The FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar saw a total of 32 top national teams from five different confederations vie for the title of football world champions from November 20 to December 18.
The 2022 FIFA World Cup followed a familiar format with the 32 teams divided into eight groups - Group A to H - of four teams each. The teams in each group competed in a single-headed round-robin format in the group stage of the competition.
The groups at the Qatar FIFA World Cup 2022:
Group A: Qatar, Ecuador, Senegal, Netherlands
Group B: England, Iran, USA, Wales
Group C: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Poland
Group D: France, Australia, Denmark, Tunisia
Group E: Spain, Costa Rica, Germany, Japan
Group F: Belgium, Canada, Morocco, Croatia
Group G: Brazil, Serbia, Switzerland, Cameroon
Group H: Portugal, Ghana, Uruguay, South Korea
After the group stage, top two teams from each of the eight groups moved on to the knockout phase, which began with the Round of 16.
The final was played on December 18 while the third-place match happened on December 17. All matches of the FIFA World Cup 2022 were played across eight venues in and around Doha.
Get all Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup results, points tables and standings for each group and all scores for the knockout rounds, including the final, here:
FIFA World Cup 2022: Results, scores and group stage points table
FIFA World Cup 2022 Group A points table
Group A results and scores
Match: Qatar 0-2 Ecuador (Enner Valencia 16’, 31’)
Match: Senegal 0-2 Netherlands (Cody Gakpo 84', Davy Klaassen 90+9')
Match: Qatar (Md Muntari 78') 1-3 Senegal (Boulaye Dia 41', Famara Diedhio 48', B Dieng 84')
Match: Netherlands (Cody Gakpo 6') 1-1 Ecuador (Enner Valencia 49')
Match: Ecuador (Moisés Caicedo 67') 1-2 Senegal (Ismaila Sarr 44', Kalidou Koulibaly 70')
Match: Netherlands (Cody Gakpo 26', Frenkie de Jong 49') 2-0 Qatar
FIFA World Cup 2022 Group B points table
Group B results and scores
Match: England (Jude Bellingham 35', Bukayo Saka 43', 62', Raheem Sterling 45+1, Marcus Rashford 71', Jack Grealish 90+1') 6-2 Iran (Mehdi Taremi 65', 90+13')
Match: USA (Timothy Weah 36') 1-1 Wales (Gareth Bale 82')
Match: Wales 0-2 Iran (Rouzbeh Cheshmi (90+8', Ramin Rezaeian (90+11')
Match: England 0-0 USA
Match: Wales 0-3 England (Marcus Rashford 50', 68', Phil Foden 51')
Match: Iran 0-1 USA (Christian Pulisic 38')
FIFA World Cup 2022 Group C points table
Group C results and scores
Match: Argentina (Lionel Messi 10') 1-2 Saudi Arabia (Saleh Alshehri 48', Salem Aldawsari 53')
Match: Mexico 0-0 Poland
Match: Poland (Piotr Zielinski 39', Robert Lewandowski 82') 2-0 Saudi Arabia
Match: Argentina (Lionel Messi 64', Enzo Fernandez 87') 2-0 Mexico
Match: Poland 0-2 Argentina (Alexis Mac Allister 46', Julian Alvarez 67')
Match: Saudi Arabia (Salem Aldawsari 90+5') 1-2 Mexico (Henry Martin Mex 47', Luis Chavez 52')
FIFA World Cup 2022 Group D points table
Group D results and scores
Match: Denmark 0-0 Tunisia
Match: France (Adrien Rabiot 27', Olivier Giroud 32', 71', Kylian Mbappe 68') 4-1 Australia (Craig Goodwin 9')
Match: Tunisia 0-1 Australia (Mitchell Duke 23')
Match: France (Kylian Mbappe 61', 86') 2-1 Denmark (Andreas Christensen 68')
Match: Australia (Mathew Leckie 60') 1-0 Denmark
Match: Tunisia (Wahbi Khazri 58') 1-0 France
FIFA World Cup 2022 Group E points table
Group E results and scores
Match: Germany (Ikay Gundogan 33') 1-2 Japan (Ritsu Doan 75', Takuma Asano 83')
Match: Spain (Dani Olmo 11', Marco Asensio 21', Ferran Torres 31', 54', Gavi 74', Carlos Soler 90', Alvaro Morata 90+2') 7-0 Costa Rica
Match: Japan 0-1 Costa Rica (Keysher Fuller 81')
Match: Spain (Alvaro Morata 62') 1-1 Germany (Niclas Fullkrug 83')
Match: Japan (Ritsu Doan 48', Ao Tanaka 51') 2-1 Spain (Alvaro Morata 11')
Match: Costa Rica (Yeltsin Tejeda 58', Manuel Neuer (OG) 70') 2-4 Germany (Serge Gnabry 10', Kai Havertz 73', 85', Niclas Fullkrug 89')
FIFA World Cup 2022 Group F points table
Group F results and scores
Match: Morocco 0-0 Croatia
Match: Belgium (Michy Batshuayi 44') 1-0 Canada
Match: Belgium 0-2 Morocco (Abdelhamid Sabiri 73', Zakaria Aboukhlal 90+2')
Match: Croatia (Andrej Kramaric 36', 70', Marko Livaja 44', Lovro Majer 90+4') 4-1 Canada (Alphonso Davies 2')
Match: Croatia 0-0 Belgium
Match: Canada (Nayef Aguerd OG 40') 1-2 Morocco (Hakim Ziyech 4', Youssef En-Nesyri 23')
FIFA World Cup 2022 Group G points table
Group G results and scores
Match: Switzerland (Breel Embolo 48') 1-0 Cameroon
Match: Brazil (Richarlison 62', 73') 2-0 Serbia
Match: Cameroon (Jean-Charles Castelletto 29', Vincent Aboubakar 63', Eric Choupo-Moting 66') 3-3 Serbia (Strahinja Pavlovic 45+1', Sergej Milinkovic-Savic 45+3', Aleksandar Mitrovic 53')
Match: Brazil (Casemiro 83') 1-0 Switzerland
Match: Serbia (Aleksandar Mitrovic 26', Dusan Vlahovic 35') 2-3 Switzerland (Xherdan Shaqiri 20', Breel Embolo 44', Remo Freuler 48')
Match: Cameroon (Vincent Aboubakar 90+2') 1-0 Brazil
FIFA World Cup 2022 Group H points table
Group H results and scores
Match: Uruguay 0-0 South Korea
Match: Portugal (Cristiano Ronaldo 65', Joao Felix 78', Rafael Lobo 80') 3-2 Ghana (Andre Ayew 73', Osman Bukari 89')
Match: South Korea (Cho Gue-sung 58', 61') 2-3 Ghana (Mohammed Salisu 24', Mohammed Kudus 34', 68')
Match: Portugal (Bruno Fernandes 54', 90+3') 2-0 Uruguay
Match: Ghana 0-2 Uruguay (Giorgian de Arrascaeta 26', 32')
Match: South Korea (Kim Young-gwon 27', Hwang Hee-chan 90+1') 2-1 Portugal (Ricardo Horta 5')
* Top two teams from each group make the Round of 16
Glossary: GF - Goals For (Goals Scored), GA - Goals Against (Goals Conceded), GD - Goal Difference
FIFA World Cup 2022 results: Round of 16 results
December 3, Saturday
Netherlands (Memphis Depay 10', Daley Blind 45+1', Denzel Dumfries 81') 3-1 USA (Haji Wright 76')
December 4, Sunday
Argentina (Lionel Messi 35', Julian Alvarez 57') 2-1 Australia (Enzo Fernandez OG 77')
France (Olivier Giroud 44', Kylian Mbappe 74', 90+1') 3-1 Poland (Robert Lewandowski 90+9')
December 5, Monday
England (Jordan Henderson 38', Harry Kane 45+3', Bukayo Saka 57') 3-0 Senegal
Japan (Daizen Maeda 43') 1(1)-1(3) Croatia (Ivan Perisic 55') - penalties
December 6, Tuesday
Brazil (Vinicius Jr 7', Neymar 13', Richarlison 29', Paqueta 36') 4-1 South Korea (Palik Seung-ho 76')
Morocco 0(3)-0(0) vs Spain - penalties
December 7, Wednesday
Portugal (Gonçalo Ramos 17’, 51’, 67’, Pepe 33’, Raphaël Guerreiro 55’, Rafael Leão 90+2’) 6-1 Switzerland (Manuel Akanji 58')
FIFA World Cup 2022 results: Quarter-finals results
Quarter-final 1: December 9, Friday
Croatia (Bruno Petković 116’) 1(4)-1(2) Brazil (Neymar 105+1’) - penalties
Quarter-final 2: December 10, Saturday
Netherlands (Wout Weghorst 83’, 90+11’) 2(3)-2(4) Argentina (Nahuel Molina 35’, Lionel Messi 73’(P)) - penalties
Quarter-final 3: December 10, Saturday
Morocco (Youssef En-Nesyri 42') 1-0 Portugal
Quarter-final 4: December 11, Sunday
England (Harry Kane 54’(P)) 1-2 France (Aurélien Tchouaméni 17’, Olivier Giroud 78’)
FIFA World Cup 2022 results: Semi-finals results
Semi-final 1: December 14, Wednesday
Argentina (Lionel Messi 34’(P), Julian Alvarez 39’, 69’) 3-0 Croatia
Semi-final 2: December 15, Thursday
France (Theo Hernández 5’, Randal Kolo Muani 79’) 2-0 Morocco
FIFA World Cup 2022 results: Third-place playoff result
3rd place playoff: December 17, Saturday
Croatia (Josko Gvardiol 7', Mislav Orsic 42') 2-1 Morocco (Achraf Dari 9')
FIFA World Cup 2022 results: Final result
Final: December 18, Sunday
Argentina (Lionel Messi 23' (P), 108', Angel Di María 36') 3(4)-3(2) France (Kylian Mbappe 80' (P), 81', 118' (P)) - penalties
