Picture : Japan’s Yuto Nagatomo made his first appearance in the 2026 World Cup and became the first Asian player to play in 5 World Cups (since 2010).
World Cup 2026 Statistics – Day 15 (June 25)
Tunisia vs Netherlands 1-3 (Group F)
*The Netherlands is the national team with the best record for advancing past the group stage in World Cups: 12 out of 12.
*Netherlands are unbeaten in their last 15 World Cup matches (10 wins, 5 draws), extending the longest unbeaten run for any nation in the competition’s history.
*Netherlands have also the longest unbeaten group-stage run in World Cup history, now extended to 19 games.
They last lost a group stage game in 1994, a 1-2 defeat to Morocco.
*Netherlands have scored as many as ten goals in the first three matches of a World Cup tournament for only the second time (10 also in 2014).
*Netherlands have scored at least two goals in six consecutive World Cup matches for the first time in their history.
*Netherlands have never lost to an African nation at the World Cup (5 wins, 1 draw), winning their last five encounters.
*Tunisia finished a World Cup group stage with 0 points for the first time in history.
*Tunisia have suffered five consecutive defeats across all competitions for the first time since August – September 1987.
*Tunisia have conceded at least three goals in four consecutive matches across all competitions for the first time in their history.
*Tunisia have conceded 12 goals in the 2026 World Cup; only one African nation have conceded more in a single World Cup tournament: DR Congo 14 in 1974.
The next is Cameroon in 1994 (11).
*Netherlands took their fastest 2-0 lead (in the 7th minute) since 17 November 1971 (also in the 7th minute, against Luxembourg).
*Two goals scored by the same team in the first 7 minutes of a World Cup match had not been seen since 14 June 2002, when Poland scored against the United States (Emmanuel Olisadebe in the 3rd minute and Paweł Kryszałowicz in the 5th).
*Netherlands are the 6th team in the entire history of the World Cup to score 2 goals so early, after:
Austria vs Czechoslovakia (3rd and 4th min.) in 1954
Hungary vs Brazil (4th and 7th min.) in 1954
Hungary vs Bulgaria (1st and 6th min.) in 1962
Soviet Union vs Hungary (2nd and 4th min.) in 1986
Poland vs USA (3rd and 5th min.) in 2002
*Tunisia became the first team in the history of the World Cup to concede a goal in the first ten minutes of each of their three group stage matches:
7th min. vs. Sweden
4th min. vs. Japan
3rd min. vs. Netherlands
*Tunisia set the all-time World Cup record for minutes spent trailing during a group stage: 256. They surpassed the previous record held by Mexico in 1930 (240 minutes):
The next are:
Chile in 1982 – 231 minutes
El Salvador in 1982 – 225 minutes
Zaire in 1974 – 223 minutes
*Ellyes Skhiri’s (Tunisia) own goal, coming at 2 minutes 21 seconds, is the 2nd fastest own goal in the history of the World Cup.
It is surpassed only by Sead Kolašinac’s (Bosnia) own goal in the game against Argentina on 15 June 2014, which occurred at 2 minutes 9 seconds.
*It is the Netherlands’ earliest goal in a World Cup since Johan Neeskens scored from the penalty spot in the 1974 final (1 minute 25 seconds).
*The own goal tally at this World Cup (12) already equaled the record for a single edition from 2018 – before the group stage has even concluded.
*Brian Brobbey is just the third player in the World Cup history to score with each of his first-ever three shots, after Laszlo Kiss (for Hungary in 1982) and Yerry Mina (for Colombia in 2018).
*Virgil van Dijk provided his first-ever assist for the Netherlands, in his 95th game for “Oranje”.
*With a Hazem Mastouri header. Tunisia joined Japan and Egypt as the only teams with two headed goals in this World Cup.
*Tunisia used in this World Cup two goalkeepers each of whom conceded 5+ goals (Chamakh 5, Dahmen 7).
Other precedents of this in the competition’s history:
Austria in 1954 (Schmied 6, Zeman 6)
Germany in 1954 (Turek 6, Kwiatkowski 8)
France in 1958 (Remetter 6, Abbes 9)
Paraguay in 1958 (Mayeregger 7, Aguilar 5)
Germany in 1958 (Herkenrath 8, Kwiatkowski 6)
Cameroon in 1994 (Bell 5, Songo’o 6)
Japan vs Sweden 1-1 (Group F)
*Sweden advanced past the group stage in their last five World Cups (also 1994, 2002, 2006, 2018).
*Sweden have scored more goals (7) at the 2026 World Cup than each of their previous three appearances at the tournament.
*Sweden’s four goals from outside the box in the current edition are the most by any team in the group stage of a single World Cup since Brazil in 2006 (also 4).
*Japan’s Yuto Nagatomo made his first appearance in the 2026 World Cup and became the first Asian player to play in 5 World Cups (since 2010).
Five Asian players appeared in 4 editions:
Hong Myung-Bo (South Korea, 1990-2002)
Sami Al-Jaber (Saudi Arabia, 1994-2006)
Son Heung-min (South Korea, 2014-2026)
Ehsan Hajysafi (Iran, 2014-2026)
Alireza Jahanbakhsh (Iran, 2014-2026)