<Li> Sweden (24) </Li> <Li> Switzerland (6) </Li> <P> The draw was held on 1 December 2017 at 18: 00 MSK at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow . The 32 teams were drawn into 8 groups of 4, by selecting one team from each of the 4 ranked pots . </P> <P> For the draw, the teams were allocated to four pots based on the FIFA World Rankings of October 2017 . Pot 1 contained the hosts Russia (who were automatically assigned to position A1) and the best seven teams, pot 2 contained the next best eight teams, and so on for pots 3 and 4 . This was different from previous draws, when only pot 1 was based on FIFA rankings while the remaining pots were based on geographical considerations . However, teams from the same confederation still were not drawn against each other for the group stage, except that two UEFA teams could be in each group . </P>

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