2018 World Cup Final: France VS Croatia: Macron, Grabar-Kitarović, Putin...

The 2018 FIFA World Cup Final was the final match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It was the 21st final of the FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial association football 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, on 15 July 2018.

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 very first World Cup final. Both teams had defeated former World Cup champions on their way to the final: France defeated the the 1930 and 1950 winners Uruguay, Croatia defeated the 1966 winners England and both teams defeated two-time champions Argentina. Croatia became the third Eastern European nation to reach the World Cup final, and the first since Czechoslovakia (today the Czech Republic) lost the final in 1962 to Brazil.

France won the match 4–2, having taken a 2–1 lead during the first half on an own goal and penalty awarded by the video assistant referee in the system's first use at a World Cup final. It was the first time that an own goal had been scored in a World Cup final. France also became the second team after Brazil in 2002 to win all their knockout matches without any extra time or penalty shoot-out. As winners of the World Cup, France earned the right to compete for the 2021 FIFA Confederations Cup.