Greece and Algeria advanced to next year's World Cup on Wednesday with victories on the final day of qualifying.
The final four berths were to be determined later in the day with the second leg of home-and-home series. France was at home with a 1-0 lead over Ireland, Portugal took a 1-0 lead to Bosnia-Herzogovina, Russia went to Slovenia with a 2-1 lead and Uruguay was at home with a 1-0 lead over Costa Rica.
At Donetsk, Dimitrios Salpigidis scored in the 31st minute, giving Greece a 1-0 victory at Ukraine. The teams had played a scoreless tie last weekend in Athens, and Greece won the total-goals series on 1-0 aggregate.
Greece will be making its second World Cup appearance after going 0-3 at the 1994 tournament in the United States.
Salpigidis scored off a pass from Georgios Samaras for his second international goal in 29 appearances.
Algeria qualified for its first World Cup since 1986, beating Egypt 1-0 in a tiebreaker playoff at Khartoum, Sudan, on Antar Yahya's goal in the 39th minute.
Egypt, whose only World Cup appearances were in 1934 and 1990, forced the playoff by beating Algeria 2-0 on an injury-time goal in Cairo last Saturday. That left the nations tied atop Africa Group C and set off several violent outbursts.
Algeria, which also appeared in the 1982 World Cup, completed the African field for next year's tournament, joining Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and host South Africa.
Yahya scored with a right-footed volley that beat goalkeeper Essam El Hadary.
