lateral thinking - Who won the world cup quarter-finals?

I hope this is OK to post as after one occurrence of below last year this has been noted in the media - but I haven't seen it written as a puzzle and think it is nice enough to ask.

Mia was watching the world cup quarter-finals and saw these teams on the scoreboards at the start of the matches.

B H U T A N
C Y P R U S

P O L A N D
S W E D E N

Predictably for a puzzle; Bhutan, Cyprus, Poland and Sweden lost. Which four teams qualified for the semi-finals?

Answer

Mia was watching world cup quarter-finals

This means there were eight teams, not four!

So what Mia really saw was

BHU - TAN
CYP - RUS
POL - AND
SWE - DEN

So if Bhutan, Cyprus, Poland, and Sweden lost, then

Tanzania, Russia, Andorra, and Denmark qualified for the semi-finals

As a kind of a "bonus," here's some of the media coverage mentioned in the question:

There’s A Weird Geographical Quirk About Sweden’s Match Against Denmark This Week