Football fans from around the world will be tuning into their television sets on Friday, 9th December for the 2006 World Cup Finals Draw, live from Leipzig.

The 2006 World Cup Schedule is already known but what the draw does is put country names to all the numbers.

For those not fully aware, the 32 nations qualified for the 2006 World Cup Finals in Germany are: Angola, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Holland, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Ukraine and USA.

The draw will put these teams into eight groups of four, with the winners and runners-up of each group moving onto the knockout stage; often called The Road To Berlin.

The 2006 World Cup Finals will run from 9th June to 9th July, with the opening match in München and the final in Berlin. München and Dortmund will host the semi-finals.

2006 World Cup Host Cities:
The twelve host cities are Berlin, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Hannover, Kaiserslautern, Köln, Leipzig, München, Nürnberg, and Stuttgart.

Eight of the cities will host five matches, while Berlin, Dortmund, München and Stuttgart will each host six -- a total of 64 games.

2006 World Cup Stadiums:
No team will play in the same stadium twice, during the group stage, and there will be at least two days in between matches played in the same stadium.

Each city will also play host to two of the top seeds and no city will host two games from the same group.

If you prefer surfing the Internet to watching the television, 1800-WorldCup.com will be posting the full draw online live and updating all the related team, group and stadium pages to let you know who plays who, where, when and even how to get there if you want to travel to Germany.