World Cup 2026 Group Tables

Final standings in all twelve groups

Group A

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Mexico	3	3	0	0	+6	9
2	South Africa	3	1	1	1	-1	4
3	Korea Republic	3	1	0	2	-1	3
4	Czechia	3	0	1	2	-4	1

Group B

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Switzerland	3	2	1	0	+4	7
2	Canada	3	1	1	1	+5	4
3	Bosnia-H.	3	1	1	1	-1	4
4	Qatar	3	0	1	2	-8	1

Group C

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Brazil	3	2	1	0	+6	7
2	Morocco	3	2	1	0	+3	7
3	Scotland	3	1	0	2	-3	3
4	Haiti	3	0	0	3	-6	0

Group D

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	USA	3	2	0	1	+4	6
2	Australia	3	1	1	1	0	4
3	Paraguay	3	1	1	1	-2	4
4	Turkey	3	1	0	2	-2	3

Group E

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Germany	3	2	0	1	+6	6
2	Ivory Coast	3	2	0	1	+2	6
3	Ecuador	3	1	1	1	0	4
4	Curaçao	3	0	1	2	-8	1

Group F

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Netherlands	3	2	1	0	+6	7
2	Japan	3	1	2	0	+4	5
3	Sweden	3	1	1	1	0	4
4	Tunisia	3	0	0	3	-10	0

Group G

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Belgium	3	1	2	0	+4	5
2	Egypt	3	1	2	0	+2	5
3	Iran	3	0	3	0	0	3
4	New Zealand	3	0	1	2	-6	1

Group H

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Spain	3	2	1	0	+5	7
2	Cape Verde	3	0	3	0	0	3
3	Uruguay	3	0	2	1	-1	2
4	Saudi Arabia	3	0	2	1	-4	2

Group I

#	Team	P	W	L	GD	Pts
1	France	3	3	0	+8	9
2	Norway	3	2	1	+1	6
3	Senegal	3	1	2	+2	3
4	Iraq	3	0	3	-11	0

Group J

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Argentina	3	3	0	0	+7	9
2	Austria	3	1	1	1	0	4
3	Algeria	3	1	1	1	-2	4
4	Jordan	3	0	0	3	-5	0

Group K

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Colombia	3	2	1	0	+3	7
2	Portugal	3	1	2	0	+5	5
3	Congo DR	3	1	1	1	+1	4
4	Uzbekistan	3	0	0	3	-9	0

Group L

#	Team	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	England	3	2	1	0	+4	7
2	Croatia	3	2	0	1	0	6
3	Ghana	3	1	1	1	0	4
4	Panama	3	0	0	3	-4	0

Advanced automatically as group winner or runner-up. The eight best third-placed teams also went through.

How qualification worked

Twelve groups of four, three matches each. Group winners and runners-up advanced automatically, which accounts for twenty-four of the thirty-two knockout places. The remaining eight went to the best third-placed teams, ranked across all twelve groups on points, then goal difference.

That last rule is what made the expanded format work at all, and also what drew the criticism: finishing third in a group of four was frequently enough to stay in the tournament.

The knockout bracket shows what these tables produced.