Twenty teams down, four left standing. has reached the semifinal stage. One of , , or will be crowned champions in one week's time, cementing their legacy and securing their own mini piece of history in the process.
Throughout this tournament , tracking their performance and progress through the groups and into the knockouts. Now, with just four teams left, we'll rank them one final time based on that same simple premise. Ranking only four teams wouldn't be much fun, so we've included all of the eliminated nations in this list too, in order of how impressive they were (or weren't).
Those that were eliminated at the group stage take up spots 17 through 24; the round-of-16 losers are ranked from 9 to 16, and those that dropped at the quarterfinal stage take places 5 through 8. 24. (OUT) 's campaign was bitterly disappointing.
They opened up the tournament with a 5-1 shellacking at the hands of Germany, scored a single (heavily deflected) goal and totalled a miserly 0.9 Expected Goals (xG) across three group games. At least the fans put on a sublime show.
23. (OUT) finished bottom of the lowest-scoring group -- the one that, collectively, scored fewer goals than Germany did and at points. That's a one-way ticket to the gutter of this ranking.
22. (OUT) received some hype heading into this tournament, but were ultimately squeezed out at the very end of the group stage by Georgia's remarkable win over Portugal. Frankly, that's football justice at work: Hungary's 100th-minute winne.
