2018 World Cup: draw for the finals in Moscow on Friday 01/12/2017 at 16:00 CET

The draw for the final phase of the 2018 World Cup will take place at the Kremlin Congress Center in Moscow (RUS) on Friday 01/12/2017 at 18.00 local time, 16.00 CET.

The October edition of the FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking was used to divide the 32 qualified teams into four pots, in descending order. Thus, the seven best teams have joined the host country, Russia, in pot 1.

The draw consists of dividing these 32 teams in eight groups from A to H. "The draw sequence will start with pot 1 and end with pot 4. Each pot will be completely emptied before moving on to the next. As per the standard procedure, a ball from a team pot will be drawn, followed by a ball from one of the group pots, thus determining the position in which the respective team will play," said FIFA on 27/11/2017.

• Russia, seeded No. 1 as the organising country, will occupy A1 in group A. The other seven seeds will automatically be assigned to position 1 of groups B to H, while the position of all others teams (pots 2, 3 and 4) will be drawn at random.

• No more than one team from the same confederation will be in…