Group stage finished! now what?

if you want the kudos each time, let me know

LOL, no, once every 4-6 years would be enough for my ego ??

Regarding the final stages, I would recommend to not change the teams, but simply change the team from the dropdown in the matches admin (1). Like so:

Small benefit of this, is that the existing team is now linked to this match and this match will also be shown on the team’s page.

Once saved, the team cannot be changed anymore (2), because it is now a ‘real’ team. If you made a mistake, you can fix it by temporary unticking the checkbox for the team. It then changes to a dropdown again in the match admin.

Ok I see, I am pretty sure I have done this way in the last Russia Mundial, however 3 years older and dumber, I started editing the teams in the admin Team page, not in the admin matches page.
Does it make sense to develop further and let the admin to have the option while editing teams in the admin teams page, to choose with a drop-down that this team is the group A winner or runner-up and so on ?
I believe it would make it simpler for the admins and of course help them avoid what i have started doing (i.e. edit the group a winner and make it Italy).

Thanx again

Periklis