The 4 pots for the World Cup draw has been approved by FIFA Organising Committee today. The draw of each country destination will take place in South Africa, Cape Town, at 7pm local time on 4th Dec 09. The seeded pots consists of host nation and the top 7 Fifa ranking nation base on Oct 09 data, which see currents rank 5th Portugal and rank 7th France miss out the seeding. 2nd pots team consists country from Asia, North, Central America and the Caribbean and Oceania. 3rd pots team consists country from Africa and South America while 4th pots team consists country of all the qualified european nation which are not in the seeded pots.

Seeded Pots – South Africa, Brazil, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina and England
2nd Pots – Australia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Honduras, Mexico, USA and New Zealand
3rd Pots – Algeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay
4th Pots – Denmark, France, Greece, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland

South Africa, as host country  automatically being part of the seeded side and will be in Group A. Country from the rest of the pots will be praying hard to be in the same groups with them. Group of death will most likely be the group where Portugal and France in, unless South Africa is with either of the 2 country.

Chance of Draw
Lowest Fifa Ranking group – South Africa, North Korea, Paraguay and Slovakia
Highest Fifa Ranking group – Spain, USA, Cameroon and Portugal
Most Easy group - South Africa, New Zealand, Paraguay and Slovenia.
Group of Death – Spain, USA, Ivory Coast and France

Rule of Draw
No 2 nation from the same region will be in the same group other than Europe.
- Brazil and Argentina cannot be in same group with Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay
- South Africa cannot be in same group with Algeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Nigeria