System Change
Unlike the 2002 FIFA World Cup seeding system which used performances of national teams in the three previous World Cups, this seeding system only used the last two. In what would have been seen by many to be an interesting quirk, had Denmark not narrowly failed to qualify they would have been seeded at the expense of Argentina.
Read more about this topic: 2006 FIFA World Cup Seeding
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