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Russia 2018: Pots for Teams revealed ahead of draw

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32 teams have now qualified for the 2018 Fifa World Cup to be hosted by Russia in 2018. Before the official draw the pots for these teams have now been confirmed.

The October 2017 edition of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking was used to allocate all qualified teams to the four pots according to their ranking in descending order, after hosts Russia, who take the top seeding spot.

 

Pot 1:  Russia, Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Argentina, Belgium, Poland, France

 

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Pot 2: Spain, Peru, Switzerland, England, Colombia, Mexico, Croatia, Uruguay

 

Pot 3: Denmark, Iceland, Costa Rica, Sweden, Tunisia, Egypt, Senegal, Iran

 

Pot 4: Serbia, Nigeria, Australia, Japan, Morocco, Panama, South Korea, Saudi Arabia

 

Fifa said on its website that “the principle of drawing the teams into the groups will remain unchanged.

This means that no teams from the same confederation, with the exception of UEFA, which could have up to two teams in the same group, will be drawn into the same group.”

The Final Draw will take place on Friday 1 December at Moscow’s State Kremlin Palace.

 

Source: Africafeeds.com 

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