2022 FIFA World Cup Group G

Group G of the 2022 FIFA World Cup will be from 24 November to 2 December 2022.^[1] The teams in the group are Brazil, Serbia, Switzerland and Cameroon. The top two teams will go to the round of 16.^[2]

Teams

Draw position	Team	Pot	Confederation	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Finals appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance	FIFA Rankings[3]
									March 2022[nb 1]	October 2022
G1	Brazil	1	CONMEBOL	CONMEBOL Round Robin winners	11 November 2021	22nd	2018	Winners (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002)	1	1
G2	Serbia	3	UEFA	UEFA Group A winners	14 November 2021	13th[nb 2]	2018	Fourth place (1930, 1962)[nb 3]	25	21
G3	Switzerland	2	UEFA	UEFA Group C winners	15 November 2021	12th	2018	Quarter-finals (1934, 1938, 1954)	14	15
G4	Cameroon	4	CAF	CAF Third Round winners	29 March 2022	8th	2014	Quarter-finals (1990)	37	43

Notes

1. The rankings of March 2022 were used for seeding for the final draw.
2. This is the third appearance of Serbia at the FIFA World Cup. However, FIFA considers Serbia as the successor team of Yugoslavia, who qualified on eight occasions, and Serbia and Montenegro, who qualified on two occasions.
3. Serbia's best result is the group stage in 2010 and 2018. However, FIFA considers Serbia as the successor team of Yugoslavia.

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	2	0	1	3	1	+2	6	Advanced to knockout stage
2	Switzerland	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6
3	Cameroon	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
4	Serbia	3	0	1	2	5	8	−3	1

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

In the round of 16:

• The winners of Group G will play the runners-up of Group H.
• The runners-up of Group G will play the winners of Group H.

Matches

All times listed are local, AST (UTC+3).^[1]

Switzerland vs Cameroon

24 November 2022 (2022-11-24)

13:00

Switzerland	1–0	Cameroon
Embolo  48'	Report

Al Janoub Stadium, Al Wakrah

Attendance: 39,089

Referee: Facundo Tello (Argentina)

Brazil vs Serbia

24 November 2022 (2022-11-24)

22:00

Brazil	2–0	Serbia
Richarlison  62', 73'	Report

Lusail Iconic Stadium, Lusail

Attendance: 88,103

Referee: Alireza Faghani (Iran)

Cameroon vs Serbia

28 November 2022 (2022-11-28)

13:00

Cameroon	3–3	Serbia
Castelletto  29' Aboubakar  63' Choupo-Moting  66'	Report	Pavlović  45+1' S. Milinković-Savić  45+3' A. Mitrović  53'

Al Janoub Stadium, Al Wakrah

Attendance: 39,789

Referee: Mohammed Abdulla (United Arab Emirates)

Brazil vs Switzerland

28 November 2022 (2022-11-28)

19:00

Brazil	1–0	Switzerland
Casemiro  83'	Report

Stadium 974, Doha

Attendance: 43,649

Referee: Iván Barton (El Salvador)

Serbia vs Switzerland

2 December 2022 (2022-12-02)

22:00

Serbia	2–3	Switzerland
A. Mitrović  26' Vlahović  35'	Report	Shaqiri  20' Embolo  44' Freuler  48'

Stadium 974, Doha

Attendance: 41,378

Referee: Fernando Rapallini (Argentina)

Cameroon vs Brazil

2 December 2022 (2022-12-02)

22:00

Cameroon	1–0	Brazil
Aboubakar  90+2'	Report

Lusail Iconic Stadium, Lusail

Attendance: 85,986

Referee: Ismail Elfath (United States)

Discipline

Fair play points will be used as tiebreakers if the teams are tied after the overall and head-to-head rules. These points are based on yellow and red cards given to a team. The points are:^[2]

• first yellow card: minus 1 point;
• indirect red card (second yellow card): minus 3 points;
• direct red card: minus 4 points;
• yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points;

Team	Match 1				Match 2				Match 3				Points
Brazil					1				2				−3
Switzerland	2				1				4				−7
Cameroon	1				2				3	1			−9
Serbia	3				2				7				–12