2018 FIFA World Cup

The **2018 FIFA World Cup** was the 21st FIFA World Cup, which is a men's football tournament that takes place every four years and is organized by FIFA. The tournament took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awarded the hosting rights on 2 December 2010. This was the first World Cup taking place in Eastern Europe.

The defending champions were Germany. France won the tournament after defeating Croatia 4–2. This was France's second World Cup title.

## Qualified teams

Russia is the host country, so the Russian team automatically qualified.

|style="width:130px;"|Team|Qualified as|Date of qualification|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
||CONMEBOL qualification 3rd place|10 October 2017||
||CONCACAF v AFC play-off winners|15 November 2017||
||UEFA Group H winners|3 September 2017||
||CONMEBOL qualification winner|28 March 2017||
||CONMEBOL qualification 4th place|10 October 2017||
||CONCACAF Fifth Round runners-up|7 October 2017||
||UEFA Second Round winners|12 November 2017||
||UEFA Second Round winners|14 November 2017||
||CAF Third Round Group E winners|8 October 2017||
||UEFA Group F winners|5 October 2017||
||UEFA Group A winners|10 October 2017||
||UEFA Group C winners|5 October 2017||
||UEFA Group I winners|9 October 2017||
||AFC Third Round Group A winners|12 June 2017||
||AFC Third Round Group B winners|31 August 2017||
||CONCACAF Fifth Round top 3|1 September 2017||
||CAF Third Round Group C winners|11 November 2017||
||CAF Third Round Group B winners|7 October 2017||
||CONCACAF Fifth Round 3rd place|10 October 2017||
||OFC v CONMEBOL play-off winners|15 November 2017||
||UEFA Group E winners|8 October 2017||
||UEFA Group B winners|10 October 2017||
||Host|2 December 2010||
||AFC Third Round Group B runners-up|5 September 2017||
||CAF Third Round Group D winners|10 November 2017||
||UEFA Group D winners|9 October 2017||
||AFC Third Round Group A runners-up|5 September 2017||
||UEFA Group G winners|6 October 2017||
||UEFA Second Round winners|13 November 2017||
||UEFA Second Round winners|12 November 2017||
||CAF Third Round Group A winners|11 November 2017||
||CONMEBOL qualification runners-up|10 October 2017||

## Draw

The draw was held in Moscow at 18:00 MSK, on Friday 1 December 2017
The teams were divided into 4 pots, 8 teams each. The number in parenthesis show positions in the FIFA World Rankings prior to the tournament.

|width=25%|**Pot 1**|width=25%|**Pot 2**|width=25%|**Pot 3**|width=25%|**Pot 4**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**(65)** _(hosts)_ **(1)** **(2)** **(3)** **(4)** **(5)** **(6)** **(7)**|**(8)** **(10)** **(11)** **(12)** **(13)** **(16)** **(17)** **(18)**|**(19)** **(21)** **(22)** **(25)** **(28)** **(30)** **(32)** **(34)**|**(38)** **(41)** **(43)** **(44)** **(48)** **(49)** **(62)** **(63)**|||||

## Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the round of 16. Matches are played on a round-robin basis.

### Tiebreakers

The rankings of teams in each group are determined as follows (regulations Article 32.5):

If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings are determined as follows:

### Group A

---

---

### Group B

---

---

### Group C

---

---

### Group D

---

---

### Group E

---

---

### Group F

---

---

### Group G

---

---

### Group H

---

---

### Round of 16

---

---
cjk
---

---

---

---

---

### Quarter-finals

---

---

---

### Semi-finals

---

### Discipline

A player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:
- Receiving a red card (red card suspensions may be extended for serious offences)
- Receiving two yellow cards in two different matches; yellow cards expire after the completion of the quarter-finals (yellow card suspensions are not carried forward to any other future international matches)

The following suspensions were served during the tournament:

|Player|Offence(s)|Suspension(s)|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Carlos Sánchez|in Group H vs Japan (matchday 1; 19 June)|Group H vs Poland (matchday 2; 24 June)|
|Yussuf Poulsen|in Group C vs Peru (matchday 1; 16 June) in Group C vs Australia (matchday 2; 21 June)|Group C vs France (matchday 3; 26 June)|
|Jérôme Boateng|in Group F vs Sweden (matchday 2; 23 June)|Group F vs South Korea (matchday 3; 27 June)|
|Armando Cooper|in Group G vs Belgium (matchday 1; 18 June) in Group G vs England (matchday 2; 24 June)|Group G vs Tunisia (matchday 3; 28 June)|
|Michael Amir Murillo|in Group G vs Belgium (matchday 1; 18 June) in Group G vs England (matchday 2; 24 June)|Group G vs Tunisia (matchday 3; 28 June)|
|Igor Smolnikov|in Group A vs Uruguay (matchday 3; 25 June)|Round of 16 vs Spain (1 July)|
|Sebastian Larsson|in Group F vs Germany (matchday 2; 23 June) in Group F vs Mexico (matchday 3; 27 June)|Round of 16 vs Switzerland (3 July)|
|Héctor Moreno|in Group F vs Germany (matchday 1; 17 June) in Group F vs Sweden (matchday 3; 27 June)|Round of 16 vs Brazil (2 July)|
|Stephan Lichtsteiner|in Group E vs Brazil (matchday 1; 17 June) in Group E vs Costa Rica (matchday 3; 27 June)|Round of 16 vs Sweden (3 July)|
|Fabian Schär|in Group E vs Brazil (matchday 1; 17 June) in Group E vs Costa Rica (matchday 3; 27 June)|Round of 16 vs Sweden (3 July)|
|Blaise Matuidi|in Group C vs Peru (matchday 2; 21 June) in Round of 16 vs Argentina (30 June)|Quarter-finals vs Uruguay (6 July)|
|Casemiro|in Group E vs Switzerland (matchday 1; 17 June) in Round of 16 vs Mexico (2 July)|Quarter-finals vs Belgium (6 July)|
|Mikael Lustig|in Group F vs Mexico (matchday 3; 27 June) in Round of 16 vs Switzerland (3 July)|Quarter-finals vs England (7 July)|
|Thomas Meunier|in Group G vs Panama (matchday 1; 18 June) in Quarter-finals vs Brazil (6 July)|Semi-finals vs France (10 July)|

### Awards

|Golden Ball|Silver Ball|Bronze Ball|
| --- | --- | --- |
|Luka Modrić|Eden Hazard|Antoine Griezmann|
|Harry Kane|Antoine Griezmann|Romelu Lukaku|
|6 goals, 0 assists|4 goals, 2 assists|4 goals, 1 assist|
|colspan="3"|Thibaut Courtois||
|colspan="3"|Kylian Mbappé||
|colspan="3"|||

## Prize money

Prize money amounts were announced in October 2017.

|rowspan="2"|Position|colspan="2"|Amount (USD million)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Champions|38|38||
|Runners-up|28|28||
|Third place|24|24||
|Fourth place|22|22||
|5th–8th place|16|64||
|9th–16th place|12|96||
|17th–32nd place|8|128||

## Other websites

- FIFA.com 2018 website
- Welcome2018.com

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: FIFA World Cup
- **year**: 2018
- **other titles**:
_Chempionat mira po futbolu FIFA 2018_
- **image**: France champion of the Football World Cup Russia 2018.jpg
- **size**: 250px
- **caption**: France with the World Cup trophy.
- **country**: Russia
- **num teams**: 32
- **confederations**: 5
- **venues**: 12
- **cities**: 11
- **champion**: France
- **count**: 2
- **second**: Croatia
- **third**: Belgium
- **fourth**: England
- **matches**: 64
- **goals**: 169
- **top scorer**: Harry Kane
- **player**: Santhosh Modric
- **goalkeeper**: Thibaut Courtois
- **young player**: Kylian Mbappé
- **prevseason**: 1984 FIFA World Cup, 2014
- **nextseason**: 2017 FIFA World Cup, 2022