World Cup Groups – Russia 2018
The 2018 World Cup had 32 qualified teams from the various football confederations around the world, and these 32 were put into four pots to decide the eight groups that would make up the World Cup.
Related: How Did Each Team Qualify?
The first pot was made up of Russia as hosts and the seven other best teams in the world based on FIFA rankings from October 2017.
Related: World Cup Key Dates
2018 was a bit different too as the rest of the pots would normally be done geographically, however, the FIFA rankings aspect was continued for the other three pots.
Pot 1 – Russia (ranked 65), Germany (1), Brazil (2), Portugal (3), Argentina (4), Belgium (5), Poland (6), and France (7)
Pot 2 – Spain (8), Peru (10), Switzerland (11), England (12), Colombia (13), Mexico (16), Uruguay (17), Croatia (18)
Pot 3 – Denmark (19), Iceland (21), Costa Rica (22), Sweden (25), Tunisia (28), Egypt (30), Senegal (32), Iran (34)
Pot 4 – Serbia (38), Nigeria (41), Australia (43), Japan (44), Morocco (48), Panama (49), South Korea (62), Saudi Arabia (63)
The draw took place in December 2017 and the results are as follows:
World Cup Groups – Russia 2018
Group A – Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Uruguay
https://twitter.com/FIFAWorldCup/status/1011280642695483392
Group B – Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Iran
https://twitter.com/FIFAWorldCup/status/1011339651381121024
Group C – France, Australia, Peru, Denmark
https://twitter.com/FIFAWorldCup/status/1011639619782369281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldsoccer.com%2Fworld-cup%2Ffrance-world-cup-fixtures-399743
Group D – Argentina, Iceland, Croatia, Nigeria
https://twitter.com/FIFAWorldCup/status/1011700085967769602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldsoccer.com%2Fworld-cup%2Fargentina-world-cup-fixtures-399772
Group E – Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Serbia
https://twitter.com/FIFAWorldCup/status/1012062497581432833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldsoccer.com%2Fworld-cup%2Fbrazil-world-cup-fixtures-399831
Group F – Germany, Mexico, Sweden, South Korea
https://twitter.com/FIFAWorldCup/status/1012004173410390016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldsoccer.com%2Fworld-cup%2Fgermany-world-cup-fixtures-399868
Group G – Belgium, Panama, Tunisia, England
https://twitter.com/FIFAWorldCup/status/1012425011209089024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1012425011209089024&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldsoccer.com%2Fworld-cup%2Fengland-world-cup-fixtures-399934
Group H – Poland, Senegal, Colombia, Japan
https://twitter.com/FIFAWorldCup/status/1012364883436982274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1012364883436982274&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldsoccer.com%2Fworld-cup%2Fpoland-world-cup-fixtures-399942
World Cup Knockout Stages
https://twitter.com/FIFAWorldCup/status/1017146554652725249
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