POSTED: Wednesday December 2nd 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FIFA Organising Committee approves Final Draw procedure

Final Draw of the FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010â„¢ will be held in Cape Town on Friday 4 December.

The FIFA Organising Committee approved today the procedure for the Final Draw of the FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010™, which will be held in Cape Town on Friday 4 December. The seeding was based on the October 2009 FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking (see note to media: http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/news/newsid=1137443.html#spain+regain+leadership+from+brazil), and Brazil, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina and England are therefore the seven squads that join host South Africa as seeded teams for the final draw.

The committee also approved the composition of the other pots as well as the procedure for the final draw:

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

·        Pot 3 will include teams from Africa (Algeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria) and South America (Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)

·        Pot 4 will have the remaining European teams (Denmark, France, Greece, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland)

·        hosts South Africa will be automatically positioned as A1; the other seeded teams will be drawn into the other groups B-H, but will always be in position “1” of their group

·        groups will be drawn from A to H and the positions in the group will be drawn for Pots 2 to 4

·        geographical criteria will also be respected, meaning that 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). For example, South Africa cannot play the African teams from Pot 3 and Argentina and Brazil cannot be drawn against the three remaining South American teams.

Information on the procedure of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking can be found here: http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/procedure/men.html

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