Picture : Kane and Bellingham qualified England for quarter final !
World Cup 2026 Statistics – Day 25 (July 5) – Round of 16
Mexico vs England 2-3
*England have reached the World Cup quarter-finals in three consecutive tournaments (2018, 2022, 2026) for the second time, following the period from 1962 to 1970 (also three in a row).
*England have qualified for their 11th World Cup quarter-final overall: only Brazil (15) and Germany (14) have reached more.
*It was the 24th World Cup match played at the Azteca Stadium, more than in any other venue in competition history.
*England are the first ever side to win a World Cup game against Mexico at the Azteca. They were unbeaten in 10 games there before (8 wins, 2 draws).
Now Brazil remain the sole record holder for the most matches (10) played by a national team at a single World Cup stadium (at Jalisco in Guadalajara) without a single defeat.
*England have defeated a host nation for the first time in a knockout-stage match at the World Cup or the Euro.
*For the first time in the history of the World Cup, a team has eliminated a host nation in a knockout match while playing a man down and after conceding a penalty.
*England have won 12 of their 13 matches across all competitions under Thomas Tuchel (1 draw).
*England have recorded 4 wins at the 2026 World Cup: their highest total in a single tournament since the triumphant 1966 (5 wins).
*Mexico have lost each of their last eight World Cup Round of 16 matches: the worst such run for any nation at this stage of the competition.
*Mexico scored 10 goals at the 2026 World Cup, setting a new record for the team in a single edition of the tournament (surpassing the 8 goals scored in 1998).
*With Mexico stopping their series of clean sheets in this edition, Italy in 1990 remain the only team that won their first 5 World Cup matches without conceding a goal.
*Mexico have lost a non-friendly match at the Azteca for the third time in its history, and for the first time against an opponent from outside CONCACAF.
Their previous defeats:
1-2 vs Costa Rica in 2001
1-2 vs Honduras in 2013
*Jude Bellingham is the first player to score two goals at the Estadio Azteca in a World Cup game since Diego Maradona in 1986 against Belgium in the semi-final.
*Bellingham took just 1 minute 28 seconds between his two goals.
Only 2 players scored a faster brace in World Cup history (at least since 1966; the earlier games’ timing is not always known):
Toni Kroos (Germany) – 1 minute 10 seconds, against Brazil in 2014
Kylian Mbappé (France) – 1 minute 35 seconds, against Argentina in 2022
*Real Madrid is the club whose players have contributed the most goals to the 2026 World Cup – 16 (Mbappé 7, Vinicius 4, Bellingham 4, Arda Güler 1).
PSG is next with 12 goals.
*Harry Kane scored his 73rd goal in the 2025-26 season for club and country surpassing thus Gerd Müller’s tally (72 goals) in 1972-73.
Only Lionel Messi has scored more (82) in a single season (2011-12) among players from top 5 European leagues.
*Kane scored his 14th goal at World Cups surpassing Just Fontaine (13) and sharing now the 5th position in all-time goal-scorers’ ranking of the competition with Gerd Müller.
*Kane tied Gary Lineker as the scorer of joint-most World Cup knockout round goals for England (6 each).
*Kane tied his tally of the 2018 edition what is his common national record with for goals in a single World Cup edition (6 also by Lineker in 1986).
*Kane is the first ever player to both score a penalty and concede a penalty in the same World Cup match.
*Kane holds now the record for the most penalties taken in World Cup history (7), tied with Lionel Messi.
He is the sole record holder for the converted penalties (6) in the competition.
*Jordan Pickford has equalled Peter Shilton’s record for the most World Cup appearances for England (17 each).
*Jarell Quansah is the first England player sent off at the World Cup since Wayne Rooney in 2006 against Portugal.
Two other England players were sent off at the World Cup before them:
Ray Wilkins vs Morocco in 1986
David Beckham vs Argentina in 1998
*Mexico saw four opponents sent off during the 2026 World Cup.
Only Argentina in 1990 (5) had more in a single edition of the tournament (four other teams have also had four).
*Julián Quiñones is the first ever Mexican player to be directly involved in 5+ goals at a single World Cup tournament (4 goals, 1 assist).
In the Mexico’s history in World Cups overall, his 5 goal involvements is a joint record alongside Javier Hernández, Rafa Márquez, and Cuauhtémoc Blanco.
*Quiñones has become Mexico’s all-time leading World Cup goalscorer (4 goals), tying with Javier Hernández and Luis Hernández.
*Two players have scored 3+ goals for Mexico at a single World Cup tournament (also Raúl Jiménez 3) for the first time ever.
*Raúl Jiménez has now scored 46 of the 48 penalties he has taken in his career (club and national team). He hasn’t missed a spot-kick in 6 years.
*Only Norman Whiteside (Northern Ireland) has more World Cup appearances (5) before the age of 18 than Mexico’s Gilberto Mora (4); Pele also 4.