Wednesday, June 10, 2009

2014 FIFA World Cup seeding for UEFA teams (9 June 2009)

The preliminary draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup took place on November 25th, 2007 and used the November 2007 FIFA ranking.

Assumptions:

- UEFA will again have 13 spots
- UEFA will again use the system with 9 groups
- FIFA will use the FIFA ranking to seed the teams
- FIFA will hold the draw in November 2011

The November 2011 FIFA ranking will include matches played between November 2007 and November 2011. We already have the "0.2" part (matches played between November 2007 and November 2008) - that's basically 10% of the final ranking and a bit of the "0.3" part (matches played between November 2008 and November 2009). A lot can and will change before November 2011 as there are many matches to be played involving European teams: 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2010 FIFA World Cup, EURO 2012 qualifiers and plenty of friendlies.

UEFA will only use the national team coefficient for the European Championships draws (qualifying and final tournament).

This is the November 2011 ranking (for UEFA only) using matches played up to and including June 9th, 2009 and matches scheduled up to November 2009 (only those on fifa.com).

The "0.3" part is computed this way: points gained / (number of matches played + scheduled).

Denmark and Serbia replace Greece and Israel in the first pot.
Republic of Ireland and Portugal replace Turkey and Northern Ireland in the second pot.
Romania replace Lithuania in the third pot.
Wales replace Norway in the fourth pot.
 1 Spain               293
2 Netherlands 265
3 Germany 186
4 Croatia 185
5 England 178
6 Denmark 172
6 Serbia 172
8 Russia 161
9 Switzerland 158
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10 Italy 153
11 Greece 152
12 France 151
13 Bulgaria 149
14 Ukraine 148
15 Israel 147
16 Republic of Ireland 142
17 Bosnia-Herzegovina 141
18 Portugal 140
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19 Turkey 134
20 Northern Ireland 126
21 Slovakia 121
22 Czech Republic 118
23 Romania 115
24 Hungary 112
25 Sweden 107
26 Poland 105
27 Latvia 100
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28 Lithuania 95
29 Scotland 89
30 Austria 87
31 Belarus 86
32 Wales 85
32 Slovenia 85
34 Montenegro 83
35 Finland 80
36 Belgium 78
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36 Norway 78
38 FYR Macedonia 69
39 Cyprus 61
40 Estonia 60
41 Albania 53
42 Iceland 52
43 Luxembourg 45
44 Armenia 35
45 Kazakhstan 34
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46 Georgia 32
47 Moldova 29
48 Azerbaijan 24
49 Faroe Islands 23
50 Malta 21
51 Liechtenstein 5
52 Andorra 0
52 San Marino 0

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