2022 World Cup/Group F: head-to-head, Croatia - Belgium, Thursday 01/12/2022 (kick-off at 16:00 CET)

With a squad valued at €563m by the website Transfermarkt (as of 01/12/2022), Belgium's players are worth 1.5 times more than Croatia's (€377m) as the two nations prepare to face each other on Thursday, 01/12/2022, for their third and final game in Group F of the 2022 World Cup at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar (kick-off at 16:00 CET).

On social media (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter, as of 01/11/2022), the Belgian team is the 12^th most followed of the 32 teams participating in the competition, with 3.2 million followers, 2.3 times more than their rivals, who are 20^th and absent from TikTok, with nearly 1.4 million followers across the three other platforms.

The "Red Devils", World Cup semi-finalists in 1986 and 2018, are second in the FIFA rankings, 10 places ahead of the "Vatreni", in 12^th, whose best performance dates back to the final that they lost to France in 2018.

Belgium lead in terms of the value of their equipment supplier contract with adidas, which pays the Royal Belgian Football Association €6m per year, while the Croatian Football Federation…