Tuesday FIFA announced the seeding pots for the World Cup 2014 in Brazil, and surprisingly decided to scrap the original plan - to use Octobers world ranking to determine which teams to join Brazil as top seeds - instead there will be a random draw of one of the nine UEFA sides.

The first team to be drawn out of the 31 nations to join Brazil, will be an UEFA side and will be put into a group headed by either Argentina, Columbia, Uruguay or the hosts.

If England are drawn out as the first team, they could then face a horror group with Brazil, Italy and USA, and even if they stay in pot 4 they are likely to face Spain, Chile and Mexico. However, the Three Lions can also be lucky to end in a group with Switzerland, Algeria and Costa Rica.

The confirmed pots looks as follows:

Pot 1: Brazil, Spain, Argentina, Germany, Colombia, Belgium, Uruguay, Switzerland
Pot 2: Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Chile
Pot 3: Japan, South Korea, Australia, Iran, USA, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico
Pot 4: England, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Italy, Holland, Russia Greece, Croatia, Portugal, France