Second seed: Ecuador, Paraguay, C? te d 'Ivoire, Angola, Ghana, Australia, Togo and Tunisia (two South American teams, five African teams and one Oceania team).
Third seed: Poland, Sweden, Netherlands, Portugal, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Croatia, Ukraine; (8 European teams)
Fourth seed: Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Serbia and Montenegro, Iran, the United States, Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia (three teams from Central and North America and the Caribbean, four teams from Asia and a special team (Serbia and Montenegro will no longer exist after this World Cup))