{"id":1411307,"date":"2026-06-28T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-2026-world-cup-group-stage-is-complete-all-playoff-pairings-have-been-determined\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T11:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T08:45:06","slug":"the-2026-world-cup-group-stage-is-complete-all-playoff-pairings-have-been-determined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-2026-world-cup-group-stage-is-complete-all-playoff-pairings-have-been-determined\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 World Cup group stage is complete: all playoff pairings have been determined."},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2026 World Cup group stage has concluded. Following the final matches in Groups J, K, and L, all playoff participants have been determined.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Group K,<\/strong> Colombia drew 0-0 with Portugal<\/strong><\/a> to retain first place. Portugal finished second.<\/p>\n

The DR Congo team defeated outsider Uzbekistan with a score of 3:1<\/strong><\/a> and advanced to the 1\/16 finals from third place.<\/p>\n

The final standings in Group K look like this:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In Group L,<\/strong> England beat Panama 2-0<\/strong><\/a>, while Croatia beat Ghana 2-1<\/strong><\/a>. All teams except Panama advanced to the knockout stages.<\/p>\n

The final standings in Group L look like this:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In Group J,<\/strong> Austria prevented Algeria from moving up to second place, drawing 3-3<\/strong><\/a>. Argentina, as expected, defeated Jordan 3-1<\/strong><\/a> to take first place. All teams except Jordan advanced to the knockout round.<\/p>\n

The final standings in Group J are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The final tables and results of previous groups can be seen here<\/strong><\/a>, here<\/strong><\/a>, and also here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is worth noting that the teams from DR Congo, Sweden, Ghana, Ecuador, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Algeria, Paraguay and Senegal<\/strong> advanced to the playoffs from third place.<\/p>\n

The losers were the teams of Iran, South Korea, Scotland and Uruguay.<\/p>\n

Thus, all pairs of the 1\/16 finals of the 2026 World Cup have been determined.<\/p>\n

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The first playoff match between South Africa and Canada<\/strong> will take place today, June 28, at 10:00 PM Kyiv time.<\/p>\n

Also follow “Pryamy”<\/strong> on Facebook<\/a>, X<\/a>, Telegram<\/a> and Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The 2026 World Cup group stage has concluded. Following the final matches in Groups J, K, and L, all playoff participants have been determined. In Group K, Colombia drew 0-0 with Portugal to retain first place. Portugal finished second. The DR Congo team defeated outsider Uzbekistan with a score of 3:1 and advanced to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1411292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76873,76895,77323],"class_list":["post-1411307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-events","category-sports","category-fifa-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411309,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411307\/revisions\/1411309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1411292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}