Carriers of groups at the World Championships will be determined based on FIFA rankings

Carriers of groups at the World Championships will be determined based on FIFA rankings

 The Executive Board of the International Football Federation (FIFA) has decided to eight carriers groups at the World Championships in Brazil next year will be the seven best teams in FIFA's rankings in October and host Brazil

FIFA has given up on the current practice of determining the carriers on the basis of performances and results from the previous world championships, and decided to implement a simpler method and use your own ranking, and one for the month of October, as a criterion for determining the the carriers groups.

This means that the representation of Belgium and Colombia almost certainly be carriers at the World Cup, if this month provide the placement on world events, as expected.

Currently the first seven places in FIFA's rankings take Spain, Argentina, Germany, Italy, Colombia, Belgium and Uruguay. The next ranking FIFA will announce the 17th October.

Roof world football governing body said how the remaining three places in each group will be determined'' geographic and sporting criteria''.