Spain beat Argentina 1-0 to win World Cup final — as it happened

Source: SBS / Cathryn Boyes

— David Smith

— David Smith

The full-time whistle blows and Spain are the world champions!

— Miles Proust

Simeone has the best chance for Argentina, with a shot that goes over the crossbar!

Five minutes of stoppage time.

— Miles Proust

Messi plays a short free kick.

Simeone hammered a low cross from the left and it's turned past the near post by Curbasi.

— Miles Proust

Argentina finally get a shot on goal, with Messi trying from range that smashes straight into Merino's head.

He's knocked to the ground, and play stops while he's checked for concussion.

— Miles Proust

Massive chance for Spain, with Williams beating Molina on the left.

All he had to do was pass it off to Torres, but he made a mess of it, and it's out for a goal kick.

— Miles Proust

Messi takes a short corner on the right before getting it back and curling a dipping cross that lands on the roof of the net.

— Miles Proust

Spain nearly double their lead, after Torres gets a one-on-one with Martinez. He puts it into the back of the net but the offside flag is up and it doesn't count.

— Miles Proust

And the second half ot extra time ends with the score level at 0-0.

Argentina still haven't had a shot on goal.

— Miles Proust

Source: SBS

Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni is booked after a confrontation on the sideline.

He was protesting when no foul was given after Simeone is collected by Curcurella. But Simeone was waiting for the Spanish player, who had his eyes on the ball.

Up the other end, Yamal goes down after Tagliafico crashes into him.

— Miles proust

Ferran Torres of Spain celebrates his goal in the 2026 World Cup final against Spain. Source: Getty / David Ramos

Ferran Torres, take a bow. What a goal.

— David Smith

Source: SBS

Play had just resumed when the goal came.

Williams did well to head a lofty cross from Porro back to the centre, making it an easy finish for Torres who blasted it into the roof of the net from point blank range.

— Miles Proust

Spain find the breakthrough!

Source: SBS / Cathryn Boyes

These Argentina fans at a Sydney watch party had to pull the World Cup final up on their phone after the venue they were at switched the main screen to AFL.

— David Smith

Massive chance for Spain.

Williams delivers a great cross, and Merino's glancing header goes wide! Wasted opportunity for Spain.

Meanwhile, Argentina have made a change with Marcos Senesi replacing Julian Alvarez.

— Miles Proust

It looks like it was ruled out after Merino stepped on Nicolas Otamendi's toes. That's a harsh call.

"There's nothing there," commentator Alan Smith said.

Play resumes, with some more changes.

Martin Zubimendi and Eric Garcia replace Rodri and Aymeric Laporte for Spain.

— Miles Proust

Spain scores, but the referee calls a foul!

The shot came from Williams after it bounced around in the box following a cross.

No idea what the foul was for.

A VAR check is underway.

— Miles Proust

Spain with the first big chance from Williams' glancing header, but Martinez gets a hand to it.

Porro went down a moment earlier after copping an elbow to the jaw, with a free kick given.

Spain have had 16 shots, with 11 on target. Argentina have had none.

— Miles Proust

And we're into the first half of extra time, with Spain kicking off.

Argentina will be hoping they can hang on with 10 men and take it to penalties.

— Miles Proust