FIFA worldcup - Group Stage Advancement Format

Group Stage Advancement Format

Match Points
  • 2 points for a win
  • 1-point for a draw
  • 5 points for automatic advancement to knockout phase
  • 1-point minimum required for possible advancement to knockout phase[citation needed]
  • FIFA World Cup 1994–present
  • 3 points for a win
  • 1-point for a draw
  • 7 points for automatic advancement to knockout phase
  • 2 points minimum required for possible advancement to knockout phase
Match Schedule
Each group of 4 teams plays a round-robin schedule. As of the 1986 World Cup, all final group games must be held simultaneously, a rule instituted by FIFA to diminish collusion amongst teams requiring a certain result to advance. FIFA instituted a policy to award 3 points for a win in the 1994 World Cup. Although goals for was already a tiebreaker, FIFA hoped to create an additional incentive for teams to pursue victory. The first team affected by the rule was Paraguay in 1998, which would have won its group on goal differential over Nigeria under prior FIFA rules. Paraguay advanced to the knockout phase as group runner-up and was defeated by host nation and eventual champion France in the Round of 16. It is not possible under the new point system to be eliminated from the group stage with a 2nd place or higher winning percentage, however it is possible to finish behind a team with the same winning percentage yet a lower goal difference. This took place in the 2010 FIFA World Cup whenNew Zealand finished with three draws and Slovakia finished with one win, one draw, and one loss. Slovakia advanced in Group F by finishing second with 4 points, eliminating New Zealand with 3 points. Under the previous FIFA point allotment system, New Zealand would have advanced with an even goal difference (0), while Slovakiawould have been eliminated with a goal difference of negative one (−1).
Criteria for Advancement to Knockout Phase
  1. Greatest number of points in group matches
  2. Greatest total goal difference in the three group matches
  3. Greatest number of goals scored in the three group matches
  4. If teams remained level after those criteria, a mini-group would be formed from those teams, who would be ranked on:
    1. Most points earned in matches against other teams in the tie
    2. Greatest goal difference in matches against other teams in the tie
    3. Greatest number of goals scored in matches against other teams in the tie
  5. If teams remained level after all these criteria, FIFA would hold a drawing of lots
  6. The drawing of lots for tied teams takes place one hour after the final game in the group at the stadium where the championship match is held. The drawing of lots is similar to the World Cup Draw in terms of style and format; a ball is drawn from a pot, which contains balls with the names of each tied team.

As of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, lots have only been drawn once in tournament history. However, they were used to separate second and third place in a group (Republic of Ireland and the Netherlands at Italia '90). Thus, a team has never been eliminated based upon drawn lots.

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