Tuesday, June 8, 2010

World Cup 2010 - Team Group Stage Travel Distances


South African Street Sign
Picture from
An American in Pretoria Blog



I noticed a few days ago that the USA's group stage venues were all fairly close to each other and it made me wonder about the amount of travel some teams would have to do compared to others. This is a list of the distances covered in miles between the 3 venues that each nation will play at in their group stage games.

I came up with these numbers using driving directions on Google maps so as the bird flies the numbers would probably be a bit different. Also, I plugged in the cities in the order they'll be played in, so some teams that play in the same 3 cities will still have different mileage totals due to the different routes and direction of travel between the cities.

With that in mind, these mileage numbers are not necessarily precise, but still give a relatively good idea of the distances that will be traveled by each team between their 3 group stage games.

All numbers are in miles


GROUP A
1513 - France - Cape Town, Polokwane, Bloemfontein
976 - Uruguay - Cape Town, Pretoria, Rustenburg
422 - Mexico - Johannesburg, Polokwane, Rustenburg
324 - South Africa - Johannesburg, Pretoria, Bloemfontein

GROUP B
1017 - South Korea - Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg, Durban
863 - Greece - Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein, Polokwane
643 - Nigeria - Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Durban
201 - Argentina - Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Polowkane

GROUP C
1974 - Algeria - Polokwane, Cape Town, Pretoria
1354 - England - Rustenburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth
863 - Slovenia - Polokwane, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth
114 - USA - Rustenburg, Johannesburg, Pretoria

GROUP D
1581 - Serbia - Pretoria, Port Elizabeth, Nelspruit
1257 - Germany - Durban, Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg
702 - Australia - Durban, Rustenburg, Nelspruit
141 - Ghana - Pretoria, Rustenburg, Johannesburg

GROUP E
1370 - Netherlands - Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town
1192 - Cameroon - Bloemfontein, Pretoria, Cape Town
826 - Japan - Bloemfontein, Durban, Rustenburg
109 - Denmark - Johannesburg, Pretoria, Rustenburg

GROUP F
1299 - Italy - Cape Town, Nelspruit, Johannesburg
1069 - Paraguay - Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Polokwane
560 - Slovakia - Rustenburg, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg
474 - New Zealand - Rustenburg, Nelspruit, Polokwane

GROUP G
1954 - North Korea - Johannesburg, Cape Town, Nelspruit
1483 - Portugal - Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Durban
878 - Cote d'Ivoire - Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg, Nelspruit
354 - Brazil - Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Durban

GROUP H
1580 - Chile - Nelspruit, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria
1004 - Switzerland - Durban, Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein
461 - Honduras - Nelspruit, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein
391 - Spain - Durban, Johannesburg, Pretoria


Teams with Most Group Stage Travel
1974 - Algeria
1954 - North Korea
1581 - Serbia
1580 - Chile
1513 - France

Teams with Least Group Stage Travel
109 - Denmark
114 - USA
141 - Ghana
201 - Argentina
324 - South Africa

2 comments:

  1. Did you take into account distance to/from each team's home base, or just from venue to venue?

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  2. A.s.

    Taking base camps into account probably would have been a good idea but I didn't think of it.

    Also, these distances are actually from city to city, not exact venue locations.

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