FIFA World Cup records and statistics

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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  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 [16][23]
2006  Germany  Italy Italy Marcello Lippi Germany Miroslav Klose (5) France Zinedine Zidane [16][24]
2010  South Africa  Spain Spain Vicente del Bosque Four players (5) Uruguay Diego Forlán [16][25]
2014  Brazil  Germany Germany Joachim Löw Colombia James Rodríguez (6) Argentina Lionel Messi [26][16][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 [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.

As of 2022 FIFA World Cup[31][32]
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  Slovakia[d] 9 34 12 6 18 49 52 −3 42
21  Czech Republic[d] 9 33 12 5 16 47 49 −2 41
22  Austria 7 29 12 4 13 43 47 −4 40
23  Chile 9 33 11 7 15 40 49 −9 40
24  United States 11 37 9 8 20 40 66 −26 35
25  Denmark 6 23 9 6 8 31 29 +2 33
26  Paraguay 8 27 7 10 10 30 38 −8 31
27  South Korea 11 38 7 10 21 39 78 −39 31
28  Colombia 6 22 9 3 10 32 30 +2 30
29  Romania 7 21 8 5 8 30 32 −2 29
30  Japan 7 25 7 6 12 25 33 −8 27
31  Costa Rica 6 21 6 5 10 22 39 −17 23
32  Cameroon 8 26 5 8 13 22 47 −25 23
33  Morocco 6 23 5 7 11 20 27 −7 22
34  Nigeria 6 21 6 3 12 23 30 −7 21
35  Scotland 8 23 4 7 12 25 41 −16 19
36  Senegal 3 12 5 3 4 16 17 −1 18
37  Ghana 4 15 5 3 7 18 23 −5 18
38  Peru 5 18 5 3 10 21 33 −12 18
39  Ecuador 4 13 5 2 6 14 14 0 17
40  Bulgaria 7 26 3 8 15 22 53 −31 17
41  Turkey 2 10 5 1 4 20 17 +3 16
42  Australia 6 20 4 4 12 17 37 −20 16
43  Republic of Ireland 3 13 2 8 3 10 10 0 14
44  Northern Ireland 3 13 3 5 5 13 23 −10 14
45  Tunisia 6 18 3 5 10 14 26 −12 14
46  Saudi Arabia 6 19 4 2 13 14 44 −30 14
47  Iran 6 18 3 4 11 13 31 −18 13
48  Algeria 4 13 3 3 7 13 19 −6 12
49  Ivory Coast 3 9 3 1 5 13 14 −1 10
50  South Africa 3 9 2 4 3 11 16 −5 10
51  Norway 3 8 2 3 3 7 8 −1 9
52  East Germany[a] 1 6 2 2 2 5 5 0 8
53  Greece 3 10 2 2 6 5 20 −15 8
54  Ukraine 1 5 2 1 2 5 7 −2 7
55  Wales 2 8 1 4 3 5 10 −5 7
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
 Slovakia (2010–present) 1 4 1 1 2 5 7 −2 4
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
 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


Finals records by team

Performances in finals by team[33]
Nation Titles Runners-up
 Brazil 5 2
 Germany 4 4
 Italy 4 2
 Argentina 3 3
 France 2 2
 Uruguay 2 0
 England 1 0
 Spain 1 0
 Netherlands 0 3
 Hungary 0 2
 Czechoslovakia 0 2
 Sweden 0 1
 Croatia 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

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)[35]

Most second-place finishes

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

Most World Cup appearances

Most consecutive championships

Most consecutive finishes in the top two

Longest gap between successive titles

Longest gap between successive appearances in the top two

Longest gap between successive appearances at the FIFA World Cup

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

Most consecutive failed qualification attempts

Worst finish by defending champions

Players

Most appearances

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 Lionel Messi  Argentina 26 5 (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022)
2 Lothar Matthäus  West Germany/Germany 25 5 (1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998)
3 Miroslav Klose  Germany 24 4 (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014)
4 Paolo Maldini  Italy 23 4 (1990, 1994, 1998, 2002)
5 Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal 22 5 (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022)

Most championships

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

Players in bold text are still active with their national team as of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

All-time top scorers[50][51]
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 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 at the knock-out round

Oldest goalscorer in a final

Oldest goalscorer in a victorious final

Fastest goal

Fastest goal in a final

Latest goal in regular time

Most goals against country of birth

Team

Biggest wins

Biggest margin of victory[64]
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[64]
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[65]
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

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

Fewest goals scored in a tournament

Most goals per match in a tournament

Fewest goals per match in a tournament

Own goals

Assists

Note: FIFA formally records assists only from the 1966 edition onwards.[76]

Most assists

Most assists in a tournament

Most tournaments assisted in

Most assists provided in a match

Most assists provided in final matches

Most assists in the knockout rounds

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

Most matches won

Most tournaments won

Most tournaments as a coach

Most different nations coached

Most consecutive tournaments as a coach

  • Bora Milutinović – 5 (1986–2002)[100]

Most consecutive tournaments as a coach with the same team

Youngest coach

Youngest coach of a World Cup winning team

Oldest coach

Oldest coach of a World Cup winning team

Refereeing

Most tournaments

Most matches refereed, overall

  • Ravshan Irmatov – 11 (Uzbekistan, 2010–2018)[127]

Youngest referee

  • Juan Gardeazábal – 24 years and 193 days (Spain, 1958)[128]

Oldest referee

Discipline

Note: There are no official records for cautions issued in tournaments before the introduction of yellow cards in 1970.[130]

Fastest caution

Fastest sending off

Fastest sending off, qualification

Latest caution

Latest sending off

Sent off from the bench

Most cards (all-time, player)

Most cautions (all-time, player)

Most sendings off (all-time, player)

Most sendings off (tournament)

  • 2006 – 28 (in 64 games)[139]

Most sendings off (all-time, team)

Most sendings off (match, both teams)

Most sendings off (final match)

Most cautions (tournament)

  • 2006 – 345 (in 64 matches)[142]

Most cautions (all-time, team)

Most cautions (match, one team)

Most cautions (match, both teams)

Most cautions (match, player)

Most cautions (final match, both teams)

Most suspensions (tournament, player)

Teams: Matches played/goals scored

All time

Most matches played

Most wins

Most losses

Most draws

Most goals scored

Most goalscorers

Most goals conceded

Fewest goals scored

Highest goal difference

In one tournament

Most goals scored

Fewest goals conceded

Most goals conceded

Most matches gone into extra time

Most minutes without conceding a goal

Highest goal difference

Highest goal difference, champions

Lowest goal difference

Lowest goal difference, champions

Highest average of goals scored per match

Highest average goal difference per match

Most goals scored, champions

Fewest goals scored, champions

Fewest goals scored, finalists

Fewest goals conceded, champions

Most goals conceded, champions

Lowest average of goals scored per match, champions

Most penalties scored (excluding shoot-outs)

Most penalties awarded (excluding shoot-outs)

Hat-tricks

Attendance

Highest attendance

Rank Date Venue Match Attendance Source
1 16 July 1950 Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Uruguay v Brazil 173,850 [165]
2 13 July 1950 Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Brazil v Spain 152,772 [166]
3 1 July 1950 Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Brazil v Yugoslavia 142,409 [167]
4 9 July 1950 Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro Brazil v Sweden 138,886 [168]
5 7 June 1986 Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Mexico v Paraguay 114,600 [169]
29 June 1986 Estadio Azteca, Mexico City Argentina v West Germany 114,600 [170]

Lowest attendance

Highest average of attendance

  • 1994 – 69,174 per match[172]

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 former nations 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 before 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 that 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. ^ a b Czechoslovakia qualified eight times prior to being divided into Slovakia and the Czech Republic in 1993. FIFA considers the Czech Republic and Slovakia as the successor team of Czechoslovakia. 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.[44]
  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.[46]
  10. ^ Different sources give Pelé between 8 and 10 assists.[77]
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ a b Attended three tournaments but did not act as main referee in all of them. Instead, he was exclusively used as a fourth official in a minimum of one edition.
  13. ^ Putting French players off.[134]
  14. ^ Cufré was red carded for kicking Per Mertesacker in an altercation following the match.[135]
  15. ^ Also known as Battle of Nuremberg.
  16. ^ The players sent off were Pedro Monzón and Gustavo Dezotti.[141]
  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.[145]
  18. ^ Biyik missed the team's second game after receiving a red card in the first,[147] and then missed Cameroon's fifth game after yellow cards in the third and fourth.[148][149] 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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Successful kicks in a penalty shoot-out are not counted as goals (but penalties scored in the normal course of play are counted).

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