A Christmas gift coming your way: an Excel sheet with the World Cup program. Well, what is it so great about it, you might ask? This: you don’t have to count points, goals and everything to know what team is on what place. All you have to do is complete the match results and the groups standings will update automatically.

Though this is a great thing whatsoever, there is a better use for it: test the final stages results to see what results your favourite teams need to qualify for the play-off stages. This way, you will make your own prediction, amazing your friends with all the posibilities you can find, without having to wait for the press to publish their analysis.

I wanted to write a bigger presentation for this sheet, but really, I have nothing more to say: it is as simple as putting in the matches results. But, if you want to have your own printed program of the World Cup, you can either choose to download our Excel sheet or go HERE and hit print in your browser (you must have adobe photoshop installed on your computer. If you don’t go here and download it).

Here are some images from some simulations I ran (click on them to make them bigger):

Yes, Germany top their group. Come on, it is such an easy task! And they still managed to qualify only on goals scored…

Yeah, I know Trinidad/Tobago World Champions! But I had to see it…

How to download it:
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1. Click HERE.
2. Choose “Save as”.
3. Unzip the .zip file you just downloaded with WinZip (usually Windows Explorer can unzip it without WinZip).

If you need more help, feel free to ask in the comments on this page.

The great EXCEL sheet you downloaded is created by Denis at Excely.com (check them, you will surely be impressed, you will be able to cut a lot of time on your paperwork with them) and improved by us with some usability ideas.