FIFA and the South African World Cup Organizing Committee will hold a draw for the qualifiers at Durban International Conference Center at 23: 00 Beijing time today. FIFA confirmed the rankings of the teams yesterday.
The 20 teams in Asia are divided into four grades, the specific grades are as follows. According to the ranking order, China is the 10 seed team.
Grade one: Australia, Korea, Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia.
Grade two: Bahrain, Uzbekistan, Kuwait, Korea, China.
Third grade: Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, United Arab Emirates
Fourth grade: Qatar, Syria, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Singapore.
When drawing lots tonight, the guests will draw teams of each level into 5 groups in turn, with 4 teams in each group.
In the interesting division of teams in Europe, England failed to qualify because of its poor performance in the just-concluded European Championship qualifiers, and finally failed to enter the first-class seed team. Fifty-three European teams are divided into six levels. Next year's European Championship is ranked as the first-class seed team, and Austria is only ranked as the fifth-class seed team this time. The top three are:
Grade one: Italy, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, France, Portugal, Netherlands, Croatia, Greece.
Grade two: England, Romania, Scotland, Turkey, Bulgaria, Russia, Poland, Sweden and Israel.
Grade 3: Norway, Ukraine, Serbia, Denmark, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium.
When drawing lots in groups tonight, guests will divide teams at all levels into 9 groups in turn, including 8 groups and 6 teams, 1 group 5 teams.
Since South America 10 team has a single-round qualifier, the draw for the Oceania preliminaries has been made, so only the Asian, Central and North American, European and African preliminaries will be drawn in turn tonight.
CCTV 5 will broadcast the lottery ceremony live tonight.