Group L

Croatia Croatia

This profile is based on 100,000 simulations using the current WC26 simulator engine. The numbers are a model snapshot, not a guarantee. Team ratings, squads and injury updates may change over time.

Champion 1.9%
Group qualification 85.9%
Squad value €385.7m
Avg age 28.3
Avg height 1.853m
Manager Zlatko Dalić

Group

Finish probabilities

1st 27.5%
2nd 42.4%
3rd qualified 15.9%
3rd not qualified 6.3%
4th 7.8%

Tournament

Stage reach probabilities

R32 85.9%
R16 46.9%
QF 23.1%
SF 11.3%
Final 5.0%
Champion 1.9%

Conditional path

Path by group finish

Finish Sample R32R16QFSFFinalChampion
1st 27.5% 100.0%60.2%35.3%15.9%6.9%2.7%
2nd 42.4% 100.0%54.5%21.3%11.7%5.3%2.0%
3rd 22.3% 71.6%32.1%19.5%8.6%3.7%1.4%

Overall opponent pool

Most common opponents by round

If reached shows the opponent split among this team's matches in that round. All sims shows how often the matchup happens across the full 100,000-simulation snapshot.

R32

Colombia Colombia If reached: 30.7% All sims: 26.3% Win rate: 50.8%
Portugal Portugal If reached: 27.2% All sims: 23.3% Win rate: 37.3%
DR Congo DR Congo If reached: 19.4% All sims: 16.6% Win rate: 70.2%
Uzbekistan Uzbekistan If reached: 11.0% All sims: 9.4% Win rate: 79.3%
Senegal Senegal If reached: 3.9% All sims: 3.3% Win rate: 56.9%

R16

Spain Spain If reached: 28.4% All sims: 13.3% Win rate: 29.3%
Mexico Mexico If reached: 8.7% All sims: 4.1% Win rate: 56.5%
Uruguay Uruguay If reached: 7.5% All sims: 3.5% Win rate: 49.9%
Austria Austria If reached: 7.3% All sims: 3.4% Win rate: 58.6%
South Korea South Korea If reached: 6.1% All sims: 2.9% Win rate: 60.4%

QF

Belgium Belgium If reached: 12.4% All sims: 2.9% Win rate: 45.7%
Brazil Brazil If reached: 11.2% All sims: 2.6% Win rate: 37.7%
Argentina Argentina If reached: 7.4% All sims: 1.7% Win rate: 32.8%
USA USA If reached: 6.5% All sims: 1.5% Win rate: 55.1%
Türkiye Türkiye If reached: 6.3% All sims: 1.4% Win rate: 50.2%

SF

France France If reached: 12.8% All sims: 1.4% Win rate: 33.5%
Argentina Argentina If reached: 9.3% All sims: 1.0% Win rate: 31.2%
Portugal Portugal If reached: 7.4% All sims: 0.8% Win rate: 36.7%
Germany Germany If reached: 6.9% All sims: 0.8% Win rate: 38.5%
Netherlands Netherlands If reached: 6.5% All sims: 0.7% Win rate: 42.6%

Final

Spain Spain If reached: 13.0% All sims: 0.6% Win rate: 28.7%
France France If reached: 12.8% All sims: 0.6% Win rate: 28.4%
England England If reached: 12.6% All sims: 0.6% Win rate: 34.7%
Argentina Argentina If reached: 7.9% All sims: 0.4% Win rate: 32.0%
Portugal Portugal If reached: 7.1% All sims: 0.4% Win rate: 33.3%

Finish 1st

Croatia opponent pool if finishing 1st

For group-finish paths, If reached is measured within that finish path and round. Path sims shows how often the matchup happens among simulations where the team finished in that position.

R32

DR Congo DR Congo If reached: 24.3% Path sims: 24.3% Win rate: 70.2%
Uzbekistan Uzbekistan If reached: 15.4% Path sims: 15.4% Win rate: 79.0%
Colombia Colombia If reached: 15.3% Path sims: 15.3% Win rate: 49.2%
Senegal Senegal If reached: 12.1% Path sims: 12.1% Win rate: 56.9%
Norway Norway If reached: 8.2% Path sims: 8.2% Win rate: 46.0%

R16

Mexico Mexico If reached: 24.8% Path sims: 14.9% Win rate: 56.5%
South Korea South Korea If reached: 17.4% Path sims: 10.5% Win rate: 60.4%
Czechia Czechia If reached: 10.0% Path sims: 6.0% Win rate: 66.1%
Ivory Coast Ivory Coast If reached: 7.9% Path sims: 4.8% Win rate: 57.6%
Ecuador Ecuador If reached: 7.8% Path sims: 4.7% Win rate: 54.6%

QF

Brazil Brazil If reached: 26.5% Path sims: 9.4% Win rate: 37.7%
France France If reached: 12.9% Path sims: 4.6% Win rate: 34.6%
Norway Norway If reached: 11.6% Path sims: 4.1% Win rate: 45.8%
Germany Germany If reached: 8.9% Path sims: 3.1% Win rate: 42.1%
Netherlands Netherlands If reached: 7.7% Path sims: 2.7% Win rate: 42.4%

SF

Argentina Argentina If reached: 23.9% Path sims: 3.8% Win rate: 31.2%
Portugal Portugal If reached: 18.1% Path sims: 2.9% Win rate: 36.2%
Spain Spain If reached: 8.0% Path sims: 1.3% Win rate: 26.8%
Uruguay Uruguay If reached: 7.2% Path sims: 1.1% Win rate: 52.1%
Switzerland Switzerland If reached: 5.1% Path sims: 0.8% Win rate: 54.1%

Final

Spain Spain If reached: 17.0% Path sims: 1.2% Win rate: 29.3%
France France If reached: 16.6% Path sims: 1.1% Win rate: 29.2%
England England If reached: 10.9% Path sims: 0.7% Win rate: 34.1%
Netherlands Netherlands If reached: 6.8% Path sims: 0.5% Win rate: 39.5%
Germany Germany If reached: 6.4% Path sims: 0.4% Win rate: 41.7%

Finish 2nd

Croatia opponent pool if finishing 2nd

For group-finish paths, If reached is measured within that finish path and round. Path sims shows how often the matchup happens among simulations where the team finished in that position.

R32

Colombia Colombia If reached: 41.5% Path sims: 41.5% Win rate: 51.1%
Portugal Portugal If reached: 26.9% Path sims: 26.9% Win rate: 37.5%
DR Congo DR Congo If reached: 20.7% Path sims: 20.7% Win rate: 70.3%
Uzbekistan Uzbekistan If reached: 11.0% Path sims: 11.0% Win rate: 79.6%

R16

Spain Spain If reached: 56.5% Path sims: 30.8% Win rate: 29.4%
Uruguay Uruguay If reached: 12.5% Path sims: 6.8% Win rate: 50.2%
Austria Austria If reached: 12.3% Path sims: 6.7% Win rate: 58.5%
Argentina Argentina If reached: 10.6% Path sims: 5.8% Win rate: 33.9%
Algeria Algeria If reached: 7.0% Path sims: 3.8% Win rate: 64.6%

QF

Belgium Belgium If reached: 28.9% Path sims: 6.2% Win rate: 45.5%
USA USA If reached: 13.0% Path sims: 2.8% Win rate: 55.5%
Türkiye Türkiye If reached: 12.6% Path sims: 2.7% Win rate: 49.9%
Egypt Egypt If reached: 4.6% Path sims: 1.0% Win rate: 68.9%
South Korea South Korea If reached: 3.8% Path sims: 0.8% Win rate: 60.4%

SF

France France If reached: 24.3% Path sims: 2.9% Win rate: 32.2%
Netherlands Netherlands If reached: 13.2% Path sims: 1.6% Win rate: 43.3%
Germany Germany If reached: 12.4% Path sims: 1.4% Win rate: 38.5%
Brazil Brazil If reached: 8.0% Path sims: 0.9% Win rate: 32.5%
Norway Norway If reached: 5.3% Path sims: 0.6% Win rate: 41.1%

Final

England England If reached: 17.5% Path sims: 0.9% Win rate: 34.9%
Argentina Argentina If reached: 12.9% Path sims: 0.7% Win rate: 31.3%
Portugal Portugal If reached: 12.1% Path sims: 0.6% Win rate: 34.3%
Brazil Brazil If reached: 8.9% Path sims: 0.5% Win rate: 30.7%
France France If reached: 7.6% Path sims: 0.4% Win rate: 27.5%

Finish 3rd

Croatia opponent pool if finishing 3rd

For group-finish paths, If reached is measured within that finish path and round. Path sims shows how often the matchup happens among simulations where the team finished in that position.

R32

Portugal Portugal If reached: 61.1% Path sims: 43.8% Win rate: 37.2%
Colombia Colombia If reached: 28.4% Path sims: 20.3% Win rate: 51.0%
DR Congo DR Congo If reached: 7.3% Path sims: 5.2% Win rate: 69.5%
Uzbekistan Uzbekistan If reached: 3.2% Path sims: 2.3% Win rate: 80.5%

R16

Switzerland Switzerland If reached: 32.4% Path sims: 10.4% Win rate: 52.5%
Canada Canada If reached: 15.2% Path sims: 4.9% Win rate: 64.9%
Algeria Algeria If reached: 8.6% Path sims: 2.8% Win rate: 66.1%
Bosnia-Herz. Bosnia-Herz. If reached: 8.2% Path sims: 2.6% Win rate: 66.3%
Austria Austria If reached: 7.8% Path sims: 2.5% Win rate: 59.1%

QF

Argentina Argentina If reached: 37.3% Path sims: 7.3% Win rate: 32.8%
Uruguay Uruguay If reached: 14.4% Path sims: 2.8% Win rate: 49.8%
Spain Spain If reached: 11.5% Path sims: 2.2% Win rate: 30.6%
USA USA If reached: 7.4% Path sims: 1.4% Win rate: 53.6%
Türkiye Türkiye If reached: 7.0% Path sims: 1.4% Win rate: 51.3%

SF

England England If reached: 22.1% Path sims: 1.9% Win rate: 32.8%
Brazil Brazil If reached: 16.4% Path sims: 1.4% Win rate: 34.5%
France France If reached: 9.6% Path sims: 0.8% Win rate: 39.1%
Norway Norway If reached: 7.9% Path sims: 0.7% Win rate: 42.1%
Germany Germany If reached: 6.4% Path sims: 0.6% Win rate: 35.0%

Final

Spain Spain If reached: 20.5% Path sims: 0.8% Win rate: 31.0%
France France If reached: 18.8% Path sims: 0.7% Win rate: 27.9%
Germany Germany If reached: 6.7% Path sims: 0.2% Win rate: 45.5%
Belgium Belgium If reached: 6.6% Path sims: 0.2% Win rate: 53.7%
Brazil Brazil If reached: 5.9% Path sims: 0.2% Win rate: 25.0%

Squad

Current squad

26 players
Pos Player Age Height Club Value
GK Dominik Kotarski 26 1,89m FC Copenhagen €5.0m
GK Ivor Pandur 26 1,87m Hull City €4.5m
GK Dominik Livakovic 31 1,88m GNK Dinamo Zagreb €4.0m
CB Joško Gvardiol 23 1,85m Manchester City €70.0m
CB Luka Vuskovic 19 1,93m Hamburger SV €60.0m
CB Josip Sutalo 26 1,90m Ajax Amsterdam €12.0m
CB Marin Pongracic 28 1,93m ACF Fiorentina €6.5m
CB Martin Erlić 28 1,93m FC Midtjylland €4.0m
CB Duje Caleta-Car 29 1,93m Real Sociedad €3.0m
RB Josip Stanisic 26 1,87m Bayern Munich €40.0m
DM Nikola Moro 28 1,84m Bologna FC 1909 €7.0m
DM Kristijan Jakic 29 1,84m FC Augsburg €6.0m
CM Petar Sučić 22 1,83m Inter Milan €40.0m
CM Mateo Kovacic 32 1,82m Manchester City €12.0m
CM Luka Sucic 23 1,85m Real Sociedad €10.0m
CM Mario Pašalić 31 1,88m Atalanta BC €6.0m
CM Luka Modrić 40 1,72m AC Milan €3.5m
AM Martin Baturina 23 1,72m Como 1907 €30.0m
AM Nikola Vlašić 29 1,79m Torino FC €10.0m
AM Toni Fruk 25 1,78m HNK Rijeka €9.0m
AM Andrej Kramaric 34 1,77m TSG 1899 Hoffenheim €2.5m
LW Ivan Perišić 37 1,86m PSV Eindhoven €1.2m
RW Marco Pašalić 25 1,77m Orlando City SC €6.5m
CF Igor Matanovic 23 1,94m SC Freiburg €22.0m
CF Petar Musa 28 1,88m FC Dallas €8.0m
CF Ante Budimir 34 1,90m CA Osasuna €3.0m