2010 FIFA World Cup qualification scored over 852 matches, scoring on average 2.74 per match. At the close of entries on 15 March 2007, 204 football associations had entered the preliminary competition: 203 out of the 207 FIFA members at that time (including the host nation, South Africa, as the qualification procedure in Africa also acted as the qualification for the 2010 African Cup of Nations) and the Montenegro team, which later became FIFA's 208th member. The final number of teams entered breaks the previous record of 199 entrants set during the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Four FIFA members (all from the AFC) failed to
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup following table shows the all-time top 30 goalscorers. The following table shows the top 20 goalscorers of the FIFA era. The following table shows the top 20 goalscorers of the World Championships era. Note that attendance records are not available between 1995 and 2002. FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. The tournament was established in 1995 as the "Beach Soccer World Championship", taking place every year for the next decade under the