{"id":721336,"date":"2026-06-23T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721336\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:47:09","slug":"world-cup-2026-tables-and-third-place-standings-live-updates-as-top-eight-teams-qualify-for-round-of-32-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721336\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 tables and third-place standings: live updates as top eight teams qualify for round of 32 | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the final World Cup group matches approach, who is on course to reach the knockout stages?<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams from each group and the eight best third\u2011placed teams qualify for the round of 32.<\/p>\n<p>How are the eight best third-placed teams decided?<\/p>\n<p>The eight best third-placed teams are ranked by:<\/p>\n<p>Points obtained in all group matchesGoal difference from all group matchesGoals scored in all group matchesFair Play &#8211; relating to the number of yellow and red cards obtained in all group matchesFIFA ranking will come into play as a last resortEvery potential fixture in the World Cup knockout stages &#8211; as it stands&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Live group tables <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the final World Cup group matches approach, who is on course to reach the knockout stages? The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-721336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}