Stadiums in the World Cup 2010

Stadiums
Johannesburg
Cape Town
Durban
Nelspruit
Rustenburg
Pretoria
Polokwane
Port Elizabeth
Bloemfontein

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2010 World Cup schedule

This is a chronological list of fixtures for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. All times local (GMT+2). Group-stage kickoff times are subject to change for television or scheduling reasons.
2010 World Cup schedule Day Venue & Time .

Qualification

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.


List of qualified teams

The following 32 teams qualified for the final tournament.
AFC
Australia
Japan
Korea DPR
Korea Republic
CAF
Algeria
Cameroon
Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana
Nigeria
South Africa (hosts)
CONCACAF
Honduras
Mexico
United States

CONMEBOL
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Paraguay
Uruguay

OFC
New Zealand
UEFA
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.

2010 FIFA World Cup

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. This decision left the Oceania Football Confederation as the only confederation yet to host the FIFA World Cup. Italy are the defending champions. The draw for the finals took place on 4 December 2009 in Cape Town.