A working reference for any edition of the tournament. Compute a group table with the real tiebreakers rather than guessing, rank third-placed teams across every group at once, load your own fixture and squad data, and read tournament statistics without falling for the traps that a seven match sample sets. Free, no registration, runs entirely in your browser.
Enter four team names and the six results, and the table sorts itself using the standard order: points, then goal difference, then goals scored, then the result between the tied teams. Most homemade tables stop at goal difference, which is where they go wrong.
Teams
Group size
Results
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Pos
Team
P
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Status
The tiebreakers, in the order they are applied
Points come first, and three for a win with one for a draw has been the standard at this tournament since the nineteen nineties. Goal difference across the whole group comes second, then goals scored. Only after those does the competition look at the matches between the tied teams, applying points, then goal difference, then goals scored within that subset. If teams are still level after all of that, disciplinary record and then a drawing of lots decide it. The exact sequence is set by the competition regulations for each edition and has changed more than once, so check the current regulations before settling an argument on the fine detail.
Third place ranking
In an expanded format the best third-placed teams advance, ranked against each other across every group. This is the calculation that eliminates teams through results in groups they never played in, and it is the one nobody can do in their head.
Groups in the tournamentThird-placed teams advancing
Third-placed teams
Ranked
Why the last round is played simultaneously
Because third place is judged across the whole tournament, a team finishing its group early would know exactly what every other group needs to produce, and so would its opponent. Staggering those kickoffs would let two teams agree on a result that eliminates a third party neither of them plays. Simultaneous kickoffs in the final round remove that possibility, and the rule exists because the alternative was tried and produced a match that damaged the competition's reputation for a generation.
Reading the numbers
Twelve metrics you will see quoted during a tournament, what each actually measures, what it hides, and the sample size problem that makes all of them harder to use here than in a league season. This is the section most statistics pages skip.
The single most important caveat on this page. A team that wins the tournament plays seven matches, or eight in an expanded format. A league season gives thirty eight. Almost every metric that is stable and predictive across a season is noisy across seven matches, which means tournament statistics describe what happened far better than they predict what will happen. Treat a tournament number as a record of events rather than as a measurement of quality.
Format history
The tournament has been restructured repeatedly, and comparing records across eras without accounting for that produces nonsense. This is the structural history you need before any cross-era comparison means anything.
Era
Teams
Group stage
Knockout
Matches to win
Expansion changes what a statistic means. More teams means more matches, a wider spread of quality in the group stage, and more opportunity to accumulate totals. A goalscoring record set when the champion played four matches is not comparable to one set when the champion plays eight, and any list that ranks them together without saying so is misleading you.
Records reference
What each record category actually counts, where the definitions disagree between sources, and how to compare fairly across eras. Deliberately no leaderboard, because a list of numbers goes stale and the reasoning does not.
Record tables published in different places disagree more often than people expect, usually because they draw the boundary differently. Whether qualifying counts, whether a match awarded by forfeit counts, whether an own goal is credited, and whether tournaments interrupted by war are included all change the answer. Before quoting a record, check what the source counted.
Your data
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Compare teams
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