2010 Qualification Groups Europe (UEFA)

All information on European Teams in the Qualification Groups for FIFA World Cup 2010

Find out about the qualification groups and which European countries have qualified for the 2010 Soccer World Cup

Soccer supporters from around Europe were eagerly hoping that their national team became one of the teams from Europe to qualify for the FIFA 2010 Soccer World Cup.

The European zone (UEFA) of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification consists of 53 National Teams, divided into 8 groups of 6 teams, and 1 group of 5 teams.

UEFA Qualification Group 1: Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Albania, Malta

UEFA Qualification Group 2: Greece, Israel, Switzerland; Moldova, Latvia, Luxembourg

UEFA Qualification Group 3: Czech Republic, Poland, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia, San Marino

UEFA Qualification Group 4: Germany, Russia, Finland, Wales, Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein

UEFA Qualification Group 5: Spain, Turkey, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Armenia, Estonia

UEFA Qualification Group 6: Croatia, England, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Andorra

UEFA Qualification Group 7: France, Romania, Serbia, Lithuania, Austria, Faroe Islands

UEFA Qualification Group 8: Italy, Bulgaria, Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Georgia; Montenegro

UEFA Qualification Group 9: Netherlands, Scotland, Norway, FYR Macedonia, Iceland

The highest ranked country in each qualification group automatically qualified for the 2010 soccer world cup, while all the second-placed national teams stood a chance to become one of the last 4 soccer teams to qualify.

Each of the second placed national teams played a home and away play-off matches to qualify and become of the European teams to play in the FIFA 2010 Soccer World Cup.

More information on FIFA 2010 Qualification:

• Qualification Groups Africa (CAF)
• Qualification Groups South America (CONMEBOL)
• Qualification Groups Asia (AFC)
• Qualification Groups Oceania (OFC)
• Qualification Groups North, Central America and Caribbean (CONCAF)

For a complete overview of soccer teams playing in the 2010 Soccer World Cup read our feature on countries and national teams qualified for 2010.

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