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This page provides information on the Preliminary qualifying rounds for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Once a team qualifies for the World Cup, the team will be listed in the 2010 World Cup Final 32 Teams page.

Continent

Africa

Round 3 where 20 teams competed in 5 groups for a place in the finals. The 5 Group winners qualified.
The 20 teams are:
Gabon, Togo, Morocco, Cameroon, Tunisia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Zambia, Algeria, Rwanda, Ghana, Mali, Sudan, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Malawi

Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Nigeria and Algeria have won their groups

Asia

Australia, Japan and Korea Republic and Korea DPR have qualified
Bahrain won the playoff against Saudi Arabia but lost to New Zealand for a place in the finals

Europe

53 teams competed in Round 1 in 9 groups. 8 Groups have 6 teams and the 9th group has 5 teams. The 9 Group winners qualify for the 2010 World Cup. The 8 best Group runners-up competed in the second round where they were split into pairs with the 4 winners qualifying.
The 53 teams are:
Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, FYR Macedonia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Wales

The Netherlands, Italy, Serbia, England, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Slovakia, Portugal, France, Greece and Slovenia have qualified
 

North, Central America and the Caribbean

Round 4 where 6 teams competed in 1 group. The top 3 automatically qualify for the 2010 World Cup while the 4th placed team played the 5th placed team from South America for a place in the finals.
The 6 teams are:
USA, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago

The USA, Mexico and Honduras qualified. Costa Rica was 4th but lost to Uruguay in the playoff

Oceania

New Zealand have won the Oceania group and beat Bahrain to qualify for a place in the 2010 World Cup finals.

South America

10 teams competed in 1 group to qualify for the 2010 World Cup. The top 4 teams qualify while the 5th placed team plays against the 4th placed team from the North, Central America and the Caribbean group for a place in the finals.
The 10 teams are:
Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru

Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Argentina have qualified. Uruguay also qualified and beating Costa Rica in the playoff

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