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The world’s governing soccer body determined how the 32 teams would be initially grouped into four pots of eight teams prior to the highly anticipated draw.
By determining that the seeded teams would be chosen based on their October world ranking, Pot 1 consists of (in order of ranking): Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina, and England. Pot 1 also includes the host nation, South Africa (ranked 85).
France was ranked ninth as of October. As a result, France will have to face one of the Pot 1 teams in the round robin stage. In the November ranking, France moved up two places to seventh.
Pot 2 will consist of teams from Asia, North and Central America and the Caribbean, and Oceania. These eight teams are: Australia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Honduras, Mexico, USA, and New Zealand.
Pot 3 will consist of teams from Africa and South America. These eight teams are: Algeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Pot 4 will consist of the remaining teams from Europe: Denmark, France, Slovakia, Slovenia, Portugal, Serbia, Greece, and Switzerland.