FIFA World Cup records and statistics explained

As of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 80 national teams have competed at the finals of the FIFA World Cup.^[1] Brazil is the only team to have appeared in all 22 tournaments to date, with Germany having participated in 20, Italy and Argentina in 18 and Mexico in 17.^[2] Eight nations have won the tournament. The inaugural winners in 1930 were Uruguay; the current champions are Argentina. The most successful nation is Brazil, which has won the cup on five occasions.^[3] Five teams have appeared in FIFA World Cup finals without winning,^[4] while twelve more have appeared in the semi-finals.^[5]

List of tournaments

Year	Host	Champions	Winning coach	Top scorer(s)	Best player award	Source
1930		data-sort-value=Uruguay		data-sort-value="Suppici, Alberto"	Alberto Suppici	data-sort-value="8"	Guillermo Stábile (8)	Not awarded	^[6]
1934		data-sort-value=Italy		data-sort-value="Pozzo, Vittorio"	Vittorio Pozzo	data-sort-value="5"	Oldřich Nejedlý (5)		^[7]
1938		data-sort-value=Italy		data-sort-value="Pozzo, Vittorio"	Vittorio Pozzo	data-sort-value="7"	Leônidas (7)		^[8]
1950		data-sort-value=Uruguay		data-sort-value="Lopez, Juan"	Juan López	data-sort-value="8"	Ademir (9)		^[9]
1954		data-sort-value=Germany		data-sort-value="Herberger, Sepp"	Sepp Herberger	data-sort-value="11"	Sándor Kocsis (11)		^[10]
1958		data-sort-value=Brazil		data-sort-value="Feola, Vicente"	Vicente Feola	data-sort-value="13"	Just Fontaine (13)		^[11]
1962		data-sort-value=Brazil		data-sort-value="Moreira, Aymore"	Aymoré Moreira	data-sort-value="4"	Six players (4)		^[12]
1966		data-sort-value=England		data-sort-value="Ramsey, Alf"	Alf Ramsey	data-sort-value="9"	Eusébio (9)		^[13]
1970		data-sort-value=Brazil		data-sort-value="Zagallo, Mario"	Mário Zagallo	data-sort-value="10"	Gerd Müller (10)		^[14]
1974		data-sort-value=Germany		data-sort-value="Schon, Helmut"	Helmut Schön	data-sort-value="7"	Grzegorz Lato (7)		^[15]
1978		data-sort-value=Argentina		data-sort-value="Menotti, Cesar Luis"	César Luis Menotti	data-sort-value="6"	Mario Kempes (6)	Mario Kempes	^[16] ^[17]
1982		data-sort-value=Italy		data-sort-value="Bearzot, Enzo"	Enzo Bearzot	data-sort-value="6"	Paolo Rossi (6)	Paolo Rossi	^[18]
1986		data-sort-value=Argentina		data-sort-value="Bilardo, Carlos"	Carlos Bilardo	data-sort-value="6"	Gary Lineker (6)	Diego Maradona	^[19]
1990	data-sort-value=Italy		data-sort-value=Germany		data-sort-value="Beckenbauer, Franz"	Franz Beckenbauer	data-sort-value="6"	Salvatore Schillaci (6)	Salvatore Schillaci	^[20]
1994		data-sort-value=Brazil		data-sort-value="Parreira, Carlos Alberto"	Carlos Alberto Parreira	data-sort-value="6"	Hristo Stoichkov (6) Oleg Salenko (6)	Romário	^[21]
1998		data-sort-value=France		data-sort-value="Jacquet, Aime"	Aimé Jacquet	data-sort-value="6"	Davor Šuker (6)	Ronaldo	^[22]
2002		data-sort-value=Brazil		data-sort-value="Scolari, Luiz Felipe"	Luiz Felipe Scolari	data-sort-value="8"	Ronaldo (8)	Oliver Kahn	^[23]
2006		data-sort-value=Italy		data-sort-value="Lippi, Marcello"	Marcello Lippi	data-sort-value="5"	Miroslav Klose (5)	Zinedine Zidane	^[24]
2010		data-sort-value=Spain		data-sort-value="Del Bosque, Vicente"	Vicente del Bosque	data-sort-value="5"	Four players (5)	Diego Forlán	^[25]
2014		data-sort-value=Germany		data-sort-value="Low, Joachim"	Joachim Löw	data-sort-value="6"	James Rodríguez (6)	Lionel Messi	^[26] ^[27]
2018		data-sort-value=France		data-sort-value="Deschamps, Didier"	Didier Deschamps	data-sort-value="6"	Harry Kane (6)	Luka Modrić	^[28] ^[29]
2022		data-sort-value=Argentina		data-sort-value="Scaloni, Lionel"	Lionel Scaloni	data-sort-value="8"	Kylian Mbappé (8)	Lionel Messi	^[30]

Overall team records

The system used in the World Cup up to 1990 was 2 points for a win. In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored.

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width=20	Rank	width=20	Team	width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20
1		22	114	76	19	19	237	108	+129	247
2		20	112	68	21	23	232	130	+102	225
3		18	88	47	17	24	152	101	+51	158
4		18	83	45	21	17	128	77	+51	156
5		16	73	39	14	20	136	85	+51	131
6		16	74	32	22	20	104	68	+36	118
7		16	67	31	17	19	108	75	+33	110
8		11	55	30	14	11	96	52	+44	104
9		14	59	25	13	21	89	76	+13	88
10		14	51	21	10	20	69	74	−5	73
11		12	51	19	13	19	80	73	+7	70
12		11	45	19	10	16	77	54	+23	67
13		17	60	17	15	28	62	101	−39	66
14		13	49	18	9	22	71	71	0	63
15		8	35	17	6	12	61	41	+20	57
16		9	38	17	6	15	49	50	−1	57
17		12	41	14	8	19	55	73	−18	50
18		9	32	15	3	14	87	57	+30	48
19		6	30	13	8	9	43	33	+10	47
20		9	33	12	5	16	47	49	−2	41
21		7	29	12	4	13	43	47	−4	40
22		9	33	11	7	15	40	49	−9	40
23		11	37	9	8	20	40	66	−26	35
24		6	23	9	6	8	31	29	+2	33
25		8	27	7	10	10	30	38	−8	31
26		11	38	7	10	21	39	78	−39	31
27		6	22	9	3	10	32	30	+2	30
28		7	21	8	5	8	30	32	−2	29
29		7	25	7	6	12	25	33	−8	27
30		6	21	6	5	10	22	39	−17	23
31		8	26	5	8	13	22	47	−25	23
32		6	23	5	7	11	20	27	−7	22
33		6	21	6	3	12	23	30	−7	21
34		8	23	4	7	12	25	41	−16	19
35		3	12	5	3	4	16	17	−1	18
36		4	15	5	3	7	18	23	−5	18
37		5	18	5	3	10	21	33	−12	18
38		4	13	5	2	6	14	14	0	17
39		7	26	3	8	15	22	53	−31	17
40		2	10	5	1	4	20	17	+3	16
41		6	20	4	4	12	17	37	−20	16
42		3	13	2	8	3	10	10	0	14
43		3	13	3	5	5	13	23	−10	14
44		6	18	3	5	10	14	26	−12	14
45		6	19	4	2	13	14	44	−30	14
46		6	18	3	4	11	13	31	−18	13
47		4	13	3	3	7	13	19	−6	12
48		3	9	3	1	5	13	14	−1	10
49		3	9	2	4	3	11	16	−5	10
50		3	8	2	3	3	7	8	−1	9
51		1	6	2	2	2	5	5	0	8
52		3	10	2	2	6	5	20	−15	8
53		1	5	2	1	2	5	7	−2	7
54		2	8	1	4	3	5	10	−5	7
55		1	4	1	1	2	5	7	−2	4
56		2	6	1	1	4	5	10	−5	4
57		1	3	1	1	1	5	12	−7	4
58		2	7	1	1	5	6	21	−15	4
59		1	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3
60		1	3	1	0	2	3	9	−6	3
61		2	6	0	3	3	4	14	−10	3
62		3	9	0	3	6	3	14	−11	3
63		1	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	2
64		1	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2
65		3	7	0	2	5	5	12	−7	2
66		1	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1
67		1	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
68		1	3	0	1	2	0	4	−4	1
69		3	6	0	1	5	1	20	−19	1
70		1	3	0	0	3	1	4	−3	0
71		1	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0
72		1	3	0	0	3	1	7	−6	0
73		1	1	0	0	1	0	6	−6	0
74		1	3	0	0	3	2	11	−9	0
74		1	3	0	0	3	2	11	−9	0
76		1	3	0	0	3	0	9	−9	0
77		2	6	0	0	6	2	12	−10	0
78		1	3	0	0	3	2	14	−12	0
79		1	3	0	0	3	0	14	−14	0
80		2	6	0	0	6	1	22	−21	0

Breakdown of successor team records

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	8	30	11	5	14	44	45	−1	38
	1	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	3

width=200	Team	width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20
	2	6	3	1	2	14	13	+1	10
	10	62	36	14	12	131	77	+54	122
	8	44	29	6	9	87	40	+46	93

width=200	Team	width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20
	7	31	15	6	10	53	34	+19	51
	4	14	4	4	6	24	20	+4	16

width=200	Team	width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20		width=20
	8	33	14	7	12	55	42	+13	49
	1	4	2	1	1	5	4	+1	7
	1	3	0	0	3	2	10	−8	0
	3	9	2	1	6	9	15	−6	7

Finals records by team

Performances in finals by team^[33] !Nation!Titles!Runners-up

	5	2
	4	4
	4	2
	3	3
	2	2
	2	0
	1	0
	1	0
	0	3
	0	2
	0	2
	0	1
	0	1

Teams statistics

Note: In case there are teams with equal quantities, they will be mentioned in chronological order of tournament history (the teams that attained the quantity first, are listed first). If the quantity was attained by more than one team in the same tournament, the teams will be listed alphabetically.

For a detailed list of top four appearances, see FIFA World Cup results.

Most titles

• – 5 (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002)^[34]

Most finishes in the top two

• /West Germany – 8 (1954, 1966, 1974, 1982, 1986 and 1990 as West Germany, 2002 and 2014 as Germany)^[35]

Most second-place finishes

• /West Germany – 4 (1966, 1982, 1986 as West Germany, 2002 as Germany)^[35]

Most World Cup appearances

• – 22 (every tournament)^[36]

Most consecutive championships

• – 2 (1934–1938)^{[37] [38]}
• – 2 (1958–1962)^{[37] [39]}

Most consecutive finishes in the top two

• – 3 (1982–1990)
• – 3 (1994–2002)

Longest gap between successive titles

• – 44 years (nine editions, 1938–1982)

Longest gap between successive appearances in the top two

• – 48 years (10 editions, 1930–1978)

Longest gap between successive appearances at the FIFA World Cup

• – 64 years (16 editions, 1958–2022)^[40]

Most consecutive failed qualification attempts

• – 21 (all 1934–2022)

Worst finish by defending champions

• Group stage – (1950)^[41]
• Group stage – (1966)
• Group stage – (2002)
• Group stage – (2010)
• Group stage – (2014)
• Group stage – (2018)^[42]

Players

Most appearances

See main article: List of players who have appeared in the most FIFA World Cups. Players in bold text are still active with their national team as of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

All-time top player appearances^[43] !Rank!Player!Team(s)!Matches!Tournaments

1			26	5 (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022)
2		/Germany	25	5 (1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998)
3			24	4 (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014)
4			23	4 (1990, 1994, 1998, 2002)
5			22	5 (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022)

Most championships

See main article: List of FIFA World Cup winning players.

• Pelé – 3 (1958, 1962 and 1970)^[44]

Most appearances in a World Cup final

• Cafu – 3 (; 1994, 1998, 2002)^[45]

Youngest player

• Norman Whiteside – (for vs., 17 June 1982)^[46]

Youngest player in a final

• Pelé – (for vs., 29 June 1958)

Oldest player

• Essam El-Hadary – (for vs., 25 June 2018)^[47]

Oldest player in a final

• Dino Zoff – (for vs., 11 July 1982)^[48]

Goalscoring

Individual

Top goalscorers

See main article: FIFA World Cup top goalscorers. Players in bold text are still active with their national team as of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

All-time top scorers^{[49] [50]} !Rank!Player!Team(s)!Goals!Matches!Goals per game

1	Miroslav Klose		16	24
2	Ronaldo		15	19
3	Gerd Müller		14	13
4	Just Fontaine		13	6
	Lionel Messi			26

Most goals scored in a single tournament

• Just Fontaine – 13 (1958)^[51]

Most goals scored in a match

• Oleg Salenko – 5 (for vs., 1994)

Most goals scored in a final match

• Geoff Hurst – 3 (for vs., 1966)^[52]
• Kylian Mbappé – 3 (for vs., 2022)^[52]

Most goals scored in final matches (overall)

• Kylian Mbappé – 4 (2018, 2022)^[52]

Most consecutive matches scored in

• Just Fontaine – 6 (1958)^[53]
• Jairzinho – 6 (1970)^[54]

Most tournaments scored in

• Cristiano Ronaldo – 5 (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022)^[55]

Milestone goals

• Scorer of 1st goal – Lucien Laurent (for vs., 13 July 1930)^[56]
• Scorer of 100th goal – Angelo Schiavio (for vs., 27 May 1934)
• Scorer of 1,000th goal – Rob Rensenbrink (for vs., 11 June 1978)
• Scorer of 2,000th goal – Marcus Allbäck (for vs., 20 June 2006)

Olympic goals

• 1 – Marcos Coll (for vs., 3 June 1962)^{[57] [58]}

Youngest goalscorer

• Pelé – (for vs., 19 June 1958)^[59]

Youngest goalscorer in a final

• Pelé – (for vs., 29 June 1958)^[59]

Oldest goalscorer

• Roger Milla – (for vs., 28 June 1994)^[60]

Oldest goalscorer at the knock-out round

• Pepe – (for vs., 6 December 2022)^[61]

Oldest goalscorer in a final

• Nils Liedholm – (for vs., 29 June 1958)^[45]

Oldest goalscorer in a victorious final

• Lionel Messi – (for vs., 18 December 2022)^[62]

Fastest goal

• Hakan Şükür – 11 seconds (for vs., 2002)^[63]

Fastest goal in a final

• Johan Neeskens – 90 seconds (for vs., 1974)^[45]

Latest goal in regular time

• Mehdi Taremi – 90+13th minute (for vs., 2022)^[64]

Team

Biggest wins

Biggest margin of victory^[65] !Rank!Date!Venue!Winning team!Score!Losing team

1		Nuevo Estadio, Elche		10–1
		Hardturm Stadium, Zürich		9–0
		Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen		9–0
4		Stade du Fort Carré, Antibes		8–0
		Estádio Independência, Belo Horizonte		8–0
		Sapporo Dome, Sapporo		8–0

Biggest win in a final

Biggest margin of victory in a final!Rank!Date!Venue!Winning team!Score!Losing team

1		Råsunda Stadium, Solna		5–2
		Estadio Azteca, Mexico City		4–1
		Stade de France, Saint-Denis		3–0

Highest scoring matches

Most goals scored in a match^[66] !Rank!Date!Venue!Total goals!Team!Score!Team

1		Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne	12		7–5
2		Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg	11		6–5
		St. Jakob Stadium, Basel			8–3
		Nuevo Estadio, Elche			10–1
5		Idrottsparken, Norrköping	10		7–3

Most goals in a tournament

• – 27 (1954)^[65]

Top scoring teams by tournament

Period	Top scorers	Goals scored	Source
1930		18
1934		12
1938		15
1950		22
1954		27
1958		23
1962		14
1966		17
1970		19
1974		16
1978		15
1982		16
1986		14
1990		15
1994		15
1998		15
2002		18
2006		14
2010		16
2014		18
2018		16
2022		16

Teams listed in bold won the tournament. Fewer than half of all World Cup tournaments have been won by the highest-scoring team.

Tournament

Most goals scored in a tournament

• 2022 – 172 goals^[67]

Fewest goals scored in a tournament

• 1930 – 70 goals
• 1934 – 70 goals

Most goals per match in a tournament

• 1954 – 5.38 goals per match^[68]

Fewest goals per match in a tournament

• 1990 – 2.21 goals per match

Own goals

See main article: List of FIFA World Cup own goals.

Assists

Note: FIFA formally records assists only from the 1966 edition onwards.^[69]

Most assists

• Pelé – 10 (1958–1970)^{[70] [71]}

Most assists in a tournament

• Raymond Kopa – 9 (1958)^[72]

Most tournaments assisted in

• Lionel Messi – 5 (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022)^[73]

Most assists provided in a match

• Robert Gadocha – 4 (for vs., 1974)^{[74] [75]}

Most assists provided in final matches

• Pelé – 3 (1 in 1958, 2 in 1970)^{[76] [77]}

Most assists in the knockout rounds

• Lionel Messi – 5 (Argentina 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022) ^[78]

Penalty shoot-outs

See main article: List of FIFA World Cup penalty shoot-outs.

Goalkeeping

Most clean sheets

• Peter Shilton – 10 (1982–1990)
• Fabien Barthez – 10 (1998–2006)

Most consecutive minutes without conceding a goal

• Walter Zenga – 517 mins, 5 consecutive clean sheets (1990)^[79]

Most goals conceded

• Antonio Carbajal – 25 (1950–1966)^[80]
• Mohamed Al-Deayea – 25 (1994–2006)^[80]

Most goals conceded in one tournament

• Hong Deok-young – 16 (1954)^[81]

Fewest goals conceded in one tournament

• Pascal Zuberbühler – 0 (2006)^[82]

Fewest goals conceded in one tournament for the eventual winners

• Fabien Barthez – 2 (1998)^[83]
• Gianluigi Buffon – 2 (2006)
• Iker Casillas – 2 (2010)

Most saves in one match

• Tim Howard – 16 (for vs., 2014)^[84]

Most penalties saved (excluding penalty shoot-outs)

• Jan Tomaszewski – 2 (both in 1974)
• Brad Friedel – 2 (both in 2002)
• Iker Casillas – 2 (2002, 2010)
• Wojciech Szczęsny – 2 (both in 2022)^[85]

Most penalties saved in one penalty shoot-out

• Ricardo – 3 (for vs., 2006)^[86]
• Danijel Subašić – 3 (for vs., 2018)
• Dominik Livaković – 3 (for vs., 2022)

Most penalties saved overall in penalty shoot-outs

• Harald Schumacher – 4 (1982–1986)
• Sergio Goycochea – 4 (1990)
• Danijel Subašić – 4 (2018)^[87]
• Dominik Livaković – 4 (2022)

Coaching

Most matches coached

• Helmut Schön – 25 (1966–1978)^[88]

Most matches won

• Helmut Schön – 16 (1966–1978)^[89]

Most tournaments won

• Vittorio Pozzo – 2 (1934–1938)^[90]

Most tournaments as a coach

• Carlos Alberto Parreira – 6 (1982, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2006, 2010)^[91]

Most different nations coached

• Bora Milutinović – 5 (in 1986, in 1990, in 1994, in 1998 and in 2002)
• Carlos Alberto Parreira – 5 (in 1982, in 1990, in 1994 and 2006, in 1998 and in 2010)

Most consecutive tournaments as a coach

• Bora Milutinović – 5 (1986–2002)^[92]

Most consecutive tournaments as a coach with the same team

• Walter Winterbottom – 4 (1950–1962)^[93]
• Helmut Schön – 4 (1966–1978)

Youngest coach

• Juan José Tramutola – (1930)^[94]

Youngest coach of a World Cup winning team

• Alberto Suppici – (1930)^[95]

Oldest coach

• Otto Rehhagel – (2010)^[96]

Oldest coach of a World Cup winning team

• Vicente del Bosque – (2010)^[97]

Refereeing

Most tournaments

• John Langenus – 3 (Belgium, 1930–1938)^{[98] [99] [100]}
• Ivan Eklind – 3 (Sweden, 1934–1950)^[101]
• Sandy Griffiths – 3 (Wales, 1950–1958)^[102]
• Arthur Edward Ellis – 3 (England, 1950–1958)^[103]
• Juan Gardeazábal – 3 (Spain, 1958–1966)^[104]
• Erik Fredriksson – 3 (Sweden, 1982–1990)^[105]
• Jamal Al Sharif – 3 (Syria, 1986–1994)^[106]
• Joël Quiniou – 3 (France, 1986–1994)^[107]
• Ali Bujsaim – 3 (United Arab Emirates, 1994–2002)^[108]
• Óscar Ruiz – 3 (Colombia, 2002–2010)^[109]
• Carlos Eugênio Simon – 3 (Brazil, 2002–2010)^[110]
• Marco Antonio Rodríguez – 3 (Mexico, 2006–2014)^[111]
• Joel Aguilar – 3 (El Salvador, 2010–2018)^{[112] [113]}
• Ravshan Irmatov – 3 (Uzbekistan, 2010–2018)^[114]
• Alireza Faghani – 3 (Iran, 2014–2022)^{[115] [116] [117]}
• Bakary Gassama – 3 (Gambia, 2014–2022)^[118]

Most matches refereed, overall

• Ravshan Irmatov – 11 (Uzbekistan, 2010–2018)^[119]

Youngest referee

• Juan Gardeazábal – 24 years and 193 days (Spain, 1958)^[120]

Oldest referee

• George Reader – 53 years and 236 days (England, 1950)^[121]

Discipline

Note: There are no official records for cautions issued in tournaments before the introduction of yellow cards in 1970.^[122]

Fastest caution

• Jesús Gallardo – 11 seconds (for vs., 2018)^[123]

Fastest sending off

• José Batista – 56 seconds (for vs., 1986)^[124]

Fastest sending off, qualification

• Rashed Al-Hooti – 37 seconds (for vs., 11 October 2011, 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification)^[125]

Latest caution

• Emiliano Martínez – During penalty shoot-out (for vs., 2022)^[126]

Latest sending off

• Leandro Cufré – After penalty shoot-out (for vs., 2006)^[127]
• Denzel Dumfries – After penalty shoot-out (for vs., 2022)^[128]

Sent off from the bench

• Claudio Caniggia (for vs., 2002)^[129]

Most cards (all-time, player)

• Javier Mascherano – 7 (2006–2018)^[130]

Most cautions (all-time, player)

• Javier Mascherano – 7 (2006–2018)

Most sendings off (all-time, player)

• Rigobert Song – 2 (1994 and 1998)^[131]
• Zinedine Zidane – 2 (1998 and 2006)

Most sendings off (tournament)

• 2006 – 28 (in 64 games)

Most sendings off (all-time, team)

• – 11 (in 97 games)

Most sendings off (match, both teams)

• 2 each for and – 4 (2006)^[132]

Most sendings off (final match)

• 2 for vs., 1990^[133]

Most cautions (tournament)

• 2006 – 345 (in 64 matches)^[134]

Most cautions (all-time, team)

• – 88 (in 64 games until 2006)^[135]

Most cautions (match, one team)

• – 10 (2022, vs.)^[136]

Most cautions (match, both teams)

• 8 for and 10 for – 18 (2022)^[136]

Most cautions (match, player)

• Josip Šimunić – 3 (61', 90', 93') (for vs., 2006) (referee: Graham Poll)

Most cautions (final match, both teams)

• 9 for and 5 for – 14 (2010)^[137]

Most suspensions (tournament, player)

• André Kana-Biyik – 2 (1990)^[138]

Teams: Matches played/goals scored

All time

Most matches played

• – 114

Most wins

• – 76

Most losses

• – 28

Most draws

• – 22

Most goals scored

• – 237

Most goalscorers

• – 85^{[139] [140]}

Most goals conceded

• – 130

Fewest goals scored

• – 0
• – 0
• – 0
• – 0

Highest goal difference

• – +129

In one tournament

Most goals scored

• – 27 (1954)^[141]

Fewest goals conceded

• – 0 (2006)^[142]

Most goals conceded

• – 16 (1954)^[143]

Most matches gone into extra time

• – 3 (1986)^[144]
• – 3 (1990)^[144]
• – 3 (2014)^[144]
• – 3 (2018)^[144]

Most minutes without conceding a goal

• – 517 mins (1990)^[145]

Highest goal difference

• – +17 (1954)

Highest goal difference, champions

• – +14 (2002)^[146]
• – +14 (2014)

Lowest goal difference

• – −16 (1954)

Lowest goal difference, champions

• – +6 (1938 and 1982)
• – +6 (2010)

Highest average of goals scored per match

• – 5.40 (1954)^[147]

Highest average goal difference per match

• – +3.2 (1954)

Most goals scored, champions

• – 25 (1954)

Fewest goals scored, champions

• – 8 (2010)^[148]

Fewest goals scored, finalists

• – 5 (1990)^[149]

Fewest goals conceded, champions

• – 2 (1998)^[150]
• – 2 (2006)^[150]
• – 2 (2010)^[150]

Most goals conceded, champions

• – 14 (1954)

Lowest average of goals scored per match, champions

• – 1.14 (2010)^[151]

Most penalties scored (excluding shoot-outs)

• – 4 (1966)^[152]
• – 4 (1978)^[152]
• – 4 (2022)^[152]

Most penalties awarded (excluding shoot-outs)

• – 5 (2022)^[152]

Hat-tricks

See main article: List of FIFA World Cup hat-tricks.

Attendance

Highest attendance

Rank	Date	Venue	Match	Attendance	Source
1		Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro	Uruguay v Brazil		^[153]
2		Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro	Brazil v Spain		^[154]
3		Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro	Brazil v Yugoslavia		^[155]
4		Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro	Brazil v Sweden		^[156]
5		Estadio Azteca, Mexico City	Mexico v Paraguay		^[157]
		Estadio Azteca, Mexico City	Argentina v West Germany		^[158]

Lowest attendance

• vs. – 300 (14 July 1930, Estadio Pocitos, Montevideo)^[159]

Highest average of attendance

• 1994 – 69,174 per match^[160]

Highest aggregated attendance

• 1994 – 3,594,042^[161]

Lowest average of attendance

• 1934 – 21,239

Lowest aggregated attendance

• 1934 – 358,000

Statistics per tournament

Year	Hosts	Venues/ Cities	Total attendance †	Matches	Average attendance	Highest attendances ‡
						Number	Venue	Game(s)
1930	Uruguay	data-sort-value="03"	3/1	590,549	18	32,808	93,000	Estadio Centenario, Montevideo	Uruguay 6–1 Yugoslavia, semi-final
1934	Italy	data-sort-value="08"	8/8	363,000	17	21,353	55,000	Stadio Nazionale PNF, Rome	Italy 2–1 Czechoslovakia, final
1938	France	10/9		375,700	18	20,872	58,455	Olympique de Colombes, Paris	France 1–3 Italy, quarter-final
1950	Brazil	data-sort-value="06"	6/6	1,045,246	22	47,511	173,850^[162]	Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro	Brazil 1–2 Uruguay, deciding match
1954	Switzerland	data-sort-value="06"	6/6	768,607	26	29,562	63,000	Wankdorf Stadium, Bern	West Germany 3–2 Hungary, final
1958	Sweden	12/12	819,810	35	23,423	50,928	Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg	Brazil 2–0 Soviet Union, group stage
1962	Chile	data-sort-value="04"	4/4	893,172	32	27,912	68,679	Estadio Nacional, Santiago	Brazil 4–2 Chile, semi-final
1966		data-sort-value="08"	8/7	1,563,135	32	48,848	98,270	Wembley Stadium, London	England 4–2 West Germany, final
1970	Mexico	data-sort-value="05"	5/5	1,603,975	32	50,124	108,192	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City	Mexico 1–0 Belgium, group stage
1974		data-sort-value="09"	9/9	1,865,753	38	49,099	83,168	Olympiastadion, Munich	West Germany 1–0 Chile, group stage
1978	Argentina	data-sort-value="06"	6/5	1,545,791	38	40,679	71,712	Estadio Monumental, Buenos Aires	Italy 1–0 Argentina, group stage
1982	Spain	17/14	2,109,723	52	40,572	95,500	Camp Nou, Barcelona	Argentina 0–1 Belgium, Opening match
1986	Mexico	12/11	2,394,031	52	46,039	114,600	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City	Mexico 1–1 Paraguay, group stage Argentina 3–2 West Germany, final
1990	Italy	12/12	2,516,215	52	48,389	74,765	San Siro, Milan	West Germany 4–1 Yugoslavia, group stage
1994	United States	data-sort-value="09"	9/9	3,587,538	52	68,991	94,194	Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California	Brazil 0–0 (3–2p) Italy, final
1998	France	10/10	2,785,100	64	43,517	80,000	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	Brazil 0–3 France, final
2002	Japan	20/20	2,705,197	64	42,269	69,029	International Stadium, Yokohama, Japan	Brazil 2–0 Germany, final
2006	Germany	12/12	3,359,439	64	52,491	72,000	Olympiastadion, Berlin	Germany 1–1 (4–2p) Argentina, quarter-final
2010	South Africa	10/9	3,178,856	64	49,670	84,490	Soccer City, Johannesburg	Spain 1–0 Netherlands, final
2014	Brazil	12/12	3,429,873	64	53,592	74,738	Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro	Germany 1–0 Argentina, final
2018		12/11	3,031,768	64	47,371	78,011	Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow	France 4–2 Croatia, final
2022	Qatar	8/5	3,404,252	64	53,191	88,966	Lusail Stadium, Qatar	Argentina 3–3 (4–2p) France, final
2026	Canada Mexico United States	16/16		104
2030	Morocco Portugal Spain			104
2034	Saudi Arabia			104
Overall			43,936,730	964	45,577	173,850	Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro (1950)

Source: FIFA^[163]

The best-attended single match has been the final in 11 of the 21 World Cups . Another match or matches drew more attendance than the final in 1930, 1938, 1958, 1962, 1970–1982, 1990, and 2006.

See also

• AFC Asian Cup records and statistics
• Africa Cup of Nations records and statistics
• CONCACAF Gold Cup records and statistics
• Copa América records and statistics
• FIFA Arab Cup records and statistics
• FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup records and statistics
• FIFA Confederations Cup records and statistics
• FIFA Futsal World Cup
• FIFA U-17 World Cup records and statistics
• FIFA U-20 World Cup records and statistics
• FIFA Women's World Cup records and statistics
• Men's Olympic football tournament records and statistics
• OFC Nations Cup records and statistics
• UEFA European Championship records and statistics
• Women's Olympic football tournament records and statistics

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