Winner odds for the 2022 World Cup: the latest bookmakers’ favorites

An entertaining World Cup group stage ends on Friday December 2, with the round of 16 kicking off on Saturday.

As implied by the latest bookmakers’ odds, Brazil is currently the favorite to win the 2022 World Cup, with a 30% chance.

However, there’s some concern over Neymar’s ankle injury sustained in their opening victory against Serbia.

But although still in recovery, Brazil manager Tite said he remains confident Neymar will play again in the 2022 World Cup.

Fellow South Americans Argentina have 5/1 odds or 17% chance to be victorious in this year’s World Cup. After a bad start against Saudi Arabia, they now look back to their best having beaten both Mexico and Poland.

They will face Australia in round 16 and will be the clear favorites to win with Lionel Messi continuing to show his quality.

Argentina is followed by France with 11/2 or 15% chance to become only the third country in history to retain the World Cup, after Italy in 1938 and Brazil in 1962.

Les Bleus fielded a weakened team in the 1-0 defeat by Tunisia but should be strong enough to see off Poland in Round of 16.

Spain, world champions in 2010, have 6/1 odds or 14% chance of winning the World Cup.

After performing well in both the Nations League and qualifying, Luis Enrique’s side underlined their potential to go a long way in Qatar by crushing Costa Rica 7-0 in their opening Group E game.

They then drew 1-1 with Germany and lost to Japan, although the latter may turn out to be a good thing as they will avoid playing against Brazil further down the line.

England are now 9/1 fifth favourites to win the 2022 World Cup in Qatar after beating Wales 3-0 in their third and final Group B match.

Gareth Southgate's men dominated the fixture and now face Senegal in the round of 16 this Sunday.

Portugal has an 8% chance of winning the World Cup, according to bookmakers’ odds.

They’ve won both of the matches they’ve played so far and are expected to win their third one against South Korea. However, no matter the result they have already gone through to the Round of 16.

However, there’s still a lot of game to see and unexpected things could happen. The bets are open!