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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

2010 WC: Seeding formula (August 2008 update)

Seeded teams for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.

Qualified teams determined using the current standings and the FIFA rankings.

No new teams this month.

England seeded, France unseeded (same total, but England's performance part is higher). I'm not sure how FIFA would go about this though...

Rank - Country - Total - Performance - Ranking

1 Germany 60.3 30.3 30.0
2 Brazil 57.7 29.3 28.3
3 Italy 57.3 27.3 30.0
4 Spain 56.3 25.3 31.0
5 Argentina 49.0 21.0 28.0
6 Portugal 46.7 22.3 24.3
7 England 46.0 26.3 19.7
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8 France 46.0 23.3 22.7
9 Netherlands 42.0 14.7 27.3
10 Croatia 35.3 9.0 26.3
11 Mexico 31.7 19.3 12.3
12 Czech Republic 31.7 6.0 25.7
13 Turkey 29.3 10.0 19.3
14 Ghana 26.0 13.3 12.7
15 USA 25.7 13.7 12.0
16 Paraguay 25.7 11.7 14.0
17 Russia 22.7 3.0 19.7
18 Japan 22.3 13.3 9.0
19 Romania 21.3 0.0 21.3
20 Korea Republic 20.0 15.7 4.3
21 Cameroon 19.0 3.0 16.0
22 Greece 18.7 0.0 18.7
23 Australia 17.3 11.3 6.0
24 Cote d'Ivoire 17.3 6.0 11.3
25 Nigeria 15.0 2.7 12.3
26 Colombia 14.3 0.0 14.3
27 Egypt 13.0 0.0 13.0
28 Saudi Arabia 11.3 8.0 3.3
29 Iran 11.3 5.3 6.0
30 Chile 5.7 0.0 5.7
31 South Africa 4.0 3.0 1.0
32 Honduras 2.3 0.0 2.3


Top 7 + South Africa seeded.

The pots:

Pot A: Argentina, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, Spain
Pot B: Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Turkey
Pot C: Australia, Honduras, Iran, Japan, Korea Republic, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, USA
Pot D: Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Paraguay

Possible draw:

Group A: South Africa, Netherlands, Japan, Colombia
Group B: Portugal, Czech Republic, Korea Republic, Paraguay
Group C: England, Turkey, Mexico, Chile
Group D: Germany, Russia, Honduras, Ghana
Group E: Argentina, Croatia, Saudi Arabia, Cameroon
Group F: Italy, Romania, USA, Cote d'Ivoire
Group G: Brazil, Greece, Iran, Egypt
Group H: Spain, France, Australia, Nigeria

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2 comments:

  1. My 16 favourite underdogs for Qualification:

    Senegal
    Morocco
    Tunisia

    Denmark
    Sweden

    Bulgaria
    Ireland

    Ukraine

    Scotland
    Norway

    Israel

    Poland
    Northern Ireland


    Costa Rica


    Uruguay


    North Korea

    Which
    Rank - Country - Total - Performance - Ranking
    would these 16 teams have?

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  2. Hi Stevan!

    All of your 16 teams would be unseeded because the World Cup performance part of the seeding formula wouldn't be big enough.

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