World Cup 2026: Who could England and Scotland face in knockouts?

The group levels of the World Cup are nonetheless in their infancy – however consideration will inevitably already be turning to potential knockout spherical match-ups as followers plot their nation’s potential path to glory.

Now the primary matches in every group have been accomplished, you’ll be able to see the present bracket for the knockout levels here.

The web page updates whereas group matches are in-play and routinely updates each 15 seconds.

As it stands, Group L leaders England face a frightening last-32 assembly with Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal, who sit third in Group Okay after drawing their opening match towards DR Congo.

That can be the primary assembly between the 2 nations at a significant males’s championship since Portugal beat England on penalties in the quarter-final stage of the 2006 World Cup, two years after doing so on the similar stage of Euro 2004.

Scotland, as leaders of Group C after their opening victory over Haiti, are heading in the right direction to fulfill Japan, who’re second in Group F following a gap draw with the Netherlands.

Among the opposite eye-catching fixtures based mostly on the newest outcomes, Germany would come up towards Brazil, who they thrashed 7-1 on their option to the title in 2014.

Erling Haaland’s Norway, prime of Group I, would additionally meet the Netherlands – captained by Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk’s facet and presently third in Group F.

The prime two groups from the 12 teams, plus the eight greatest third-placed nations, will advance into an expanded knockout part that can start with a spherical of 32.