'God's Country' Takes On The World!

Last updated : 19 November 2009 By Footy Mad - Editor

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The Jocks, Taffs and Paddy's will be watching from the comfort of their armchairs as 'God's County' represents these shores.

The make-up of the eight groups will be decided by the draw which takes place on Friday December 4 in Cape Town (1700 GMT) - and of course you will be able to follow it live on this site.

The world's governing body has yet to decide how the seedings or the draw 'pots' will be made up.

What is known is that the hosts will be seeded in position A1 in the draw, leaving space for seven other seeds. A decision on who those will be will not be made until the committee meets on December 2.

As for the draw itself, the teams are likely to be split into four pots with the seeds in pot A.

Last time there was also a pot made up entirely of European sides, plus two others containing teams from the rest of the world - hence's FIFA's talk of "geographic factors".

This means, for example, that two African sides cannot be drawn in the same group.

The finals themselves be held from June 11 to July 11 next year.

Full list of qualifiers:

Africa: Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, South Africa

South America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay

Asia: Australia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea

Europe: Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland

North America/Caribbean: Mexico, Honduras, United States

Oceania: New Zealand