Wednesday, September 8, 2010

2014 FIFA World Cup seeding for UEFA teams (8 September 2010)

The preliminary draw will take place in July or August 2011.

Assumptions:

- UEFA will again have 13 spots
- UEFA will again use the system with 9 groups
- FIFA will use the July 2011 FIFA ranking to seed the teams

The July 2011 FIFA ranking will include matches played between July 2007 and July 2011. We already 50% of the final ranking. Things can and will change before July 2011 as there are many matches to be played involving European teams: EURO 2012 qualifiers and plenty of friendlies.

UEFA will only use the national team coefficient for the European Championships draws (qualifying and final tournament).

This is the July 2011 ranking (for UEFA only) using matches played up to and including September 7th, 2010 and matches scheduled up to July 2011 (only those on fifa.com).

The "1.0" part is computed this way: points gained / (number of matches played + scheduled).

Montenegro climb from 4th to 1st pot.
Slovakia climb from 3rd to 1st pot.
Lithuania climb from 4th to 2nd pot.
Belarus and Northern Ireland climb from 5th to 3rd pot, with Belgium going the other way.

Sweden climb from 3rd to 2nd pot.
Albania and Moldova climb from 5th to 4th pot.
Georgia climb from 6th to 5th pot, replacing Azerbaijan.

Russia and Portugal drop from 1st to 2nd pot.
Switzerland, France, Republic of Ireland and Czech Republic drop from 2nd to 3rd pot.
Romania, Latvia and Bulgaria drop from 3rd to 4th pot.
Finland, FYR Macedonia and Poland drop from 4th to 5th pot.

Rank - Previous rank - Team - Total points
 1  1 Spain                    1059
2 2 Netherlands 1032
3 5 England 947
4 7 Germany 924
5 9 Norway 787
6 25 Slovakia 773
7 4 Croatia 684
8 36 Montenegro 657
9 8 Italy 644
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10 12 Turkey 642
11 15 Serbia 619
12 11 Greece 618
13 3 Russia 610
14 20 Sweden 594
15 6 Portugal 584
16 17 Slovenia 583
17 10 Ukraine 576
18 31 Lithuania 575
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19 21 Denmark 561
19 16 Switzerland 561
21 13 France 528
22 18 Republic of Ireland 512
23 22 Scotland 499
24 39 Belarus 479
25 37 Northern Ireland 469
26 19 Israel 461
27 14 Czech Republic 444
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28 24 Romania 412
29 38 Albania 411
30 29 Hungary 380
31 32 Cyprus 368
32 42 Moldova 363
33 27 Latvia 362
34 35 Bosnia-Herzegovina 348
35 28 Austria 340
36 23 Bulgaria 329
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37 30 Finland 326
38 26 Belgium 311
39 34 FYR Macedonia 294
40 33 Poland 279
41 43 Estonia 262
42 46 Georgia 261
43 41 Wales 241
44 40 Iceland 207
45 44 Armenia 190
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46 45 Azerbaijan 137
47 49 Kazakhstan 130
48 47 Luxembourg 117
49 48 Faroe Islands 108
50 50 Liechtenstein 80
51 51 Malta 60
52 52 Andorra 0
52 52 San Marino 0

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