<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> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Pot 1 </Th> <Th> Pot 2 </Th> <Th> Pot 3 </Th> <Th> Pot 4 </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> Russia (65) (hosts) Germany (1) Brazil (2) Portugal (3) Argentina (4) Belgium (5) Poland (6) France (7) </P> </Td> <Td> <P> Spain (8) Peru (10) Switzerland (11) England (12) Colombia (13) Mexico (16) Uruguay (17) Croatia (18) </P> </Td> <Td> <P> Denmark (19) Iceland (21) Costa Rica (22) Sweden (25) Tunisia (28) Egypt (30) Senegal (32) Iran (34) </P> </Td> <Td> <P> Serbia (38) Nigeria (41) Australia (43) Japan (44) Morocco (48) Panama (49) South Korea (62) Saudi Arabia (63) </P> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Pot 1 </Th> <Th> Pot 2 </Th> <Th> Pot 3 </Th> <Th> Pot 4 </Th> </Tr>

Names of the countries in the 2018 world cup
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