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Revision as of 21:05, 20 December 2022

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 eleven more have appeared in the semi-finals.[5]

Tournament summary

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

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.

As of 2022 FIFA World Cup[30]
Rank Team Part Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1  Brazil 22 114 76 19 19 237 108 +129 247
2  Germany[a] 20 112 68 21 23 232 130 +102 225
3  Argentina 18 88 47 17 24 152 101 +51 158
4  Italy 18 83 45 21 17 128 77 +51 156
5  France 16 73 39 14 20 136 85 +51 131
6  England 16 74 32 22 20 104 68 +36 118
7  Spain 16 67 31 17 19 108 75 +33 110
8  Netherlands 11 55 30 14 11 96 52 +44 104
9  Uruguay 14 59 25 13 21 89 76 +13 88
10  Belgium 14 51 21 10 20 69 74 −5 73
11  Sweden 12 51 19 13 19 80 73 +7 70
12  Russia[b] 11 45 19 10 16 77 54 +23 67
13  Mexico 17 60 17 15 28 62 101 −39 66
14  Serbia[c] 13 49 18 9 22 71 71 0 63
15  Portugal 8 35 17 6 12 61 41 +20 57
16  Poland 9 38 17 6 15 49 50 −1 57
17   Switzerland 12 41 14 8 19 55 73 −18 50
18  Hungary 9 32 15 3 14 87 57 +30 48
19  Croatia 6 30 13 8 9 43 33 +10 47
20  Czech Republic[d] 9 33 12 5 16 47 49 −2 41
21  Austria 7 29 12 4 13 43 47 −4 40
22  Chile 9 33 11 7 15 40 49 −9 40
23  United States 11 37 9 8 20 40 66 −26 35
24  Denmark 6 23 9 6 8 31 29 +2 33
25  Paraguay 8 27 7 10 10 30 38 −8 31
26  South Korea 11 38 7 10 21 39 78 −39 31
27  Colombia 6 22 9 3 10 32 30 +2 30
28  Romania 7 21 8 5 8 30 32 −2 29
29  Japan 7 25 7 6 12 25 33 −8 27
30  Costa Rica 6 21 6 5 10 22 39 −17 23
31  Cameroon 8 26 5 8 13 22 47 −25 23
32  Morocco 6 23 5 7 11 20 27 −7 22
33  Nigeria 6 21 6 3 12 23 30 −7 21
34  Scotland 8 23 4 7 12 25 41 −16 19
35  Senegal 3 12 5 3 4 16 17 −1 18
36  Ghana 4 15 5 3 7 18 23 −5 18
37  Peru 5 18 5 3 10 21 33 −12 18
38  Ecuador 4 13 5 2 6 14 14 0 17
39  Bulgaria 7 26 3 8 15 22 53 −31 17
40  Turkey 2 10 5 1 4 20 17 +3 16
41  Australia 6 20 4 4 12 17 37 −20 16
42  Republic of Ireland 3 13 2 8 3 10 10 0 14
43  Northern Ireland 3 13 3 5 5 13 23 −10 14
44  Tunisia 6 18 3 5 10 14 26 −12 14
45  Saudi Arabia 6 19 4 2 13 14 44 −30 14
46  Iran 6 18 3 4 11 13 31 −18 13
47  Algeria 4 13 3 3 7 13 19 −6 12
48  Ivory Coast 3 9 3 1 5 13 14 −1 10
49  South Africa 3 9 2 4 3 11 16 −5 10
50  Norway 3 8 2 3 3 7 8 −1 9
51  East Germany[a] 1 6 2 2 2 5 5 0 8
52  Greece 3 10 2 2 6 5 20 −15 8
53  Ukraine 1 5 2 1 2 5 7 −2 7
54  Wales 2 8 1 4 3 5 10 −5 7
55  Slovakia 1 4 1 1 2 5 7 −2 4
56  Slovenia 2 6 1 1 4 5 10 −5 4
57  Cuba 1 3 1 1 1 5 12 −7 4
58  North Korea 2 7 1 1 5 6 21 −15 4
59  Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 3 1 0 2 4 4 0 3
60  Jamaica 1 3 1 0 2 3 9 −6 3
61  New Zealand 2 6 0 3 3 4 14 −10 3
62  Honduras 3 9 0 3 6 3 14 −11 3
63  Angola 1 3 0 2 1 1 2 −1 2
64  Israel 1 3 0 2 1 1 3 −2 2
65  Egypt 3 7 0 2 5 5 12 −7 2
66  Iceland 1 3 0 1 2 2 5 −3 1
67  Kuwait 1 3 0 1 2 2 6 −4 1
68  Trinidad and Tobago 1 3 0 1 2 0 4 −4 1
69  Bolivia 3 6 0 1 5 1 20 −19 1
70  Iraq 1 3 0 0 3 1 4 −3 0
71  Togo 1 3 0 0 3 1 6 −5 0
72  Qatar 1 3 0 0 3 1 7 −6 0
73  Indonesia[e] 1 1 0 0 1 0 6 −6 0
74  Panama 1 3 0 0 3 2 11 −9 0
75  United Arab Emirates 1 3 0 0 3 2 11 −9 0
76  China 1 3 0 0 3 0 9 −9 0
77  Canada 2 6 0 0 6 2 12 −10 0
78  Haiti 1 3 0 0 3 2 14 −12 0
79  DR Congo[f] 1 3 0 0 3 0 14 −14 0
80  El Salvador 2 6 0 0 6 1 22 −21 0
Breakdown of successor team records
Team Part Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Czechoslovakia (1934–1990) 8 30 11 5 14 44 45 −1 38
 Czech Republic (2006–present) 1 3 1 0 2 3 4 −1 3
Team Part Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Germany Germany (1934–1938) 2 6 3 1 2 14 13 +1 10
 West Germany (1950–1990) 10 62 36 14 12 131 77 +54 122
 Germany (1994–present) 8 44 29 6 9 87 40 +46 93
Team Part Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Soviet Union (1958–1990) 7 31 15 6 10 53 34 +19 51
 Russia (1994–present) 4 14 4 4 6 24 20 +4 16
Team Part Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (1930–1990) 8 33 14 7 12 55 42 +13 49
 FR Yugoslavia (1998) 1 4 2 1 1 5 4 +1 7
 Serbia and Montenegro (2006) 1 3 0 0 3 2 10 −8 0
 Serbia (2010–present) 3 9 2 1 6 9 15 −6 7

Comprehensive team results by tournament

Template:FIFA World Cup Comprehensive team results by tournament

Finals records by team

Performances in finals by team[31]
Nation Titles Runners-up
 Brazil 5 2
 Germany 4 4
 Italy 4 2
 Argentina 3 3
 France 2 2
 Uruguay 2
 England 1
 Spain 1
 Netherlands 3
 Hungary 2
 Czechoslovakia 2
 Sweden 1
 Croatia 1

Hosts

Results of host nations
Year Hosting team Finish
1930  Uruguay Champions
1934  Italy Champions
1938  France Quarter-finals
1950  Brazil Runners-up
1954   Switzerland Quarter-finals
1958  Sweden Runners-up
1962  Chile Third place
1966  England Champions
1970  Mexico Quarter-finals
1974  West Germany Champions
1978  Argentina Champions
1982  Spain Second group stage
1986  Mexico Quarter-finals
1990  Italy Third place
1994  United States Round of 16
1998  France Champions
2002  South Korea Fourth place
 Japan Round of 16
2006  Germany Third place
2010  South Africa Group stage
2014  Brazil Fourth place
2018  Russia Quarter-finals
2022  Qatar Group stage
2026  Canada TBD
 Mexico
 United States

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

  •  Brazil – 5 (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002)

Most finishes in the top two

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

Most second-place finishes

  •  Germany/West Germany – 4 (1966, 1982, 1986 as West Germany, 2002 as Germany)

Most World Cup appearances

  •  Brazil – 22 (every tournament)

Most consecutive championships

  •  Italy – 2 (1934–1938)
  •  Brazil – 2 (1958–1962)

Most consecutive finishes in the top two

Longest gap between successive titles

  •  Italy – 44 years (nine editions, 1938–1982)[g]

Longest gap between successive appearances in the top two

  •  Argentina – 48 years (10 editions, 1930–1978)

Longest gap between successive appearances at the FIFA World Cup

  •  Wales – 64 years (16 editions, 1958–2022)

Worst finish by defending champions

  • Did not participate –  Uruguay (1934)
  • Group stage –  Italy (1950)
  • Group stage –  Brazil (1966)
  • Group stage –  France (2002)
  • Group stage –  Italy (2010)
  • Group stage –  Spain (2014)
  • Group stage –  Germany (2018)

Players

Most appearances

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[32]
Rank Player Team(s) Matches Tournaments
1 Lionel Messi  Argentina 26 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022
2 Lothar Matthäus  West Germany/Germany 25 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998
3 Miroslav Klose  Germany 24 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014
4 Paolo Maldini  Italy 23 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002
5 Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 22 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022

Most championships

Main article: List of FIFA World Cup winning players

Most appearances in a World Cup final

Youngest player

Youngest player in a final

Oldest player

Oldest player in a final

Goalscoring

Individual

Top goalscorers

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[37][38]
Rank Player Team(s) Goals Matches Goals per game
1 Miroslav Klose  Germany 16 24 0.67
2 Ronaldo  Brazil 15 19 0.79
3 Gerd Müller  West Germany 14 13 1.08
4 Just Fontaine  France 13 6 2.17
Lionel Messi  Argentina 13 26 0.50

Most goals scored in a single tournament

Most goals scored in a match

Most goals scored in a final match

Most goals scored in final matches (overall)

Most consecutive matches scored in

Most tournaments scored in

Milestone goals

Youngest goalscorer

Youngest goalscorer in a final

Oldest goalscorer

Oldest goalscorer in a final

Fastest goal

Fastest goal in a final

Team

Biggest wins

Biggest margin of victory[50]
Rank Date Venue Winning team Score Losing team
1 15 June 1982 Nuevo Estadio, Elche  Hungary 10–1  El Salvador
17 June 1954 Hardturm Stadium, Zürich  Hungary 9–0  South Korea
18 June 1974 Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen  Yugoslavia 9–0  Zaire
4 12 June 1938 Stade du Fort Carré, Antibes  Sweden 8–0  Cuba
2 July 1950 Estádio Independência, Belo Horizonte  Uruguay 8–0  Bolivia
1 June 2002 Sapporo Dome, Sapporo  Germany 8–0  Saudi Arabia

Biggest win in a final

Biggest margin of victory in a final[50]
Rank Date Venue Winning team Score Losing team
1 29 June 1958 Råsunda Stadium, Solna  Brazil 5–2  Sweden
21 June 1970 Estadio Azteca, Mexico City  Brazil 4–1  Italy
12 July 1998 Stade de France, Saint-Denis  France 3–0  Brazil

Highest scoring matches

Most goals scored in a match[51]
Rank Date Venue Total goals Team Score Team
1 26 June 1954 Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne 12  Austria 7–5   Switzerland
2 5 June 1938 Stade de la Meinau, Strasbourg 11  Brazil 6–5  Poland
20 June 1954 St. Jakob Stadium, Basel  Hungary 8–3  West Germany
15 June 1982 Nuevo Estadio, Elche  Hungary 10–1  El Salvador
5 8 June 1958 Idrottsparken, Norrköping 10  France 7–3  Paraguay

Most goals in a tournament

Top scoring teams by tournament

Year Top scorers Goals scored Source
1930  Argentina 18 [citation needed]
1934  Italy 12 [citation needed]
1938  Hungary 15 [citation needed]
1950  Brazil 22 [citation needed]
1954  Hungary 27 [citation needed]
1958  France 23 [citation needed]
1962  Brazil 14 [citation needed]
1966  Portugal 17 [citation needed]
1970  Brazil 19 [citation needed]
1974  Poland 16 [citation needed]
1978  Argentina 15 [citation needed]
 Netherlands
1982  France 16 [citation needed]
1986  Argentina 14 [citation needed]
1990  West Germany 15 [citation needed]
1994  Sweden 15 [citation needed]
1998  France 15 [citation needed]
2002  Brazil 18 [citation needed]
2006  Germany 14 [citation needed]
2010  Germany 16 [citation needed]
2014  Germany 18 [citation needed]
2018  Belgium 16 [citation needed]
2022  France 16 [citation needed]

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

Fewest goals scored in a tournament

Most goals per match in a tournament

Fewest goals per match in a tournament

Own goals

Main article: List of FIFA World Cup own goals

Assisting

Note: FIFA only started recording assists in 1994, so any figures before then are retrospective and some sources differ.

Most assists

Most assists in a tournament

Most assists provided in a match

Most assists provided in final matches

Awarded penalties

Main article: List of FIFA World Cup awarded penalties

Penalty shoot-outs

Main article: List of FIFA World Cup penalty shoot-outs

Goalkeeping

Most clean sheets

Most consecutive minutes without conceding a goal

Most goals conceded

Most goals conceded in one tournament

Fewest goals conceded in one tournament

Fewest goals conceded in one tournament for the eventual winners

Most saves in one match

Most penalties saved (excluding penalty shoot-outs)

Most penalties saved in one penalty shoot-out

Most penalties saved overall in penalty shoot-outs

Coaching

Most matches coached
25, Helmut Schön ( West Germany, 1966–1978)
Most matches won
16, Helmut Schön ( West Germany, 1966–1978)
Most tournaments won
2, Vittorio Pozzo ( Italy, 1934–1938)
Most tournaments
6, Carlos Alberto Parreira (1982, 1990–1998, 2006, 2010)
Most nations coached
5, Bora Milutinović ( Mexico, 1986;  Costa Rica, 1990;  United States, 1994;  Nigeria, 1998;  China, 2002), and Carlos Alberto Parreira ( Kuwait, 1982;  United Arab Emirates, 1990;  Brazil, 1994 and 2006;  Saudi Arabia, 1998,  South Africa, 2010)
Most consecutive tournaments
5, Bora Milutinović ( Mexico, 1986;  Costa Rica, 1990;  United States, 1994;  Nigeria, 1998;  China, 2002)[61]
Most consecutive tournaments with same team
4, Walter Winterbottom ( England, 1950–1962); Helmut Schön ( West Germany, 1966–1978)[m]
Most consecutive wins
11, Luiz Felipe Scolari ( Brazil, 2002, 7 wins;  Portugal, 2006, 4 wins[n])
Most consecutive matches without a loss
12, Luiz Felipe Scolari ( Brazil, 2002, 7 matches;  Portugal, 2006, 5 matches), Louis van Gaal ( Netherlands, 2014, 7 matches; 2022, 5 matches)
Youngest coach
27 years, 267 days, Juan José Tramutola ( Argentina, 1930)
Youngest coach, champions
31 years, 252 days, Alberto Suppici ( Uruguay, 1930)
Oldest coach
71 years, 317 days, Otto Rehhagel ( Greece, 2010)
Oldest coach, champions
59 years, 200 days, Vicente del Bosque ( Spain, 2010)
Quickest substitution made
4th minute, Cesare Maldini, Giuseppe Bergomi for Alessandro Nesta ( Italy, vs.  Austria, 1998); Sven-Göran Eriksson, Peter Crouch for Michael Owen ( England, vs.  Sweden, 2006)
Most championship wins as player and head coach
3, Mário Zagallo,  Brazil (1958–1962 as player, 1970 as coach)[o]
Most tournament appearances as player and head coach
5, Mário Zagallo,  Brazil (1958–1962 as player, 1970–1974 and 1998 as coach); Franz Beckenbauer,  West Germany (1966–1974 as player, 1986–1990 as coach); Berti Vogts,  West Germany (1970–1978 as player, 1994–1998 as coach); Diego Maradona,  Argentina (1982–1994 as player, 2010 as coach); Rigobert Song  Cameroon (1994–2002 and 2010 as player, 2022 as coach)
Won tournaments as both player and head coach
Mário Zagallo,  Brazil (1958–1962 as player, 1970 as coach), Franz Beckenbauer,  West Germany (1974 as player, 1990 as coach), and Didier Deschamps,  France (1998 as player, 2018 as coach)
First World Cup player to coach a team in a World Cup
Milorad Arsenijević,  Yugoslavia (1930 as player, 1950 as coach)
Won tournament as a foreign head coach
No foreign coach has won a tournament (all winning head coaches were natives of the country they coached)
Best finish for a foreign head coach
Runners-up, George Raynor ( England, coached  Sweden in 1958) and Ernst Happel ( Austria, coached  Netherlands in 1978)

Refereeing

Most tournaments
3 – John Langenus (Belgium, 1930–1938), Ivan Eklind (Sweden, 1934–1950), Benjamin Griffiths (Wales, 1950–1958), Arthur Ellis (England, 1950–1958), Juan Gardeazábal (Spain, 1958–1966), Erik Fredriksson (Sweden, 1982–1990), Jamal Al Sharif (Syria, 1986–1994), Joël Quiniou (France, 1986–1994), Ali Mohamed Bujsaim (United Arab Emirates, 1994–2002), Óscar Ruiz (Colombia, 2002–2010), Carlos Eugênio Simon (Brazil, 2002–2010), Marco Rodríguez (Mexico, 2006–2014), Joel Aguilar (El Salvador, 2010–2018), Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan, 2010–2018), Alireza Faghani (Iran, 2014–2022), Bakary Gassama (Gambia, 2014–2022)
Most matches refereed, overall
11 – Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan, 2010–2018)
Most matches refereed, one tournament
5 – Benito Archundia (Mexico, 2006), Horacio Elizondo (Argentina, 2006), Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan, 2010) and Néstor Pitana (Argentina, 2018)
Youngest referee
24 years and 193 days – Juan Gardeazábal (Spain, 1958)
Oldest referee
53 years and 236 days – George Reader (England, 1950)

Referees listed in italics attended three tournaments but did not act as main referee in all of them. Instead, they were exclusively used as fourth officials in minimum one edition.

Discipline

Note: There are no official records for cautions issued in tournaments before the introduction of yellow cards in 1970.[62]

Fastest caution
11 seconds, Jesús Gallardo ( Mexico), vs.  Sweden, 2018
Fastest sending off
56 seconds, José Batista ( Uruguay), vs.  Scotland, 1986
Fastest sending off, qualification
37 seconds, Rashed Al Hooti ( Bahrain), vs.  Iran, 11 October 2011, 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
Latest caution
after penalty shoot-out: Noa Lang ( Netherlands), vs.  Argentina, 2022
Latest sending off
after penalty shoot-out: Leandro Cufré ( Argentina), vs.  Germany, 2006;[p] Denzel Dumfries ( Netherlands), vs.  Argentina, 2022
Sent off from the bench
Claudio Caniggia ( Argentina), vs.  Sweden, 2002
Most cards (all-time, player)
7, Javier Mascherano ( Argentina, 2006–2018)[63]
Most cautions (all-time, player)
7, Javier Mascherano ( Argentina, 2006–2018)[63]
Most sendings off (all-time, player)
2, Rigobert Song ( Cameroon, 1994 and 1998) and Zinedine Zidane ( France, 1998 and 2006)
Most sendings off (tournament)
28 (in 64 games), 2006
Most sendings off (all-time, team)
11 (in 97 games),  Brazil
Most sendings off (match, both teams)
4 (2 each) in  Portugal vs.  Netherlands, 2006 (also known as Battle of Nuremberg)
Most sendings off (final match)
2, Pedro Monzón and Gustavo Dezotti (both Argentina), v  West Germany, 1990
Most cautions (tournament)
345 (in 64 matches), 2006
Most cautions (all-time, team)
88 (in 64 games until 2006),  Argentina[64]
Most cautions (match, one team)
9,  Portugal, 2006, vs.  Netherlands and  Argentina, 2022, vs.  Netherlands
Most cautions (match, both teams)
17, 8 ( Netherlands) and 9 ( Argentina), 2022[65]
Most cautions (match, player)
3 (61', 90', 93') Josip Šimunić ( Croatia), vs.  Australia, 2006 (referee: Graham Poll)[q]
Most cautions (final match, both teams)
14, 9 ( Netherlands) and 5 ( Spain), 2010[66]
Most suspensions (tournament, player)
2, André Kana-Biyik ( Cameroon), 1990[r]

Teams: Matches played/goals scored

All time

Most matches played
114,  Brazil
Most wins
76,  Brazil
Most losses
28,  Mexico
Most draws
22,  England
Most matches played without a point (win or a draw)
6,  Canada,  El Salvador
Most matches played without a win
9,  Honduras
Most matches played until first win
17,  Bulgaria
Most goals scored
237,  Brazil
Most goalscorers
82,  Brazil
Most goals conceded
130,  Germany
Fewest goals scored
0,  China,  Indonesia (as Dutch East Indies),  Trinidad and Tobago and  DR Congo (as Zaire)
Highest average of goals scored per match
2.72,  Hungary (87 goals in 32 matches)
Lowest average of goals conceded per match
0.67,  Angola (2 goals in 3 matches)
Highest average of goals conceded per match
6,  Indonesia (as Dutch East Indies)
Most meetings between two teams
7 times,  Brazil vs.  Sweden (1938, 1950, 1958, 1978, 1990 and twice in 1994),  Germany vs.  Yugoslavia/ Serbia (1954, 1958, 1962, 1974, 1990, 1998 and 2010) and  Argentina vs.  Germany (1958, 1966, 1986, 1990, 2006, 2010 and 2014)
Most meetings between two teams, final match
3 times,  Argentina vs.  Germany (1986, 1990, 2014)
Most consecutive meetings between two teams
5 times,  Italy vs.  Argentina (1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990)
Most knockout wins
35,  Germany[s]
Most knockout losses
14,  Germany[t]

In one tournament

Most goals scored
27,  Hungary, 1954[u]
Fewest goals conceded
0,   Switzerland, 2006[u]
Most goals conceded
16,  South Korea, 1954[u]
Most matches gone into extra time
3,  Belgium, 1986;  England, 1990;  Argentina, 2014;  Croatia, 2018
Most minutes without conceding a goal
517 mins,  Italy, 1990[u]
Highest goal difference
+17,  Hungary, 1954[u]
Highest goal difference, champions
+14,  Brazil, 2002;  Germany, 2014[u]
Lowest goal difference
−16,  South Korea, 1954[u]
Lowest goal difference, champions
+6,  Italy, 1938 and 1982;  Spain, 2010[u]
Highest average of goals scored per match
5.40,  Hungary, 1954;[u]
Highest average goal difference per match
+3.2,  Hungary, 1954
Highest average goal difference per match, champions
+3.0,  Uruguay, 1930
Most goals scored, champions
25,  West Germany, 1954[u]
Fewest goals scored, champions
8,  Spain, 2010[u]
Fewest goals scored, finalists
5,  Argentina, 1990[u]
Fewest goals conceded, champions
2,  France, 1998;  Italy, 2006;  Spain, 2010[u]
Most goals conceded, champions
14,  West Germany, 1954[u]
Lowest average of goals scored per match, champions
1.14,  Spain, 2010[u]
Most matches to qualify for World Cup finals
22,  Australia (2018)
Most brothers in the same team in the finals
3,  Honduras (Johnny Palacios, Jerry Palacios, Wilson Palacios, 2010)[67]

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of FIFA World Cup hat-tricks

Streaks

Most consecutive successful qualification attempts
10,  Spain (1986–2022)[v]
Most consecutive failed qualification attempts
21,  Luxembourg (1934–2022)
Most consecutive wins
11,  Brazil, from 2–1 vs.  Turkey (2002) to 3–0 vs.  Ghana (2006)
Most consecutive matches without a loss
13,  Brazil, from 3–0 vs.  Austria (1958) to 2–0 vs.  Bulgaria (1966)
Most consecutive matches without a loss in ordinary time
19,  Netherlands, from 2–0 vs.  Denmark (South Africa, 2010) to 2–2 vs.  Argentina (Qatar, 2022)
Most consecutive losses
9,  Mexico, from 1–4 vs.  France (1930) to 0–3 vs.  Sweden (1958)
Most consecutive matches without a win
17,  Bulgaria, from 0–1 vs.  Argentina (1962) to 0–3 vs.  Nigeria (1994)
Most consecutive draws
5,  Belgium, from 0–0 vs.  Netherlands (1998) to 1–1 vs.  Tunisia (2002)
Most consecutive matches without a draw
16,  Portugal, from 3–1 vs.  Hungary (1966) to 1–0 vs. Netherlands (2006);  Belgium, from 3–2 vs.  Russia (2002) to 0–2 vs.  Morocco (2022)
Most consecutive matches scoring at least one goal
18,  Brazil (1930–1958) and  Germany (1934–1958)
Most consecutive matches scoring at least two goals
11,  Uruguay (1930–1954)
Most consecutive matches scoring at least three / four goals
4,  Uruguay (1930–1950),  Hungary (1954) (four goals),  Portugal (1966),  West Germany (1970),  Brazil (1970)
Most consecutive matches without scoring a goal
5,  Bolivia (1930, 1950 and 1994),  Algeria (1986 and 2010),  Honduras (1982 and 2010–2014)
Most consecutive matches without conceding a goal (clean sheets)
5,  Italy (1990),   Switzerland (2006–2010)
Most consecutive minutes without conceding a goal
559,   Switzerland (1994, 2006–2010)[68][69]
Most consecutive matches conceding at least one goal
22,   Switzerland (1934–1994)
Most consecutive matches conceding at least two goals
9,  Mexico (1930–1958)
Most consecutive matches conceding at least three goals
5,  Mexico (1930–1950)
Most consecutive matches conceding at least four goals
3,  Bolivia (1930–1950),  Mexico (1930–1950)

Attendance

Highest attendance

Rank Date Venue Match Attendance Source
1 16 July 1950 Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Uruguay v Brazil 173,850 [70]
2 13 July 1950 Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Brazil v Spain 152,772 [71]
3 1 July 1950 Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Brazil v Yugoslavia 142,409 [72]
4 9 July 1950 Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Brazil v Sweden 138,886 [73]
5 7 June 1986 Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Mexico v Paraguay 114,600 [74]
29 June 1986 Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Argentina v West Germany 114,600 [75]

Lowest attendance

Highest average of attendance

  • 1994 – 69,174 per match[76]

Highest aggregated attendance

Lowest average of attendance

Lowest aggregated attendance

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany since 1949, has been represented by the same governing body, the Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB), since 1904. Following World War II and the division of Germany, the DFB was re-admitted to FIFA after the 1950 World Cup as West Germany. Saar competed in the 1954 World Cup qualifying before joining West Germany in 1956. East Germany fielded teams of their own from 1958 to 1990 before joining with West Germany and the DFB during the German reunification. FIFA officially attributes all international results of the DFB team since 1908 to Germany, including the results of West Germany from 1954–1990.
  2. ^ The Soviet Union qualified seven times prior to its dissolution in 1991. The 15 nations that were former Soviet republics now compete separately. FIFA considers Russia as the successor team of the Soviet Union.
  3. ^ The Yugoslavia national football team qualified eight times during eras of Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1930) and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1950–1990). They qualified from 1930–1990 under the name Yugoslavia prior to its breakup in 1992 by the secession of many of its constituent republics. They qualified once in 1998 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, then changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro in 2003, only qualifying under that name in 2006. All of these teams are considered the predecessors of the current Serbia team by FIFA, which first qualified under that name in 2010. The other national teams which resulted from the breakup of the SFR Yugoslavia in 1992 — Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia — are considered distinct entities from the Yugoslavia team of 1930–1990. Montenegro now also competes separately after independence in 2006 and Kosovo was recognized by FIFA in 2016.
  4. ^ Czechoslovakia qualified eight times prior to being divided into Slovakia and the Czech Republic in 1993. FIFA considers the Czech Republic as the successor team of Czechoslovakia. The other national team which resulted from the breakup of the Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, is considered a distinct entity from the Czechoslovakia team. The Czech Republic national team qualified for the World Cup for the first time as a separate nation in 2006, with Slovakia doing the same in 2010.
  5. ^ Indonesia competed as the Dutch East Indies in 1938.
  6. ^ The Democratic Republic of the Congo competed as Zaire in 1974.
  7. ^ Uruguay (76 years) and England (60 years) have longer active streaks.
  8. ^ Only played in first two matches; medal awarded retroactively by FIFA in 2007.[33]
  9. ^ Pelé, Lothar Matthäus, Pierre Littbarski and Ronaldo each appeared three times in the squads of the teams that reached the finals, but none of them played in all three games.
  10. ^ Different sources give Pelé between 8 and 10 assists.
  11. ^ Different sources (including different articles from FIFA) give Pelé between 5 and 7 assists for 1970.
  12. ^ Zuberbühler kept goal throughout every minute of Switzerland's four matches. Other keepers have kept clean sheets only playing part of their team's matches.
  13. ^ Sepp Herberger took Germany/West Germany to four tournaments (1938, 1954, 1958, 1962), omitting the 1950 competition from which Germany was banned.
  14. ^ Portugal "won" its next match, the quarter-final against England, by penalty shoot-out, which technically counts as a draw.
  15. ^ Zagallo was also an assistant coach when Brazil won in 1994.
  16. ^ Cufré was red carded for kicking Per Mertesacker in an altercation following the match.
  17. ^ Šimunić was given three yellow cards in the match as the referee failed to send him off the pitch after the second yellow, and was only red carded after the third yellow. The original FIFA match report listed all three cautions, however was revised shortly after, with the second caution (90') not being recorded; it is unknown whether this was for consistency in the reports, or whether the caution was retrospectively overturned.
  18. ^ Biyik missed the team's second game after receiving a red card in the first; and then missed their fifth game after yellow cards in the third and fourth. Others, including Zinedine Zidane in 2006, have earned a second suspension in their team's final match of the tournament, not servable during the tournament.
  19. ^ Including penalty shoot-out progressions
  20. ^ Including penalty shoot-out eliminations
  21. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Successful kicks in a penalty shoot-out are not counted as goals (but penalties scored in the normal course of play are counted).
  22. ^ Excluding automatic qualification as hosts, as reigning champion, or by invitation.

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