Incredible images from World Cup 2026
Spain have been crowned World Cup winners after beating Argentina in the last match of the longest World Cup in history.
The 1-0 win in extra time was their second World Cup triumph - they last won in 2010 - after more than five weeks and 100 matches.
The game had pitted Barcelona legend Lionel Messi of Argentina against Barcelona prodigy Lamine Yamal of Spain.
There were some ugly clashes at the end of the match that had seen Argentina's Enzo Fernandez sent off for a second yellow card - very different from the scenes between England and France players after England's thrilling 6-4 victory in the third place play-off.
For fans of the other teams the tournament has produced amazing goals, outstanding saves and desperate tackles - but ultimately disappointment as each has been eliminated.
For England, it was heartache in semi-finals again when they lost to Argentina.
The tournament had started brightly with Harry Kane scoring England's first two goals against Croatia - the first from the penalty spot.
France's Kylian Mbappé scored twice in the match, taking his tally for the tournament to 10 goals and becoming the first player to win the Golden Boot twice. His first had come against Senegal in their opening match.
Bellingham and Kane had been among the contenders, with six players ending the tournament with six or more goals - which has been enough to win the prize in some years.
Mbappé and Messi have now also scored more World Cup goals than any other player in history, having overtaken Germany's Miroslav Klose, who scored 16 goals in four tournaments between 2002 and 2014.
Messi, who has never won the Golden Boot, was the first to pass Klose and ended with 21 goals in six World Cups, but Mbappé now has 22 in three tournaments - including a brace scored in the group match against Iraq that was the first match in the tournament to be interrupted by storms.
For Messi's great rival Cristiano Ronaldo the tournament ended with a 1-0 defeat for Portugal against Spain.
He has confirmed he won't compete in another World Cup, while Brazil's Neymar has retired from international football altogether after their defeat to Norway.
Four-time winners Germany and three-time finalists the Netherlands were among other big hitters who were knocked out earlier than some expected, after penalty-shootout losses against Paraguay and Morocco respectively.
The knockout stages also saw the departure of Cape Verde - who were arguably the story of the tournament after holding Spain, Uruguay and Saudi Arabia to make it out of the group stages stages in their first World Cup.
Forty-year-old Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha, who made crucial saves through the tournament and left the pitch after the final whistle in their opening match against Spain in tears, became a social media sensation and has had a newly discovered species of sea slug named after him.
The tiny African nation - the third smallest to appear at a World Cup - couldn’t get past Argentina despite taking the tie into extra time and equalising twice, including a stunning curling shot from the edge of the penalty area.
An own goal moments later saw Argentina through, but the players returned to Cape Verde to a hero's welcome with crowds surrounding the players' bus in Praia to cheer them home.
Also out are the three co-hosts: Mexico after the defeat to England, Canada were beaten by Morocco, and the US lost to Belgium.
The build-up to the US match was overshadowed by Fifa's decision to suspend a one-match ban for striker Folarin Balogun - and US President Donald Trump's statement that he had asked Fifa to review the punishment.
The defeat means the US have now fallen at the last-16 stage at four of the past five World Cups.
And Mexico had been hoping to reach their first quarter-final since they last hosted the tournament in 1986.
For Canada, despite disappointment against Morocco, the team could celebrate their first ever World Cup point and their first wins in the tournament as they beat Qatar in the group stage and South Africa in their Round of 32 match.
Scotland, who won their first game against Haiti with a goal from John McGinn, agonisingly missed out on a place in the final 32 after defeats to Morocco and Brazil saw them slip out of the best third placed teams in the group stage.
The Tartan Army had flocked to the tournament to watch their team, who were appearing at their first World Cup since 1998.
They were joined by fans from around the world all looking to support their teams through the highs and lows of the competition.
Fans from Norway even went viral with clips of them performing their unique mass Viking rowing celebration taking social media by storm.
The festival of football all started five weeks ago with almost 87,500 fans, celebrities and dignitaries packed into the Estadio Azteca to see co-hosts Mexico open their campaign with a 2-0 win against South Africa.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino had promised the three ceremonies would "bring together music, culture and football in a way that reflects both the individuality of each nation and the unity that defines this tournament".
They concluded with performances from Shakira, Alanis Morissette and Katy Perry before each host nation kicked off their respective opening matches and started the five-and-a-half-week tournament.
