Knockout Stage
The knockout stage comprised the sixteen teams that advanced from the group stage of the tournament. There were four rounds of matches, with each round eliminating half of the teams entering that round. The successive rounds were the round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals, and the final. There was also a play-off to decide third and fourth place. For each game in the knockout stage, any draw at 90 minutes was followed by thirty minutes of extra time; if scores were still level, there was a penalty shootout to determine who progressed to the next round. Golden goal comes into play if a team scores during extra time, thus becoming the winner which concludes the game.
| Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
| 27 June – Paris | ||||||||||||||
| Brazil | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 3 July – Nantes | ||||||||||||||
| Chile | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Brazil | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 28 June – Saint-Denis | ||||||||||||||
| Denmark | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Nigeria | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 7 July – Marseille | ||||||||||||||
| Denmark | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Brazil (pen.) | 1 (4) | |||||||||||||
| 29 June – Toulouse | ||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 1 (2) | |||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 4 July – Marseille | ||||||||||||||
| Yugoslavia | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 30 June – St. Étienne | ||||||||||||||
| Argentina | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Argentina (pen.) | 2 (4) | |||||||||||||
| 12 July – Saint-Denis | ||||||||||||||
| England | 2 (3) | |||||||||||||
| Brazil | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 27 June – Marseille | ||||||||||||||
| France | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Italy | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 3 July – Saint-Denis | ||||||||||||||
| Norway | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Italy | 0 (3) | |||||||||||||
| 28 June – Lens | ||||||||||||||
| France (pen.) | 0 (4) | |||||||||||||
| France (a.e.t.) | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 8 July – Saint-Denis | ||||||||||||||
| Paraguay | 0 | |||||||||||||
| France | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 29 June – Montpellier | ||||||||||||||
| Croatia | 1 | Third place | ||||||||||||
| Germany | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 4 July – Lyon | 11 July – Paris | |||||||||||||
| Mexico | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Germany | 0 | Netherlands | 1 | |||||||||||
| 30 June – Bordeaux | ||||||||||||||
| Croatia | 3 | Croatia | 2 | |||||||||||
| Romania | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Croatia | 1 | |||||||||||||
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—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)