Knockout bracket

Probability each team reaches each knockout stage, derived from 50,000 simulated tournaments. The modal path below picks the most likely team in each starting slot and walks the bracket using pairwise win probabilities. One of many possible timelines.

Most-likely bracket path
Modal Champion
🇪🇸
Spain
wins it all 16.1%
Round of 32
Round of 32top 32
  • 🇧🇷Brazil100.0%
  • 🇨🇦Canada100.0%
  • 🇪🇬Egypt100.0%
  • 🇩🇪Germany100.0%
  • 🇯🇵Japan100.0%
  • 🇲🇽Mexico100.0%
  • 🇲🇦Morocco100.0%
  • 🇳🇱Netherlands100.0%
  • 🇪🇸Spain100.0%
  • 🇨🇭Switzerland100.0%
  • 🇺🇸United States100.0%
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England99.9%
  • 🇦🇷Argentina99.9%
  • 🇫🇷France99.8%
  • 🇨🇴Colombia98.8%
  • 🇳🇴Norway98.0%
  • 🇨🇮Ivory Coast96.4%
  • 🇦🇹Austria95.8%
  • 🇸🇪Sweden94.4%
  • 🇧🇪Belgium93.3%
  • 🇦🇺Australia89.5%
  • 🇰🇷South Korea89.4%
  • 🇵🇹Portugal89.1%
  • 🇭🇷Croatia86.0%
  • 🇬🇭Ghana75.5%
  • 🇵🇾Paraguay75.4%
  • 🇮🇷Iran70.4%
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland69.4%
  • 🇸🇳Senegal69.0%
  • 🇨🇻Cape Verde64.4%
  • 🇩🇿Algeria57.9%
  • 🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina48.3%
Round of 16top 16
  • 🇧🇷Brazil85.6%
  • 🇦🇷Argentina78.1%
  • 🇩🇪Germany78.1%
  • 🇪🇸Spain77.6%
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England74.5%
  • 🇫🇷France73.1%
  • 🇳🇱Netherlands69.1%
  • 🇲🇦Morocco69.1%
  • 🇨🇴Colombia67.6%
  • 🇵🇹Portugal63.6%
  • 🇲🇽Mexico57.2%
  • 🇧🇪Belgium55.7%
  • 🇺🇸United States55.3%
  • 🇳🇴Norway49.9%
  • 🇯🇵Japan49.3%
  • 🇨🇮Ivory Coast46.3%
Quarter-Finalstop 8
  • 🇧🇷Brazil69.2%
  • 🇪🇸Spain59.3%
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England57.6%
  • 🇦🇷Argentina53.8%
  • 🇩🇪Germany48.1%
  • 🇫🇷France44.8%
  • 🇲🇦Morocco44.0%
  • 🇵🇹Portugal37.3%
Semi-Finalstop 4
  • 🇧🇷Brazil45.7%
  • 🇪🇸Spain38.5%
  • 🇦🇷Argentina35.0%
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England32.0%
Finaltop 2
  • 🇧🇷Brazil25.5%
  • 🇪🇸Spain25.4%
Championtop 1
  • 🇪🇸Spain16.1%