How is the 20 10 World Cup scored?
South Africa (host), Italy (defending champion), Brazil, Spain, Germany, Argentina, England and the Netherlands.
Second tranche (Asia, Oceania, Central America and North America)
Korea, Japan, North Korea, Australia, Mexico, USA, Honduras, New Zealand.
Third gear (Africa and South America)
Cameroon, Cô te d 'Ivoire, Nigeria, Ghana, Algeria, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay.
Fourth gear (Europe)
France, Portugal, Denmark, Switzerland, Serbia, Slovakia, Greece, Slovenia.
At the press conference of the organizing Committee in the morning local time, FIFA announced the selection criteria of the seed team. In addition to the host South Africa, the eight seed teams are divided according to FIFA's "10 ranking", with the top five European teams and the top two non-European teams.
It was Hayatou, the president of the African Football Association, who decided to rank FIFA as of June 5438+ 10, 2009, which means that the French team ranked ninth in FIFA lost its status as the seed team in June 5438+10. And if we take FIFA's ranking in 1 1 as the basis, then France will be the seventh.
Hayatou refused to take the ranking of 1 1 because he was worried that it would be unfair to some teams that had already qualified. Because many teams played play-offs on June 5438+0 1, while many other teams played friendly matches, they just adopted the idea of ending on June 5438+0 in a fair way.
At the same time, FIFA has determined the basis for drawing lots on February 4, 65438. First, select the group where the seed team is located, and they will automatically assign the position of 1 to each group. Then draw lots according to the list of 1 to 4. From Group A to Group H, teams from the same continent outside Europe will not fight with each other. South Africa will not meet African teams in the third group, and Brazil and Argentina will not meet South African teams in the group stage.
Grouping rules:
1. The host South Africa automatically entered A 1, and other seed teams drew lots to decide their own teams (Group B to Group H) and automatically became 1 of this group.
2. There are at most 2 European teams in each group, and other teams in the same continent cannot be in the same group.
3. The draw for the second to fourth teams is divided into two steps. First, the team is selected by drawing lots, and then the ranking of the team is determined (second to fourth). Among them, the third team started the same mainland avoidance procedure when drawing lots.