To calculate the seeding for the

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, FIFA used the

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in combination with performances of national teams in the three previous World Cups. The formula is virtually identical with the one used for the

1998 FIFA World Cup seeding For the seeding of qualified teams at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, FIFA used the FIFA World Rankings in combination with performances of national teams in the three previous FIFA World Cups. For the FIFA World Ranking part, points were allocated on th ...

. For the ranking part, points were allocated on the basis of 32 for the best achieving of the 32 qualifiers for

in each of the three fields considered, down to one for the lowest ranking.Image of 2002 fifia world cup trophy
/ref> For the World Cup performance part, points were allocated as follows: * Teams qualified for the knockout stages were ranked by their overall performance and received between 32 points (World Cup winner) and 17 points (the losing quarter finalist with the worst overall performance). * Teams eliminated in the group stage were ranked by their performance. The top half received 9 points, the rest 8 points. The seedings table uses these points obtained from the 1990 FIFA World Cup,

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and the 1998 FIFA World Cup averaged in a 1:2:3 ratio respectively, added to the average number of points derived from the World Rankings at three given dates (at ratio 1:1:1), December 1999, December 2000, and November 2001. All totals are rounded.

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and Japan were seeded as hosts,

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as defending champions. The other seeds were:

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

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and

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