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In response to "usually it plays out like any other turnament pairing" by Danedukenuuk

Determining Europe's runners-up (and a better link)

Posted by Danedukenuuk Nov 14 '09, 11:23

When the group phase of European Zone qualifying reaches its conclusion on 14 October 2009, the nine section winners will be guaranteed a place at the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa�. Thereafter, the eight best runners-up will compete in two-legged play-offs, with the continent's four remaining tickets to the world finals at stake.

Group 9 consists of five teams, one less than the other pools. When calculating the best runners-up, therefore, matches played against the sixth-placed finishers in Groups 1 to 8 will not be taken into consideration. The criteria will be as follows;

- Total points
- Goal difference
- Goals scored
- Goals scored away from home
- Disciplinary record *
- Drawing of lots

* Yellow card, -1 point; two yellow cards in the same match, -3 points; red card, -3 points; yellow card followed by a direct red card in the same match, -4 points.

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/europe/secondplace.html (www.fifa.com)

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That's how they determined the eight teams in the playoffs, yes. -- nm - ty97 Nov 14, 11:25 1
- as far as i can tell the use the same fomat to determine winner of playoff games -- nm - Danedukenuuk Nov 14, 11:27

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