The Stadium of World Cup (South Africa)

Times For Africa

The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the culmination of a qualification process that began in August 2007 and involved 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams. As such, it matches the 2008 Summer Olympics as the sports event with the most competing nations.

This will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation, after South Africa defeated Morocco and Egypt in an all-African bidding process. This decision left the Oceania Football Confederation as the only confederation yet to host the FIFA World Cup. Italy are the defending champions, after winning the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. The draw for the finals took place on 4 December 2009 in Cape Town.

Knockout stage

Main article: 2010 FIFA World Cup knockout stage

At the knockout stage (including the final), if a match is level at the end of 90 minutes, extra time of two periods (15 minutes each) will be played. If the score is still level after extra time, the match will be decided on penalty kicks.^[39]

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

26 June – Port Elizabeth

Winners of Group A

2 July – Johannesburg

Runners-up of Group B

Winners of Match 49

26 June – Rustenburg

Winners of Match 50

Winners of Group C

6 July – Cape Town

Runners-up of Group D

Winners of Match 58

28 June – Durban

Winners of Match 57

Winners of Group E

2 July – Port Elizabeth

Runners-up of Group F

Winners of Match 53

28 June – Johannesburg

Winners of Match 54

Winners of Group G

11 July – Johannesburg

Runners-up of Group H

Winners of Match 61

27 June – Johannesburg

Winners of Match 62

Winners of Group B

3 July – Cape Town

Runners-up of Group A

Winners of Match 52

27 June – Bloemfontein

Winners of Match 51

Winners of Group D

7 July – Durban

Runners-up of Group C

Winners of Match 59

29 June – Pretoria

Winners of Match 60

Third place

Winners of Group F

3 July – Johannesburg

10 July – Port Elizabeth

Runners-up of Group E

Winners of Match 55

Losers of Match 61

29 June – Cape Town

Winners of Match 56

Losers of Match 62

Winners of Group H

Runners-up of Group G