FIFA World Cup 2010 Qualifying Groups Draw

The draw for the main 2010 World Cup qualifying groups will be held in Durban, South Africa on November 23, 2007. As the host nation, South Africa qualifies automatically


For a comprehensive line-up of all the festivities in Cape Town, be sure to read our event overview on the 2010 Soccer World Cup Final Draw Cape Town.


The first step for countries to qualify for the FIFA Soccer World Cup in 2010 is the World Cup Qualification Draw. (view Results 2010 draw & Qualification Groups )

Durban, South Africa, is to host the qualifying draw for the 2010 Soccer World Cup Groups. On November 27th 2007 163 teams world wide begin the qualification process to identify the 32 teams that will finally compete the 2010 World Cup Final 2010 to be held in South Africa.

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The FIFA 2010 qualifying draw will be made on a region by region basis, with each confederation allocated a number of qualifiers. Each confederation will engage in a number of preliminary pre-qualifying matches in order to select the teams that will represent them at the at the 2010 World Cup.

Europe (UEFA) will see 53 teams competing for the 13 available places for the World Cup in South Africa. Conmebol (South America will have 4 or 5 qualifying places for 2010 from their 10 teams.

North, Central America and the Caribbean (
CONCACAF) will see which of their member 35 teams play in order to battle it out to be one of the 3 or 4 teams that will eventually go into the Word Cup Final Draw.

Asia's (AFC) 42 members will see
who they have to play in order to win one of their available 4 or 5 places for the 2010 World Cup Final. CAF (Africa ) will see 53 teams competing with each other to win one of 6 World Cup Berths.

And lastly Oceania (OFC) members will know what 11 teams compete against each for the possible one place at the World Cup in 2010.

The World Cup 2010 Qualifying Draw event is the first step in a three year process that will whittle down 163 Fifa member states to the eventual 32 countries that will meet at the World Cup final in South Africa 2010. So make a note of 23 November 2007 to see who your country is playing in the long road ahead to make it to 2010. (subscribe to our free update)

Get the latest news on the draw, as well as the final results of the Qualifying Draw for 2010 in our newsletter, as we will be posting the full draw as well as many other fascinating world cup snippets right there.

The list of the countries qualified for the Soccer World Cup in 2010 has a first country on it already; South Africa. As the organising country South Africa's National Soccer Team, Bafana Bafana, automatically qualifies for the 2010 World Cup and is group leader in Group A in FIFA 2010

On 4 December 2009 the final draw will take place in Cape Town and finally the final match schedule will be known for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Find all preliminary information on the 2010 Match Schedule.

Interested in finding out more about the final draw? Find all information on Cape Town hosting the FIFA 2010 Final Draw.

Eventually: FIFA 2010
Eight groups of six football teams and one group of five will contest the European qualifying competition for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The nine group-winners will qualify directly, while the highest ranked eight of the nine second-placed teams will contest home and away play-off matches for the remaining four places.
In determining the rank of second-placed teams, only results against those finishing 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th will be counted.

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IMPORTANT WORLD CUP 2010 DATES:
FIFA Confederations Cup South Africa 2009
Final Draw 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
FIFA 2010 Soccer World Cup South Africa
Opening Match FIFA 2010
Final FIFA 2010 World Cup

 

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