2018 WCQ: Ghana,Lybia, Uganda and Congo

Three-time World Cup finalists Ghana could face Uganda, Libya and Congo in the kindest draw in the group phase of the qualifying tournament for the 2018 World Cup should the FIFA rankings be mainly used to seed teams.

No date has been fixed yet for the draw for this final round of the World Cup qualifiers, which will be played on league basis, but speculations are rife that it could be before the end of the year.

Currently, Ghana are ranked 30th in the world which would put them among the top ranked countries in Pot 1 when the draw is held.

Pot 1 will have the continents top teams Cote dIvoire (22), Algeria (26), Ghana (30), Cape Verde (32) and Senegal (39).

Pot 2 will be made up of Tunisia (41), Cameroon (51), Congo Brazzaville (52), Guinea (53) and DR Congo (55).

Nigeria are 59th ranked team in the world and on this count, they will fall in pot 3 of seeds along with Egypt (57), Mali (63), Uganda (68) and Zambia (71)

The last pot of 20 qualifiers could then be Gabon (73), South Africa (75), Morocco (79), Burkina Faso (93) and Libya (113).

This means if the Black Stars are to get they will get a king draw from the three remaining pots.

So the best team Ghana could face are Congo from Pot 2, Pot 3 will have Uganda and Libya from Pot 4.

A team from each pot will be picked out to form a qualifying group of four teams with the overall winners advancing to the World Cup in Russia.