zorasaroz: June 2010

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 beat 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. The draw for the finals took place on 4 December 2009 in Cape Town.

This is the first World Cup that does not include any teams that are qualifying for the first time, although two of the qualifiers (Slovakia and Serbia) have previously appeared only as parts of former competing nations. Slovakia was previously part of Czechoslovakia, and Serbia has competed as part of Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro. In both cases FIFA considers these teams to have retained the earlier nations’ records.

Well, I just caught the football fever since World Cup starts tommorow. I downloaded the original shcedule from fifa with GMT time and converted the time schedule according to Nepali time format (+5:45 GMT), so feel free to click the image below and save it.

FIFA World Cup 2010 Schedule in Nepali Standard Time

FIFA 2010 World Cup Venues

City	Stadium	Capacity
Johannesburg	Soccer City	91,141
Durban	Moses Mabhida Stadium	70,000
Cape Town	Cape Town Stadium	69,070
Johannesburg	Ellis Park Stadium	62,567
Pretoria	Loftus Versfeld Stadium	51,760
Port Elizabeth	Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium	48,000
Bloemfontein	Free State Stadium	48,000
Polokwane	Peter Mokaba Stadium	46,000
Rustenburg	Royal Bafokeng Stadium	44,530
Nelspruit	Mbombela Stadium	43,589