FIFA has announced the seeds for the 2015 Women’s World Cup. Canada, the host nation, are seeded along with five of the world’s six highest ranked women’s national sides: Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States. The remainder of the field of 24, largest in tournament history, have been placed in three pots of six teams each.

Canada have already been assigned to Group A, and the other seeded teams will randomly be assigned to the other groups one at a time. Then, teams will be selected from pots 2-4 one by one. Teams from the same confederation cannot be drawn into the same group, with the obvious exception that with eight total UEFA teams, two of the six groups will contain two European sides each.

The draw will be held in Ottawa, ON starting at 17:00 UTC on SAT 06 DEC 2014.

• Pot 1: Canada [host], Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, United States
• Pot 2: Cameroon, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria
• Pot 3: Australia, China PR, Colombia, Ecuador, Korea Rep, Thailand
• Pot 4: England, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland