World Cup-2010

2010 FIFA World Cup
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2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010

2010 FIFA World Cup official logo
Tournament details
Host country South Africa
Dates 11 June – 11 July
Teams 32 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s) 10 (in 9 host cities)

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 will take place on 4 December 2009 in Cape Town.

List of qualified teams

The following 32 teams qualified for the final tournament:
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

Venues

In 2005, the organisers released a provisional list of thirteen venues to be used for the World Cup: Mangaung/Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg (two venues), Kimberley, Nelspruit, Orkney, Polokwane, Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth, Tshwane/Pretoria (two venues), and Rustenburg. This was narrowed down to ten venues[3] which were officially announced by FIFA on 17 March 2006:
Johannesburg Durban Cape Town Johannesburg Pretoria
Soccer City Moses Mabhida Stadium Cape Town Stadium Ellis Park Stadium Loftus Versfeld Stadium
Capacity: 94,700 Capacity: 70,000 Capacity: 69,070 Capacity: 62,567 Capacity: 51,760
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Port Elizabeth Bloemfontein Polokwane Nelspruit Rustenburg
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Free State Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium Mbombela Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium
Capacity: 48,000 Capacity: 48,070 Capacity: 46,000 Capacity: 44,000 Capacity: 42,000
NelsonMandelaBayStadium-001.JPG South Africa-Bloemfontein-Free State Stadium01.jpg