World Cup Draw Preview
With the world’s biggest football competition fastly approaching, we take a look at the World Cup draw a head of next Friday. The group stage draw will take place on the 4th November 2009 in the Cape Town Convention Centre at 19:00 local time. Although Argentina and France struggled to qualify for this tournament, they are both among the top seeds. Fifa have also not taken into account this month’s Fifa world rankings as England would be in pot two because they have now dropped to ninth in the world rankings after their 1-0 defeat to Brazil.
The seeds are as followed:
| Pot 1 |
Pot 2 (UEFA Pot) |
 South Africa (CAF – as hosts) |
 Denmark (UEFA) |
 Brazil (CONMEBOL) |
 France (UEFA) |
 Spain (UEFA) |
 Greece (UEFA) |
 Netherlands (UEFA) |
 Portugal (UEFA) |
 Italy (UEFA) |
 Serbia (UEFA) |
 Germany (UEFA) |
 Slovakia (UEFA) |
 Argentina (CONMEBOL) |
 Slovenia (UEFA) |
 England (UEFA) |
 Switzerland (UEFA) |
| Pot 3 |
Pot 4 |
 Mexico (CONCACAF) |
 Paraguay (CONMEBOL) |
 USA (CONCACAF) |
 Ghana (CAF) |
 South Korea (AFC) |
 Cameroon (CAF) |
 Japan (AFC) |
 Cote d’Ivoire (CAF) |
 Australia (AFC) |
 Nigeria (CAF) |
 Honduras (CONCACAF) |
 Uruguay (CONMEBOL) |
 New Zealand (OFC) |
 Algeria (CAF) |
 North Korea (AFC) |
 Chile (CONMEBOL) |
(c) Oliver McGrath & Blogsfc
Feedback Wanted- Please Comment Thanks
France in Pot 1 ???
i know yeah its stupid its because of where they were in the fifa ranking tables
Oliver, why did you write this before the seedings were announced?
Now the seedings have been announced, your article is completely incorrect.
hi lee i wrote this thinking these were the seeds as one website i went on said they were this way. sorry for any wrong information they are now up to date