2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)

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The CONCACAF qualification stage for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa has 35 national teams competing for the three berths given automatically to CONCACAF by FIFA. The fourth place finisher will play a two game playoff with the CONMEBOL fifth place finisher^[1] for a possible fourth berth.

Contents 1 Format 2 Seeding 3 First Round 4 Second Round 5 Third Round 5.1 Group 1 5.2 Group 2 5.3 Group 3 6 Fourth Round 7 Play-off against CONMEBOL team 8 Goalscorers 9 References 10 External links

[edit] Format

The First and Second Rounds^[2] 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 3 teams from the Fourth Round group of 6 (held from February to October 2009) will qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The 4th place team will compete in a home-and-away playoff against the 5th-place team from CONMEBOL.

[edit] Seeding

The draw took place on November 25, 2007 in Durban, South Africa^[3][4] 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:^[5]

• 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 2nd round, the 13 top-ranked CONCACAF teams from the May 2007 FIFA World Ranking will join 11 winners from the 1st Round.

Pot A (byes to 2nd Round) (Ranked 1st to 3rd)	Pot B (byes to 2nd Round) (Ranked 4th to 6th)	Pot C (byes to 2nd Round) (Ranked 7th to 12th)
Mexico  United States  Costa Rica	Honduras  Panama  Trinidad and Tobago	Jamaica  Cuba  Haiti  Guatemala  Canada  Guyana
Pot D (byes to 2nd Round) (Ranked 13th)	Pot E (1st Round) (Ranked 14th to 24th)	Pot F (1st Round) (Ranked 25th to 35th)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Barbados  Suriname  Bermuda  Antigua and Barbuda  Saint Kitts and Nevis  Dominican Republic  El Salvador  Bahamas  Nicaragua  Grenada  Saint Lucia	Turks and Caicos Islands  Netherlands Antilles  British Virgin Islands  Dominica  Cayman Islands  Puerto Rico  Anguilla  Belize  U.S. Virgin Islands  Montserrat  Aruba

[edit] 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.^[6] The winners advanced to the Second Round.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Group 1
Dominica	1–2	Barbados	1–1	0–1
Turks and Caicos Islands	2–3	Saint Lucia	2–1	0–2
Bermuda	4–2	Cayman Islands	1–1	3–1
Aruba	0–4	Antigua and Barbuda	0–3	0–1
Group 2
Belize	4–2	Saint Kitts and Nevis	3–11	1–1
Bahamas	(a) 3–3	British Virgin Islands	1–1	2–22
Dominican Republic	0–1	Puerto Rico	N/A	0–1 (aet)3
Group 3
U.S. Virgin Islands	0–10	Grenada	N/A	0–103
Suriname	7–1	Montserrat	N/A	7–14
El Salvador	16–0	Anguilla	12–0	4–05
Nicaragua	0–3	Netherlands Antilles	0–1	0–2

¹ Belize moved their home leg to Guatemala.^[6]

² Both legs played in the Bahamas.^[6]

³ Played as one leg due to a lack of acceptable grounds for FIFA competition.^[6]

⁴ Played as one leg at Trinidad and Tobago because neither side are able to provide a suitable venue according to FIFA's guidelines.^[6]

⁵ Played in the United States because Anguilla's stadium is not a suitable venue.^[7]

[edit] 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.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Group 1
United States	9–0	Barbados	8–0	1–0
Guatemala	9–1	Saint Lucia	6–0	3–11
Trinidad and Tobago	3–2	Bermuda	1–2	2–0
Antigua and Barbuda	3–8	Cuba	3–4	0–4
Group 2
Belize	0–9	Mexico	0–22	0–7
Jamaica	13–0	Bahamas	7–0	6–03
Honduras	6–2	Puerto Rico	4–0	2–2
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1–7	Canada	0–34	1–4
Group 3
Grenada	2–5	Costa Rica	2–2	0–3
Suriname	3–1	Guyana	1–0	2–1
Panama	2–3	El Salvador	1–0	1–3
Haiti	1–0	Netherlands Antilles	0–0	1–0

¹ Saint Lucia moved their home leg to the United States.

² Belize moved their home leg to the United States.^[8]

³ The Bahamas elected to play their home leg in Jamaica.^[9]

⁴ Order of legs reversed subsequent to original draw.^[10]

[edit] 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.

[edit] Group 1

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  United States 6 5 0 1 14 3 +11 15  Trinidad and Tobago 6 3 2 1 9 6 +3 11  Guatemala 6 1 2 3 6 7 −1 5  Cuba 6 1 0 5 5 18 −13 3

Cuba  – 2 – 1 1 – 3 0 – 1 Guatemala  4 – 1 – 0 – 0 0 – 1 Trinidad and Tobago  3 – 0 1 – 1 – 2 – 1 United States  6 – 1 2 – 0 3 – 0 –

[edit] Group 2

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Honduras 6 4 0 2 9 5 +4 12  Mexico 6 3 1 2 9 6 +3 10  Jamaica 6 3 1 2 6 6 0 10  Canada 6 0 2 4 6 13 −7 2

Canada  – 1 – 2 1 – 1 2 – 2 Honduras  3 – 1 – 2 – 0 1 – 0 Jamaica  3 – 0 1 – 0 – 1 – 0 Mexico  2 – 1 2 – 1 3 – 0 –

Notes on the tie-breaking situation:

• Mexico and Jamaica are ranked by their overall goal difference.

[edit] Group 3

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Costa Rica 6 6 0 0 20 3 +17 18  El Salvador 6 3 1 2 11 4 +7 10  Haiti 6 0 3 3 4 13 −9 3  Suriname 6 0 2 4 4 19 −15 2

Costa Rica  – 1 – 0 2 – 0 7 – 0 El Salvador  1 – 3 – 5 – 0 3 – 0 Haiti  1 – 3 0 – 0 – 2 – 2 Suriname  1 – 4 0 – 2 1 – 1 –

[edit] Fourth Round

The six teams that reach the fourth round will form one double-round-robin, home-and-away group. The top three teams will qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The fourth place team will compete in 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 November 22, 2008.^[11]

Team v • d • e Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Costa Rica 5 4 0 1 9 5 +4 12  United States 5 3 1 1 10 6 +4 10  Honduras 5 2 1 2 6 6 0 7  Mexico 5 2 0 3 6 8 −2 6  El Salvador 5 1 2 2 6 7 −1 5  Trinidad and Tobago 5 0 2 3 6 11 −5 2

Costa Rica  – 1–0 2–0 5 Sep 10 Oct 3–1 El Salvador  9 Sep – 14 Oct 2–1 2–2 2–2 Honduras  12 Aug 1–0 – 3–1 5 Sep 10 Oct Mexico  2–0 10 Oct 9 Sep – 2–1 12 Aug Trinidad and Tobago  2–3 12 Aug 1–1 14 Oct – 9 Sep United States  14 Oct 5 Sep 2–1 2–0 3–0 –

[edit] Play-off against CONMEBOL team

The 4th place team will then play the 5th place team from the CONMEBOL (South American Zone) Qualification in a home and away play-off. The winner of this play-off will qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

The draw for the order in which the two matches will be played was held on 2 June 2009 during the FIFA Congress in Nassau, the Bahamas.^[12]

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
CONCACAF 4th place	-	CONMEBOL 5th place	14 Nov	18 Nov

[edit] Goalscorers

As of June 10, there have been 304 goals scored over 94 games, for an average of 3.23 goals per game.

(Players in bold are still active in the competition)

Rank	Player	Total goals	Goals by round
			R1	R2	R3	R4	PO
1	Rudis Corrales	7	6	0	1
	Luton Shelton	7	—	5	2	X	X
3	Ali Gerba	6	—	4	2	X	X
	Eliseo Quintanilla	6	1	2	1	2
	Carlos Ruíz	6	—	4	2	X	X
6	Celso Borges	5	—	—	2	3
	Wensley Christoph	5	2	0	3	X	X
	Jozy Altidore	5	—	0	1	4
9	Bryan Ruiz	4	—	1	3
	Álvaro Saborío	4	—	1	1	2
	Roberto Linares	4	—	3	1	X	X
	Carlo Costly	4	—	—	1	3
	Ronald Cerritos	4	0	4	0
	Rodolfo Zelaya	4	0	0	4
	Ricky Charles	4	4	0	X	X	X
	Keon Daniel	4	—	0	4
	Michael Bradley	4	—	1	1	2
	Brian Ching	4	—	2	2
	Clint Dempsey	4	—	2	2
	Landon Donovan	4	—	1	1	2

— – Bye

X – Eliminated

3 goals

Armando Alonso Shawn Hasani Martin Jason Roberts

Ramón Núñez Carlos Pavón David Suazo Fernando Arce

Jared Borgetti Pável Pardo Clifton Sandvliet Dwight Yorke

2 goals

Deon McCauley Devaun Degraff John Barry Nusum Anadale Williams Dwayne De Rosario Alejandro Alpízar Walter Centeno Andy Furtado Froylan Ledezma Victor Núñez Roy Myrie Alonso Solís

Jaime Colomé Jeniel Márquez Jaine Valencia Osael Romero William Antonio Torres Abner Trigueros Gonzalo Romero Mario Rafael Rodríguez Julio César de León Wilson Palacios Deon Burton Marlon King

Omar Bravo Andrés Guardado Carlos Vela Peter Villegas Kenwin McPhee Raydell Schuurman Carlos Edwards Stern John Kenwyne Jones DaMarcus Beasley Carlos Bocanegra

1 goal

Okeem Challenger George Dublin Gayson Gregory Kerry Skepple 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 Adrian Serioux Issey Nakajima-Farran Julián de Guzmán Andrew Hainault Tomasz Radzinski Marshall Forbes Allean Grant Randall Azofeifa Pablo Herrera Junior Diaz José Fernández Leonel Duarte Jensy Muñoz Allianni Urgelles Richard Pacquette Luis Alonso Anaya Cristian Castillo

Carlos Romeo Monteagudo Cesar Larios Julio Martínez Emerson Umaña Byron Bubb Dorset Langiagne Patrick Modeste Shane Rennie Jose Manuel Contreras Carlos Gallardo Marco Pappa Nigel Codrington Frantz Gilles Fucien Brunel Leonel Saint-Preux Alain Vuibert Amado Guevara Walter Martinez Hendry Thomas Andy Williams Omar Daley Ricardo Fuller Ricardo Gardner Ian Goodison Omar Cummings Tyrone Marshall Demar Phillips Cuauhtémoc Blanco Nery Castillo Guillermo Franco Jonny Magallón Rafael Márquez Óscar Rojas

Carlos Salcido Matías Vuoso Vladimir Farrell Anton Jongsma Tyrone Loran Angelo Zimmerman Jose Luis Garces Luis Tejada Chris Megaloudis Orlando Mitchum Gerard Williams Titus Elva Gilbert Nyhime Marlon James Kenzo Huur Melvin Valies Germaine Van Djik Cleon Wondel Cornell Glenn Russell Latapy Darryl Roberts Collin Samuel Hayden Tinto Gavin Glinton David Lowery Freddy Adu Kenny Cooper Charlie Davies Frankie Hejduk Eddie Johnson Eddie Lewis Oguchi Onyewu

Own goal

Dario Sierra (for Antigua and Barbuda) Daryl Ferguson (for United States) Tervor Lennen (for Mexico)

Ricardo Osorio (for Honduras) Eugene Martha (for Haiti) Derrik Garden (for El Salvador)

Marlon Felter (for El Salvador) Dwight Ferguson (for Grenada)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• North, Central America & Caribbean Zone at FIFA.com

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