Records

Best European scorers in a single edition of World Cup qualification Erling Haaland made a brilliant 2026 World Cup campaign not only regarding the final stage but also in qualification where he equaled the competition’s all-time European record (16 goals).Only Robert Lewandowski, in the 2018 edition, was as high-scoring. The Pole has played 10 matches…

Picture : Spain’s Aymeric Laporte entered in the undefeated list of players ! World Cup’s top never beaten players Listed here are the World Cup participants who remained undefeated in the competition and have played the highest number of matches (10 or more) in this category of players.The record stands since 1962 and has been…

Picture : the first goal of Declan Rice in the first minutes of the game made it crazy ! Craziest score in Miami *The 3rd place game France vs England (4-6) became the highest-scoring game at this World Cup, surpassing Germany vs Curaçao (7-1) at the group stage. *It is the highest-scoring World Cup match…

Mbappe’s records after the game vs England *Kylian Mbappé has become the all-time leading World Cup goalscorer (22 goals), surpassing Lionel Messi (21).One has to go back to 1970 to find a French player topping the competition’s all-time goal-scoring charts (Just Fontaine with 13 goals, until being beaten by Gerd Müller). *Mbappé became the first…

Messi ties Cafu as World Cup’s 3-final participant By playing the final against Spain, Lionel Messi is set to become the only 2nd player in history to appear in three World Cup finals.The first and unique until this edition was Cafu who played for Brazil in the 1994, 1998 and 2002 finals.Unlike him, Messi’s finals…

Will Scaloni repeat the unique Pozzo’s feat? Lionel Scaloni has equaled the record for the number of World Cup final appearances by a coach (two), a record set by Vittorio Pozzo in 1938 and subsequently matched by five others.For five of the seven record-coholders, including Scaloni, these final appearances occurred in consecutive World Cup tournaments.Mario…

Sons playing together at World Cup like their fathers At the 2026 World Cup, three teams featured players whose fathers had also been team-mates in one of the previous editions.Specifically, these were the national teams of the USA, Argentina, and Norway.In the tournament’s entire history prior to that, there had been only two such instances:…

End of Messi’s historic run Lionel Messi’s remarkable nine-game World Cup scoring streak has come to an end.In the quarter-final against Switzerland (3–1), Argentina met their “quota” (three goals—a tally they had achieved in seven of their previous eight matches in the tournament) without him getting on the scoresheet.Interestingly, the goals Messi scored during this…

Simón’s record streaks stopped by Belgium Belgium, by Charles De Ketelaere’s goal, ended two longest goalkeeping runs in World Cup history in 41st minute of the quarter-final game vs Spain.Spain’s custodian Unai Simón (picture) fixed his world records at 6 clean sheets in a row and at 649 minutes of play without conceding.Simón started his…

Mbappé’s feats vs Morocco *Kylian Mbappé (with a goal and an assist vs Morocco) became the only player in the last 60 years to be involved in 10 goals across two different World Cup editions:2022 – 10 (8 goals, 2 assists)2026 – 11 (8 goals, 3 assists) *Mbappé is the first player to make a…

Shobeir joins World Cup record for penalty saves Egypt’s Mostafa Shobeir saved Lionel Messi’s penalty in a round of 16 game vs Argentina (2-3) and became the 4th goalkeeper in the history of the World Cup to save two penalties (excluding shootouts) in a single edition, following Jan Tomaszewski (1974), Brad Friedel (2002) and Wojciech…

Messi’s ups and downs vs Egypt *Lionel Messi is the second player to score eight goals in a single World Cup tournament for Argentina, following Guillermo Stábile in 1930. *Messi extended to 9 games his unprecedented scoring run in World Cups (4 in 2022, 5 in 2026).  *Messi becomes the first player in history to…

Haaland’s feats in the game vs Brazil  *Erling Haaland is the first player in history to score a brace against Brazil in the World Cup Round of 16. *Haaland is the first player to score a brace against Brazil in the World Cup since Toni Kroos and André Schürrle did so for Germany in the…

Mbappé set new seasonal record for French scorers Mbappé has broken his own record for the most goals scored by a French player in a single season (for club and country).He currently has 55 goals in the 2025-26 season, surpassing his tally from the 2022–23 season (54 goals).Prior to that, the record had been held…

Messi’s feats in the game vs Cabo Verde *Messi became the first player in the World Cup history to reach the 20-goal mark. *Messi has scored in his 8th consecutive World Cup match extending his competition’s record for the longest scoring run. *Messi scored 8 consecutive Argentina’s goals taking in account only his playing time…

CR7’s feats in the game vs Croatia *Cristiano Ronaldo has played his 26th game in the World Cup, surpassing Lothar Matthäus (25) and having only Lionel Messi (29) ahead. *Cristiano Ronaldo became the oldest player (41 years and 147 days) to feature in a World Cup knockout stage match, while Luka Modrić (40 years and…

Neuer’s joint-longest conceding run at World Cup Manuel Neuer, having ended his 2006 World Cup campaign following Germany’s penalty shootout defeat to Paraguay, has conceded goals in 10 consecutive World Cup matches.Thus, he equaled the record for the longest conceding streak of Mexico’s Antonio Carbajal, who endured a 10-match streak between 1950 and 1962.Neuer has…

Messi’s new World Cup record for longest scoring run The Argentina’s last group stage game vs Jordan (3-1) produced new historical achievements for Lionel Messi. *Messi became the first player in the World Cup history to have scored in 7 consecutive games (Argentina’s last 4 in the 2022 edition and first 3 in the current…

Dembélé’s second earliest hat-trick in World Cup  Ousmane Dembélé became in the game vs Norway the second-fastest player (32 minutes) in history to score a World Cup hat-trick, behind Erich Probst who scored 3 goals for Austria vs Czechoslovakia on 19 June 1954 within 24 minutes after kick-off. *Dembélé’s hat-trick is the 6th first-half hat-trick…

Alajbegović scores World Cup youngest long-range goal  Bosnia’s teenager Kerim Alajbegović became yesterday in the game vs Qatar (3-1) the youngest player (18 years 276 days) to score a goal from outside the box in the World Cup history. He beat the record previously held by Kylian Mbappé since 2018 (a long range goal in the…

A day of records for Cristiano Ronaldo After an unsuccessful opening match against DR Congo (1-1), Cristiano Ronaldo performed brilliantly yesterday against Uzbekistan (5-0) and delighted with a scattering of records, just as Messi did before him. *Cristiano Ronaldo has scored vs Uzbekistan his first goals in World Cup since a penalty he converted in…