FIFA World Cup-2010

Qualified teams & Venues of FIFA-2010

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FIFA World Cup qualification-2010

As the host nation, South Africa qualifies automatically for the tournament. However, South Africa did participate in World Cup qualifiers because the CAF qualifiers also serve as the qualifying tournament for the 2010 African Cup of Nations. They were the first host since 1934 to participate in preliminary qualifying. As happened in the previous tournament, the defending champions were not given an automatic berth, and Italy had to participate in qualification.

The qualification draw for the 2010 World Cup was held in Durban, South Africa, on 25 November 2007.

List of qualified teams

The following 32 teams qualified for the final tournament.

Qualified countries

AFC (4)

Australia
Japan
Korea DPR
Korea Republic

CAF (5+1)

Algeria
Cameroon
Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana
Nigeria
South Africa (hosts)

CONCACAF (3)

Honduras
Mexico
United States

CONMEBOL (5)

Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Paraguay
Uruguay

OFC (1)

New Zealand

UEFA (13)

Denmark
England
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Netherlands
Portugal
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Switzerland

This is the first World Cup with no debutant associations, although two of the qualifiers (Slovakia and Serbia) have previously appeared only as parts of former competing nations. In both cases FIFA considers these teams to have retained the earlier nations' records.
Based on the October 2009 rankings used for the main draw, South Africa at 86 were the lowest ranked team in the tournament.

Venues

In 2005, the organisers released a provisional list of thirteen venues to be used for the World Cup: Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg (two venues), Kimberley, Nelspruit, Orkney, Polokwane/Pietersburg, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria (two venues), and Rustenburg. This was narrowed down to ten venues which were officially announced by FIFA on 17 March 2006:

Johannesburg	Durban
Soccer City	Moses Mabhida Stadium
Capacity: 94,900	Capacity: 70,000

		Cape Town	Johannesburg
		Cape Town Stadium	Ellis Park Stadium
		Capacity: 69,070	Capacity: 62,567

				Pretoria
				Loftus Versfeld Stadium
				Capacity: 51,760

Port Elizabeth	Bloemfontein
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium	Free State Stadium
Capacity: 48,000	Capacity: 48,000

		Polokwane	Nelspruit
		Peter Mokaba Stadium	Mbombela Stadium
		Capacity: 46,000	Capacity: 43,500

				Rustenburg
				Royal Bafokeng Stadium
				Capacity: 42,000

Map of the stadiums

2010 FIFA World Cup Logo & Mascct

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The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the culmination of a qualification process that began in August 2007 and involved 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams. As such, it matches the 2008 Summer Olympics as the sports event with the most competing nations.

This will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation, after South Africa beat Morocco and Egypt in an all-African bidding process. Italy are the defending champions. The draw for the finals took place on 4 December 2009 in Cape Town.

Tournament details

Host country South Africa

Dates 11 June – 11 July

Teams 32 (from 6 confederations)

Venue(s) 10 (in 9 host cities)

This is 2010 FIFA World Cup official logo

Mascot:

The official mascot for the 2010 FIFA World Cup is Zakumi (born 16 June 1994 (age 15)), an anthropomorphised leopard with green hair. His name comes from "ZA", the international abbreviation for South Africa, and "kumi", a word that means "ten" in various African languages. The mascot's colours reflect those of the host nation's playing strip – yellow and green.

Zakumi, the mascot of the

2010 FIFA World Cup

Zakumi's birthdate coincides with a day known and celebrated as Youth Day in South Africa and their second group match. The year 1994 marks the first non-racial nationwide elections in South Africa. He will turn 16 in 2010.
The Zakumi's official motto is: "Zakumi's game is Fair Play." The motto was seen in the digital advertisement boards during the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, and it will also appear in next year's FIFA World Cup.

Match ball (Jabulani, the official match ball of the 2010 FIFA World Cup)

The match ball for the 2010 FIFA World Cup will be named the "Jabulani", made by Adidas, which means "bringing joy to everyone" in isiZulu. The number eleven plays a prominent role in the the new technologically advanced ball: it is the eleventh World Cup match ball made by the German sports equipment maker; it features eleven colours, one for each player on the pitch; and there are eleven official languages of South Africa. Also, the event will start on the eleventh day of June and end on the eleventh day of July.

South Africa is the host country,but how?

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Africa was chosen as the host for the 2010 World Cup as part of a new policy to rotate the event between football confederations (which was later abandoned in October 2007). Five African nations placed bids to host the 2010 World Cup:

Egypt
Libya / Tunisia (co-hosting)
Morocco
South Africa

Following the decision of the FIFA Executive Committee not to allow co-hosted tournaments, Tunisia withdrew from the bidding process. The committee also decided not to consider Libya's solo bid as it no longer met all the stipulations laid down in the official List of Requirements.
After one round of voting, the winning bid was announced by FIFA president Sepp Blatter at a media conference on 15 May 2004 in Zürich. South Africa was awarded the rights to host the tournament, defeating Morocco and Egypt.

Voting Results
Country	Votes
South Africa	14
Morocco	10
Egypt	0

Tunisia withdrew on 8 May 2004 after joint bidding was not allowed.

Libya bid was rejected: bid did not meet the list of requirements and joint bidding was not allowed.