2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)

2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)
The CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central American, and Caribbean Association Football) qualification stage for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa consisted of 35 national teams competing for the three berths given automatically to CONCACAF by FIFA. The United States, Mexico and Honduras qualified. The fourth-place finisher, Costa Rica, played a two-game playoff with the CONMEBOL fifth-place finisher, Uruguay, for a possible fourth berth.
Format
The first and second rounds reduced the 35 entrants to 24 and 12 teams, respectively. The remaining 12 teams were then placed into three third-round groups of four, with the top two teams in each group advancing to the fourth and final qualification group. The third round began in August 2008 and ended in November 2008. The top three teams from the fourth round group of six (held from February to October 2009) qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The fourth-placed team competed in a home-and-away playoff against the 5th-place team from CONMEBOL.
Seeding
The draw took place on 25 November 2007 in Durban, South Africa and it determined the fixtures for the preliminary rounds. In addition, because second round winners are paired off for the third round, the top 13 seeds have been subdivided as follows:
Pot A: The top 3 teams, who would be top seeds of each third round group.
Pot B: The next 3 teams, who would be the seconds seeds of the third round groups.
Pot C: The next 6 teams, who would receive a bye to the second round, and would not be drawn against a Pot A or Pot B team in that round.
Pot D: St. Vincent and the Grenadines, who also receive a bye in the first round, but would be paired against one of the top 12 teams in Round 2.
In the second round, the 13 top-ranked CONCACAF teams from the May 2007 FIFA World Ranking joined 11 winners from the first round.
First round
The 22 teams ranked 14 to 35 competed in the first round. Teams ranked 14th–24th were randomly drawn against teams ranked 25th–35th. Teams played home and away against their opponents, except three ties: Puerto Rico–Dominican Republic, Grenada–U.S. Virgin Islands and Montserrat–Suriname, which were played over one leg in late March due to several Member Associations failing to meet the new FIFA Stadium standards and being unable to secure a home venue. The winners advanced to the second round.
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1 Belize moved their home leg to Guatemala.
2 Both legs played in the Bahamas.
3 Played as one leg due to a lack of acceptable grounds for FIFA competition.
4 Played as one leg at Trinidad and Tobago because neither side are able to provide a suitable venue according to FIFA's guidelines.
5 Played in the United States because Anguilla's stadium is not a suitable venue.
Second round
In the second round, the 11 first round winners joined the 13 teams which received a bye to the second round. Teams ranked 1st–12th were randomly drawn against the unseeded teams (the 11 first round winners plus Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, which was ranked 13th). Teams played home and away against their opponents and the winners advanced to the next round. Matches took place in June 2008.
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1 Saint Lucia moved their home leg to the United States.
2 Belize moved their home leg to the United States.
3 Bahamas moved their home leg to Jamaica.
4 Order of legs reversed subsequent to original draw.
Third round
The winners from the second round were placed into three groups of four teams, where they played a double round robin home and away schedule. The top two teams from each group advanced to the fourth round.
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Fourth round
The six teams that reached the fourth round formed one double-round-robin, home-and-away group nicknamed the "Hexagonal." The top three teams qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The fourth place team qualified for a home-and-away play-off against the fifth-place team from CONMEBOL.
The allocation of teams in the draw took place in Johannesburg, South Africa on 22 November 2008.
Inter-confederation play-offs
The 4th place team played the 5th place team from the CONMEBOL (South American Zone) Qualification in a home and away play-off. The winner of this play-off qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The draw for the order in which the two matches were played was held on 2 June 2009 during the FIFA Congress in Nassau, the Bahamas. The CONCACAF side played the first leg at home.
Qualified teams
The following three teams from CONCACAF qualified for the final tournament.
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
Goalscorers
A total of 350 goals were scored over 111 games(including 2 international play-offs), for an average of 3.15 goals per game.
8 goals
Rudis Corrales
7 goals
Carlos Pavón
Luton Shelton
6 goals
Ali Gerba
Bryan Ruiz
Eliseo Quintanilla
Carlos Ruíz
Carlo Costly
Jozy Altidore
5 goals
Celso Borges
Wensley Christoph
Clint Dempsey
4 goals
Álvaro Saborío
Roberto Linares
Ronald Cerritos
Rodolfo Zelaya
Ricky Charles
David Suazo
Keon Daniel
Michael Bradley
Brian Ching
Landon Donovan
3 goals
Armando Alonso
Shawn Hasani Martin
Jason Roberts
Ramón Núñez
Fernando Arce
Cuauhtémoc Blanco
Jared Borgetti
Andrés Guardado
Pável Pardo
Carlos Vela
Clifton Sandvliet
Dwight Yorke
2 goals
Kerry Skepple
Deon McCauley
Devaun DeGraff
John Barry Nusum
Anadale Williams
Dwayne De Rosario
Alejandro Alpízar
Walter Centeno
Andy Furtado
Froylan Ledezma
Roy Myrie
Victor Núñez
Alonso Solís
Jaime Colomé
Jeniel Márquez
Jaine Valencia
Cristian Castillo
Julio Martínez
Osael Romero
William Antonio Torres
Mario Rafael Rodríguez
Gonzalo Romero
Abner Trigueros
Julio César de León
Amado Guevara
Wilson Palacios
Deon Burton
Marlon King
Omar Bravo
Guillermo Franco
Carlos Salcido
Peter Villegas
Kenwin McPhee
Raydell Schuurman
Kerry Baptiste
Carlos Edwards
Cornell Glenn
Stern John
Kenwyne Jones
DaMarcus Beasley
Carlos Bocanegra
Conor Casey
Charlie Davies
1 goal
Okeem Challenger
George Dublin
Gayson Gregory
Tyio Simon
Teran Williams
Michael Bethel
Demont Mitchell
Lesly St. Fleur
Dwayne Stanford
Rashida Williams
Harrison Roches
Elroy Smith
Tyrell Burgess
Kwame Steede
Rohan Lennon
Julián de Guzmán
Andrew Hainault
Issey Nakajima-Farran
Tomasz Radzinski
Adrian Serioux
Marshall Forbes
Allean Grant
Randall Azofeifa
Junior Diaz
Freddy Fernández
Pablo Herrera
Leonel Duarte
Hensy Muñoz
Allianni Urgelles
Richard Pacquette
Luis Alonso Anaya
Cesar Larios
Carlos Romeo Monteagudo
Emerson Umaña
Byron Bubb
Dorset Langaigne
Patrick Modeste
Shane Rennie
Jose Manuel Contreras
Carlos Gallardo
Marco Pappa
Nigel Codrington
Frantz Bertin
Brunel Fucien
Leonel Saint-Preux
Alain Vubert
Walter Martinez
Hendry Thomas
Melvin Valladares
Omar Cummings
Omar Daley
Ricardo Fuller
Ricardo Gardner
Ian Goodison
Tyrone Marshall
Demar Phillips
Andy Williams
Nery Castillo
Israel Castro
Giovani dos Santos
Enrique Esqueda
Jonny Magallón
Rafael Márquez
Francisco Palencia
Óscar Rojas
Miguel Sabah
Matías Vuoso
Vladimir Farrell
Anton Jongsma
Tyrone Loran
Angelo Zimmerman
José Luis Garcés
Luis Tejada
Chris Megaloudis
Orlando Mitchum
Gerard Williams
Titus Elva
Gilbert Nihyme
Marlon James
Kenzo Huur
Melvin Valies
Germaine Van Dijk
Cleon Wondel
Russell Latapy
Darryl Roberts
Collin Samuel
Hayden Tinto
Gavin Glinton
David Lowery
Freddy Adu
Jonathan Bornstein
Ricardo Clark
Kenny Cooper
Frankie Hejduk
Eddie Johnson
Eddie Lewis
Oguchi Onyewu
1 own goal
Dario Sierra (against Antigua and Barbuda)
Daryl Ferguson (against United States)
Tervor Lennen (against Mexico)
Marvin González (against Mexico)
Ricardo Osorio (against Honduras)
Eugene Martha (against Haiti)
Marlon Felter (against El Salvador)
Derrik Garden (against El Salvador)
Dwight Ferguson (against Grenada)
References
External links
North, Central America & Caribbean Zone at FIFA.com
CONCACAF
FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)
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