What is the principle of the World Cup draw?

There are four main principles. First of all, the 32-line team is divided into four grades, with eight teams in each of the first, second, third and fourth grades. Teams of the same grade will not be drawn into the same group. Second, 32 teams are divided into eight groups: A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H, with four teams in each group, one team in grade one, grade two, grade three and grade four. Third, in the same group, there can be no more than two teams in Europe and no more than one team in other continents. Except for European teams, teams from the same continent cannot be in the same group. Fourth, the host South Africa automatically entered Group A, occupying the position of A 1. The other seven seed teams will draw lots from B to H to enter the first place in the corresponding group.

The principle of drawing lots for the World Cup embodies the principle of fairness and justice, and the fundamental purpose of this principle is to make the average strength of each group almost the same.