The group stages for Brazil 2014 have been drawn

The tournament will start on the 12th of June with the tie between Brazil and Croatia, and will end on the 13th of July in Río de Janeiro.

This Friday Brazil was the venue for group stages draw of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, where the first fixtures for the tournament, which will start with the home nation's clash against Croatia on the 12th of June, were announced. For their part, Spain will make their first appearance on Friday the 13th of June at the Arena Fonte Nova de Salvador against Holland.

The semi-finals will be held in Belo Horizonte and São Paolo on the 8th and 9th of July, and the final will be later on the 13th of July at 21:00 in Río de Janeiro.

The groups are as follows:

GROUP A: Brazil (host nation), Croatia, Mexico, Cameroon

GROUP B: Spain, Holland, Chile, Australia

GROUP C: Colombia, Greece, Ivory Coast, Japan

GROUP D: Uruguay, Costa Rica, England, Italy

GROUP E: Switzerland, Ecuador, France, Honduras

GROUP F: Argentina, Bosnia Herzegovina, Iran, Nigeria

GROUP G: Germany, Portugal, Ghana, USA

GROUP H: Belgium, Algeria, Russia, South Korea