2010 FIFA World Cup/import

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.

List of qualified teams
The following 32 teams qualified for the final tournament.


 * AFC (4)
 * 🇦🇺 australia
 * 🇯🇵 japan
 * 🇰🇵 north korea
 * 🇰🇷 south korea
 * CAF (5+1)
 * 🇨🇲 cameroon
 * 🇨🇮 côte d'ivoire
 * 🇬🇭 ghana
 * 🇳🇬 nigeria
 * (hosts)
 * CONCACAF (3)
 * 🇲🇽 mexico
 * 🇺🇸 united states
 * CONMEBOL (5)
 * 🇦🇷 argentina
 * 🇧🇷 brazil
 * OFC (1)
 * 🇳🇿 new zealand
 * UEFA (13)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england
 * 🇫🇷 france
 * 🇩🇪 germany
 * 🇮🇹 italy
 * 🇷🇸 serbia
 * 🇸🇰 slovakia
 * 🇸🇮 slovenia
 * 🇪🇸 spain
 * 🇩🇪 germany
 * 🇮🇹 italy
 * 🇷🇸 serbia
 * 🇸🇰 slovakia
 * 🇸🇮 slovenia
 * 🇪🇸 spain
 * 🇸🇰 slovakia
 * 🇸🇮 slovenia
 * 🇪🇸 spain

Referees

 * AFC
 * Khalil Al Ghamdi
 * 🇺🇿 Ravshan Irmatov
 * Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh
 * 🇯🇵 Yuichi Nishimura


 * CAF
 * Mohamed Benouza
 * 🇲🇱 Koman Coulibaly
 * Jerome Damon
 * Eddy Maillet


 * CONCACAF
 * 🇸🇻 Joel Aguilar
 * 🇲🇽 Benito Archundia
 * Carlos Batres
 * 🇲🇽 Marco Antonio Rodríguez


 * CONMEBOL
 * Carlos Amarilla
 * 🇦🇷 Hector Baldassi
 * Jorge Larrionda
 * Pablo Pozo
 * 🇨🇴 Oscar Ruiz
 * 🇧🇷 Carlos Simon


 * OFC
 * 🇳🇿 Michael Hester
 * 🇳🇿 Peter O'Leary


 * UEFA
 * Olegario Benquerenca
 * Massimo Busacca
 * 🇧🇪 Frank De Bleeckere
 * 🇸🇪 Martin Hansson
 * 🇭🇺 Viktor Kassai
 * 🇫🇷 Stephane Lannoy
 * 🇮🇹 Roberto Rosetti
 * 🇩🇪 Wolfgang Stark
 * 🇪🇸 Alberto Undiano Mallenco
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Howard Webb

Group stage
In the following tables:
 * Pld = total games played
 * W = total games won
 * D = total games drawn (tied)
 * L = total games lost
 * GF = total goals scored (goals for)
 * GA = total goals conceded (goals against)
 * GD = goal difference (GF−GA)
 * Pts = total points accumulated

The teams placed first and second (shaded in green) qualified to the round of 16.