XIX WORLD CUP (SOUTH AFRICA 2010)

(From 11-06-2010 to 11-07-2010)
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COMPETITION SYSTEM

· 205 national teams enter a Qualifying Stage (host South Africa is exempt from this round), divided in 14 geographic groups. The group winners, together with a variable number of best ranked teams, qualify for the Final Stage in South Africa (the best eight runners-up of the European Zone play a knock-out round in order to earn four more berths in the Final Stage).

· The 32 teams qualified for the Final Stage are divided in 8 groups of 4 teams each playing a round robin. In case that two or more teams finish level on points, their position is decided by general goal difference.

· The group winners and runners-up advance to an 1/8 Final knock-out round, played as an X-pairing. The winners move to quarterfinals and further semifinals, and the two surviving teams at the end of these knock-out rounds qualify for the final.
 

 

::::: QUALIFYING STAGE :::::

 

 

GROUP STAGE

(Seeded teams are indicated in blue)

 

GROUP A

 

GROUP B

Competition Day 1 (11-06-2010)

Competition Day 1 (12-06-2010)

Johannesburg

South Africa - Mexico

1-1

Johannesburg

Argentina - Nigeria

1-0

Cape Town

Uruguay - France

0-0

Port Elizabeth

South Korea - Greece

2-0

Competition Day 2 (16-06-2010)

Competition Day 2 (17-06-2010)

Pretoria

South Africa - Uruguay

0-3

Bloemfontein

Greece - Nigeria

2-1

Polokwane

France - Mexico

0-2 (x)

Johannesburg

Argentina - South Korea

4-1

Competition Day 3 (22-06-2010)

Competition Day 3 (22-06-2010)

Rustenburg

Mexico - Uruguay

0-1

Durban

Nigeria - South Korea

2-2

Bloemfontein

France - South Africa

1-2

Polokwane

Greece - Argentina

0-2

FINAL STANDING

P

W

D

L

F

A

Pt

1. Uruguay

3

2

1

0

4

0

7

2. Mexico

3

1

1

1

3

2

4

3. South Africa

3

1

1

1

3

5

4

4. France

3

0

1

2

1

4

1

FINAL STANDING

P

W

D

L

F

A

Pt

1. Argentina

3

3

0

0

7

1

9

2. South Korea

3

1

1

1

5

6

4

3. Greece

3

1

0

2

2

5

3

4. Nigeria

3

0

1

2

3

5

1

(x) Game played on 17-06-2010.

 

GROUP C

 

GROUP D

Competition Day 1 (12-06-2010)

Competition Day 1 (13-06-2010)

Rustenburg

England - USA

1-1

Durban

Germany - Australia

4-0

Polokwane

Algeria - Slovenia

0-1 (x)

Pretoria

Serbia - Ghana

0-1

Competition Day 2 (18-06-2010)

Competition Day 2 (18-06-2010)

Johannesburg

Slovenia - USA

2-2

Port Elizabeth

Germany - Serbia

0-1

Cape Town

England - Algeria

0-0

Rustenburg

Ghana - Australia

1-1 (y)

Competition Day 3 (23-06-2010)

Competition Day 3 (23-06-2010)

Port Elizabeth

Slovenia - England

0-1

Johannesburg

Ghana - Germany

0-1

Pretoria

USA - Algeria

1-0

Nelspruit

Australia - Serbia

2-1

FINAL STANDING

P

W

D

L

F

A

Pt

1. USA

3

1

2

0

4

3

5

2. England

3

1

2

0

2

1

5

3. Slovenia

3

1

1

1

3

3

4

4. Algeria

3

0

1

2

0

2

1

FINAL STANDING

P

W

D

L

F

A

Pt

1. Germany

3

2

0

1

5

1

6

2. Ghana

3

1

1

1

2

2

4

3. Australia

3

1

1

1

3

6

4

4. Serbia

3

1

0

2

2

3

3

(x) Game played on 13-06-2010.     (y) Game played on 19-06-2010.

 

GROUP E

 

GROUP F

Competition Day 1 (14-06-2010)

Competition Day 1 (14-06-2010)

Johannesburg

Netherlands - Denmark

2-0

Cape Town

Italy - Paraguay

1-1

Bloemfontein

Japan - Cameroon

1-0

Rustenburg

New Zealand - Slovakia

1-1 (x)

Competition Day 2 (19-06-2010)

Competition Day 2 (20-06-2010)

Durban

Netherlands - Japan

1-0

Bloemfontein

Slovakia - Paraguay

0-2

Pretoria

Cameroon - Denmark

1-2

Nelspruit

Italy - New Zealand

1-1

Competition Day 3 (24-06-2010)

Competition Day 3 (24-06-2010)

Rustenburg

Denmark - Japan

1-3

Johannesburg

Slovakia - Italy

3-2

Cape Town

Cameroon - Netherlands

1-2

Polokwane

Paraguay - New Zealand

0-0

FINAL STANDING

P

W

D

L

F

A

Pt

1. Netherlands

3

3

0

0

5

1

9

2. Japan

3

2

0

1

4

2

6

3. Denmark

3

1

0

2

3

6

3

4. Cameroon

3

0

0

3

2

5

0

FINAL STANDING

P

W

D

L

F

A

Pt

1. Paraguay

3

1

2

0

3

1

5

2. Slovakia

3

1

1

1

4

5

4

3. New Zealand

3

0

3

0

2

2

3

4. Italy

3

0

2

1

4

5

2

(x) Game played on 15-06-2010.

 

GROUP G

 

GROUP H

Competition Day 1 (15-06-2010)

Competition Day 1 (16-06-2010)

Port Elizabeth

Ivory Coast - Portugal

0-0

Nelspruit

Honduras - Chile

0-1

Johannesburg

Brazil - North Korea

2-1

Durban

Spain - Switzerland

0-1

Competition Day 2 (20-06-2010)

Competition Day 2 (21-06-2010)

Johannesburg

Brazil - Ivory Coast

3-1

Port Elizabeth

Chile - Switzerland

1-0

Cape Town

Portugal - North Korea

7-0 (x)

Johannesburg

Spain - Honduras

2-0

Competition Day 3 (25-06-2010)

Competition Day 3 (25-06-2010)

Durban

Portugal - Brazil

0-0

Pretoria

Chile - Spain

1-2

Nelspruit

North Korea - Ivory Coast

0-3

Bloemfontein

Switzerland - Honduras

0-0

FINAL STANDING

P

W

D

L

F

A

Pt

1. Brazil

3

2

1

0

5

2

7

2. Portugal

3

1

2

0

7

0

5

3. Ivory Coast

3

1

1

1

4

3

4

4. North Korea

3

0

0

3

1

12

0

FINAL STANDING

P

W

D

L

F

A

Pt

1. Spain

3

2

0

1

4

2

6

2. Chile

3

2

0

1

3

2

6

3. Switzerland

3

1

1

1

1

1

4

4. Honduras

3

0

1

2

0

3

1

(x) Game played on 21-06-2010.

 

 

1/8 FINALS

(26-06-2010)

A1-B2 (1): Uruguay - South Korea

2-1

Port Elizabeth

C1-D2 (2): USA - Ghana

1-2 (a.e.t.)

Rustenburg

B1-A2 (3): Argentina - Mexico

3-1 (x)

Johannesburg

D1-C2 (4): Germany - England

4-1 (x)

Bloemfontein

E1-F2 (5): Netherlands - Slovakia

2-1 (y)

Durban

G1-H2 (6): Brazil - Chile

3-0 (y)

Johannesburg

F1-E2 (7): Paraguay - Japan

0-0 (pk:5-3) (z)

Pretoria

H1-G2 (8): Spain - Portugal

1-0 (z)

Cape Town

(x) Games played on 27-06-2010.

(y) Games played on 28-06-2010.

(z) Games played on 29-06-2010.

 

 

1/4 FINALS

(2-07-2010)

1-3 (A): Uruguay - Ghana

1-1 (pk:4-2)

Johannesburg

5-6 (B): Netherlands - Brazil

2-1

Port Elizabeth

3-4 (C): Argentina - Germany

0-4 (x)

Cape Town

7-8 (D): Paraguay - Spain

0-1 (x)

Johannesburg

(x) Games played on 3-07-2010.

 

 

1/2 FINALS

(6-07-2010)

A-B: Uruguay - Netherlands

2-3

Cape Town

C-D: Germany - Spain

0-1 (x)

Durban

(x) Game played on 7-07-2010.

 

 

PLACES 3 & 4

(10-07-2010)

Uruguay - Germany

2-3

Port Elizabeth

 

 

 

FINAL

STADIUM: Soccer City (Johannesburg)

DATE: 11-07-2010 (20:30 h)

ATTENDANCE: 84.490

REFEREE: Howard Webb (ENG)

GOALS: 1-0 (Iniesta 116’)

BOOKED: Van Persie (15’), Van Bommel (22’), De Jong (28’), Van Bronckhorst (54’), Heitinga (57’), Robben (84’), Heitinga (109’ > RC), Van der Wiel (111’), Mathijsen (117’) / Puyol (16’), Sergio Ramos (23’), Capdevila (67’), Iniesta (118’), Xavi (120+’)

[Incidents: Heitinga was sent off after a second bookable offense (min. 109).]
España
Spain SPA - Netherlands NED
1-0 (0-0;0-0)
Nederland

Spain (coach: Vicente del Bosque)

Iker Casillas (c)

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Sergio Ramos

Gerard Piqué

Carles Puyol

Joan Capdevila

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Andrés Iniesta

Sergio Busquets

Xavier Hernández “Xavi”

Xabi Alonso (Cesc Fàbregas 87’)

Pedro Rodríguez (Jesús Navas 60’)

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David Villa (Fernando Torres 106’)

Netherlands (coach: Bert van Marwijk)

Maarten Stekelenburg

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Gregory van der Wiel

Johnny Heitinga

Joris Mathijsen

Giovanni van Bronckhorst(c) (Edson Braafheid 105’)

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Arjen Robben

Mark van Bommel

Wesley Sneijder

Nigel de Jong (Rafael van der Vaart 99’)

Dirk Kuijt (Eljero Elia 71’)

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Robin van Persie

 

 

FINAL STANDING

1.

Spain SPA

2.

Netherlands NED

3.

Germany GER

4.

Uruguay URU

5.

Argentina ARG

6.

Brazil BRA

7.

Ghana GHA

8.

Paraguay PAR

9.

Japan JAP

10.

Chile CHI

11.

Portugal POR

12.

USA USA

13.

England ENG

14.

Mexico MEX

15.

South Korea SKR

16.

Slovakia SVK

17.

Ivory Coast CIV

18.

Slovenia SVN

19.

Switzerland SWI

20.

South Africa SAF

21.

Australia AUS

22.

New Zealand NZL

23.

Serbia SER

24.

Denmark DEN

25.

Greece GRE

26.

Italy ITA

27.

Nigeria NIG

28.

Algeria ALG

29.

France FRA

30.

Honduras HON

31.

Cameroon CAM

32.

North Korea PRK

 

 

CHAMPIONSHIP SQUAD

Iker Casillas (SPA)

Maicon Douglas Sisenando (BRA)

Arne Friedrich (GER)

Carles Puyol (SPA)

Arjen Robben (NED)

Thomas Müller (GER)

Leo Messi (ARG)

Mesut Özil (GER)

Andrés Iniesta (SPA)

Diego Forlán (URU)

David Villa (SPA)

 

 

TOP SCORER: Thomas Müller (GER) - 5 goals

 

BEST PLAYER: Diego Forlán (URU)

   

 

 

 

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