2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

April 2020 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) 20 August 2008 – 18 November 2009 53 1 GRE Theofanis Gekas(10 goals) 2006 2014 FIFA The European zone of qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup saw 53 teams competing for 13 places at the finals in South Africa. The qualification process started on 20 August 2008, nearly two months after the end of UEFA Euro 2008, and ended on 18 November 2009. The qualification process saw the first competitive matches of Montenegro. Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, and Switzerland qualified in the first round by winning their groups. France, Greece, Portugal, and Slovenia qualified via the second round play-offs. Format Teams were drawn into eight groups of six teams and one group of five teams. The nine group winners qualified directly, while the best eight second-placed teams contested home and away play off matches for the remaining four places. In determining the best eight second placed teams, the results against teams finishing last in the six team groups were not counted for consistency between the five and six team groups.EXCO unveils World Cup programme http://www.uefa.com/uefa/keytopics/kind=64/newsid=554858.html UEFA Union of European Football Associations Geneva 25 June 2007 21 June 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090316095411/http://www.uefa.com/uefa/keytopics/kind%3D64/newsid%3D554858.html 16 March 2009 Seeding After initially proposing to use a similar system to recent World Cup and European Championship qualification (based on results across the previous two European qualification cycles), the UEFA Executive Committee decided on 27 September 2007 at its meeting in Istanbul that seeding for the qualifiers would be based on FIFA World Rankings, in accordance with the FIFA World Cup regulations (which note that where teams are ranked on "performance" criteria, the FIFA World Rankings must be used).http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/news/kind=1/newsid=594082.html All clear for December EURO draw UEFA Union of European Football Associations Geneva 27 September 2007 21 June 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20080203152146/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/news/kind%3D1/newsid%3D594082.html 3 February 2008 dead The November 2007 FIFA World Ranking the most recent at the time of the preliminary draw and used to determine the groups. Initially scheduled for 21 November, FIFA moved the release date of the ranking to 23 November to include the final match days of Euro 2008 qualification.Next FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking on Friday 23 November 2007 https://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/releases/newsid=636252.html https://web.archive.org/web/20071113001438/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/releases/newsid=636252.html dead 13 November 2007 FIFA.com Fédération Internationale de Football Association Zurich 12 November 2007 21 June 2009 + Pot A Team Rank Position in the November 2007 FIFA World Ranking ITA 3 ESP 4 GER 5 CZE 6 FRA 1974 7 POR 8 NED 9 CRO 10 GRE 11+ Pot B Team Rank Position in the November 2007 FIFA World Ranking ENG 12 ROU 13 SCO 14 TUR 16 BUL 18 RUS 22 POL 23 SWE 24 ISR 26+ Pot C Team Rank Position in the November 2007 FIFA World Ranking NOR 28 UKR 29 SRB 2004 30 DEN 31 NIR 32 IRL 35 FIN 36 SUI 44 BEL 49+ Pot D Team Rank Position in the November 2007 FIFA World Ranking SVK 50 BIH 51 HUN 52 MLD 1990 53 WAL 58 MKD Macedonia 59 BLR 1995 60 LTU 61 CYP 65+ Pot E Team Rank Position in the November 2007 FIFA World Ranking GEO 77 ALB 82 SVN 83 LVA 88 ISL 89 ARM 90 AUT 91 KAZ 110 LIE 122+ Pot F Team Rank Position in the November 2007 FIFA World Ranking AZE 125 EST 128 MLT 139 LUX 152 MNE 172 AND 174 FRO 195 SMR 1862 197 Draw The draw for the group stage took place in Durban, South Africa on 25 November 2007.Preliminary draw for the 2010 World Cup https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminarydraw/index.html FIFA.com Fédération Internationale de Football Association Zurich 21 June 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080609044247/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminarydraw/index.html 9 June 2008 dmy During the draw, teams were drawn from the six pots A to F (see above) into the nine groups below, starting with pot F, which filled position 6 in the groups, then continued with pot E filling position 5, pot D in position 4 and so on.Preliminary Draw Information https://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/preldraw/2010%5ffwc%5fpreliminary%5fdraw%5finformation%5feurope%5fe%5f28419.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20080911121125/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/preldraw/2010%5ffwc%5fpreliminary%5fdraw%5finformation%5feurope%5fe%5f28419.pdf dead 11 September 2008 PDF FIFA.com Fédération Internationale de Football Association Zurich 22 November 2007 21 June 2009 Summary Table – top row: group winners, second row: group runners-up, third row: others. The winner of each group qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup together with the winners of the play-off. The play-offs took place between the eight best runners-up among all nine groups while the worst group runner-up did not qualify. #ccffcc Group winners qualified directly for the 2010 FIFA World Cup #BBF3FF Eight best runners-up advanced to the second round (play-offs) #ffcccc Worst runner-up and all other teams were eliminated after the first round Group 1Group 2Group 3Group 4Group 5Group 6Group 7Group 8Group 9DENSUISVKGERESPENGSRB 2004ITANEDPORGRESVNRUSBIHUKRFRA 1974IRLNORSWEHUNALBMLTLATISRLUXMDA 1990CZENIRPOLSMR 1862FINWALAZELIETURBELESTARMCROBLR 1995KAZANDAUTLTUROUFROBULCYPMNEGEOSCOMKD MacedoniaISL First round Group 1 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1 Group 2 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 2 Group 3 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 3 Group 4 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4 Group 5 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 5 Group 6 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 6 Group 7 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 7 Group 8 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 8 Group 9 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 9 Ranking of second placed teams Because Group 9 had one team fewer than the others, matches against the sixth placed team in each group were not included in this ranking, although this ultimately did not change who advanced to the playoffs. As a result, eight matches played by each team counted for the purposes of the second placed table. Qualification Second round 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA second round The UEFA second round (often referred to as the play off stage) was contested by the best eight runners up from the nine first round groups. The winners of each of four home and away ties joined the group winners in the World Cup finals in South Africa. Norway, with 10 points, was ranked 9th so failed to qualify for the second round. Seeding and draw The eight teams were seeded according to the FIFA World Rankings released on 16 October (shown in parentheses in the table below). The draw for the ties was held in Zürich on 19 October, with the top four teams seeded into one pot and the bottom four teams seeded into a second. A separate draw decided the host of the first leg.Key Decisions Reached in Rio https://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/federation/bodies/media/newsid=1109930.html FIFA.com Fédération Internationale de Football Association Rio de Janeiro 29 September 2009 29 September 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20091003015843/http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/federation/bodies/media/newsid%3D1109930.html 3 October 2009 dead + Pot 1 (seeded) Team Pos Position in the October 2009 FIFA World Rankings FRA 1974 9 POR 10 RUS 12 GRE 16 + Pot 2 (unseeded) Team Pos Position in the October 2009 FIFA World Rankings UKR 22 IRL 34 BIH 42 SVN 49 Matches IRL 1–2 FRA 1974 0–1 1–1 (aet) POR 2–0 BIH 1–0 1–0 GRE 1–0 UKR 0–0 1–0 RUS 2–2 (a) SVN 2–1 0–1 |} Qualified teams The following 13 teams from UEFA qualified for the final tournament. Team Qualified as Qualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA World Cup1 DEN 1 Group 1 winners 10 October 2009 3 (1986, 1998, 2002) SUI 2 Group 2 winners 14 October 2009 8 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1962, 1966, 1994, 2006) SVK 3 Group 3 winners 14 October 2009 0 (debut) GER 4 Group 4 winners 10 October 2009 1 16 (1934, 1938, 19542, 19582, 19622, 19662, 19702, 19742, 19782, 19822, 19862, 19902, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006) ESP 5 Group 5 winners 9 September 2009 12 (1934, 1950, 1962, 1966, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006) ENG 6 Group 6 winners 9 September 2009 2 12 (1950, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1998, 2002, 2006) SRB 2004 7 Group 7 winners 10 October 2009 2 10 (19303, 19503, 19543, 19583, 19623, 19743, 19823, 19903, 19983, 20063) ITA 8 Group 8 winners 10 October 2009 16 (1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006) NED 9 Group 9 winners 6 June 2009 8 (1934, 1938, 1974, 1978, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2006) GRE PO1 Second round (play-off) winners 18 November 2009 1 1 (1994) SVN PO2 Second round (play-off) winners 18 November 2009 2 1 (2002) POR PO3 Second round (play-off) winners 18 November 2009 1 4 (1966, 1986, 2002, 2006) FRA 1974 PO4 Second round (play-off) winners 18 November 2009 2 12 (1930, 1934, 1938, 1954, 1958, 1966, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1998, 2002, 2006) 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year. 2 Competed as West Germany. A separate team for East Germany also participated in qualifications during this time, having only competed in 1974. 3 From 1930 to 1998, Serbia competed together with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Slovenia as part of Yugoslavia, while in 2006 as Serbia and Montenegro together with Montenegro. 4 From 1934 to 1990, Slovakia competed as Czechoslovakia. Top goalscorers 725 268 GRE Theofanis Gekas BIH Edin Džeko ENG Wayne Rooney GER Miroslav Klose ESP David Villa AUT Marc Janko BEL Wesley Sonck GER Lukas Podolski IRL Robbie Keane ISR Elyaniv Barda POL Ebi Smolarek SVK Stanislav Šesták UKR Andriy Shevchenko Below are full goalscorer lists for all groups and the play-off rounds: 22em Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Group 9 Play-offs References External links European Zone at FIFA.com UEFA Qualifier results with full game box scores at Scoreshelf.com UEFA 2010 Category:2008 in European men's international football Category:2009 in European men's international football