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SCOTLAND will be in Pot Two for the next World Cup draw if they maintain their current progress – up two groups from Euro 2016.

The seedings for the 2018 World Cup in Russia will be announced next July.

FIFA are set to keep the same qualifying method for the 2018 finals in Russia, using a mix of rankings and matches from July 2011 until July 2015, for the draw in St Petersburg.

And the good news for Gordon Strachan is that Scotland will be in Pot Two, the same as England.

Scotland are currently 27th and got as high as 22nd in May after a series of good results under Strachan.

Currently, they would be in the same pot as Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Ukraine, England, Denmark, Romania and Sweden.

The Scots could face any of the top seeds, including the likes of Germany, Italy, Holland, Spain or France.

And it would be huge progress from the Euro 2016 draw when Scotland were dumped into Pot Four.