World Cup qualifying pots announced

With World Cup Qualifying just around the corner, the final pots have been announced after the final FIFA World Rankings were released.

There are six pots to make up the nine groups with seedings determined by European nations' positions in the world rankings.

England stayed fourth in the world to earn their space in pot one. Elsewhere, Switzerland and Wales are the leading nations in pot two and star hosts from 2018 Russia are only in pot 3.

The draw is set to take place in Zurich on 7th December - you can find out everything you need to know here.

The full list of pots is below:

Pot 1: Belgium, France, England, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands.

Pot 2: Switzerland, Wales, Poland, Sweden, Austria, Ukraine, Serbia, Turkey, Slovakia, Romania.

Pot 3: Russia, Hungary, Republic of Ireland, Czech Republic, Norway, Northern Ireland, Iceland, Scotland, Greece, Finland.

Pot 4: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Israel, Belarus, Georgia, Luxembourg.

Pot 5: Armenia, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Kosovo, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Andorra.

Pot 6: Malta, Moldova, Liechtenstein, Gibraltar, San Marino.

The top ten nations in the world are as follows: 

1. Belgium

2. France

3. Brazil

4. England

5. Portugal

6. Spain

7. Argentina

8. Uruguay

9. Mexico

10. Italy