Draw Procedures and Seeding

2 Dec 2009
Final Draw procedures
SEEDING
8 seeded teams
Host: South Africa
7 other teams based on FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking October 2009
Top 5 European teams (8 lower-ranked European teams in separate pot)
Top 2 non-European teams
POTS
4 pots of 8 teams
Pot 1 Seeded teams
Pot 2 Asia (4), North, Central America and
the Caribbean (3), Oceania (1)
Pot 3 Africa (5), South America (3)
Pot 4 Europe (8)
Pot allocations
Algeria
Cameroon
Cte dIvoire
Ghana
Nigeria
Chile
Paraguay
Uruguay
Australia
Japan
Korea DPR
Korea Republic
Honduras
Mexico
USA
New Zealand
POT 1
South Africa
Brazil
Spain
Netherlands
Italy
Germany
Argentina
England
Denmark
France
Greece
Portugal
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Switzerland
POT 2 POT 3 POT 4
POT 1 POT 1
Final Draw procedures
PRINCIPLES
No two teams from same Confederation in same group
- Exception Europe maximum 2 teams from Europe may occupy a
group
South Africa A1
Seeded teams automatically assigned position 1 in each group
PROCEDURES
Team pots emptied one-by-one, beginning with Pot 1
Groups filled from A through H
Positions within Groups A-H to be drawn for
teams from Pots 2-4