The Film Room
Everywhere else on this site, the pitch diagrams are modelled — there is no public optical tracking for 2026 World Cup matches. Here there is the real thing.
This is the Final of the FIFA World Cup — Argentina vs France, December 18, 2022 at Lusail Stadium, the night that finished Argentina 3–3 France (4–2 pens). Every dot below is where a player actually was, measured by camera, 30 times a second. Pick a moment, click any player to follow them, and slow it down.
Kick-off · Antoine Griezmann rolls the very first ball of the final; 22 players break from their lines.
The tracking is from PFF FC's free 2022 FIFA World Cup dataset — broadcast optical tracking plus event data for all 64 games, released for the analytics community. Real optical tracking — not modelled. The free sample is sparse, so each moment below is a genuine ~1-second window PFF released, played back slowed down. The compact replay above is built from the open sample for game 10517 that ships with kloppy's test fixtures; the raw frames are committed under wiki/raw/pff-tracking/ and reduced by wiki/_gen/gen-replay.mjs.
Coordinates are in pitch metres, origin at the centre spot. Player positions use PFF's smoothed track; brief gaps are interpolated for playback. Data © PFF FC, used under their free-data terms — see the dataset page for licensing.