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With the emphasis of the World Cup being to pit the best of each continent against each other, it is natural that FIFA would want to limit the occurrences where nations from the same zone face off.
As such, the group stages of the World Cup will not feature any two nations from the same qualifying zone in the same quartet, with the exception of European teams. Up to two European teams can be in the same group.
For example, in with Brazil (CONMEBOL) in Group A could be Japan (AFC), England (UEFA) and United States (CONCACAF)—but not Uruguay or Chile, who are also from the CONMEBOL zone.
A UEFA-based seed such as Spain could end up with an additional European team, however.
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