Because the lottery principle tries to prevent teams from the same continent from being in the same group, all teams except the seed team are strictly divided according to the region, and the division of the other three grades except the first file has nothing to do with the team strength. In the group draw, the teams in each file will be divided into different groups. The following are the specific scores:
The first gear: Germany, Brazil, Italy, France, Argentina, Spain, Mexico and Britain.
Second tranche: Australia, Angola, Ghana, C? te d 'Ivoire, Togo, Tunisia, Ecuador and Paraguay.
Third gear: Croatia, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine.
The fourth file: Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States.
Serbia and Montenegro is listed as a special team. Because three European teams are not allowed to be in the same group, Serbia and Montenegro, which is not in the third gear with European teams, will inevitably be in the same group with one of the three teams in Brazil, Argentina or Mexico.
The specific lottery process of 65438+February 9th is as follows:
1. The first eight seed teams were drawn into eight groups, among which Germany and Brazil will be divided into Group A and Group F in advance.
2. Eight unseeded European teams in the third file were drawn into eight groups respectively.
Serbia and Montenegro, the lowest ranked European team, was assigned to one of three groups with only one European team, namely Brazil, Argentina or Mexico.
In the second round, five African teams, two South American teams and Australia teams were divided into eight groups.
In the fourth gear, except Serbia and Montenegro, four Asian teams and three Central and North American teams were divided into seven groups.