When will the European qualifiers for the 20 10 World Cup start? What is the grouping situation of each group?
European region
53 → 13 Fifty-three teams participated in the European qualifiers and competed for tickets for 13. Round 1: According to the FIFA ranking in July, it is divided into 6 files. When drawing lots, 1 team is drawn from each file to form 1 group and a ***9 group, of which 8 groups have 6 teams and 1 group has only 5 teams. Each group will play the home and away double round robin (September 7th, 20 12 to June 5th, 20 13+00). The top nine teams directly qualify, and the eight teams with the best performance enter the play-offs as the second (when comparing the results, the second team among the six teams is not counted as the confrontation with the last team 1, that is to say, the goal difference of the penultimate round of the group should be subtracted before comparison). World Cup preliminaries play-offs: The eight teams with the best results enter the play-offs in the second place, and then draw lots to catch up with the home and away matches (2013165438+1October 15 to 19), and the winning team gets the remaining four tickets. Group A: Croatia, Serbia, Belgium, Scotland, Macedonia and Wales.
Group B: Italy, Denmark, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Armenia and Malta.
Group C: Germany, Sweden, Ireland, Austria, Faroe Islands and Kazakhstan.
Group D: Netherlands, Turkey, Hungary, Romania, Estonia and Andorra.
Group E: Norway, Slovenia, Switzerland, Albania, Cyprus and Iceland.
Group F: Portugal, Russia, Israel, Northern Ireland, Azerbaijan and Luxembourg.
Group G: Greece, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Latvia and Liechtenstein.
Group H: England, Montenegro, Ukraine, Poland, Moldova and San Marino.
Group 1: Spain, France, Belarus, Georgia, Finland.