World Cup Stats & History
22 editions · 1930 – 2022 · Everything you ever wanted to know
🗓️ All Winners — 1930 to 2022
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🏆 Most World Cup Titles
⚽ All-Time Top Scorers
📈 Goals Per Game — Every Tournament
1954 was peak chaos (5.38 avg). Modern football has tightened up.
🏟️ Tournament Attendance
1994 USA set the all-time total attendance record with 3.59M fans.
📖 Record Books
Hakan Şükür 🇹🇷 vs South Korea, 2002 — the game had barely started
Hungary 🇭🇺 vs El Salvador 🇸🇻, 1982 — László Kiss scored a hat-trick as a sub
Just Fontaine 🇫🇷 in 1958 Sweden — a record that has stood for 67 years
Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro — Brazil vs Uruguay, 1950. The stadium was over capacity
Norman Whiteside 🏴 (Northern Ireland), 1982 — younger than Pelé's debut
Essam El-Hadary 🇪🇬 (Egypt goalkeeper), 2018 Russia — saved a penalty too
Lothar Matthäus 🇩🇪 across 5 World Cups (1982–1998) — a career that spanned two decades
Brazil is the only nation to have qualified for every single World Cup since 1930
Austria 🇦🇹 7–5 Switzerland 🇨🇭, 1954 — known as 'The Battle of Lausanne'
Germany/West Germany — won 4, lost 4. No team comes close to this record
Uruguay '30 · Italy '34 · England '66 · Argentina '78 · France '98 · Germany 3rd '06
Portugal 🇵🇹 vs Netherlands 🇳🇱, 2006 — referee Valentin Ivanov's infamous game