The 2010 FIFA World Cup will take place in CapeTown, South Africa. As the host country, South Africa is qualified for the tournament automatically. http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/qualifiers/index.html/ref The qualification competitions are organized by six FIFA confederations. Those six confederations are: AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North America), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe). The qualifying games started on August 25, 2007 and will be finishing by November 18, 2009. The allocation of places will be like this: Europe: 13; Africa: 5; Asia and Oceania: 5 (4.5 + 0.5; play-off); South America and CONCACAF: 8 (4.5 + 3.5; play-off); hosts (South Africa): 1. <ref>http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/federation/releases/newsid=108198.html Zakumi, a yellow colored leopard with green hair depicting the colors of the South African team, is the official mascot.

The qualification process started in 2007 and will finish by 2009. The event is scheduled to take place from June 11, 2010 to July 11, 2010. This will be the 19th FIFA world cup. This is the full list of qualifiers:

• From Africa
• Algeria, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast and South Africa
• From Asia
• Australia Japan, Korea DPR and Korea Republic
• From Europe
• Denmark, France, Greece, Netherlands, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, England, Germany, Italy, Portuagal, Slovakia, Spain
• From North, Central America and Caribbean
• Honduras, Usa, mexico
• From Oceania
• New Zealand
• From South America
• Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay

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