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Next Football World Cup, Football World Cup 2010: Football World cup for 2010 is scheduled in the 2010 from 11th of June 2010. The FIFA World Cup Football is just 181 days away from us. Most of the matches will be played in the Jhonnesburd, Durban, cape Town etc. There are total 8 groups of the teams and the total number of the teams participating in theWorld Cup Football is 32.

List of qualified teams

The following 32 teams qualified for the final tournament.

This is the first World Cup with no debutant associations, although two of the qualifiers (Slovakia and Serbia) have previously appeared only as parts of former competing nations. In both cases FIFA considers these teams to have retained the earlier nations’ records.

Based on the October 2009 rankings used for the main draw, South Africa at 86 were the lowest ranked team in the tournament.

Prize money and club payments

The total prize money on offer for the tournament was confirmed by FIFA as $420 million, a 60 per cent increase on the 2006 tournament.[9] Before the tournament, each participating team would receive $1 million, for preparation costs. Once at the tournament, teams exiting at the group stage would receive $8 million. Thereafter, the prizemoney would be distributed as follows:[9]

* $9 million – Round of 16
* $18 million – Quarter-finals
* $20 million – Semi-finals
* $24 million – Runners up
* $30 million – Winners

In a first for the World Cup, there would also be payments made by FIFA to the domestic clubs of the players representing their national teams at the tournament. This would see a total of €26 million being paid to domestic clubs, amounting to just over €1,000 per player per day. [2]

This was the result of an agreement reached in 2008 between FIFA and European clubs to disband the G-14 and drop their claims for compensation dating back to 2005 over the financial cost of injuries sustained to their players while on international duty, such as that from Belgian club Charleroi S.C. for injury to Morroco’s Abdelmajid Oulmers in a friendly game in 2004, and from English club Newcastle United for an injury to England’s Michael Owen in the 2006 World Cup.