The eight seeded teams for the 2006 tournament were announced on 6 December 2005. The seeds comprised Pot A in the draw. Pot B contained the unseeded qualifiers from South America, Africa and Oceania; Pot C contained eight of the nine remaining European teams, excluding صربیستان و مونته‌نقرو میلّی فوتبال تیمی. Pot D contained unseeded teams from the CONCACAF region and Asia. A special pot contained Serbia and Montenegro: this was done to ensure that no group contained three European teams. In the special pot, Serbia and Montenegro was drawn first, then their group was drawn from the three seeded non-European nations, آرژانتین میلّی فوتبال تیمی, برزیل میلّی فوتبال تیمی, and مکزیک میلّی فوتبال تیمی.