Australia's qualification was already assured before the final two games, finally topping its group ahead of Japan by 5 points.

Australia topped their group and eventually finished fourth, losing to the hosts in the semi-finals.

Portugal topped their group on day one, recording four victories and a 7-7 draw, against Italy.

In 2007/08 they topped their first group but finished 3rd in the final (elite) stage, one place away from the next round.

India topped its group but went down to England in the semifinal.

Scotland beat Ireland to top their group, again both teams qualifying.

England topped their qualifying group, accumulating four points from their three games.

And if you go back to the fund's rebirth in 1986, Kaufmann has topped its group by nearly four percentage points a year on average.

Iceland topped their group to progress to the second qualifying round, in which they were drawn against England.

If Spain fail to top their group, the draw opens out for them in a most pleasing way...