After a few years in the 2nd highest division, they won the qualifying tournament for the 2012-13 season.

Under Ron Greenwood they managed to qualify for the 1982 World Cup in Spain ( the first time competitively since 1962 ), but were eliminated from a second qualifying round comprising further group matches without losing a game all tournament.

As of 2010, the Asia Pacific Floorball Championship is also the qualifying tournament for the World Floorball Championships.

# Any player qualifying from the Interzonal tournament to play in the Candidates Tournament, even if he did not play in the Candidates for any reason.

Recommendations were based on performance in qualifying tournaments, with the required score depending on the percentage of Grandmasters and International Masters in the tournament.

This allowed the team to take part in its first regional tournament, which until 1926, was the qualifying stage for the national title.

Starting in 2005, the WSOP began a tournament " circuit " at Harrah's-owned properties in the United States where, in addition to the $ 10, 000 buy-in tournament at each site, qualifying players became eligible for a revamped Tournament of Champions.

In addition to crowning the European champions, the tournament also serves as a qualifying tournament for the World Championship.

During the qualifying tournament for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Serbia came first in its group, ahead of France and consequently qualified directly for the championship.

32 countries applied to enter the tournament, so qualifying matches were required to thin the field to 16.

A number of teams refused to participate in the qualifying tournament, including most nations behind the Iron Curtain, such as the USSR, 1938 finalists Hungary and 1934 finalists Czechoslovakia.

Despite the Africans ' absence, there was another new record number of entries for the qualifying tournament, with 70 nations taking part.

* The winners of the Oceania qualifying tournament, Australia played the fifth placed team from the South American qualifying tournament, Uruguay.

* The fifth-placed team of the Asia qualifying tournament, Bahrain played the fourth-placed team in the CONCACAF qualifying tournament, Trinidad and Tobago.

The football team has played in 17 bowl games and the basketball team has had strong showings in the last several years, qualifying for the NCAA tournament and, most recently, making the final four of the 2007 NIT Tournament.

They were the only team to bring a psychologist to the training camp ( because the memories of 1950 still affected some players ) or a dentist ( for, because of their humble origins, many players had dental problems, which caused them infections and also had negative impact on performance ), and had sent a representative to Europe to watch the qualifying matches a year before the tournament had begun.

In addition to crowning the European champions, the tournament also serves as a qualifying tournament for the World Championship.

Substantial improvements to pensions were made, with invalidity and old-age pensions increased, the qualifying period of residence for age pensions halved, and the means test liberalised.

Since starting, the prize money and qualifying distance has increased and in 2009 at Worthing it stood at £ 30, 000 for reaching.

After increased interest for the tournament over the years, the qualifying stage was enlarged and an extra group round added in 2005, scrapping the playoffs added in 2001.

Also for the first time qualifying competitions were introduced as the number of entrants had increased from sixteen nations four years before to a total of thirty-three countries, the eight quarter-finalists from 1987 qualified automatically with the remaining twenty-five countries having to qualify for the remaining eight spots.

Points are increased by members winning qualifying regattas.

Three companies, Goodyear, Michelin and Avon supplied tyres, including special qualifying tyres, which provided much increased levels of grip during the qualification sessions that determined the starting order for the race.

With turbo-charged engines banned for 1989, the entry list had increased to 39 cars from 20 teams ; to accommodate the number of cars a pre-qualifying system was introduced, where the new cars and the teams ranked lowest in the previous season would compete for the 30 spaces available in qualifying, and then for the 26 starters in the race.

Qualifying at a National Open tends to be more difficult than a regional qualifying tournament because of their increased size.

The number of qualifying registrants has increased each year, from 189, 000 in 1994, to 433, 000 in 1996 and to 541, 000 in 1998.

While genetic discrimination is forbidden by law, in practice it is easy to profile a person's genotype resulting in the valids qualifying for professional employment while the in-valids — considered more susceptible to disease, educational dysfunction and shorter lifespans — are relegated to menial jobs.

Today, some qualifying matches against lower profile opponents and some friendlies are hosted at the Ratina Stadion in Tampere.

Up until the second season in 1997, qualifying was based on results in high profile tournaments, or by invitation from the sponsoring company.

In 2008, a study released by the non-partisan, non-profit organization Public Campaign, examined the demographic profile of $ 5 qualifying contribution donors in Clean Elections gubernatorial campaigns in Arizona over the course of the 2002 and 2006 elections, comparing and contrasting them with contributions raised by candidates running with funding from private sources — more than 67, 000 contributions in all.

Like Libya's previous home match, a 3 – 0 defeat of Comoros in qualifying, played in Stade 26 mars in Bamako, Mali, a relocation was necessary due to the on-going Libyan civil war, and so the Petro Sport Stadium in Cairo, Egypt became the venue.

In 72 appearances for France from 1976 to 1987, including 49 appearances as captain, Platini scored 41 times, a record for the French national team, which has since only been surpassed by Thierry Henry after scoring his 42nd and 43rd national team goals against Lithuania in a Euro 2008 qualifying match on 17 October 2007.

At the latter stages of the qualifying series for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in October 2005, he was re-called back into the national team, though not as captain.

As captain, Keane led the team to a second place finish in the 2010 World Cup qualifying.

After the Euro 2004 finals, Kovač became the Croatian national team's captain and led the team through the qualifying campaign for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals in Germany.

He was also captain of Canada's 4 x 100 m relay team, but the team failed to pass the qualifying stages.

Gerrard returned from injury for the second leg, however, and the captain steered his team to a 1 – 0 win with the help of a Luis García goal, qualifying for the final against Milan.

In his first match in charge against the Czech Republic, the team they would later face in the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying Group I, his team posted a 1 – 0 win over the Czechs, with the goal coming from Celtic captain Scott Brown.

He was captain of the Ghana national team, who exited in the first round of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, having finished in third place in Group B and was also the captain of the Ghana Meteors in the 2003 All Africa Games in Abuja that won the bronze medal. His international efforts was recognized as he was a member of the Ghanaian standby players in Germany 2006 World Cup after playing most of the matches of the qualifying round.

The week before, he had been the captain of Romania's Davis Cup team, where they lost to Sweden 3 – 2 in the qualifying rounds.

Cantillon was named captain of the Ireland national rugby league team in 2004, qualifying for under the grandparent rule after firstly representing England.

After the club's loss in the qualifying final to, captain Steve Malaxos was dropped from the side for the preliminary final, with Worsfold appointed captain in his place.

Stapleton was made captain of the national team for the qualifying campaign for the 1986 World Cup though Ireland failed to emulate their fine performance in the 1982 qualifiers.

After the UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying, national team coach Åge Hareide named Hangeland as captain instead of Vålerenga's player-coach Martin Andresen.