FIFA confirms seeded teams for World Cup draw

Cape Town, Dec 2: Football's world governing body FIFA Wednesday confirmed the seeded teams for the World Cup draw Friday.

World champions Italy, European champions Spain, Brazil, the Netherlands, Germany, Argentina and England join hosts South Africa as seeded teams for the draw.

FIFA's organizing committee also approved the composition of the other pots as well as the procedure for the draw.

Pot 2 will be composed of teams from Asia (Australia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea), North, Central America and the Caribbean (Honduras, Mexico, USA) and Oceania (New Zealand).

Pot 3 will include teams from Africa (Algeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria) and South America (Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay).

Pot 4 will consist of the remaining European teams (Denmark, France, Greece, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland).

In the draw, no two teams from the same confederation will be drawn in the same group, except European teams, where a maximum of two will be in a group.