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Fifa 2010 World Cup Venues

October 15th, 2009
posted by SportsRoti 6:27 pm

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Johannesburg Durban/Ethekwini Cape Town
Soccer City Moses Mabhida Stadium Green Point Stadium
Capacity: 94,700 Capacity: 70,000 Capacity: 69,070
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Port Elizabeth Mangaung Polokwane
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Free State Stadium Peter Mokaba Stadium
Capacity: 48,000 Capacity: 48,070 Capacity: 46,000
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Johannesburg Tshwane
Coca-Cola Park Loftus Versfeld Stadium
Capacity: 62,567 Capacity: 51,760
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Nelspruit Rustenburg
Mbombela Stadium Royal Bafokeng Stadium
Capacity: 44,000 Capacity: 42,000
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FIFA World Rankings

October 15th, 2009
posted by SportsRoti 5:06 pm

The FIFA World Rankings is a ranking system for men’s national teams in Association football, currently led by Brazil. The teams of the member nations of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), football’s world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest. A point system is used, with points being awarded based on the results of FIFA-recognised international matches. Under the existing system, rankings are based on a team’s performance over the last four years, with more recent results and more significant matches being more heavily weighted to help reflect the current competitive state of a team. The ranking system was most recently revamped after the 2006 World Cup, with the first edition of the new series of rankings issued on 12 July 2006. The most significant change is that the rankings are now based on results over the previous four years instead of the previous eight years. The change is perceived to respond to criticisms that the rankings do not effectively reflect the relative strengths of the national teams. (See section Criticism).

Alternative systems have been devised, such as the World Football Elo Ratings, based on the Elo rating system used in chess and Go, ranking teams on an all time basis. The UFWC (Unofficial Football World Championships) ranks teams on the number of times they have defended the Unofficial Football World Championship, an award devised solely for that purpose.

Top 25 Rankings as of September 2009
Rank Team Points Confederation
1 Brazil 1604 CONMEBOL
2 Spain 1588 UEFA
3 Netherlands 1376 UEFA
4 Germany 1186 UEFA
4 Italy 1186 UEFA
6 Russia 1129 UEFA
7 England 1127 UEFA
8 Argentina 1113 CONMEBOL
9 Croatia 1101 UEFA
10 France 1040 UEFA
11 United States 974 CONCACAF
12 Greece 971 UEFA
13 Serbia 916 UEFA
14 Australia 907 AFC
15 Switzerland 898 UEFA
16 Denmark 892 UEFA
17 Portugal 880 UEFA
18 Czech Republic 870 UEFA
19 Bulgaria 860 UEFA
20 Côte d’Ivoire 852 CAF
21 Chile 846 CONMEBOL
22 Israel 844 UEFA
23 Paraguay 842 CONMEBOL
24 Mexico 835 CONCACAF
25 Ukraine 829 UEFA

FIFA Qualification Procedure

October 15th, 2009
posted by SportsRoti 11:47 am

32 teams were decided to play in the FIFA World Cup 2006. The host, Germany got a guaranteed place, as per the rule. The automatic place of Brazil was scraped and it competed through the qualifying process. The procedure for qualifying is given below according to the zones:

Europe
It has 14 slots, including Germany. 51 teams competed for the 13 slots from 8 groups. The winners of eight group and two best runner-up teams qualified. The other six second-place teams played with each other over two-legged play-offs to complete the final three berths.

South America
The 10 teams played with each other, home and away, and the top 4 teams qualified. The fifth place team played two-leg home and away play-off against the top team from the Oceania group. The winner of it qualified.

Africa
30 nations were drawn into 5 groups of 6 teams. The teams played each other home and away. The winners of five group qualified.

Asia
32 nations were drawn into 8 groups of 4 teams. The winners moved on to the Final Stage. The 8 teams in it were divided in two groups. The top 2 teams qualified. The two third place teams met in a home and away play-off to decide. The winner faced the fourth-place team from the North America, Central America and the Caribbean Zone in a two-leg play-off. The winner qualified.

North America, Central America and the Caribbean
12 teams had advanced from the first round of matches. These 12 entered the 2nd stage with 3 groups of 4 teams. The top 2 teams from each group reached the final stage of a final round of 6 teams. It was played as 1 group and the top 3 teams qualified. The 4th place team faced the 5th place of Asian team in a two-leg play-off. The winner qualified.

Oceania
The winner of the group undergone a play-off over two legs against the 5th placed team from South America. The winner qualified.

FIFA 2010 World Cup

October 15th, 2009
posted by SportsRoti 3:26 am

2010 FIFA World Cup logo.svg

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, and secured qualification for the final tournament on 10 October 2009. The draw for the finals will take place on 4 December 2009 in Cape Town.