Welcome to day 26 of the 2026 World Cup finals.
We are aiming to bring you a daily round up of the matches to come and recent results.
There are 48 countries at these 2026 World Cup finals, the most there has ever been. The matches to take place across Mexico, Canada and the USA.
We were left with 32 countries for the knockouts after 16 were eliminated in the group stage.
The 16 eliminated at the end of the group stage were: Czech Republic, Qatar, Haiti, Turkey, Curacao, Tunisia, New Zealand, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Panama, Uzbekistan, Scotland, Iran and South Korea.
Then you can add Canada, Paraguay, Australia, Cape Verde, Ghana, Croatia, Algeria, Austria, DR Congo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Senegal, Sweden, Ecuador, Ivory Coast, South Africa. Netherlands, Germany and Japan to that list as they exited in the round of 32.
Brazil and Mexico have now been added to make it 36 knocked out, with 12 countries remaining as possible winner of the 2026 World Cup.
Much drama as England and Norway joined Morocco and France in the quarter-finals.
Brazil have not convinced across their opening four matches that they were credible contenders to win the 2026 World Cup and not a huge surprise that Norway won the game, even less surprise that Erling Haaland scored both goals as he dominated and bullied Gabriel.
Bruno Guimaraes saw a poor penalty saved in the 12th minute and Brazil struggled to create many clear chances after that, though Nyland did make a couple of excellent saves. Neymar scoring a late spot-kick but by then the contest was over.
Even more drama inside the Azteca Stadium as storms delayed kick-off and that maybe gave us an indication of what was to come.
What a match! A game that had everything, five goals and it could have been many more. Mexico and England going toe to toe and we had two penalties and a red card, as VAR played a crucial role in proceedings.
Loads of goalmouth action and it ended up England having to play almost half the match a man down, the team dealing brilliantly with Quansah’s stupidity and Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham (2) getting the goals that knocked out co-hosts Mexico.
We now have Spain v Portugal at 8pm (UK time) on Monday to decide the fifth team to reach the quarter-finals.
Then 1am Tuesday (UK time) it is USA v Belgium.
The disgraceful decision to allow Folarin Balogun to be available despite his one-match suspension has absolutely brough FIFA and especially Gianni Infantino into disrepute. Football fans appalled by what has happened.
Late Monday has now seen FIFA dismissed Belgium’s challenge over the eligibility of Folarin Balogun after the unprecedented decision to allow the USA striker to play by suspending his one-game ban.
Not surprisingly, Belgium objected to that decision but now FIFA’s appeals committee have rendered the request submitted by the Belgian Football Association as “inadmissible” on the grounds that the Belgian FA “is not a party to the proceedings and, as such, has no standing to appeal the decision.”
It is now 269 goals in 92 matches and this 2026 World Cup not far short of averaging three goals per game for the first time since the 1958 World Cup but the chances of it happening are now reducing in the knockout stages. The closest since 1958 was the 1970 Mexico World Cup that averaged 2.97 goals per match, this 2026 World Cup now averaging 2.92 goals per game after the first 92 matches. There are now only 12 games left to play (including the third-place play-off match).
Here are the round of 16 results and remaining games to be played to decide the quarter-finalists (plus the two quarter-finals already confirmed), all kick-offs are shown as UK times and with the channel that is showing them.
Round of 16 knockout fixtures and results
Saturday 4 July
Canada 0 Morocco 3
France 1 Paraguay 0
Sunday 5 July
Brazil 1 Norway 2
Monday 6 July
Mexico 2 England 3
Portugal v Spain 8pm (BBC1)
Tuesday 7 July
USA v Belgium 1am (BBC1)
Argentina v Egypt 5pm (ITV1)
Colombia v Switzerland 9pm (ITV1)
Quarter-finals
Thursday 9 July
France v Morocco 9pm (TBC TV)
Saturday 11 July
Norway v England 10pm (TBC TV)
Here is the full 2026 World Cup schedule:
Enjoy!