40 teams out of FIFA World Cup, now only 8 compete, this is the schedule of quarter-finals

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Another round of FIFA World Cup 2026 has ended and now the race for the trophy has reached the fourth round. Fourth round i.e. quarter-finals, where now only 8 teams are left, while a total of 40 teams are out of the World Cup. With the exciting end of the Round of 16, the 8 teams of the quarter-finals have been decided and the schedule of their matches has also been decided. With the victory of Argentina and Switzerland on the last day of this round, the quarter-final line-up was completed.

All three World Cup hosts out

8 matches were played in the Round of 16 or Pre-Quarter Final Round, in which almost all were very exciting. The most shocking result was seen against 5-time champion Brazil, which suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of Norway. At the same time, the current champion Argentina narrowly escaped elimination when after falling 0-2 against Egypt, it came back and won 3-2. The special thing was that all three hosts of the tournament – ​​America, Mexico and Canada – were eliminated in this round itself. Apart from them, the journey of Paraguay, Brazil, Portugal, Egypt and Colombia also ended.

Entry of these 8 teams in quarter-finals

Now if we talk about the quarter-finals, Norway and to some extent Switzerland are the only teams who had little hope of reaching here. Still he made his place in the last 8. Apart from these, Argentina, France, England, Belgium, Morocco and Spain have reached the quarter-finals. Now there will be 4 matches between these 8 teams, which will decide the last 4 teams of the semi-finals.

This is the schedule of quarter-finals

Sumit Sundriyal

Presently I am working as Assistant News Editor (Sports) in TV9 Hindi (Sports 9). Reaching here started from 2009, when I took admission in Mass Media Honors Course (2009-12) at Jamia Millia Islamia. Then in 2013, he completed Post-Graduation Diploma in Hindi Journalism from Indian Institute of Mass Communication. It was from here in 2013 that he entered professional journalism for the first time and first made a place in News 18 India TV channel. Before taking entry in digital journalism, he spent about 6 years in the TV industry, where he worked on the assignment desk. While at the assignment desk, gathering information is the most important task and it is the responsibility to check every aspect of that news and take it forward. Did the same thing while working at News 18 India. After this, the fascination with sports and sports news turned towards digital journalism and a new journey began. It started during IPL 2019, when Quint joined Hindi. After writing sports news with Quint for a year, he established a relationship with TV9 Hindi to achieve a new position in this work. For the last 3 years, I have been bringing every small, big, serious and funny sports news to you here and am constantly trying to present it in a better way.

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