06/06/2009	Pyongyang	North Korea	-	Iran	0-0
06/10/2009	Seoul	South Korea	-	Saudi Arabia	0-0
06/10/2009	Tehran	Iran	-	UAE	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/17/2009	Seoul	South Korea	-	Iran	1: 1 (0: 0)
06/17/2009	Riad	Saudi Arabia	-	North Korea	0-0

¹ Due to the continued tense situation between the North and South Korean Football Associations, the game between North Korea and South Korea took place in Shanghai as in the previous round .

Fifth round

Playoff games to determine fifth in AFC qualification

09/05/2009	Manama	Bahrain	-	Saudi Arabia	0-0
09/09/2009	Riad	Saudi Arabia	-	Bahrain	2: 2 (1: 0)

African Zone / CAF

mode

In the first round, the field was reduced to 48 teams. The worst-placed teams in the FIFA rankings played a pre-qualification. The second qualifying round was a group stage in which 20 teams qualified for the third round. In the third round, the five World Cup participants were determined in further group matches.

South Africa qualified as hosts. Since the World Cup qualification was also counted as qualification for the 2010 African Cup in Angola, South Africa and Angola also played the qualification. If the South African team had qualified for the third round, the games in which South Africa was involved would qualify for the African Championship, but not for the World Cup qualification. The opposite was true for Angola. Neither happened, as both were eliminated in the second round.

First round

Since more than 48 national teams had registered, the ten worst teams in the African rankings played against each other in the first round in a knockout system with a return game to reach the number of 48 teams.

In early September 2007, the Central African Republic and São Tomé and Príncipe withdrew their teams from qualifying, the game originally drawn between these two teams was therefore canceled. The two best-placed of the remaining teams, Swaziland and the Seychelles, thus reached round 2 without play. The original opponents of the two teams, Djibouti and Somalia, instead played against each other. The first leg in Somalia was canceled by FIFA as the stadiums in Somalia are not suitable for FIFA games according to FIFA, so only one game between the two teams took place in Djibouti.

10/13/2007	-	Somalia	-	Djibouti	called off
11/16/2007	Djibouti	Djibouti	-	Somalia	1: 0 (0: 0)
10/14/2007	Antananarivo	Madagascar	-	Comoros	6: 2 (2: 1)
11/17/2007	Moroni	Comoros	-	Madagascar	0: 4 (0: 1)
10/17/2007	Freetown	Sierra Leone	-	Guinea-Bissau	1: 0 (1: 0)
11/17/2007	Bissau	Guinea-Bissau	-	Sierra Leone	0-0

Second round

The winners of the first round and the 45 teams (including Swaziland and Seychelles) that did not have to play were divided into twelve groups of four for the second round, in which a championship system with home and away games was played. The draw was part of the main qualifying draw on November 25, 2007 in Durban . The winners and the eight best runners-up qualified for the third round. When determining the best runner-up in the groups of four, the games against the fourth-placed player were not taken into account.

Overview

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
1. Cameroon	1. Guinea	1. Angola	1. Nigeria
2. Cape Verde	2. Zimbabwe	2. Benin	2. South Africa 1
3. Tanzania	3. Namibia	3. Uganda	3. Equatorial Guinea
4. Mauritius	4. Kenya	4. Niger	4. Sierra Leone
Group 5	Group 6	Group 7	Group 8
1. Ghana	1. Senegal	1. Ivory Coast	1. Morocco
2. Libya	2. Algeria	2. Mozambique	2. Rwanda
3. Gabon	3. Liberia	3. Botswana	3. Mauritania
4. Lesotho	4. Gambia	4. Madagascar	Ethiopia was disqualified
Group 9	Group 10	Group 11	Group 12
1. Tunisia	1. Mali	1. Togo	1. Egypt
2. Burkina Faso	2. Republic of the Congo	2. Zambia	2. Democratic Republic of the Congo
3. Burundi	3. Sudan	3. Swaziland	3. Malawi
4. Seychelles	4. Chad	Eritrea has withdrawn	4. Djibouti

¹ South Africa had already been selected to host the World Cup finals, but took part in the qualification as it also served as the qualifying tournament for the 2010 Africa Cup .

Group 1

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Cameroon	6th	5	1	0	14: 02	16
2	Cape Verde	6th	3	0	3	07: 08	09
3	Tanzania	6th	2	2	2	09: 06	08th
4th	Mauritius	6th	0	1	5	03:17	01

Game results

05/31/2008	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	-	Mauritius	1: 1 (0: 1)
05/31/2008	Yaoundé	Cameroon	-	Cape Verde	2: 0 (1: 0)
06/07/2008	Praia	Cape Verde	-	Tanzania	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/08/2008	Curepipe	Mauritius	-	Cameroon	0: 3 (0: 2)
06/14/2008	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	-	Cameroon	0-0
06/15/2008	Curepipe	Mauritius	-	Cape Verde	0: 1 (0: 1)

06/21/2008	Yaoundé	Cameroon	-	Tanzania	2: 1 (0: 0)
06/22/2008	Praia	Cape Verde	-	Mauritius	3: 1 (1: 0)
09/06/2008	Praia	Cape Verde	-	Cameroon	1: 2 (1: 0)
09/06/2008	Curepipe	Mauritius	-	Tanzania	1: 4 (1: 4)
10/11/2008	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	-	Cape Verde	3: 1 (2: 1)
10/11/2008	Yaoundé	Cameroon	-	Mauritius	5: 0 (1: 0)

Group 2

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Guinea	6th	3	2	1	09: 05	11
2	Kenya	6th	3	1	2	08: 05	10
3	Zimbabwe	6th	1	3	2	04: 06	06th
4th	Namibia	6th	2	0	4th	07:12	06th

Game results

05/31/2008	Windhoek	Namibia	-	Kenya	2: 1 (1: 1)
06/01/2008	Conakry	Guinea	-	Zimbabwe	0-0
06/07/2008	Nairobi Nyayo	Kenya	-	Guinea	2: 0 (1: 0)
06/08/2008	Harare	Zimbabwe	-	Namibia	2: 0 (1: 0)
06/14/2008	Windhoek	Namibia	-	Guinea	1: 2 (1: 2)
06/14/2008	Nairobi Nyayo	Kenya	-	Zimbabwe	2: 0 (1: 0)

06/22/2008	Harare	Zimbabwe	-	Kenya	0-0
06/22/2008	Conakry	Guinea	-	Namibia	4: 0 (2: 0)
09/06/2008	Nairobi Kasarani	Kenya	-	Namibia	1: 0 (1: 0)
07.09.2008	Harare	Zimbabwe	-	Guinea	0-0
10/11/2008	Windhoek	Namibia	-	Zimbabwe	4: 2 (3: 0)
10/12/2008	Conakry	Guinea	-	Kenya	3: 2 (1: 0)

Group 3

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Benin	6th	4th	0	2	12: 08	12
2	Angola	6th	3	1	2	11: 08	10
3	Uganda	6th	3	1	2	08: 09	10
4th	Niger	6th	1	0	5	05:11	03

Game results

05/31/2008	Kampala	Uganda	-	Niger	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/01/2008	Luanda Cidadela	Angola	-	Benin	3: 0 (0: 0)
06/08/2008	Cotonou	Benin	-	Uganda	4: 1 (2: 1)
06/08/2008	Niamey	Niger	-	Angola	1: 2 (1: 1)
06/14/2008	Niamey	Niger	-	Benin	0: 2 (0: 0)
06/14/2008	Kampala	Uganda	-	Angola	3: 1 (2: 0)

06/22/2008	Cotonou	Benin	-	Niger	2: 0 (1: 0)
06/23/2008	Luanda Cidadela	Angola	-	Uganda	0-0
07.09.2008	Niamey	Niger	-	Uganda	3: 1 (0: 1)
07.09.2008	Cotonou	Benin	-	Angola	3: 2 (1: 1)
10/12/2008	Luanda Coqueiros	Angola	-	Niger	3: 1 (0: 1)
10/12/2008	Kampala	Uganda	-	Benin	2: 1 (0: 1)

Group 4

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Nigeria	6th	6th	0	0	11: 01	18th
2	South Africa	6th	2	1	3	05: 05	07th
3	Sierra Leone	6th	2	1	3	04: 08	07th
4th	Equatorial Guinea	6th	1	0	5	04:10	03

Game results

06/01/2008	Malabo	Equat'guinea	-	Sierra Leone	2: 0 (0: 0)
06/01/2008	Abuja	Nigeria	-	South Africa	2: 0 (2: 0)
06/07/2008	Pretoria	South Africa	-	Equat'guinea	4: 1 (2: 0)
06/07/2008	Freetown	Sierra Leone	-	Nigeria	0: 1 (0: 0)
06/14/2008	Freetown	Sierra Leone	-	South Africa	1: 0 (1: 0)
06/15/2008	Malabo	Equat'guinea	-	Nigeria	0: 1 (0: 1)

06/21/2008	Pretoria	South Africa	-	Sierra Leone	0-0
06/21/2008	Abuja	Nigeria	-	Equat'guinea	2: 0 (1: 0)
09/06/2008	Port Elizabeth, EPRU	South Africa	-	Nigeria	0: 1 (0: 0)
09/06/2008	Freetown	Sierra Leone	-	Equat'guinea	2: 1 (1: 0)
10/11/2008	Malabo	Equat'guinea	-	South Africa	0: 1 (0: 1)
10/11/2008	Abuja	Nigeria	-	Sierra Leone	4: 1 (3: 1)

Group 5

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Ghana	6th	4th	0	2	11: 05	12
2	Gabon	6th	4th	0	2	08: 03	12
3	Libya	6th	4th	0	2	07: 04	12
4th	Lesotho	6th	0	0	6th	02:16	00

Game results

06/01/2008	Kumasi	Ghana	-	Libya	3: 0 (1: 0)
06/07/2008	Tripoli	Libya	-	Gabon	1: 0 (1: 0)
06/08/2008	Bloemfontein	Lesotho	-	Ghana	2: 3 (0: 2)
06/14/2008	Libreville	Gabon	-	Ghana	2: 0 (1: 0)
06/15/2008	Bloemfontein	Lesotho	-	Libya	0: 1 (0: 0)
06/20/2008	Tripoli	Libya	-	Lesotho	4: 0 (1: 0)

06/22/2008	Accra	Ghana	-	Gabon	2: 0 (1: 0)
06/28/2008	Libreville	Gabon	-	Lesotho	2: 0 (1: 0)
09/05/2008	Tripoli	Libya	-	Ghana	1: 0 (0: 0)
07.09.2008	Bloemfontein	Lesotho	-	Gabon	0: 3 (0: 0)
10/11/2008	Libreville	Gabon	-	Libya	1: 0 (0: 0)
10/11/2008	Sekondi	Ghana	-	Lesotho	3: 0 (2: 0)

Group 6

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Algeria	6th	3	1	2	07: 04	10
2	Gambia	6th	2	3	1	06: 03	09
3	Senegal	6th	2	3	1	09: 07	09
4th	Liberia	6th	0	3	3	04:12	03

Game results

05/31/2008	Dakar	Senegal	-	Algeria	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/01/2008	Monrovia	Liberia	-	Gambia	1: 1 (0: 1)
06/06/2008	Blida	Algeria	-	Liberia	3: 0 (2: 0)
06/08/2008	Bakau	Gambia	-	Senegal	0-0
06/14/2008	Bakau	Gambia	-	Algeria	1: 0 (1: 0)
06/15/2008	Monrovia	Liberia	-	Senegal	2: 2 (0: 0)

06/20/2008	Blida	Algeria	-	Gambia	1: 0 (1: 0)
06/21/2008	Dakar	Senegal	-	Liberia	3: 1 (2: 0)
09/05/2008	Blida	Algeria	-	Senegal	3: 2 (0: 0)
09/06/2008	Bakau	Gambia	-	Liberia	3: 0 (2: 0)
10/11/2008	Dakar	Senegal	-	Gambia	1: 1 (0: 0)
10/11/2008	Monrovia	Liberia	-	Algeria	0-0

Group 7

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Ivory Coast	6th	3	3	0	10: 02	12
2	Mozambique	6th	2	2	2	07: 05	08th
3	Madagascar	6th	1	3	2	02: 07	06th
4th	Botswana	6th	1	2	3	03: 08	05

Game results

05/31/2008	Gaborone	Botswana	-	Madagascar	0-0
06/01/2008	Abidjan, Félix Houphouët-Boigny	Ivory Coast	-	Mozambique	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/08/2008	Antananarivo	Madagascar	-	Ivory Coast	0-0
06/08/2008	Maputo	Mozambique	-	Botswana	1: 2 (0: 1)
06/14/2008	Gaborone	Botswana	-	Ivory Coast	1: 1 (1: 0)
06/15/2008	Antananarivo	Madagascar	-	Mozambique	1: 1 (0: 1)

06/22/2008	Maputo	Mozambique	-	Madagascar	3: 0 (1: 0)
06/22/2008	Abidjan, Houphouët-Boigny	Ivory Coast	-	Botswana	4: 0 (2: 0)
07.09.2008	Maputo	Mozambique	-	Ivory Coast	1: 1 (0: 0)
07.09.2008	Antananarivo	Madagascar	-	Botswana	1: 0 (1: 0)
10/11/2008	Gaborone	Botswana	-	Mozambique	0: 1 (0: 1)
10/11/2008	Abidjan, Robert Champroux	Ivory Coast	-	Madagascar	3: 0 (1: 0)

Group 8

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Morocco	4th	3	0	1	11: 05	9
2	Rwanda	4th	3	0	1	07: 03	9
3	Mauritania	4th	0	0	4th	02:12	0
Ethiopia was excluded from the preliminary round by FIFA on September 12th and all games played up to that point were removed from the rating.

With effect from July 29, 2008, FIFA suspended the Ethiopian Football Association (EFF). In February 2008, FIFA, the EFF and the CAF decided on an action plan to normalize the “situation within the association”. This included in particular an extraordinary general assembly and the handover of the "EFF offices to the lawful management of the association". For several months, FIFA unsuccessfully called for compliance with the action plan. Since, according to FIFA, none of the points were implemented, the Ethiopian Football Association suspended them and excluded Ethiopia from the preliminary round.

Game results

05/31/2008	Kigali	Rwanda	-	Mauritania	3: 0 (1: 0)
05/31/2008	Casablanca	Morocco	-	Ethiopia	3: 0 (2: 0)
06/07/2008	Nouakchott	Mauritania	-	Morocco	1: 4 (0: 2)
06/08/2008	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	-	Rwanda	1: 2 (1: 0)
06/13/2008	Nouakchott	Mauritania	-	Ethiopia	0: 1 (0: 0)
06/14/2008	Kigali	Rwanda	-	Morocco	3: 1 (1: 0)

06/21/2008	Casablanca	Morocco	-	Rwanda	2: 0 (1: 0)
06/22/2008	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	-	Mauritania	6: 1 (1: 1)
09/06/2008	Nouakchott	Mauritania	-	Rwanda	0: 1 (0: 0)
07.09.2008	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	-	Morocco	called off
10/11/2008	Kigali	Rwanda	-	Ethiopia	called off
10/11/2008	Rabat	Morocco	-	Mauritania	4: 1 (1: 0)

Group 9

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Burkina Faso	6th	5	1	0	14: 05	16
2	Tunisia	6th	4th	1	1	11: 03	13
3	Burundi	6th	2	0	4th	05: 09	06th
4th	Seychelles	6th	0	0	6th	04:17	00

Game results

06/01/2008	Bujumbura	Burundi	-	Seychelles	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/01/2008	Radès	Tunisia	-	Burkina Faso	1: 2 (1: 0)
06/07/2008	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	-	Burundi	2: 0 (2: 0)
06/07/2008	Victoria	Seychelles	-	Tunisia	0: 2 (0: 2)
06/14/2008	Victoria	Seychelles	-	Burkina Faso	2: 3 (0: 1)
06/15/2008	Bujumbura	Burundi	-	Tunisia	0: 1 (0: 0)

06/21/2008	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	-	Seychelles	4: 1 (2: 1)
06/21/2008	Radès	Tunisia	-	Burundi	2: 1 (2: 1)
09/06/2008	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	-	Tunisia	0-0
09/06/2008	Victoria	Seychelles	-	Burundi	1: 2 (0: 1)
10/11/2008	Radès	Tunisia	-	Seychelles	5: 0 (4: 0)
10/12/2008	Bujumbura	Burundi	-	Burkina Faso	1: 3 (1: 1)

Group 10

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Mali	6th	4th	0	2	13: 08	12
2	Sudan	6th	3	0	3	09: 09	09
3	Republic of the Congo	6th	3	0	3	07: 08	09
4th	Chad	6th	2	0	4th	07:11	06th

Game results

06/01/2008	Bamako	Mali	-	Congo	4: 2 (3: 1)
06/07/2008	N'Djamena	Chad	-	Mali	1: 2 (1: 2)
06/08/2008	Brazzaville	Congo	-	Sudan	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/14/2008	N'Djamena	Chad	-	Congo	2: 1 (1: 1)
06/14/2008	Khartoum	Sudan	-	Mali	3: 2 (1: 0)
06/22/2008	Brazzaville	Congo	-	Chad	2: 0 (1: 0)

06/22/2008	Bamako	Mali	-	Sudan	3: 0 (1: 0)
09/06/2008	Cairo	Sudan	-	Chad	1: 2 (0: 1)
07.09.2008	Brazzaville	Congo	-	Mali	1: 0 (0: 0)
09/10/2008	Cairo	Chad	-	Sudan	1: 3 (1: 1)
10/11/2008	Omdurman	Sudan	-	Congo	2: 0 (1: 0)
10/11/2008	Bamako	Mali	-	Chad	2: 1 (1: 0)

Group 11

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Zambia	4th	2	1	1	02: 01	7th
2	Togo	4th	2	0	2	08: 03	6th
3	Swaziland	4th	1	1	2	02: 08	4th
Eritrea had withdrawn the team

Game results

05/31/2008	Accra	Togo	-	Zambia	1: 0 (1: 0)
06/08/2008	Mbabane	Swaziland	-	Togo	2: 1 (0: 0)
06/15/2008	Mbabane	Swaziland	-	Zambia	0-0

06/21/2008	Chilli bombwe	Zambia	-	Swaziland	1: 0 (0: 0)
09/10/2008	Chilli bombwe	Zambia	-	Togo	1: 0 (1: 0)
10/11/2008	Accra	Togo	-	Swaziland	6: 0 (3: 0)

Group 12

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Egypt	6th	5	0	1	13: 02	15th
2	Malawi	6th	4th	0	2	14: 05	12
3	Democratic Republic of Congo	6th	3	0	3	14: 06	09
4th	Djibouti	6th	0	0	6th	02:30	00

Game results

05/31/2008	Blantyre	Malawi	-	Djibouti	8: 1 (2: 1)
06/01/2008	Cairo, military academy	Egypt	-	DR Congo	2: 1 (0: 1)
06/06/2008	Djibouti	Djibouti	-	Egypt	0: 4 (0: 1)
06/08/2008	Kinshasa	DR Congo	-	Malawi	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/13/2008	Djibouti	Djibouti	-	DR Congo	0: 6 (0: 3)
06/14/2008	Blantyre	Malawi	-	Egypt	1: 0 (0: 0)

06/22/2008	Kinshasa	DR Congo	-	Djibouti	5: 1 (2: 0)
06/22/2008	Cairo International	Egypt	-	Malawi	2: 0 (1: 0)
09/05/2008	Djibouti	Djibouti	-	Malawi	0: 3 (0: 1)
07.09.2008	Kinshasa	DR Congo	-	Egypt	0: 1 (0: 1)
10/11/2008	Blantyre	Malawi	-	DR Congo	2: 1 (0: 1)
10/12/2008	Cairo International	Egypt	-	Djibouti	4: 0 (1: 0)

Ranking of the runners-up

Only the results of the encounters against the first and third of the respective group were evaluated. The games against the group fourth were not counted so that the runners-up in groups 8 and 11, which consisted of only three teams, also had a chance of reaching the third round. South Africa was eliminated as the worst runners-up in the group after the second round and was therefore unable to take part in the 2010 African Cup, but as host of the World Cup, of course. The same applied to Angola at the 2010 African Cup of Nations.

Pl.	team	group	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Rwanda	8th	4th	3	0	1	07: 03	9
2	Kenya	2	4th	2	1	1	06: 03	7th
3	Tunisia	9	4th	2	1	1	04: 03	7th
4th	Togo	11	4th	2	0	2	08: 03	6th
5	Gabon	5	4th	2	0	2	03: 03	6th
6th	Sudan	10	4th	2	0	2	05: 06	6th
7th	Malawi	12	4th	2	0	2	03: 04	6th
8th	Mozambique	7th	4th	1	2	1	05: 03	5
9	Gambia	6th	4th	1	2	1	02: 02	5
10	Angola • Qualified to host the 2010 African Cup of Nations.	3	4th	1	1	2	06: 06	4th
11	Cape Verde	1	4th	1	0	3	03: 07	3
12	South Africa • Qualified to host the 2010 World Cup.	4th	4th	0	1	3	00: 04	1

Third round

Overview

The 20 participants were divided into five groups of four, the winners of which qualified for the World Cup. In addition, the first three teams in each group took part in the 2010 African Cup of Nations. The group draw took place on October 22, 2008.

On the basis of the FIFA world rankings, the participants in the third round were divided into four pots. One team from each pot was drawn into each group. The games took place from March to November 2009.

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3
1. Cameroon	1. Nigeria	1. Egypt
2. Morocco	2. Tunisia	2. Algeria
3. Gabon	3. Kenya	3. Zambia
4. Togo	4. Mozambique	4. Rwanda
Group 4	Group 5
1. Ghana	1. Ivory Coast
2. Mali	2. Guinea
3. Benin	3. Burkina Faso
4. Sudan	4. Malawi

Group 1

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Cameroon	6th	4th	1	1	09: 02	13
2	Gabon	6th	3	0	3	09: 07	09
3	Togo	6th	2	2	2	03: 07	08th
4th	Morocco	6th	0	3	3	03: 08	03

Game results

03/28/2009	Casablanca	Morocco	-	Gabon	1: 2 (0: 2)
03/28/2009	Accra	Togo	-	Cameroon	1: 0 (1: 0)
06/06/2009	Libreville	Gabon	-	Togo	3: 0 (1: 0)
06/07/2009	Yaoundé	Cameroon	-	Morocco	0-0
06/20/2009	Rabat	Morocco	-	Togo	0-0
09/05/2009	Libreville	Gabon	-	Cameroon	0: 2 (0: 0)

09/06/2009	Lomé	Togo	-	Morocco	1: 1 (1: 0)
09/09/2009	Yaoundé	Cameroon	-	Gabon	2: 1 (1: 0)
10/10/2009	Yaoundé	Cameroon	-	Togo	3: 0 (1: 0)
10/10/2009	Libreville	Gabon	-	Morocco	3: 1 (1: 0)
11/14/2009	Fez	Morocco	-	Cameroon	0: 2 (0: 1)
11/14/2009	Lomé	Togo	-	Gabon	1: 0 (0: 0)

Group 2

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Nigeria	6th	3	3	0	09: 04	12
2	Tunisia	6th	3	2	1	07: 04	11
3	Mozambique	6th	2	1	3	03: 05	07th
4th	Kenya	6th	1	0	5	05:11	03

Game results

03/28/2009	Nairobi	Kenya	-	Tunisia	1: 2 (0: 1)
03/29/2009	Maputo	Mozambique	-	Nigeria	0-0
06/06/2009	Radès	Tunisia	-	Mozambique	2: 0 (1: 0)
06/07/2009	Abuja	Nigeria	-	Kenya	3: 0 (1: 0)
06/20/2009	Radès	Tunisia	-	Nigeria	0-0
06/20/2009	Nairobi	Kenya	-	Mozambique	2: 1 (1: 0)

09/06/2009	Abuja	Nigeria	-	Tunisia	2: 2 (1: 1)
09/06/2009	Maputo	Mozambique	-	Kenya	1: 0 (0: 0)
10/11/2009	Abuja	Nigeria	-	Mozambique	1: 0 (0: 0)
10/11/2009	Radès	Tunisia	-	Kenya	1: 0 (1: 0)
11/14/2009	Maputo	Mozambique	-	Tunisia	1: 0 (0: 0)
11/14/2009	Nairobi	Kenya	-	Nigeria	2: 3 (1: 0)

Group 3

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Algeria	6th	4th	1	1	9: 4	13
2	Egypt	6th	4th	1	1	9: 4	13
3	Zambia	6th	1	2	3	2: 5	05
4th	Rwanda	6th	0	2	4th	1: 8	02

Game results

03/28/2009	Kigali	Rwanda	-	Algeria	0-0
03/29/2009	Cairo	Egypt	-	Zambia	1: 1 (1: 0)
06/06/2009	Chilli bombwe	Zambia	-	Rwanda	1: 0 (0: 0)
06/07/2009	Blida	Algeria	-	Egypt	3: 1 (0: 0)
06/20/2009	Chilli bombwe	Zambia	-	Algeria	0: 2 (0: 1)
07/05/2009	Cairo	Egypt	-	Rwanda	3: 0 (0: 0)

09/05/2009	Kigali	Rwanda	-	Egypt	0: 1 (0: 0)
09/06/2009	Blida	Algeria	-	Zambia	1: 0 (0: 0)
10/10/2009	Chilli bombwe	Zambia	-	Egypt	0: 1 (0: 0)
10/11/2009	Blida	Algeria	-	Rwanda	3: 1 (2: 1)
11/14/2009	Kigali	Rwanda	-	Zambia	0-0
11/14/2009	Cairo	Egypt	-	Algeria	2: 0 (1: 0)

Playoff

After the regular games, Egypt and Algeria were tied in their group (13 points), had achieved the same goal difference in all games in Group 3 (+5) and also scored the same absolute number of goals (9). In a direct match against each other, they had each won once (3 points) and scored the same goal difference (3: 3). According to the FIFA rules (see above ), the drawing of lots between the two teams was waived and instead a playoff was stipulated in a neutral country, the winner of which finally qualified for participation in the World Cup.

11/18/2009

Omdurman ( Sudan )

Algeria

-

Egypt

1: 0 (1: 0)

After the qualifying game in Cairo on November 14, 2009, Algerians suffered injuries from Egyptian fans, but the Egyptian press did not, or at best, reported heavily. In the Algerian press, on the other hand, there was initially talk of deaths, which were later denied by the official government side. After the game in Sudan, Egyptians were attacked by Algerians. The Egyptian media at times spoke of several dozen dead until these reports were corrected again. In the meantime there was great excitement, especially among the Egyptian population; Gamal Mubarak , the Egyptian general secretary of the political committee of the ruling National Democratic Party and son of the then President Hosni Mubarak , also spoke up .

Group 4

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Ghana	6th	4th	1	1	9: 3	13
2	Benin	6th	3	1	2	6: 6	10
3	Mali	6th	2	3	1	8: 7	09
4th	Sudan	6th	0	1	5	2: 9	01

Game results

03/28/2009	Omdurman	Sudan	-	Mali	1: 1 (1: 1)
03/29/2009	Kumasi	Ghana	-	Benin	1: 0 (1: 0)
06/06/2009	Cotonou	Benin	-	Sudan	1: 0 (1: 0)
06/06/2009	Bamako	Mali	-	Ghana	0: 2 (0: 0)
06/20/2009	Omdurman	Sudan	-	Ghana	0: 2 (0: 1)
06/21/2009	Bamako	Mali	-	Benin	3: 1 (1: 1)

09/06/2009	Cotonou	Benin	-	Mali	1: 1 (0: 0)
09/06/2009	Accra	Ghana	-	Sudan	2: 0 (1: 0)
10/11/2009	Bamako	Mali	-	Sudan	1: 0 (0: 0)
10/11/2009	Cotonou	Benin	-	Ghana	1: 0 (0: 0)
11/14/2009	Omdurman	Sudan	-	Benin	1: 2 (1: 1)
11/15/2009	Kumasi	Ghana	-	Mali	2: 2 (0: 1)

Group 5

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Ivory Coast	6th	5	1	0	19: 04	16
2	Burkina Faso	6th	4th	0	2	10:11	12
3	Malawi	6th	1	1	4th	04:11	04th
4th	Guinea	6th	1	0	5	07:14	03

Game results

03/28/2009	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	-	Guinea	4: 2 (2: 0)
03/29/2009	Abidjan	Ivory Coast	-	Malawi	5: 0 (3: 0)
06/06/2009	Conakry	Guinea	-	Ivory Coast	1: 2 (0: 1)
06/06/2009	Blantyre	Malawi	-	Burkina Faso	0: 1 (0: 0)
06/20/2009	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	-	Ivory Coast	2: 3 (1: 1)
06/21/2009	Conakry	Guinea	-	Malawi	2: 1 (2: 0)

09/05/2009	Blantyre	Malawi	-	Guinea	2: 1 (0: 1)
09/05/2009	Abidjan	Ivory Coast	-	Burkina Faso	5: 0 (2: 0)
10/10/2009	Blantyre	Malawi	-	Ivory Coast	1: 1 (0: 0)
10/11/2009	Accra	Guinea	-	Burkina Faso	1: 2 (0: 1)
11/14/2009	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	-	Malawi	1: 0 (0: 0)
11/14/2009	Abidjan	Ivory Coast	-	Guinea	3: 0 (2: 0)

Oceanic Zone / OFC

mode

The first round of qualification took place with ten teams during the South Pacific Games , which were played from August 25 to September 8, 2007 in Samoa . The three best teams of this tournament play between October 13, 2007 and September 10, 2008 in a group of four with New Zealand in the OFC Nations Cup . The winner competes in play-offs against the fifth placed AFC qualifier (Asia).

First round

The 2007 South Pacific Games tournament was used for the first round . Tuvalu is not a member of FIFA and therefore could not qualify for the 2010 World Cup, but took part in the South Pacific Games as a member of the OFC . Although registered for the 2010 World Cup qualification, the team from Papua New Guinea did not take part in the games and thus could not qualify for the 2010 World Cup either.

All games were played at the Toleafoa JS Blatter Soccer Stadium in Apia , Samoa .

Group A

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Fiji	4th	3	1	0	25: 01	10
2	New Caledonia	4th	3	1	0	06: 01	10
3	Tahiti	4th	1	1	2	02: 06	04th
4th	Cook Islands	4th	1	0	3	04: 09	03
5	Tuvalu	4th	0	1	3	02:22	01

Game results

08/25/2007	Tahiti	-	New Caledonia	0: 1 (0: 1)
08/25/2007	Fiji	-	Tuvalu	16: 0 (10: 0)
08/27/2007	Tuvalu	-	New Caledonia	0: 1 (0: 0)
08/27/2007	Fiji	-	Cook Islands	4: 0 (2: 0)
08/29/2007	Tuvalu	-	Tahiti	1: 1 (0: 1)

08/29/2007	New Caledonia	-	Cook Islands	3: 0 (1: 0)
09/01/2007	Cook Islands	-	Tuvalu	4: 1 (1: 0)
09/01/2007	Tahiti	-	Fiji	0: 4 (0: 2)
09/03/2007	Cook Islands	-	Tahiti	0: 1 (0: 0)
09/03/2007	New Caledonia	-	Fiji	1: 1 (1: 0)

Group B

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Solomon Islands	4th	4th	0	0	21: 01	12
2	Vanuatu	4th	3	0	1	23: 03	09
3	Samoa	4th	2	0	2	09: 08	06th
4th	Tonga	4th	1	0	3	06:10	03
5	American Samoa	4th	0	0	4th	01:38	00

Game results

08/25/2007	Solomon Islands	-	American Samoa	12: 1 (5: 0)
08/25/2007	Vanuatu	-	Samoa	4: 0 (2: 0)
08/27/2007	Solomon Islands	-	Tonga	4: 0 (2: 0)
08/27/2007	American Samoa	-	Samoa	0: 7 (0: 3)
08/29/2007	American Samoa	-	Vanuatu	0:15 (0: 5)

08/29/2007	Samoa	-	Tonga	2: 1 (1: 0)
09/01/2007	Tonga	-	American Samoa	4: 0 (1: 0)
09/01/2007	Vanuatu	-	Solomon Islands	0: 2 (0: 0)
09/03/2007	Samoa	-	Solomon Islands	0: 3 (0: 2)
09/03/2007	Tonga	-	Vanuatu	1: 4 (0: 3)

Semifinals

09/05/2007	Solomon Islands	-	New Caledonia	2: 3 (1: 1)
09/05/2007	Fiji	-	Vanuatu	3: 0 (1: 0)

3rd place match

07.09.2007

Solomon Islands

-

Vanuatu

0: 2 (0: 1)

final

07.09.2007

New Caledonia

-

Fiji

1: 0 (0: 0)

The three winners are qualified for the second round.

Second round

The second round was also the tournament of the OFC Nations Cup , in which the three best teams of the South Pacific Games - New Caledonia, Fiji and Vanuatu - faced New Zealand .

table

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	New Zealand	6th	5	0	1	14: 05	15th
2	New Caledonia	6th	2	2	2	12:10	08th
3	Fiji	6th	2	1	3	08:11	07th
4th	Vanuatu	6th	1	1	4th	05:13	04th

Game results

10/17/2007	Lautoka	Fiji	-	New Zealand	0: 2 (0: 1)
11/17/2007	Port Vila	Vanuatu	-	New Zealand	1: 2 (1: 0)
11/17/2007	Ba	Fiji	-	New Caledonia	3: 3 (2: 0)
11/21/2007	Wellington	New Zealand	-	Vanuatu	4: 1 (3: 0)
11/21/2007	Nouméa	New Caledonia	-	Fiji	4: 0 (2: 0)
06/14/2008	Port Vila	Vanuatu	-	New Caledonia	1: 1 (0: 0)

06/21/2008	Nouméa	New Caledonia	-	Vanuatu	3: 0 (1: 0)
09/06/2008	Nouméa	New Caledonia	-	New Zealand	1: 3 (0: 1)
09/06/2008	Ba	Fiji	-	Vanuatu	2: 0 (1: 0)
09/10/2008	Auckland	New Zealand	-	New Caledonia	3: 0 (0: 0)
09/10/2008	Port Vila	Vanuatu	-	Fiji	2: 1 (0: 0)
11/19/2008	Lautoka 1	New Zealand	-	Fiji	0: 2 (0: 0)

¹ As the New Zealand government refused to issue an entry visa to the Fijian goalkeeper Simione Tamanisau , the game was played in Lautoka , Fiji.

As the winners of the second round, New Zealand played for a World Cup place against Bahrain , the winner of the play-off between the two group thirds of the fourth round of the AFC qualification.

Playoffs

After the qualifications of the continental associations were completed, play-off games took place between the following teams. The matches were played back and forth. The winners qualified for the World Cup finals.

• Fifth place in AFC qualification - OFC qualification winner

10/10/2009	Manama	Bahrain	-	New Zealand	0-0
11/14/2009	Wellington	New Zealand	-	Bahrain	1: 0  (1: 0)

• Fourth in CONCACAF qualification - Fifth in CONMEBOL qualification

11/14/2009	San Jose	Costa Rica	-	Uruguay	0: 1  (0: 1)
11/18/2009	Montevideo	Uruguay	-	Costa Rica	1: 1 (0: 0)

Goalscorer

Africa (CAF) Surname Gates 1.  Moumouni Dagano 12 2.  Samuel Eto'o 09 3.  Frédéric Kanouté 08th  Razak Omotoyossi 08th 5.  Didier Drogba 06th  Chiukepo Msowoya 06th  Dennis Oliech 06th

Asia (AFC) Surname Gates 1.  Sarayut Chaikamdee 8th  Maksim Shatskix 8th 3.  Ahmad al-Azemi 6th  Ismail Matar 6th 5.  Mohammed Ghaddar 5  Zyad Chaabo 5  Andres Quintana 5  Park Ji-sung 5

Europe (UEFA) Surname Gates 1.  Theofanis Gekas 10 2.  Edin Džeko 09  Wayne Rooney 09 4th  Miroslav Klose 07th  David Villa 07th 6th  Elyaniv Barda 06th  Marc Janko 06th  Lukas Podolski 06th  Andrij Shevchenko 06th  Stanislav Šesták 06th  Euzebiusz Smolarek 06th  Wesley Sonck 06th

North and Central America (CONCACAF) Surname Gates 1.  Rudis Corrales 8th 2.  Carlos Pavón 7th  Luton Shelton 7th 4th  Jozy Altidore 6th  Carlo Costly 6th  Ali Gerba 6th  Eliseo Quintanilla 6th  Bryan Ruiz 6th  Carlos Ruiz 6th  Álvaro Saborío 6th

Oceania (OFC) Surname Gates 1.  Osea Vakatalesau 12 2.  Seule Soromon 10 3.  Shane Smeltz 07th 4th  Roy Krishna 06th  Commins Menapi 06th  François Sakama 06th

South America (CONMEBOL) Surname Gates 1.  Humberto Suazo 10 2.  Luís Fabiano 09 3.  Joaquín Botero 08th 4th  Diego Forlan 07th  Marcelo Moreno Martins 07th 6th  Salvador Cabañas 06th  Giancarlo Maldonado 06th

Web links

• FIFA World Cup 2010 qualification website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Two African nations forego World Cup qualification
2. ↑ World Cup qualification takes place without Bhutan
3. ↑ ^{a b} FIFA statement with an explanation of the qualification process
4. ↑ Regulations FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 ( Memento of the original July 4, 2010 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 478 kB)  
5. ↑ As of November 23, 2007
6. ^ Georgia's World Cup qualifying game in Mainz
7. ↑ http://www.taz.de/1/sport/artikel/1/kleiner-fisch-am-haken/
8. ↑ Raul Meireles brings Cristiano Ronaldo to the World Cup
9. ↑ Dedič defeats the Sbornaja
10. ^ Salpingidis shoots Rehhagel at the cape
11. ↑ France can do it - but not on its own
12. ↑ Irish want to go to the World Cup
13. ↑ Ireland asks FIFA for special status as the 33rd World Cup team
14. ↑ "! Corn si on fait cela, il faudrait aussi le emmener Costa Rica qui a perdu sur un but hors-jeu contre l'Uruguay" , quoted by France Football ( Memento of the original December 3, 2009 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ Millions in compensation for missed participation in the World Cup
16. ↑ FIFA - Interesting pairings in Asia
17. ↑ FIFA excludes Kuwait
18. ^ Temporary lifting of Kuwait's suspension
19. ↑ FIFA: North and South Korea are to play in Shanghai ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20081207052922/https://www.the-afc.com/eng/articles/viewArticle.jsp_168362940.html
21. ↑ South Africa starts in the World Cup qualification ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
22. ↑ Africa starts races for FIFA World Cup places
23. ↑ Africa: 53 teams, 5 places ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
24. ↑ ^{a b c} fifa.com (July 29, 2008). Ethiopian Football Association suspended. on de.fifa.com (accessed November 15, 2009)
25. ↑ Eritrea announces withdrawal from World Cup qualification
26. ↑ Qualifiers - Oceania to start
27. ↑ OFC schedule of the South Pacific Games with explanations for further rounds (English) ( Memento from November 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
28. ↑ FIFA cancels World Cup qualifier New Zealand - Fiji ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
29. ↑ Oceania Zone - competition format (PDF; 242 kB)
30. ↑ http://de.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1060442.html