KapitaanAli
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Actually the rules doesn't allow teams from the same confederation to be in the same group, EXCEPT for Europe i.e. UEFA.To put Spain and Portugal in one group is both absurd and crazy! The fact that both countries are none anglo-saxson is racists enough & the fact that they put the strongest team in Asia in there group is NUTS and absolutely racially motivated!
This is how it's done:
All 32 finalists have been arranged into four seeding pots based on their FIFA ranking for October 2017.
Pot 1 will contain hosts Russia and the seven teams who had the highest ranking. Pot 2 will be populated by the next eight highest ranked teams with the next eight in Pot 3 and the lowest ranked eight in Pot 4. You can check out our World Cup seeding breakdown here.
Those 32 teams will be then be drawn into eight groups of four, with each group labelled from A to H.
Seeding Pots 1 to 4 will be emptied by allocating each of their eight teams to a different group.
With one exception, teams from the same confederation will not be drawn together in a group. So, for example, Brazil cannot be paired with another team from South America and Nigeria cannot be paired with another team from Africa.
The only exception applies to UEFA teams, with FIFA ruling that up to two teams from the European confederation can be drawn in the same group.