Rugby World Cup draw LIVE as England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland discover fates

How are the countries seeded, you ask? Well the seedings are taken from the world rankings as of Monday – December 1.

That means the six highest-ranked teams in the world sit in Band 1, and so on and so forth. 

With six pools of four, a country from each band will go into every pool.

This is how it looks…

Band 1: South Africa, New Zealand, England, Ireland, France, Argentina

Band 2: Australia, Fiji, Scotland, Italy, Wales, Japan

Band 3: Georgia, Uruguay, Spain, USA, Chile, Tonga 

Band 4: Samoa, Portugal, Romania, Hong Kong China, Zimbabwe, Canada