England’s Harry Kane celebrates scoring the side’s second goal with Bukayo Saka.
The FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar kick-started with the host taking on Ecuador in a Group A fixture on November 20 at the Al Bayt Stadium.
Two weeks of footballing action later, all group stage matches are done. Half of the teams, in the race to become World Champion, have now gone home.
There is no gap between the group stage matches and knockouts, with the first match of the round of 16 having started on December 3.
Here are all the matches, results and goalscorers of the Round of 16 matches –
| Match No. | Round of 16 fixtures and results | Goalscorers | Date (as per IST) |
| 1 | Netherlands 3-1 USA | Netherlands – Memphis Depay (10′), Daley Blind (45+1′), Denzel Dumfries (81′); USA – Haji Wright (76′) | December 3 |
| 2 | Argentina 2-1 Australia | Argentina – Lionel Messi (35′), Julian Alvarez (57′); Australia – Enzo Fernandez (OG 77′) | December 4 |
| 3 | France 3-1 Poland | France – Olivier Giroud (44′), Kylian Mbappe (74′, 90+1′); Poland – Robert Lewandowski (P 90+9′) | December 4 |
| 4 | England 3-0 Senegal | Jordan Henderson (38′), Harry Kane (45+3′), Bukayo Saka (57′) | December 5 |
