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The dates for the 2010 Football World Cup have been set for 11 June to 11 July, and the allocation of places will be the same as for 2006, meaning that with South Africa granted an automatic berth as the host country - Africa will have one extra team at the tournament.

In a statement issued on Wednesday following a two-day meeting in Zurich, Fifa's executive committee said that 32 teams would contest the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Thirteen of these will be from Europe, five from Asia and Oceania, eight from South America and the Concacaf region (North and Central America and the Caribbean), and five from Africa, plus the automatic spot granted to South Africa.

This effectively gives Africa six teams at 2010 - and Europe one less than in 2006.

Of the eight places for South America and the Concacaf region, four are guaranteed to South American countries and three to Concacaf countries. The eighth spot will be decided by a play-off between the fifth-placed South American country in the 2010 qualifiers and the fourth-placed Concacaf country.A similar play-off between the Oceania

champion and Asia's fifth-best team will decide who takes the fifth berth for Asia and Oceania.Fifa said the preliminary draw for 2010 would be held in Durban on 23 November 2007, and that the Fifa Confederations Cup South Africa 2009 would take place in the five venues of Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg (Ellis Park), Pretoria and Rustenburg from 14 to 27 June.

The Fifa Confederations Cup is contested by the winners of each of the six Fifa confederation championships - ie the reigning African, Asian, European, Oceanian, South American and Concacaf champions - along with the Fifa World Cup champion and the host country, to bring the number of teams up to eight.

Fifa said it had "listened with satisfaction" to a report on the status of South Africa's preparations for 2010, and "underlined its support for the local organising committee.

"However, the executive committee stated that it was now expecting work to begin, particularly on constructing and renovating the stadiums."Plans for the construction of four stadiums and upgrading of six others in South Africa's nine 2010 host cities has been completed, and their funding secured, and construction work is due to begin early in 2007.

Fifa World Cup 2010

Group 1In this group Portugal will battle with Scandinavia’s Sweden and Denmark for a place at the World Cup 2010. This will be a hard battle, while only the first team will get the tickets. Denmark have the chance to revenge themselves over their neighbor after the defeat in the Euro 2008 Qualifiers.

Group 2Greece seems to have a simple task in this group. Main rivals will be Israel and Switzerland.

Group 3The Czech Republic will start as a favorite in this third group of the World Cup 2010 Qualifiers. Poland will look to upset them and Northern Ireland might want to profit from the battle above.
Group 4Germany have as always an easy task when it comes to a group stage competition. Their only rivals in group 4 are Russia but the Germans are considered big favourites.

Group 5Spain and Turkey will clash for winning this group of the Road to South Africa 2010. The Spanish side look to have an edge before the start of the Qualifers.

Group 6A draw expected by all the United Kingdom. England was given the chance to revenge themselves over Croatia in this World Cup 2010 Qualifiers. Third favorites are Ukraine.

Group 7France and Romania have to fight for a qualifying spot in the Group 7. France are favourites but Romania could create an upset. The Romanians have won their Euro 2008 Qualifiers group against Netherlands. Serbia are starting the Qualifiers with the third chance.
Group 8Italy have an easy task at the first look of the Group 8. Bulgaria and Ireland will try to upset them.

Group 9Netherlands, Scotland and Norway will battle for the reign of this group. This is the only group that contains five teams, the others have six.
FIFA World Cup 2010 Preliminary - RulesThe first placed teams in each Group qualify for the World Cup 2010. Europe have 13 places awarded for the World Cup 2010 from a total of 32 teams that will start the final tournament in South Africa. Back to Europe now. Having 9 groups leaves 4 additional places left along with each group winners. The rest of the places are awarded for the four best placed runners-up from all 9 groups.