Qualified Teams
| Team | Finals Appearance | Streak | Last Appearance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 1st | 1 | – |
| Argentina | 14th | 9 | 2002 |
| Australia | 2nd | 1 | 1974 |
| Brazil | 18th | 18 | 2002 |
| Costa Rica | 3rd | 2 | 2002 |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 1st | 1 | – |
| Croatia | 3rd | 3 | 2002 |
| Czech Republic | 1st(1) | 1 | –(1) |
| Ecuador | 2nd | 2 | 2002 |
| England | 12th | 3 | 2002 |
| France | 12th | 3 | 2002 |
| Germany (h) | 16th(2) | 14(2) | 2002 |
| Ghana | 1st | 1 | – |
| Iran | 3rd | 1 | 1998 |
| Italy | 16th | 12 | 2002 |
| Japan | 3rd | 3 | 2002 |
| South Korea | 7th | 6 | 2002 |
| Mexico | 13th | 4 | 2002 |
| Netherlands | 8th | 1 | 1998 |
| Paraguay | 7th | 3 | 2002 |
| Poland | 7th | 2 | 2002 |
| Portugal | 4th | 2 | 2002 |
| Saudi Arabia | 4th | 4 | 2002 |
| Serbia and Montenegro | 2nd(4) | 1 | 1998 |
| Spain | 12th | 8 | 2002 |
| Sweden | 11th | 2 | 2002 |
| Switzerland | 8th | 1 | 1994 |
| Togo | 1st | 1 | – |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1st | 1 | – |
| Tunisia | 4th | 3 | 2002 |
| Ukraine | 1st(3) | 1(3) | – |
| United States | 8th | 5 | 2002 |
(h) - qualified automatically as hosts
1Excludes appearances by Czechoslovakia. If those are counted together, this is their 9th appearance, and their previous appearance was in 1990.
2Includes 10 appearances by DFB representing West Germany between 1954 and 1990. Excludes 1 appearance by DVF representing East Germany between 1954 and 1990.
3Excludes appearances by pre-division Soviet Union. If those are counted together, this is their 8th appearance.
4Excludes appearances by pre-division Yugoslavia. If those are counted together, this is their 10th appearance. This is also their first and\ last appearance under this name; at the previous qualifying tournament they had competed as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and the two parts of the country finally split in June 2006.
13 of the 32 teams subsequently failed to qualify for the 2010 finals: Saudi Arabia (whose streak of 4 tournaments ended in 2006); Croatia and Tunisia (both 3); Costa Rica, Ecuador, Poland and Sweden (2); Angola, Czech Republic, Iran, Togo, Trinidad & Tobago, Ukraine (1).
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