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Group 1
Cameroon
Cape Verde Islands
Tanzania
Mauritius |
Group 2
Guinea
Zimbabwe
Namibia
Kenya |
Group 3
Angola
Benin
Uganda
Niger |
Group 4
Nigeria
South Africa
Equatorial Guinea
Sierra Leone |
Group 5
Ghana
Libya
Gabon
Lesotho
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Group 6
Senegal
Algeria
Liberia
Gambia |
Group 7
Coite D’Ivoire
Mozambique
Botswana
Madagascar |
Group 8
Morocco
Ethiopia
Rwanda
Mauritania
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Group 9
Tunisia
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Seychelles
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Group 10
Mali
Congo
Sudan
Chad |
Group 11
Togo
Zambia
Eritrea
Swaziland |
Group 12
Egypt
Congo DR
Malawi
Djibouti |
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| The 12 winners will be joined by the best eight runners-up for the second stage which will be made up of five groups of four teams each. The winners of the second group stage will qualify for the World Cup and the first three finishers will join the host nation in the 2010 African Cup of Nations. South Africa, if it qualifies for the second group stage, will compete only for a place in the Cup of Nations. |
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| European Groups |
Group 1
Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Albania, Malta |
Group 2
Greece, Israel, Switzerland, Moldova, Latvia, Luxembourg |
Group 3
Czech Republic, Poland, Northen Ireland, Slovakia, Slovenia, San Marino |
Group 4
Germany, Russia, Finland, Wales, Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein |
Group 5
Spain, Turkey, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Armenia, Estonia |
Group 6
Croatia, England, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Andorra |
Group 7
France, Romania, Serbia, Lithuania, Austria, Faroe Islands |
Group 8
Italy, Bulgaria, Republic Of Ireland, Cyprus, Georgia, Montenegro |
Group 9
Holland, Scotland, Norway, FYR Macedonia, Iceland |
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| The group winners will qualify directly for the World Cup and the eight best runners-up will be paired in play-offs for four more places. England find themselves in the same group as Croatia whose victories over them knocked them out of the Euro 2008. Sweden are, yet again, drawn in the same group as perrenial rivals, Denmark. |
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