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Post by Panda on Oct 14, 2004 15:48:32 GMT 1
For some teams the dream of getting to Germany is already over. In fact, for some, it was already over 11 months ago.
Out of the 198 entries, these are the teams who definitely won't be going to the World Cup: (* = country that has reached the finals in the past)
AFRICA: Tanzania, Gambia, Eritrea, Mauritius, Madagascar, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Seychelles, Somalia, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Sao Tome & Principe, Lesotho, Niger, Burundi, Swaziland, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Central African Republic
ASIA: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, Macao, Bangladesh, Guam, Nepal, Laos, Qatar, Chinese Taipei, Palestine, Iraq*, India, Singapore, Oman, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Yemen, Thailand, United Arab Emirates*, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Turkmenistan
CONCACAF: Guyana, Montserrat, Turks & Caicos Islands, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Aruba, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, US Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Grenada, Bermuda, Haiti*, St. Lucia, Cuba*, Surinam*, Netherlands Antilles, Belize, Dominica, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Canada*, St. Kitts & Nevis
OCEANIA: New Caledonia, Tonga, Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, American Samoa, New Zealand*, Fiji, Tahiti, Vanuatu
Mathematically, all the European and South American teams and the 30 remaining in Africa can still qualify. 12 teams are left in Asia, 10 in the CONCACAF region and 2 in Oceania.
82 teams have gone, 116 remain...
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Post by Admin on Oct 14, 2004 16:47:09 GMT 1
Keep us updated mate! We'll need a sweepstake come the world cup;)
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Post by Panda on Oct 14, 2004 17:10:31 GMT 1
Will do! The European campaign has a break until March now, but there are other qualifiers elsewhere next month, with some teams from the last World Cup in trouble!
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Post by Zodiac on Oct 15, 2004 12:14:01 GMT 1
Poor Vanuatu
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Post by Admin on Oct 15, 2004 13:14:02 GMT 1
Poor Vanuatu Expectation was high that they'd make the last 190 this year! :(a sad sad time... Who's in trouble then Mr H?
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Post by Panda on Oct 15, 2004 17:08:28 GMT 1
Who's in trouble then Mr H? South Korea, China and Costa Rica could all be out if they lose their next games, all before the final stages for their regions. Jamaica are also one defeat away from possible elimination. Cameroon are struggling in Africa. Despite having their 6-point deduction overturned, they're in 3rd place in their group, 4 points off leaders Ivory Coast, with only the winners to qualify. They still have 5 games to go, though. Tunisia are struggling in their group, as well.
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Post by Panda on Oct 15, 2004 17:12:27 GMT 1
Expectation was high that they'd make the last 190 this year! They did! ;D Vanuatu won their first round qualifying group, ahead of Fiji, but were out of their depth in the second round, when Australia and New Zealand joined the competition. Vanuatu finished bottom of the 6 teams, with Australia finishing top and qualifying for a playoff with the Solomon Islands, who finished 2nd, after a highly suspicious 2-2 draw against the Aussies in the final game, which knocked out New Zealand. Oz and the Solomons met in a Confederations Cup qualifier last week, which Australia won 12-1 on aggregate. The Solomon Islands have a lot of work to do...
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Post by Panda on Oct 15, 2004 17:45:22 GMT 1
If qualifying finished today, this is who would be going to the World Cup:
EUROPE: Germany (hosts), Romania, Ukraine, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, England, Serbia & Montenegro, Sweden, Poland (runners-up), France (runners-up) The following would be in the playoffs, with 3 to qualify: Slovakia, Bulgaria, Norway, Lithuania, Finland and Turkey. Spain, Greece, Holland and the Czech Republic would all be out.
SOUTH AMERICA: Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Ecuador. Chile would go into a playoff with the Oceania winners.
AFRICA: Senegal, South Africa, Ivory Coast, Angola and Guinea
OCEANIA: Either Australia or the Solomon Islands would go into a playoff against Chile
ASIA: Not at the final stage yet. The following teams are through to the final round: Uzbekistan, Japan, North Korea and Saudi Arabia. They will be joined by: either Iran or Jordan, Kuwait or China, Bahrain or Syria, South Korea or Lebanon
CONCACAF: Not at the final stage yet. The following teams are through to the final round: USA, Guatemala and Mexico. They will be joined by: one of Jamaica, Panama or El Salvador; Costa Rica or Honduras, Trinidad & Tobago or St. Vincent & The Grenadines
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Post by Admin on Oct 15, 2004 21:13:33 GMT 1
Bloody Hell, the Solomon Islands qualified in fron of NZ! That must mean the solomons got points against NZ!
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Post by Panda on Oct 15, 2004 21:23:18 GMT 1
Bloody Hell, the Solomon Islands qualified in fron of NZ! That must mean the solomons got points against NZ! They didn't but Vanuatu did. The 6 teams in the group only played each other once, with all the games being played in the space of 9 days, in Australia. These were the group results: Vanuatu 0-1 Solomon Islands Tahiti 0-0 Fiji Australia 1-0 New Zealand New Zealand 3-0 Solomon Islands Australia 9-0 Tahiti Fiji 1-0 Vanuatu Australia 6-1 Fiji Tahiti 0-4 Solomon Islands New Zealand 2-4 Vanuatu New Zealand 10-0 Tahiti Fiji 1-2 Solomon Islands Vanuatu 0-3 Australia Tahiti 2-1 Vanuatu Fiji 0-2 New Zealand Solomon Islands 2-2 Australia
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Post by greendemon on Oct 16, 2004 4:53:47 GMT 1
LOL @ the kiwis losing to vanuatu ;D to be fair they did beat tahiti 10-0... respect
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Post by frag on Oct 16, 2004 12:02:15 GMT 1
and Tahiti beat Vanatau... ;D
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Post by wira on Oct 16, 2004 20:25:33 GMT 1
I wonder what cricket scores American Samoa lost by this time around ;D
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Post by Panda on Oct 17, 2004 8:23:01 GMT 1
I wonder what cricket scores American Samoa lost by this time around ;D 4-0 against Samoa, 9-1 against Vanuatu, 11-0 against Fiji and 10-0 against Papua New Guinea. Pretty much explains why Australia were given a bye to the 2nd round this time.
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Post by Panda on Nov 17, 2004 19:07:42 GMT 1
The first group stage in Asia was completed today and China are out! They lost out on goals scored to Kuwait.
Out of the 198 entries, these are the teams who definitely won't be going to the World Cup: (* = country that has reached the finals in the past)
AFRICA: Tanzania, Gambia, Eritrea, Mauritius, Madagascar, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Seychelles, Somalia, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Sao Tome & Principe, Lesotho, Niger, Burundi, Swaziland, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Central African Republic
ASIA: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, Macao, Bangladesh, Guam, Nepal, Laos, Qatar, Chinese Taipei, Palestine, Iraq*, India, Singapore, Oman, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Yemen, Thailand, United Arab Emirates*, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Turkmenistan, Jordan, China*, Syria, Lebanon
CONCACAF: Guyana, Montserrat, Turks & Caicos Islands, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Aruba, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, US Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Grenada, Bermuda, Haiti*, St. Lucia, Cuba*, Surinam*, Netherlands Antilles, Belize, Dominica, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Canada*, St. Kitts & Nevis
OCEANIA: New Caledonia, Tonga, Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, American Samoa, New Zealand*, Fiji, Tahiti, Vanuatu
86 teams have gone, 112 remain...
4 more will go from the CONCACAF section later tonight.
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Post by Admin on Nov 17, 2004 19:36:10 GMT 1
Poor China!
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Post by Panda on Nov 18, 2004 13:15:11 GMT 1
After the last night's CONCACAF games, 2 past qualifiers in Jamaica and El Salvador were among those knocked out. USA, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico and Trinidad & Tobago are through to the final round where the top 3 will qualify and the 4th placed team will go into a playoff with an Asian team. Also last night, Brazil lost 1-0 to Ecuador, but remain in 2nd place, 2 points behind Argentina.
Out of the 198 entries, these are the teams who definitely won't be going to the World Cup: (* = country that has reached the finals in the past)
AFRICA: Tanzania, Gambia, Eritrea, Mauritius, Madagascar, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Seychelles, Somalia, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Sao Tome & Principe, Lesotho, Niger, Burundi, Swaziland, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Central African Republic
ASIA: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, Macao, Bangladesh, Guam, Nepal, Laos, Qatar, Chinese Taipei, Palestine, Iraq*, India, Singapore, Oman, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Yemen, Thailand, United Arab Emirates*, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Indonesia*, Turkmenistan, Jordan, China*, Syria, Lebanon
CONCACAF: Guyana, Montserrat, Turks & Caicos Islands, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Aruba, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, US Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Grenada, Bermuda, Haiti*, St. Lucia, Cuba*, Surinam, Netherlands Antilles, Belize, Dominica, Barbados, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Canada*, St. Kitts & Nevis, Jamaica*, El Salvador*, Honduras*, St. Vincent & The Grenadines
OCEANIA: New Caledonia, Tonga, Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, American Samoa, New Zealand*, Fiji, Tahiti, Vanuatu
90 teams have gone, 108 remain...
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Post by frag on Nov 21, 2004 22:11:47 GMT 1
Does anyone have a list of the original sweepstake? Or perhaps we could get another one together?
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Post by Admin on Nov 22, 2004 8:36:49 GMT 1
It's not til 2006;) Unless you want to do one for all the teams that are still left in? I think david did one at dot, not sure if it was carried on here...You feel up to it Frag, go for it;)
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Post by Panda on Nov 22, 2004 15:12:31 GMT 1
In case anyone's going to do it, these are the teams that are left in:
EUROPE: (all 52 teams) Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Scotland, Serbia & Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Wales
SOUTH AMERICA: (All 10 teams) Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
AFRICA: (30 teams from 51 entries) Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde Islands, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Egypt, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
ASIA: (8 teams from 39 entries) Bahrain, Iran, Japan, Kuwait, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Uzbekistan
CONCACAF: (6 teams from 34 entries) Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, USA
OCEANIA: (2 teams from 12 entries) Australia, Solomon Islands
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