<Tr> <Th> Weather </Th> <Td> Partly cloudy 27 ° C (81 ° F) 51% humidity </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> ← 2014 2022 → </Td> </Tr> <P> The 2018 FIFA World Cup Final was a football match that took place on 15 July 2018 to determine the winners of the 2018 FIFA World Cup . It was the final of the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA . The match was contested by France and Croatia, and held at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia . </P> <P> Before 2018, France's only World Cup victory was in 1998--though they had also reached the final in 2006--while Croatia were playing in their first World Cup final . Both teams had defeated former World Cup champions on their way to the final: France defeated 1930 and 1950 winners Uruguay, Croatia defeated 1966 winners England and both teams defeated 1978 and 1986 winners Argentina . Croatia became the third Eastern European nation to reach the World Cup final, and the first since Czechoslovakia lost the final in 1962 to Brazil . </P>

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