With the 2014 FIFA World Cup less than 200 days away, the focus of the football world is slowly turning towards the draw for next year's tournament, with national team coaches desperate to find out who their group opponents will be.
The World Cup draw will take place on Friday December 6 (local time) in Costa do Sauipe in the Brazilian state of Bahia.
The World Cup draw is scheduled to start at 1:00pm BRT (local time) and will be presented by Brazilian actors Fernanda Lima and Rodrigo Hilbert, with artists such as Margareth Menezes, Olodum, Alcione and Emicida providing the entertainment.
Additionally, World Cup legends Cafu, Fabio Cannavaro, Mario Kempes, Lothar Matthaus, Zinedine Zidane and Geoff Hurst will all be involved in the World Cup draw itself.
In Australia, the World Cup draw is scheduled to start on Saturday December 7 at 3:00am AEDT in New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria and Tasmania, 2:30am ACDT in South Australia, 2:00am AEST in Queensland, 1:30am ACST in the Northern Territory and 12:00am AWST in Western Australia.
On television in Australia, the World Cup draw will be broadcast live on SBS ONE from 2:45am AEDT on Saturday December 7.
When is the 2014 FIFA World Cup?
The 2014 FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 12 in Sao Paulo with Brazil already penciled in as one of the two participants in the opening game.
The group stage comes to an end on June 26, with the final two Group H clashes to take place that evening.
The first games of the round of 16 will be held only two days later in Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro, with the first knockout stage of the competition set to conclude on July 1.
The four quarter-finals will then be staged on July 4 and 5, while the semi-finals take place on July 8 and 9.
The World Cup final will be held on July 13 in Rio de Janeiro.
What are the pots for the 2014 FIFA World Cup draw?
The seven highest-ranked teams from October's FIFA World Ranking (Spain, Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Belgium, Uruguay and Switzerland) plus Brazil will all be seeded for the draw and will, therefore, be placed in Pot 1.
Pot 2 will most likely consist of four teams from North America (USA, Mexico, Costa Rica and Honduras) plus the four qualifiers from the Asia section (Japan, Iran, South Korea and the Socceroos), while Pot 3 will most likely be made up of five African teams (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Algeria, Nigeria and Cameroon), two from South America (Chile and Ecuador) and the lowest-ranked European country, France.
Finally, the remaining eight European nations (Netherlands, Italy, England, Portugal, Greece, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Russia) go into in Pot 4.
It is worth noting that a maximum of two teams from Europe will be permitted in each of the eight groups.