Current WC Group Status.....

AFRICA
GROUP ONE
Able to qualify: Togo, Senegal
Out: Zambia, Congo, Mali, Liberia

GROUP TWO
Able to qualify: Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo
Out: South Africa, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde Islands, Uganda

GROUP THREE
Able to qualify: Cameroon, Ivory Coast
Out: Egypt, Libya, Sudan. Benin

GROUP FOUR
Able to qualify: Angola, Nigeria
Out: Zimbabwe, Gabon, Algeria, Rwanda

GROUP FIVE
Able to qualify: Tunisia, Morocco
Out: Guinea, Kenya, Botswana, Malawi

ASIA
Qualified: Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Japan, Iran
Able to qualify: Uzbekistan, Bahrain

CONCACAF
Qualified: Mexico, United States
Able to qualify automatically: Costa Rica, Guatemala
Able to make the play-offs: Trinidad & Tobago
Out: Panama

EUROPE
GROUP ONE
Able to qualify automatically: Netherlands, Czech Republic
Able to make the play-offs: Romania
Out: Finland, Macedonia, Andorra, Armenia

GROUP TWO
Qualified: Ukraine
Able to make play-offs: Turkey, Greece, Denmark
Out: Albania, Georgia, Kazakhstan

GROUP THREE
Able to qualify automatically: Portugal, Slovakia, Russia
Out: Latvia, Estonia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg

GROUP FOUR
Able to qualify automatically: Switzerland, Ireland, France, Israel
Out: Cyrpus, Faroe Islands

GROUP FIVE
Able to qualify automatically: Italy, Norway, Slovenia
Able to make the play-offs: Belarus, Scotland
Out: Moldova

GROUP SIX
Able to qualify automatically: Poland, England
Out: Austria, Northern Ireland, Wales, Azerbaijan

GROUP SEVEN
Able to qualify automatically: Serbia & Montenegro, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Able to make the play-offs: Belgium, Lithuania
Out: San Marino

GROUP EIGHT
Able to qualify automatically: Croatia, Sweden
Out: Hungary, Bulgaria, Iceland, Malta

The two best second placed teams will also qualify automatically. Effectively the two teams will come from one of three groups; Group One, Six or Eight. The teams realistically still in the running are as follows:

Group 6 - Poland - 24 points
Group 1 - Netherlands 22
Group 8 - Sweden - 21
Group 8 - Croatia - 20
Group 6 - England - 19
Group 1 - Czech Republic - 18

OCEANIA
Australia cruised past surprise area finalists Soloman Islands 9-1 on aggregate this month. They will now face the fifth placed nation from South America for a place in the finals.

SOUTH AMERICA
Qualified: Argentina, Brazil
Able to qualify automatically: Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Colombia, Chile
Able to make play-offs: Venezuela
Out: Peru, Bolivia