World Cup 2010 Qualifying Results

• by Soccer America , Sep 6, 2009

Brazil beat Argentina, 3-1, in Rosario to become the seventh team to qualify for the World Cup. In Europe, there were big wins for Italy and Spain, while France and Portugal had to settle for ties. For all Saturday's results and updates ...

CONCACAF
Sept. 5
USA 2 (Dempsey 41, Altidore 45) El Salvador 1 (Castillo 32)
Honduras 4 (Pavon 19, 27, Guevara 61, Suazo 83) Trinidad & Tobago 1 (Baptiste 85).
Costa Rica 0 Mexico 3 (Dos Santos 45, Franco 62).

SOUTH AMERICA
Sept. 5
Colombia 2 (Martinez 81, Gutierrez 90+4) Ecuador 0.
Peru 1 (Rengifo 86) Uruguay 0.
Paraguay 1 (Cabanas pen. 45) Bolivia 0
Argentina 1 (Datolo 64) Brazil 3 (Luisao 24, Luis Fabiano 31, 67)
Chile 2 (Vidal 11, Millar 52) Venezuela 2 (Maldonado 34, Rey 45).

EUROPE
Group 1
Denmark 1 (Bendtner 42) Portugal 1 (Liedson 86).
Hungary 1 (Huszti pen. 79) Sweden 2 (Mellberg 9, Ibrahimovic 90)

Group 2
Moldova 0 Luxembourg 0
Israel 0 Latvia 1 (Gorkss 60)
Switzerland 2 (Grichting  83, Padalino 90) Greece 0

Group 3
Poland 1 (Lewandowski 80) Northern Ireland 1 (Lafferty 39)
Slovakia 2 (Sestak 59, Hamsik 73) Czech Republic 2 (Pudil 68, Baros 83)

Group 4
Azerbaijan 1 (Mamedov 49) Finland 2 (Heikkinen 75, Litmanen 86)
Russia 3 (V. Berezutsky 17, Pavlyuchenko pen. 40, pen. 50) Liechtenstein 0

Group 5
Armenia 0 Bosnia-Herzegovina 2 (Ibricic 3, Muslimovic 78)
Turkey 4 (Sanli 25, 72, Sercan 36, Arda 61) Estonia 2 (Voskoboinikov 2, Vassiljev 52)
Spain 1 (David Silva 41, 68, David Villa 49, 85, Pique 50) Belgium 0

Group 6
Ukraine 5 (Yarmolenko 18, Milevsky 45, 90+1-pen, Shevchenko 72-pen, Seleznov 90+5-pen) Andorra 0 Croatia 1 (Rakitic 24) Belarus 0

Group 7
Austria 3 (Maierhofer 1, Janko 16, pen. 59) Faeroe Islands 1 (Olsen 83)
France 1 (Henry 48) Romania 1 (own goal 55)

Group 8
Bulgaria 4 (Kishishev 45+2, Telkiyski 48, Berbatov 85-pen, Domovchijski 90+1) Montenegro 1 (Jovetic 8)
Georgia 0 Italy 2 (own goals 57, 67)
Cyprus 1 (Ilia 30) Ireland 2 (Doyle 5, Keane 83)

Group 9
Scotland 2 (Brown 56, McFadden 81) Macedonia 0
Iceland 1 (Gudjohnsen 29) Norway 1 (J.A. Riise 10)

AFRICA
Sept. 5
Group A
Gabon 0 Cameroon 2 (Emana 65, Eto'o 68)

Group C
Rwanda 0 Egypt 1 (Ahmed Hassan 68)

Group E
Malawi 2 (Msowoya 46, 58) Guinea 1 (Kalabane 38)
Ivory Coast 5 (Kader Keita 12, 68, Drogba 48, 65, Yaya Toure 55) Burkina Faso 0

ASIA
Sept. 5
Playoff, First Leg
Bahrain 0 Saudi Arabia 0

Tomorrow ...

AFRICA
Group A
Togo vs. Morocco
Group B
Mozambique vs. Kenya
Nigeria vs. Tunisia
Group C
Algeria vs. Zambia
Group D
Benin vs. Mali
Ghana vs. Sudan