Summary
The knockout stage was the second and final stage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, following the group stage. The top two teams from each group (16 in total) advance to the knockout stage to compete in a single-elimination style tournament. A match was played between the two losing teams of the semi-finals to determine which team finished in third place.
All times local (CEST/UTC+2)
Qualified teams edit
The top two placed teams from each of the eight groups qualified for the knockout stage.
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| A |  Germany
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 Ecuador
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| B |  England
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 Sweden
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| C |  Argentina
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 Netherlands
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| D |  Portugal
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 Mexico
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| E |  Italy
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 Ghana
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| F |  Brazil
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 Australia
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| G |  Switzerland
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 France
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| H |  Spain
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 Ukraine
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Bracket edit
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| 24 June – Munich | ||||||||||||||
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| 30 June – Berlin | ||||||||||||||
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| Germany (p) | 1 (4) | |||||||||||||
| 24 June – Leipzig | ||||||||||||||
| Argentina | 1 (2) | |||||||||||||
| Argentina (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 4 July – Dortmund | ||||||||||||||
| Mexico | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Germany | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 26 June – Kaiserslautern | ||||||||||||||
| Italy (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Italy | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 30 June – Hamburg | ||||||||||||||
| Australia | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Italy | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 26 June – Cologne | ||||||||||||||
| Ukraine | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 0 (0) | |||||||||||||
| 9 July – Berlin | ||||||||||||||
| Ukraine (p) | 0 (3) | |||||||||||||
| Italy (p) | 1 (5) | |||||||||||||
| 25 June – Stuttgart | ||||||||||||||
| France | 1 (3) | |||||||||||||
| England | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 1 July – Gelsenkirchen | ||||||||||||||
| Ecuador | 0 | |||||||||||||
| England | 0 (1) | |||||||||||||
| 25 June – Nuremberg | ||||||||||||||
| Portugal (p) | 0 (3) | |||||||||||||
| Portugal | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 5 July – Munich | ||||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Portugal | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 27 June – Dortmund | ||||||||||||||
| France | 1 | Third place play-off | ||||||||||||
| Brazil | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 1 July – Frankfurt | 8 July – Stuttgart | |||||||||||||
| Ghana | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Brazil | 0 | Germany | 3 | |||||||||||
| 27 June – Hanover | ||||||||||||||
| France | 1 | Portugal | 1 | |||||||||||
| Spain | 1 | |||||||||||||
| France | 3 | |||||||||||||
Round of 16 edit
Germany vs Sweden edit
Germany progressed thanks to two goals from Lukas Podolski inside the opening 12 minutes. His first was in the fourth minute; German captain Michael Ballack sent a pass to Miroslav Klose, who was tackled by goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson, only for an onrushing Podolski to turn the ball in.[1] Eight minutes later, a pass from Klose found Podolski, who scored his second goal.[1] On 35 minutes, Teddy Lučić received a second yellow card for a foul on Klose.[1] In the 52nd minute, Henrik Larsson won a penalty for Sweden when he was challenged by Christoph Metzelder, only for Larsson himself to shoot the ball over the crossbar.[2] Germany held out for a 2–0 win.
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- Germany book quarter-final spot with 2-0 win over Sweden
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Argentina vs Mexico edit
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- Argentina score in extra-time; beat Mexico, get to quarter-finals
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England vs Ecuador edit
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- England do enough against Ecuador; through to quarter-final
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Portugal vs Netherlands edit
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- Portugal overcome Netherlands 1-0 on way to quarter-final
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Italy vs Australia edit
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- Italy win with last kick against Australia; into quarter-finals
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Switzerland vs Ukraine edit
Despite their early elimination, Switzerland became the first team in the history of the FIFA World Cup to leave an edition of the tournament without conceding a single goal.[3]
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- Ukraine win penalty shootout; beat Switzerland for quarter-final spot
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Brazil vs Ghana edit
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- Brazil knock-out Ghana 3-0 to grab quarter-final place
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Spain vs France edit
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- France out-wit Spain 3-1 and clinch quarter-final spot
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Quarter-finals edit
Germany vs Argentina edit
Argentina took the lead through Roberto Ayala early in the second half, but the South Americans’ goalkeeper Roberto Abbondanzieri was injured after the goal and his replacement Leo Franco was unable to stop Miroslav Klose from equalizing with ten minutes left in regulation time. The match went to extra time. With no goals scored, the semifinal spot came down to penalties, during which German goalkeeper Jens Lehmann was seen looking at a piece of paper kept in his sock before each Argentinian player would come forward for a penalty kick. Lehmann had researched the penalty taking habits of seven players on the Argentinian team. However, only two players on his list ended up taking a penalty that day. On the attempts by those two players, Lehmann saved one and came close to saving the other. He then had to guess on Esteban Cambiasso's kick since he did not have any information written on his list about Cambiasso. However, he derived an educated guess from the videos he had studied and pretended to read the piece of paper and nodded his head before putting it away, implying to Cambiasso that he did in fact have information on the kicker. Lehmann guessed correctly and saved the penalty, thus winning the shootout for Germany.[4] "Lehmann's list" became so popular in the annals of German football history that it is now in the Haus der Geschichte museum.
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- Germany master penalties to beat Argentina to semi-final spot
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Italy vs Ukraine edit
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- Italy brush Ukraine aside 3-0 to reach semi-final
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England vs Portugal edit
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- Portugal taken to penalties; beat England and reach historic semi-final
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Brazil vs France edit
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Defending world champions Brazil went out in the quarter-finals after Zinedine Zidane found an unmarked Thierry Henry from a free kick, the striker having been given a free run at the ball after his marker, Roberto Carlos, stopped to tie his shoe.[5]
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- France beat Brazil 1-0 to take last semi-final spot
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Semi-finals edit
Germany vs Italy edit
This was the fourth time that Italy defeated the host nation of tournament, after France in 1938, Mexico in 1970 and Argentina in 1978.
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- Italy score two late in Extra Time; hosts Germany out of FIFA World Cup
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Portugal vs France edit
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- France beat Portugal 1-0 and reach FIFA World Cup final
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Third place play-off edit
This was the third time that Portugal lost to the host nation of tournament, after England in 1966 and South Korea in 2002.
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- Germany beat Portugal 3-1 to take FIFA World Cup bronze
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Final edit
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- Italy and France draw 1-1; Italy win FIFA World Cup on penalties
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Notes edit
- ^ Cufré was sent off on the bench, despite not playing any part in the match.
References edit
- ^ a b c "Germany 2-0 Sweden". 24 June 2006.
- ^ Ashdown, John (24 June 2006). "Germany 2 - 0 Sweden". The Guardian.
- ^ "2006 FIFA World Cup - News - Out but no goals against". www.fifa.com. 27 June 2006. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
- ^ "The piece of paper that helped Germany turn the page". www.fifa.com.
- ^ "10 Best World Cup Moments". siphiwetshabalala.co.za. Siphiwe Tshabalala. Archived from the original on 4 September 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2014.