Among the thousands of draws that Australia could have received, its actual first-round grouping is the worst one possible.

The Socceroos, as Australia’s soccer team is known, find themselves in a group with both of the finalists from the 2010 tournament, Spain and the Netherlands. If that weren’t bad enough, the final team in the group is Chile, the 13th-best team in the world, according to the FIFA rankings — which means Chile is now two places ahead of the Netherlands.

In concrete terms, Australia will need to beat out two of the world’s 15 highest-ranked teams in order to advance. Nigeria, by comparison, needs merely to beat out either the 25th-ranked team (Bosnia and Herzegovina) or the 37th-ranked one (Iran).