2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding

The draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place on 1 December 2017 at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia.

It determined the group in which each of the 32 qualified national teams would play in at the start of the tournament. The teams were divided into four pots of eight, with one team selected from each pot to form a group.

2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding
Eight 2018 postage stamps from Russia depicting the draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup group stage.

Unlike previous editions of the World Cup, all pots were determined by each national team's October 2017 FIFA World Ranking, with Pot 1 containing the highest-ranked teams, Pot 2 containing the next highest-ranked teams, and so on until Pot 4, containing the lowest ranked teams; in previous editions only one pot containing the highest-ranked teams was determined by rank, with the other three pots determined by continental confederation. The hosts continued to be placed in Pot 1 and treated as a seeded team, and therefore Pot 1 consisted of hosts Russia and the seven highest-ranked teams that qualified for the tournament.

The draw sequence started with pot 1 and ended with pot 4.

As with previous editions, no group had more than one team from any continental confederation except for UEFA, which had at least one, but no more than two in a group.

Seeding

Teams were seeded using the October 2017 FIFA World Rankings (shown in parentheses), which were published on 16 October 2017.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Russia (H) (65) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Spain (8) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Denmark (19) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Serbia (38)
2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Germany (1) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Peru (10) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Iceland (21) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Nigeria (41)
2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Brazil (2) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding   Switzerland (11) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Costa Rica (22) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Australia (43)
2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Portugal (3) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  England (12) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Sweden (25) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Japan (44)
2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Argentina (4) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Colombia (13) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Tunisia (28) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Morocco (48)
2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Belgium (5) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Mexico (16) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Egypt (30) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Panama (49)
2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Poland (6) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Uruguay (17) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Senegal (32) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  South Korea (62)
2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  France (7) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Croatia (18) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Iran (34) 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Saudi Arabia (63)
    Notes
  • H : Hosts

Final draw

1 2 3 4
Group A 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Russia 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Saudi Arabia 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Egypt 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Uruguay
Group B 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Portugal 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Spain 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Morocco 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Iran
Group C 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  France 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Australia 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Peru 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Denmark
Group D 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Argentina 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Iceland 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Croatia 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Nigeria
Group E 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Brazil 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding   Switzerland 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Costa Rica 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Serbia
Group F 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Germany 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Mexico 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Sweden 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  South Korea
Group G 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Belgium 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Panama 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Tunisia 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  England
Group H 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Poland 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Senegal 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Colombia 2018 Fifa World Cup Seeding  Japan

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