Football World Cup Records
Teams – Football World Cup Records:
- Number of teams to win the Football World Cup: 7
- Most World Cup titles: Brazil, 5
- World Cup final appearances: Brazil, 7
- Most wins overall: Brazil, 64
- Most goals scored: Brazil, 202
- Highest goal scoring average per match: Hungary, 2.72
- Longest losing streak: El Salvador, 6 losses
- Most semifinal appearances: Germany, 11
- Most failures to advance beyond group stage: Scotland, 8
- Biggest victory margin: Hungary/Yugoslavia/Hungary, 9 goals
- Most goals scored by a team in a single match: Hungary, 10
- Most goals scored in a match overall: 12, Switzerland (5) vs. Austria (7)
- Most goals scored in extra time: 5, Germany (3) vs. Austria (2)
- Most goals scored by a team in the final: 5, Brazil
- Most appearances in a final without a win: 2, the Netherlands
Players – Football World Cup Records:
- Most goals scored: Ronaldo (Brazil), 15
- Most goals in a single tournament: Just Fontaine (France), 13
- Most goals scored in a match: Oleg Salenko (Russia), 5 vs. Brazil
- Fastest hat-trick: Laszlo Kiss, 8 minutes
- Most tournament appearances: Lothar Matthaus (Germany)/Antonio Carbajal (Mexico), 5
- Youngest player: Norman Whiteside (Northern Ireland), 17 years 42 days
- Oldest player: Roger Milla (Cameroon), 42 years 39 days
- Most championship wins: Pele (Brazil), 3
- Player to win as both coach and player: Franz Beckenbauer (Germany) /Mario Zargalo (Brazil)
- Most clean-sheets: Peter Shilton (England)/Fabien Barthez (France) – 10
- Fewest goals conceded by a goalkeeper in a tournament: fabien Barthez/Gianluigi Buffon, 2
- Most cards: Zinadine Zidane (France)/Cafu (Brazil), 6
- Miscellaneous Football World Cup Records
- Youngest coach: Juan Jose Tramutola (Argentina), 27 years 267 days
- Most matches refereed: Joel Quiniou (France), 8
- Most own goals scored by a team in a single match: United States, 2
- Most goals scored in a tournament: 171, 1998 FIFA World Cup
- Biggest attendance at a World Cup match: 199,854, Brazil vs. Uruguay in Rio De Janeiro (1950)
- Highest average match attendance: 68,991, 1994 Football World Cup in the United States
- Longest suspension for a foul: 8 games, Mauro Tassoitti (Italy)
- Most red cards at a tournament: 28, 2006 Football World Cup
- Fastest red card: 1 minute, Jose Batista (Uruguay)
- Coach to manage most nations at the World Cup: Bora Milutinović, 5
- Most individual goal scorers in a single match: Yugoslavia, 7 vs. Zaire
- Fastest goal: 37 seconds, Bernard Lacombe (France)
- Most matches played as captain: Diego Maradona, 16
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