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Z_Ho · 發表於 2007-8-21 21:06:11

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/6956539.stm

SA to play in World Cup qualifiers

South Africa will become the first World Cup hosts in more than 70 years to participate in the qualifying competition.

However, Bafana Bafana will play in the finals regardless of their performance in the qualifiers.

The African qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup are to be combined with the preliminaries for the 2010 African Nations Cup finals.

This will necessitate the participation of South Africa, the Confederation of African Football (Caf) announced on Tuesday.

While all the other African nations involved in the qualifiers will be vying for spots in both tournaments, South Africa will only be chasing a berth in the Nations Cup finals to held in Angola.

Similarly, Angola will be only trying to qualify for a World Cup place.

For the first time, Africa has a full quota of 53 entries for the 2010 preliminaries, which will be divided into three stages.

The bottom 10 African teams in the Fifa rankings have been drawn into five preliminary round ties, which are to be played over two legs in October and November.

Fifa says the draw has been conducted and is expected to be announced in the next days.

The five winners will join 43 other countries in the first group phase, where the teams will be divided into 12 groups of four teams each at the World Cup draw in Durban on 25 November.

They will play six rounds of matches through 2008 with the 12 group winners plus eight best runners-up progressing to the last league stage.

The 20 remaining teams are to be divided into a final stage of five groups of four, with the resultant group winners going onto the World Cup in South Africa and the top three in each group qualifying for the 2010 Nations Cup finals in Angola.

Should South Africa finish top of their group, the runner-up would qualify for the 2010 World Cup.

Caf also used the 2006 World Cup qualifiers to determine the 16 Nations Cup finalists in Egypt the same year.

Africa are to have six teams at the World Cup finals for the first time.

The only previous World Cup host forced to play a preliminary tie was Italy in 1934.

They played a single match against Greece just months before the finals, winning 4-0 in Milan before the Greeks withdrew from the return match.

Z_Ho · 發表於 2007-8-22 15:38:10

FIFA World Cup qualifiers get underway in Africa
(FIFA.com) Friday 24 August 2007

Qualifiers for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ will soon be getting underway on the host continent. In October, Africa will be staging their first knockout matches - the first step on the road to South Africa 2010. Since the host nation have qualified automatically, there will be 52 countries taking part in three qualifying rounds, all of them hoping to secure one of five spots up for grabs.

The first round will see the ten African teams who were lowest in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking in July 2007 take part in home-and-away matches. The first legs will be played on 13 October 2007, with the returns on 17 November 2007.

The fixtures:
Seychelles - Djibouti
Sierra Leone - Guinea-Bissau
Central African Republic - Sao Tome e Principe
Somalia - Swaziland
Madagascar - Comoros

The five winners will then qualify for the second round, along with the remaining 43 member associations, including South Africa who, although already qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, will also take part in the group stages since these are also serve as a qualifying tournament for the CAF Africa Cup of Nations. Should they progress to the third stage, South Africa will play in the relevant group and any points won will count towards the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers but not those for the FIFA World Cup™.

The 48 countries will be drawn in 12 groups of four, and they will play a mini-championship with home and away games against the other three teams. The group winners and the eight best second-placed teams will qualify for the third round. These 20 teams will then play in five groups of four, again in a mini-league format with home and away games. The five group winners will then qualify for South Africa 2010.

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