You're a Bunch of Factors

Here is a list of which teams would go into which pot for the World Cup group draw. The groups will consist of 4 teams each and are labelled A through to H.

This list has nothing to do with who has actually qualified yet, it's just showing which pots teams will be drawn from when they see who goes into which group for the World Cup itself.

It has been worked out from either a) how well those teams have done in the previous World Cup from within their own regions (including the qualifying process) or b) directly from the FIFA rankings. Example: Australia did the best out of any Asian nation in the last World Cup AND are the highest ranked Asian nation so quite naturally we are ranked number 1 in Asia for this draw and that will put us in pot A. Japan also made pot A, as did South Korea but North Korea are in pot B. Because those 4 teams have all already qualified we now know some of the teams in some of the pots.

Bahrain and Saudi Arabia are the 2 teams left to fight it out for the last Asian spot available - one of them will have to play New Zealand, most likely.

Bahrain should they qualify would go into pot B.
Saudi Arabia should they qualify would go into pot A.
New Zealand should they qualify would go into pot "I don't know because it's not listed". Will have to wait and see for that one.

As soon as I can find which groups are drawn from which pots I'll post it here.

One thing is known already and that is South Africa, being the host nation, have already qualified and will be in Group A.

BigPete33 wrote:One thing is known already and that is South Africa, being the host nation, have already qualified and will be in Group A.

Have they been sucking *really* badly in recent matches?

Pretty much.

yeah they prob wont get past the group stage

FIFA now looks at places to hold world cups to try and build the popularity of football in the country, hopefully we get it too

Chelsea4thewin wrote:yeah they prob wont get past the group stage

FIFA now looks at places to hold world cups to try and build the popularity of football in the country, hopefully we get it too

It's why the US got 94

also south korea / japan

looks like every second world cup goes to one of these nations

Good omen then. SAF is one of them.

Brazil isn't. 2014
England isn't. 2018
So 2022, Australia is

yeah 2022 is our best chance

i thought it would go back to south america before europe again though

my goal is to attend the 2014 world cup

Chelsea4thewin wrote:yeah 2022 is our best chance

i thought it would go back to south america before europe again though

my goal is to attend the 2014 world cup

Do people think we will make the 2014 world cup? Our best players will be gone by then and our U21 results have been pretty poor lately.