--- description: Sunday's Google Doodles are three images depicting the 2018 World Cup Final between France and Croatia who will play at Luzhniki Stadium. title: Sunday's Google Doodle Celebrates the World Cup Final image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8988732d0426ca1/69893566bc6cfc764b3e6755/google-doodle-2018-world-cup.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [World Cup](/tag/world-cup/) ## World Cup Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Sunday's Google Doodle Celebrates the World Cup Final by [Alix Langone](/author/alix-langone/) ## Alix Langone Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 15, 2018 2:45 PM CUT  Helene Leroux's 2018 World Cup Google doodle Helene Leroux's 2018 World Cup Google doodleGoogle by [Alix Langone](/author/alix-langone/) ## Alix Langone Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 15, 2018 2:45 PM CUT Google is celebrating the final match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Sunday with a handful of Google Doodles. Sunday’s Doodles are three separate images depicting the 2018 World Cup Final between France and Croatia. The two teams are vying for the championship at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow at 11 a.m. E.T. The images are the final designs of Google’s month-long World Cup doodle series. Every day of the tournament, new Doodles were displayed created by artists from the competing nations to honor the “rich cultures and talent of all 32 participating countries,” [according to Google](https://www.google.com/doodles/world-cup-2018-day-25 "undefined"). Every artist was asked to create a doodle based on a template that included a ball and a goal and describe “What ⚽ looks like in my country.”  2018 World Cup Google doodle Google Croatia’s doodle was created by local illustrator [Vedran Klemens.](https://www.behance.net/klemens "undefined") France’s was created by Google employee [Helen Leroux](http://heleneleroux.com/ "undefined"), an animator who works full time on the company’s doodle team. 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