See who's in and who missed out on a chance to play in South Africa.
| The World Cup is a tournament unlike any other, so it is no surprise that the qualification process takes two years and occurs on nearly every continent in the world. With the long process beginning in November 2008, a true collection of the world's 32 best soccer nations will emerge for the 19th World Cup in South Africa in June and July of 2010. | |||||
| CONCACAF North America | CONMABOL South America | UEFA Europe | CAF Africa | AFC Asia and Australia | OCEANIA South Pacific |
| Teams = 35 WC bids = 3.5* Rounds = 4 | Teams = 10 WC bids = 4.5* Rounds = 1 | Teams = 53 WC bids = 13 Rounds = 2 | Teams = 53 WC bids = 5 +1** Rounds = 3 | Teams = 43 WC bids = 4.5*** Rounds = 5 | Teams = 10 WC bids = 0.5*** Rounds = 2 |
| Round 1 ... Results Advanced to Round 2: Barbados St. Lucia Bermuda Cuba Mexico Bahamas Puerto Rico Costa Rica Suriname El Salvador Netherlands Antilles Round 2 ... Results Advanced to Round 3: United States Guatemala Trinidad & Tobago Cuba Mexico Jamaica Honduras Canada Costa Rica Suriname El Salvador Hati Round 3 ... Results Advanced to Round 4: United States Trinidad & Tobago Honduras Mexico Costa Rica El Salvador Round 4 ... Results The top three teams from Round 4 automatically qualified for the the 2010 World Cup. Round 5* Results Uruguay beat Costa Rica in a two-game playoff for the final 2010 World Cup bid. Qualified teams: United States Mexico Honduras | Round 1 ... Results Round 1 was a one-group pool play that began in Fall 2008 and finished in Fall 2009. Teams: Paraguay Brazil Chile Argentina Uruguay Columbia Ecuador Venezuela The top four teams from Round 1 automatically qualified for the 2010 World Cup. Qualified teams: Brazil Paraguay Chile Argentina Uruguay | Round 1 ... Results Round 1 was a nine-group pool play that began in Fall 2008 and finished in Fall 2009. The nine group winners from Round 1 automatically qualified for the the 2010 World Cup. The best eight group runners-up advanced to Round 2 and were paired into four home-and-away series. Advanced to Round 2: Russia Slovenia Greece Ukraine Portugal Bosnia Ireland France Round 2 ... Results The top four teams from Round 2 qualified for the 2010 World Cup. Qualified teams: Netherlands England Spain Germany Italy Denmark Serbia Switzerland Slovakia Greece Portugal Slovenia France | Round 1 ... Results Advanced to Round 2: Madagascar Sierra Leone Djibouti Round 2 ... Results Advanced to Round 3: Cameroon Guinea Kenya Benin Nigeria Ghana Gabon Algeria Cote d'Ivoire Mozambique Morocco Rwanda Burkina Faso Tunisia Mali Sudan Zambia Togo Egypt Malawi Round 3 ... Results The top five teams from Round 3 automatically qualified for the 2010 World Cup. Qualified teams: Ghana Cote d'Ivoire Nigeria Cameroon Algeria | Round 1 ... Results Advanced to Round 2: Tajikistan Thailand United Arab Emirates Syria Singapore Lebanon Oman Yemen Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Jordan Korea DPR Hong Kong Qatar Bahrain China Iraq Round 2 ... Results Advanced to Round 3: Thailand Singapore Syria Turkmenistan Round 3 ... Results Advanced to Round 4: Australia Qatar Japan Bahrain Korea Korea DPR Saudi Arabia Uzbekistan Iran United Arab Emirates Round 4 ... Results The top four teams in Round 4 automatically qualified for the 2010 World Cup. Round 5*** Results Bahrain defeated Saudi Arabia Qualified teams: Australia Japan South Korea North Korea | Round 1 ... Results Group A: Fiji New Caledonia Tahiti Cook Islands Tuvalu Group B: Solomon Is. Vanuatu Samoa Tonga American Samoa Advanced to Round 2: New Zealand New Caledonia Fiji Vantatu New Zealand won the Oceania Region, then beat Bahrain, the fifth-place team from ACF, in a two-game playoff for a 2010 World Cup bid. Qualified teams: New Zealand |
** CAF gets five bids for the World Cup, plus an automatic bid for host country South Africa.
*** The winner of stage 5 (5th place) played the winner of the Oceania Region in the inter-confederation play-off for the remaining World Cup qualifying bid.
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