All the qualifiers around the world for FIFA World Cup 2014 are over and we have 21 qualified teams for the World Cup already while 11 more will be joining after the playoff stages. Today we try to explain the complex system of FIFA Seeding which will be user to decide the group stages of FIFA World Cup. There will be 8 groups in the 2014 World Cup of 4 teams each.

FIFA WORLD CUP 2014 SEED RANKINGS

TEAMS	Region	FIFA RANK	SEEDED
Brazil	South America	11	Yes
Spain	Europe	1	Yes
Germany	Europe	2	Yes
Argentina	South America	3	Yes
Colombia	South America	4	Yes
Belgium	Europe	5	Yes
Switzerland	Europe	7	Yes
Holland	Europe	8	if Uruguay dont Qualify
Italy	Europe	9
England	Europe	10
Chile	South America	12
United States	North America	13
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	16
Russia	Europe	19
Ecuador	South America	22
Costa Rica	North America	31
Honduras	North America	34
Japan	Asia	44
Iran	Asia	49
South Korea	Asia	56
Australia	Asia	57

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FIFA Seeding System Explained:

FIFA will be using the official FIFA Rankings October 2013 which was released after the qualifiers to rank the team and get the 8 seeded teams. Which are now confirmed. Only Uruguay who are in the World Cup qualifier playoff can make way into the top seed if they can qualify, if they dont it will be Holland.

Eight seeded teams will be placed in the Pot 1 while all the other 24 teams will be placed in pots 2,3 and 4 on the bases of regions they are from.

Pot 2 will have teams from Asia, Ociana, North America

Pot 3 will have teams from Africa and non seeded south american sides.

Pot 4 will have a teams from europe (non seeded)

Max two teams from europe can be in 1 group, while max 1 team from all the other continents.