Nigeria's Dream Team VI, has been seeded in the second pot for the draws of the Men's football event at Rio 2016.
The seeding was done based on a cumulative matrix of how each country performed in the last five editions.
Hosts Brazil are in pot 1 with Mexico, Japan and Argentina.
" All 28 slots at the Olympic Football Tournaments Rio 2016, have now been filled and the nations involved are surely waiting with baited breath for the draw, to be held at the Maracana on April 14th, 2016 at 10:30am local time ( 3:30pm ), a statement from FIFA read.
"Hosts Brazil, will take the lead spot in Group A ( men's tournament ) and Group E ( women's tournament ), with the men's teams allocated into four pots based on a rankinng taking into account performances at the past five Olympic Football Tournaments", it added.
The draws will see the teams divided into four groups of four teams.
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Pot 1 : Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Japan
Pot 2 : Nigeria, Korea Republic, Honduras and Iraq
Pot 3 : Sweden, Fiji, Portugal and South Africa
Pot 4 : Algeria, Colombia, Denmark and Germany
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