No qualifying tournament; the top-3 European teams at the 2007 World Cup qualify. Germany and Norway qualified. England ineligible. Sweden and Denmark play off for third spot: [Nov 8, 2007] Denmark 2- 4 Sweden [in Viborg] [Nov 28, 2007] SWEDEN 3- 1 Denmark [in Solna] Sweden qualified
South American Championship 2006 Qualified: Argentina To playoff: Brazil
Caribbean Group
First Round
Group A:
All matches played at Dr. Ir. Franklin Essed in Paramaribo, Surinam.
[Oct 2, 2007]
Trinidad and Tobago 9- 0 Saint Vincent and The Grenadines
Surinam 6- 1 Grenada
[Oct 4, 2007]
Trinidad and Tobago 6- 0 Grenada
Surinam 10- 1 Saint Vincent ant The Grenadines
[Oct 7, 2007]
Saint Vincent and The Grenadines 2- 3 Grenada
Surinam 1- 4 Trinidad and Tobago
1. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 3 3 0 0 19- 1 9
2. Surinam 3 2 0 1 17- 6 6
3. Grenada 3 1 0 2 4-14 3
4. Saint Vincent and The Grenadines 3 0 0 3 3-22 0
Group B:
All matches played at Parque del Este in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
[Oct 3, 2007]
Dominican Republic 4- 0 American Virgin Islands
Cuba 21- 0 British Virgin Islands
[Oct 5, 2007]
Cuba 14- 0 American Virgin Islands
Dominican Republic 17- 0 British Virgin Islands
[Oct 7, 2007]
Dominican Republic 1- 2 Cuba
American Virgin Islands 5- 0 British Virgin Islands
1. CUBA 3 3 0 0 37- 1 9
2. Dominican Republic 3 2 0 1 22- 2 6
3. American Virgin Islands 3 1 0 2 5-18 3
4. British Virgin Islands 3 0 0 3 0-43 0
Group C:
All matches played at Antigua Recreation in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda.
[Oct 3, 2007]
Jamaica 4- 0 Bermuda
Antigua and Barbuda 3- 0 Dominica
[Oct 5, 2007]
Bermuda 8- 0 Dominica
Jamaica 12- 0 Antigua and Barbuda
[Oct 7, 2007]
Dominica 0- 8 Jamaica
Antigua and Barbuda 0- 4 Bermuda
1. JAMAICA 3 3 0 0 24- 0 9
2. Bermuda 3 2 0 1 12- 4 6
3. Antigua and Barbuda 3 1 0 2 3-16 3
4. Dominica 3 0 0 3 0-19 0
Group D:
All matches played in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.
[Oct 24, 2007]
Cayman Islands 0- 4 Puerto Rico [at McField Playing]
[Oct 26, 2007]
Puerto Rico 1- 0 Haiti [at North Side Playing]
[Oct 28, 2007]
Cayman Islands 2- 3 Haiti [at North Side]
1. PUERTO RICO 2 2 0 0 5- 0 6
2. Haiti 2 1 0 1 3- 3 3
3. Cayman Islands 2 0 0 2 2- 7 0
Second round:
First leg:
[Nov 23, 2007]
Puerto Rico 1- 2 Trinidad and Tobago [at Juan Ramón Loubriel, Bayamón]
[Nov 29, 2007]
Cuba 0- 1 Jamaica [at Pedro Marrero, La Habana]
Second leg:
[Nov 25, 2007]
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO 0- 1 Puerto Rico [goal away rule, at Juan Ramón Loubriel, Bayamón, Puerto Rico]
[Dec 1, 2007]
JAMAICA 2- 0 Cuba [at Pedro Marrero, La Habana, Cuba]
Central America Zone
First round:
[Oct 6, 2007]
El Salvador 1- 2 Nicaragua [at Cusclatan, San Salvador]
[Oct 13, 2007]
NICARAGUA 3- 0 El Salvador [at Olímpico, Managua]
Second round:
[Oct 20, 2007]
Nicaragua 0- 3 Costa Rica [at Olímpico, Managua]
[Oct 27, 2007]
COSTA RICA 6- 0 Nicaragua [at Nacional, San José]
Final round
NB: USA, Canada and Mexico were automatically qualified.
All matches played in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Group 1:
[Apr 2, 2008]
Mexico 8- 1 Jamaica
[Apr 4, 2008]
USA 6- 0 Jamaica
[Apr 6, 2008]
Mexico 1- 3 USA
1. USA 2 2 0 0 9- 1 6
2. MEXICO 2 1 0 1 9- 4 3
3. Jamaica 2 0 0 2 1-14 0
Group 2:
[Apr 2, 2008]
Trinidad and Tobago 0- 6 Canada
[Apr 4, 2008]
Costa Rica 2- 2 Trinidad and Tobago
[Apr 6, 2008]
Canada 1- 0 Costa Rica
1. CANADA 2 2 0 0 7- 0 6
2. COSTA RICA 2 0 1 1 2- 3 1
3. Trinidad and Tobago 2 0 1 1 2- 8 1
Semifinals:
[Apr 9, 2008]
USA 3- 0 Costa Rica
CANADA 1- 0 Mexico
Third place [Apr 12, 2008]:
Costa Rica 0- 1 Mexico
Final [Apr 12, 2008]:
USA 1- 1 Canada [6-5 pen]
Preliminary Round: ANGOLA n/p Tanzania [Tanzania withdrew] Benin n/p NAMIBIA [Benin withdrew] Uganda n/p ERITREA [Uganda withdrew] First leg: [Oct 28, 2006] Mozambique 7- 2 Comoros Guinea-Bissau 1- 1 Guinea Second leg: [Nov 12, 2006] Comoros n/p MOZAMBIQUE [also reported 3-5 but apparently not played] GUINEA 3- 1 Guinea-Bissau First Round NIGERIA n/p Senegal [Senegal withdrew] First leg: Guinea n/p Zimbabwe [cancelled due to political unrest in Guinea] [Feb 17, 2007] Mozambique 0- 3 Algeria Angola 1- 2 Ghana Namibia 3- 3 Congo-Kinshasa [Feb 18, 2007] Equatorial Guinea 2- 1 South Africa [in Malabo] Liberia 0- 3 Ethiopia [Mar 10, 2007] Eritrea 3- 2 Morocco Second leg: [Mar 10, 2007] CONGO-KINSHASA 5- 2 Namibia ETHIOPIA 2- 0 Liberia [Mar 11, 2007] ALGERIA 9- 1 Mozambique GHANA 2- 0 Angola ZIMBABWE 6- 1 Guinea SOUTH AFRICA 4- 2 Equatorial Gunea [in Pretoria] [Mar 24, 2007] MOROCCO 2- 1 Eritrea [goal away rule] Second Round First leg: [Jun 2, 2007] Ethiopia 1- 0 Morocco [Jun 3, 2007] Algeria 1- 0 Nigeria Ghana 3- 1 Congo-Kinshasa South Africa 2- 1 Zimbabwe Second leg: [Jun 16, 2007] Morocco 2- 1 ETHIOPIA [goal away rule] Zimbabwe 2- 3 SOUTH AFRICA [Jun 17, 2007] Congho-Kinshasa 0- 1 GHANA NIGERIA 6- 0 Algeria Third Round [Jul 27, 2007 - Mar 16, 2008] The 4 second round winners advance to a round robin stage where each country will play 6 matches (3 home/3 away) over the course of 8 months. The winners advance to the 2008 Olympics & the runners-up play the runners-up from CONMEBOL. [Jul 28, 2007] Nigeria 5- 0 South Africa Ethiopia ann Ghana [1-3 annulled, Ethiopia withdrew] [Aug 12, 2007] Ghana 1- 0 Nigeria [Aug 25, 2007] South Africa 0- 1 Ghana [Dec 9, 2007] Ghana 2- 1 South Africa [Feb 2, 2008] South Africa 0- 1 Nigeria [Mar 15, 2008] Nigeria 2- 0 Ghana 1. NIGERIA 4 3 0 1 8- 1 9 2. GHANA 4 3 0 1 4- 3 9 3. South Africa 4 0 0 4 1- 9 0 4. Ethiopia withdrew
First Round
Group A [knock-out, home/away format]
Semifinal
Hongkong n/p Jordan [Jordan withdrew]
First Leg [Feb 17, 2007]:
South Korea 5- 0 India
Second Leg [Feb 25, 2007]:
India 0- 3 SOUTH KOREA
Final
First Leg [Mar 10, 2007]:
South Korea 2- 2 Hongkong
Second Leg [Mar 18, 2007]:
Hongkong 1- 0 South Korea
Group B [in Bangkok, Thailand]
[Feb 19, 2007]
Maldives 0- 6 Singapore
Thailand 1- 0 Vietnam
[Feb 21, 2007]
Thailand 5- 0 Singapore
Vietnam 5- 0 Maldives
[Feb 23, 2007]
Vietnam 3- 0 Singapore
Thailand 9- 0 Maldives
1. THAILAND 3 3 0 0 15- 0 9
2. VIETNAM 3 2 0 1 8- 1 6
3. Singapore 3 1 0 2 6- 8 3
4. Maldives 3 0 0 3 0-20 0
Group C [in Taipei, Taiwan]
[Feb 21, 2007]
Taiwan 2- 0 Uzbekistan
Australia 2- 0 Myanmar
[Feb 23, 2007]
Uzbekistan 0-10 Australia
Taiwan 1- 0 Myanmar
[Feb 25, 2007]
Taiwan 1- 8 Australia
Uzbekistan 1- 1 Myanmar
1. AUSTRALIA 3 3 0 0 20- 1 9
2. TAIWAN 3 2 0 1 4- 8 6
3. Myanmar 3 0 1 2 1- 4 1
4. Uzbekistan 3 0 1 2 1-13 1
Final Round
Group 1
[Apr 7, 2007]
Japan 2- 0 Vietnam [in Tokyo]
[Homare Sawa 36, Tomoe Sakai 73]
South Korea 0- 1 Thailand
[Apr 15, 2007]
Vietnam 1- 2 South Korea
Thailand 0- 4 Japan [in Bangkok]
[Homare Sawa 38, Eriko Arakawa 41, Shinobu Ono 49, 66]
[Jun 3, 2007]
Japan 6- 1 South Korea [in Tokyo]
[Tomomi Miyamoto 9, Shinobu Ono 20, Eriko Arakawa 24, KIM Jin-hae (o.g.) 34,
Kanako Ito 66, Homare Sawa 68; Jung Hae-in 74]
Vietnam 1- 0 Thailand
[Jun 10, 2007]
South Korea 2- 2 Japan [in Bucheon]
Thailand 5- 0 Vietnam
[Aug 4, 2007]
Vietnam 0- 8 Japan
Thailand 1- 1 South Korea
[Aug 12, 2007]
Japan 5- 0 Thailand [in Tokyo]
South Korea 2- 1 Vietnam
1. JAPAN 6 5 1 0 27- 3 16
2. South Korea 6 2 2 2 8-12 8
3. Thailand 6 2 1 3 7-11 7
4. Vietnam 6 1 0 5 3-19 3
Group 2:
[Apr 7, 2007]
Ausralia 15- 0 Hong Kong
North Korea 8- 0 Taiwan
[Apr 15, 2007]
Hong Kong 0-14 North Korea
Taiwan 0-10 Australia
[Jun 3, 2007]
Taiwan 6- 0 Hong Kong
North Korea 2- 0 Australia
[Jun 10, 2007]
Australia 0- 2 North Korea
Hong Kong 0- 6 Taiwan
[Aug 4, 2007]
Taiwan 0- 6 North Korea
Hong Kong 1- 8 Australia
[Aug 12, 2007]
North Korea 19- 0 Hong Kong
Australia 7- 0 Taiwan
1. NORTH KOREA 6 6 0 0 51- 0 18
2. Australia 6 4 0 2 40- 5 12
3. Taiwan 6 2 0 4 12-31 6
4. Hong Kong 6 0 0 6 1-68 0
New Zealand played Papua New Guinea (winners South Pacific Games 2007) for one place at the Olympics. Final [Mar 8, 2008]: Papua New Guinea 0- 2 New Zealand
Play off [Apr 19, 2008]: Brazil 5- 1 Ghana
Source: 100 Años de Fútbol Olímpico (Eduardo Cantaro)
Thanks to Masanori "Komabano" Nakanishi (HQM07536@nifty.ne.jp)
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