2010 WCQ: Pots for the Durban draw

November 23rd, 11:14: FIFA confirms the pots, with only one difference (Azerbaijan and Liechtenstein switch pots): link

See the oficial pots: link.
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This is how the pots should look like for the 2010 WC UEFA preliminary draw. As mentioned before, only the values for the top 12 countries, Russia and Poland are 99% correct (I would say 100% correct, but you never know), being based on official data released by FIFA (Lusankya managed to find the document on the German version of FIFA.com -> pdf file). The other values are computed using historical rankings, different from the ones used by FIFA. For more info, read this. But they're pretty close to the official values (the error should be less than 3,4%). See the differences between the values published by FIFA in October and those calculated by me -> link.

Some of the countries are really close, so you'd better wait for the official rankings. They will be published tomorrow at 10:00 CET.

R Country             Pts
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1 Italy              1498
2 Spain              1349
3 Germany            1296
4 Czech Republic     1290
5 France             1243
6 Portugal           1241
7 Netherlands        1170
8 Croatia            1129
9 Greece             1114
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10 England            1113
11 Romania            1088
12 Scotland            990
13 Turkey              914
14 Bulgaria            879
15 Sweden              864
16 Russia              861
17 Poland              855
18 Israel              849
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19 Serbia              842
20 Norway              831
21 Ukraine             811
22 Denmark             786
23 Northern Ireland    784
24 Ireland             739
25 Finland             699
26 Switzerland         663
27 Belgium             595
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28 Slovakia            592
29 Hungary             581
30 Bosnia-Herzegovina  578
31 Moldova             573
32 Macedonia           555
33 Wales               553
34 Belarus             552
35 Lithuania           542
36 Cyprus              502
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37 Georgia             407
38 Albania             397
39 Slovenia            396
40 Latvia              392
41 Iceland             384
42 Armenia             370
43 Austria             354
44 Kazakhstan          294
45 Liechtenstein       261
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46 Azerbaijan          248
47 Estonia             225
48 Malta               185
49 Luxembourg          127
50 Montenegro           65
51 Andorra              59
52 Faroe Islands        13
53 San Marino            6

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