Wikinews has related news: Ireland requests replay of FIFA World Cup play-off with France In both cases FIFA considers these teams to have retained the earlier nations' records.Ĭontroversy surrounded final qualification matches played between France and the Republic of Ireland, Costa Rica and Uruguay and Egypt and Algeria in November 2009. 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. AFC (4)Ĭountry qualified for World Cup Country failed to qualify Country did not enter World Cup Country not a FIFA member The following 32 teams qualified for the final tournament. The qualification draw for the 2010 World Cup was held in Durban, South Africa, on 25 November 2007. As happened in the previous tournament, the defending champions were not given an automatic berth, and Italy had to participate in qualification. They were the first host since 1934 to participate in preliminary qualifying. Nonetheless South Africa participated in World Cup qualifiers because the CAF qualifiers also served as the qualifying tournament for the 2010 African Cup of Nations. Main article: 2010 FIFA World Cup qualificationĪs the host nation, South Africa qualified automatically for the tournament. However, FIFA officials repeatedly expressed their confidence in South Africa as host, stating that a contingency plan existed only to cover natural catastrophes, as had been in place at previous FIFA World Cups. Schmidt and, reportedly, some FIFA executives, expressed concern over the planning, organisation, and pace of South Africa's preparations. Some people, including Franz Beckenbauer, Horst R.
Libya bid was rejected: bid did not meet the list of requirements and joint bidding was not allowedĭuring 20, rumours circulated in various news sources that the 2010 World Cup could be moved to another country.Tunisia withdrew on after joint bidding was not allowed.South Africa was awarded the rights to host the tournament, defeating Morocco and Egypt. 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.Īfter one round of voting, the winning bid was announced by FIFA president Sepp Blatter at a media conference on in Zürich. Five African nations placed bids to host the 2010 World Cup:įollowing the decision of the FIFA Executive Committee not to allow co-hosted tournaments, Tunisia withdrew from the bidding process. Africa was chosen as the host for the 2010 World Cup as part of a policy to rotate the event among football confederations (which was later abandoned in October 2007).
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