We explain how the FIFA World Cup draw works and what the Socceroos can expect The draw for the FIFA World Cup takes place on Saturday morning, but we now know who the Socceroos won't face in the Group Stage. Workers put finishing touches to the stage where the Brazil World Cup final draw will take place. THE draw for the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil takes place in the wee hours on Saturday morning (EDT). In vintage FIFA touch, it's quite complicated. So if you're struggling with what to do with all these pots and permutations, don't worry, we explain how it will all work. The purpose of the draw is to assign all 32 qualified teams to groups to find out who will play each other in the group stages of June's tournament. Saturday December 7th, 3am-5am (EDT) in Costa do Sauipe, Salvador in Bahia, Brazil. It is also a chance for a FIFA extravaganza; a who's who of the football world will be on show, the world's press will converge on the resort where it is being held and there will be no shortage of celebrity flavour as well. Geoff Hurst, Cafu, Fabio Cannavaro, Zinedine Zidane, Lothar Matthaus and Mario Kempes are all involved in the draw, facilitated by FIFA chief Jerome Valcke. Brazilian celebrity couple Rodrigo Hilbert and Fernanda Lima will host the event. We'll have a live blog of the action for you through the night, but for those not up, Fox Sports News will wrap up all the action with a special World Cup Draw Review show at 7am (EDT) on Channel 513 with Adam Peacock and Andy Harper In short, Australia can't be grouped with a rival Asian or American team as we share pot three with them. There cannot be more than two European teams in any one group, while the six South American teams must be split up. On the day, a team from Pot 4 (European) will be added to Pot 2 at random to make four pots even with eight teams. Brazil will then become team one in Group A before the rest of Pot 1 take position one of groups B to H. The four seeded South American teams (Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Colombia) will then be placed in an ancillary pot - pot X. Only one team will be drawn, who will then cop a Euro team selected to Pot 2. The remaining pot 2 teams will be allocated to Groups A to H sequentially. Groups may be skipped to ensure geographic separation. Pots 3 and 4 will be emptied in order. In the end, it comes down to pot luck. Switzerland - Algeria - Australia - Greece Brazil - Netherlands - Australia - Italy The finals themselves take place in Brazil from Thursday June 12 to Sunday July 13 next year. Matches will take place at 12 venues around the country - Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Cuiaba, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Manaus, Natal, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Sao Paulo. The group stage matches will be played at 2am, 5am, 6am, 7am and 10am (EDT) in Brazil. The semi-finals will be played at 4am (EDT), and the final will be played at Rio's Maracana stadium at 4pm local time - or 5am EST.