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  
to determine the groups in which the 32 qualified national teams will play in at the start of the tournament. The teams were put into four pots of eight, with one team selected from each pot to form a group.
The draw sequence started with pot 1 and ended with pot 4. 

Seeding
All teams were seeded using the October 2017 FIFA World Rankings,  which numbers in brackets show, released on 16 October 2017. 

 Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4  (hosts) (65)  (8)  (19)  (38)  (1)  (10)  (21)  (41)  (2)  (11)  (22)  (43)  (3)  (12)  (25)  (44)  (4)  (13)  (28)  (48)  (5)  (16)  (30)  (49)  (6)  (17)  (32)  (62)  (7)  (18)  (34)  (63)

Final draw
1234Total PointsGroup A2,991Group B4,128Group C4,101Group D4,099Group E4,415Group F4,151Group G3,953Group H3,944

According to the FIFA rankings, the strongest group is E (combining for 4415 points), followed by F (4151), B (4128), C (4101), D (4099), G (3953), H (3944) and the weakest by far is the host nation's group A (2991).

References

Seeding
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