The following are the 12 preliminary ties for the continent of Africa,

Seychelles v Kenya

Guinea v Togo

Djibouti v Namibia

Comoros v Mozambique

Chad v Tanzania
Sao Tome e Principe v Congo
Swaziland v Congo DR
Lesotho v Burundi
Somalia v Ethiopia
Equatorial Guinea v Madagascar

Eritrea v Rwanda

Cafu looks cool, calm and collected ahead of the main Africa draw. Neymar looks as confused.

The winners of the above play-offs will go into the main group stage, and those groups are as follows,

South Africa, Botswana, Central Africa, winner of Match 7

H - Algeria, Mali, Benin, Match 9
G - Egypt, Guinea, Zimbabwe, Match 5
F - Nigeria, Malawi, Match 1, Match 3
E - Burkina Faso, Gabon, Niger, Match 11
D - Ghana, Zambia, Sudan, Match 8
C - Ivory Coast, Morocco, Gambia, Match 12
B - Tunisia, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Match 6

J - Senegal, Uganda, Angola, Match 4
Cameroon, Libya, Match 2

That's it for africa!

Asia
There are no preliminary games in the Asian group, meaning we will have five groups of four teams. Easy.

That's the Asian group done. Some interesting matches shaping up already and we're still yet to draw the heavyweights.

The next continent is Concacaf, which covers North and Central America plus the Caribbean.

The top seeds to look out for here are the USA, Mexico and Honduras. They, of course, cannot play each other but they will have to face either Jamaica,Costa Rica or Cuba; all in pot 2.

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F - US Virgin Islands,Curaca, Antigua & Barbud, Haiti
E - Belize, St. Vincent& Grenadine, Guatemala, Grenada
D - St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, ST. Kitts & Nevis, Canada
C - Bahamas, Nicaragua, Dominic, Panama
Bermuda, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago
A - Dominican Republic, Cayman Islands, Surinam, EL Salvador

Now, the winners of each of those Groups will go through but, only to the third round where they will face the seeded teams I mentioned earlier (USA, Mexico and Cuba). And that will be drawn now,

C - Honduras, Cuba, Group C winner, Group D winner
B - Mexico, Costa Rica, Group A winner, Group B winner
A - USA, Jamaica, Group E winner, Group F winner

That's it, just the 3 groups there. Oceania should be next,

As for Concacaf, Oceania will have a qualifying round just to complicate things further.

So, the following 4 teams will play a league system between November 21-26 to determine which team joins the Oceania heavyweights in the main draw:

American Samoa, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga. The winner of this league, for our purposes, will be called 'Round 1 winner'.

Just 2 groups of 4 to be drawn,

B - Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Zealand, Fiji
A - Tahiti, Round 1 winner, New Caledonia, Vanuatu

Up next: EUROPE!

The main danger are France, who are in Pot 2. But also lurking are Serbia, Switzerland, Belgium and Scotland. Teams that the bigguns will all want to avoid.

The 'big guns' FYI are : Croatia, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and - world and european champions - Spain!

E - Iceland, Cyprus,Albania, Switzerland, Slovenia
D - Andorra, Estonia, Romania, Hungary, Turkey
C - Kazakhstan, Faroe Islands, Austria, Ireland, Sweden
B - Malta, Armenia, Bulgaria,Czech Republic, Denmark
A - Wales, Macedonia, Scotland, Belgium, Serbia