{"id":767669,"date":"2026-06-28T23:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767669\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T23:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:11:13","slug":"world-cup-2026-knockout-stage-odds-format-rules-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767669\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 Knockout Stage Odds, Format, Rules and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Thirty-two teams made it out of the group stage and into the knockout round at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The top two teams from each of the 12 groups and the top eight third-place teams will compete for the championship over the next three weeks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">All of the regular contenders are in the knockout-round bracket from Brazil to Spain to Argentina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">While there were no massively surprise eliminations, there were a few surprise qualifiers, a group headlined by Cape Verde.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The round of 32 has some huge mismatches, including Cape Verde&#8217;s clash with Argentina, but the bracket sets up for some incredible matches down the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thirty-two teams made it out of the group stage and into the knockout round at the 2026 FIFA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-767669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}