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Friday, September 21, 2012

2014 FIFA World Cup seeding update (21 September 2012)

Next update: October 2012

Includes matches up to and including 20 September 2012.

See more info in the original 2014 FIFA World Cup seeding post.


This is the top 20 of the intermediate October 2013 ranking. Next month the 0.5 time frame will close and we'll have 50% of the final formula (i.e. only the last time frame will still be pending).


1 Spain 748
2 Germany 686
3 Portugal 588
4 England 559
5 Uruguay 547
6 Argentina 532
7 Netherlands 519
8 Italy 507
9 Colombia 489
10 Croatia 470
11 Russia 458
12 Greece 455
13 Côte d'Ivoire 452
14 France 449
15 Mexico 430
16 Chile 419
17 Denmark 414
18 Brazil 410
19 Switzerland 408
20 Sweden 395

Netherlands replace Italy in the list of seeds.

Right now, the seeds for the 2014 World Cup would be:  Brazil, Spain, Germany, Portugal, England, Uruguay, Argentina and Netherlands.

Top 3 teams by confederation:

AFC: Japan (21), Korea Republic (24), Australia (39)
CAF: Côte d'Ivoire (13), Algeria (22), Ghana (26)
CONCACAF: Mexico (15), USA (37), Panama (41)
CONMEBOL: Uruguay (5), Argentina (6), Colombia (9)
OFC: New Zealand (94), New Caledonia (130), Tahiti (137)
UEFA: Spain (1), Germany (2), Portugal (3)



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10 comments:

  1. FIFA also uses results from previous WCs to help decide the seeding, it is not soley based on the ranking.

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    1. They did - in the past (98, 2002, 2006). For World Cup 2010 they just used current ranking without calculations.

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  2. Algeria currently ranked 22

    After winning the match interval and qualify for the African Cup will enter the list of top 20 team

    After winning the Africa Cup 2013 will be among the best 10 teams

    After qualification for the World Cup will be among the top 7 teams

    And therefore it would be in the level

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    1. Algeria will be in the second level by anticipatory

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  3. great for our lovely country ................. 1 2 3 viva l'Algerie

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  4. Isn't Argentina going to be 1st in South America since October?

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    1. In October 2012, yes. This is the October 2013 ranking (preliminary/intermediate version).

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