Hoped you liked the 2010 World Cup …

Because the 2014 version is overwhelmingly the same teams you saw in 2010.

Here is the complete list of teams who are going to Brazil who did not play at South Africa:

1) Costa Rica, 2) Iran, 3) Colombia, 4) Ecuador, 5) Belgium, 6) Bosnia, 7) Croatia, 8 Russia.

And we’re done.

The other 24 teams? You saw them in South Africa.

This could have been a really interesting World Cup, from the perspective of new faces, new flags, new anthems, but that side of it fell apart in the final stages of qualifying.

Could have had a batch of newbies — Burkino Faso and Ethiopia from Africa, Jordan from Asia and Iceland from Europe. (And Iceland would have eclipsed Trinidad & Tobago as the smallest, by population, nation to play in a World Cup.)

Any or all of those would have been fun. Different.

All we got was Bosnia. The only first-timer in the 2014 World Cup.

That would seem to suggest the top level of the six continental federations is beginning to calcify.

Here are the other 24 who will play in Brazil, and how many WCs they will have participated in, once the event kicks off:

Europe (10 returning): Germany 18, Italy 18, England 14, France 14, Spain 14, Netherlands 10, Russia 10, Switzerland 10, Portugal 6, Greece 3,

South America (4 returning): Brazil 20, Argentina 16, Uruguay 12, Chile 9.

North America (3 returning): Mexico 15, United States 10, Honduras 3.

Asia (3 returning): South Korea 9, Japan 5, Australia 4.

Africa (5 returning): Cameroon 7, Nigeria 5, Algeria 4, Ghana 3, Ivory Coast 3.

Africa is sending the same five who qualified for 2010 (South Africa got in as host). Which says something a bit dreary about a 52-nation confederation.

North America is sending the same three that were at South Africa — with Costa Rica added.

Getting crusty.

Also, every nation that has won the World Cup is in the lineup: Brazil, Italy, Germany, Uruguay, Argentina, England, France, Spain.

No great misses, either. The highest-ranked team in the world not making the tournament is Ukraine, No. 20.

At the end of qualifying, the little guys, the new guys … just didn’t have the chops to make things happen.

After a long day and night of watching soccer on Al Jazeera, I can assure you that Algeria was markedly better than Burkino Faso today, and Croatia was miles ahead of Iceland and Uruguay is eons better than Jordan, which probably is not one of the 10 best teams in Asia and will complete its defeat tomorrow.

Even among the semi-new boys — those who did not play at South Africa — we have some veterans: Belgium 12, Russia 10, Colombia 5, Croatia 4, Costa Rica 4, Iran 4, Ecuador 3.

And then there is shiny new Bosnia!

Next up? The draw on December 6.

The world’s top-eight ranked teams will be in one pot — Brazil, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Belgium, Switzerland, Uruguay.

It would perhaps make too much sense to have North America and Asia in the same pot, making for a tidy eight teams.

A third pot could be eight of the nine Europeans not in Pot 1.

The fourth pot would be the ninth Euro, the other two South Americans and the five Africans.

So, they will play this thing starting next June, and if someone other than a Pot 1 team wins … prepare to be shocked.