Picture : Jude Bellingham scored 7 goals in World Cups at the age of 23, the same number as Pele. Only Kylian Mbappé scored more (12) while aged 23 or younger.
World Cup 2026 Statistics – Day 31 (July 11) – Quarter-final
Norway vs England 1-2
*England have qualified for the World Cup semi-finals for the fourth time, following 1966, 1990, and 2018.
*England have reached the semi-finals in 4 of their last 5 major tournaments: 2018 World Cup, 2020 Euro, 2024 Euro, 2026 World Cup.
*England became the 2nd team in history with two comeback wins in World Cup knockout matches (also 2-1 vs DR Congo), following Italy in 1970 (4-1 vs Mexico and 4-3 vs Germany).
*Norway have never beaten European opposition at the World Cup in 7 attempts (2 draws, 5 losses).
*Norway became the 32nd nation to score in a World Cup quarter-final.
*Martin Ødegaard (Norway) made his 4th assist at the 2026 World Cup: joint-second most along with Bruno Guimarães (Brazil).
Only Michael Olise (France) has more assists (5).
*Jude Bellingham has scored more goals than any other midfielder at the 2026 World Cup (6, all from open play).
Moreover, he is now joint-highest scoring midfielder in a single World Cup, along with James Rodríguez (6 with Colombia in 2014).
*12 of England’s 13 goals at the 2026 World Cup were scored by only two players, Harry Kane (6) and Jude Bellingham (6).
The other one was scored by Rashford against Croatia on match-day one.
*The 6-goal mark in a single tournament is the England’s maximum at World Cups, reached before by Gary Lineker (6 in 1986) and Harry Kane himself (6 in 2018).
*Kane and Bellingham are the first pair of goal-scorers to net at least six goals each for the same nation in a single World Cup tournament.
*Bellingham has scored 75% of his goals for England in major tournaments (9 out of 12): the highest ratio among players with at least 5 goals for the Three Lions.
*Bellingham scored two braces in a row (also in the round of 16 against Mexico).
Six other players to have scored braces in two consecutive knockout-stage matches in the history of the World Cup are:
Silvio Piola in 1938
Sandor Kocsis in 1954
Pelé in 1958
Garrincha in 1962
Diego Maradona in 1986
Kylian Mbappé in 2022
*Bellingham is the second-youngest player (23 years 12 days) to score 2+ goals in successive World Cup knockout stage games behind only Pelé in 1958 (17 years 249 days).
*Bellingham scored 7 goals in World Cups at the age of 23, the same number as Pele. Only Kylian Mbappé scored more (12) while aged 23 or younger.
*With Bellingham’s goals, Real Madrid players have scored 19 goals at the 2026 World Cup (Mbappé 8, Bellingham 6, Vinícius 4, Arda Güler 1), a record for a single club in a single edition of the tournament.
The previous record for goals scored by players from a single club in one World Cup was 18, shared by:
Budapest Honvéd in 1954
Bayern Munich in 2014
PSG in 2022
*Jordan Pickford (18 appearances) became England’s most-capped player at the World Cup, overtaking Peter Shilton (17).
Harry Kane also has 17 games now.
*Harry Kane equaled Wayne Rooney’s record for the most caps by an England outfield player (120).
Only Shilton has now played more games for the Three Lions overall (125).
*Erling Haaland have ended his historical streak of scoring in 14 competitive matches for Norway.
*Clément Turpin became the French referee to have officiated the most matches in World Cup history (9), surpassing Joel Quiniou (8).