ALL-TIME TOPSCORERS 1930-98
14 goals -Gerd Müller (GER)
13 goals -Juste Fontaine (FRA)
12 goals -Pelé (BRA)
11 goals -Sandor Kocsis (HUN)
11 goals -Jürgen Klinsmann (GER)
10 goals -Helmut Rahn (GER)
10 goals -Teofilio Cubillas (PER)
10 goals -Gary Lineker (ENG)
10 goals -Grzegorz Lato (POL)
9 goals -Gabriel Batistuta (ARG)
9 goals -Roberto Baggio (ITA)
9 goals -Paolo Rossi (ITA)
9 goals -Uwe Seeler (GER)
9 goals -Jairzinho (BRA)
9 goals -Eusebio (POR)
9 goals -Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (GER)
9 goals -Vava (BRA)
9 goals -Ademir (BRA)
TOPSCORER IN EACH TOURNAMENT Top of the page
1930 - 8 goals -Guillermo Stábile (ARG)
1934 - 5 goals -Oldrich Nejedly (CZE)
1938 - 8 goals -Leonidas (BRA)
1950 - 9 goals -Ademir (BRA)
1954 -11 goals -Sandor Kocsis (HUN)
1958 -13 goals -Juste Fontaine (FRA)
1962 - 4 goals -Garrincha (BRA)
1962 - 4 goals -Valentin Ivanov (SOV)
1962 - 4 goals -Leonel Sanchez (CHI)
1962 - 4 goals -Florian Albert (HUN)
1962 - 4 goals -Vava (BRA)
1962 - 4 goals -Drazan Jerkovic (YUG)
1966 - 9 goals -Eusebio (POR)
1970 -10 goals -Gerd Müller (GER)
1974 - 7 goals -Grzegorz Lato (POL)
1978 - 6 goals -Mario Kempes (ARG)
1982 - 6 goals -Paolo Rossi (ITA)
1986 - 6 goals -Gary Lineker (ENG)
1990 - 6 goals -Salvatore Schillaci (ITA)
1994 - 6 goals -Hristo Stoitchkov (BUL)
1994 - 6 goals -Oleg Salenko (RUS)
1998 - 6 goals -Davor Suker (CRO)
MOST GOALS IN ONE MATCH
5 goals -Oleg Salenko (RUS) vs Cameroon in 1994.
4 goals -Emilio Butragueño (SPA) vs Denmark in 1986.
4 goals -Eusebio (POR) vs North Korea in 1966
4 goals -Juste Fontaine (FRA) vs West Germany in 1958.
4 goals -Sandor Kocsis (HUN) vs West Germany in 1954.
4 goals -Ademir (BRA) vs Sweden in 1950.
4 goals -Juan Schiaffino (URU) vs Bolivia in 1950.
4 goals -Leonidas (BRA) vs Poland in 1938.
4 goals -Ernst Willimowski (POL) vs Brazil in 1938.
4 goals -Gustav Wetterström (SWE) vs Cuba in 1938.
MOST HAT-TRICKS
Sandor Kocsis (HUN)
vs South Korea in 1954 and vs West Germany in 1954 (4 goals)
Juste Fontaine (FRA)
vs Paraguay in 1958 and vs West Germany in 1958 (4 goals)
Gerd Müller (GER)
vs Bulgaria in 1970 and vs Peru in 1970. (2 goals)
Gabriel Batistuta (ARG)
vs Greece in 1994 and vs Jamaica in 1998. (2 goals)
37 other players have scored one hat-trick each
VARIOUS GOAL RECORDS Top of the page
1) Fastest goal in a World Cup match was scored by
Czechoslovakia's Vaclav Masek after only 16 seconds against
Mexico in 1962.
2) Latest goal was scored by David Platt of England,
in their second round match against Belgium in 1990 after
119 minutes.
3) Fastest hat-trick was made by Hungary's Laszlo
Kiss against El Salvador in 1982, when he scored after 70, 74
and 77 minutes. He is infact also the only substitute to have
scored a hat-trick
4) Oldest player to have scored a goal is Roger Milla
of Cameroon when he scored against Russia in 1994. He was then
42 years and 39 days old.
5) Youngest player to have scored a goal is Pelé
of Brazil when he scored against Wales in 1958. He was then
only 17 years and 239 days old.
6) Only players to have scored in every match including
the final are Jairzinho of Brazil, who did this in the 1970
World Cup and Alcide Ghiggia of Uruguay in 1950. The latter
only played four games where as Jairzinho played six.
7) Fastest goal by a substitute was made by
Ebbe Sand of Denmark against Nigeria in the second round in 1998.
Sand scored only 16 secs after coming on in Denmark's 4-1 win.
8) Only players to have scored in two World Cup
finals are Vava of Brazil in 1958 and 1962, Pelé of Brazil 1958
and 1970 and Paul Breitner of West Germany in 1974 and 1982.
9) First player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup
match was United States's Bert Patenaude who did this against
Paraguay in the first round of the 1930 World Cup.
10) Only player to score four goals in one match and
still end up on the losing team was Poland's Ernst Willimowski
against Brazil in 1938. Leonidas of Brazil also scored four goals
in that match when his team won 6-5.
11) Only player to have scored for two countries
is Robert Prosinecki who represented Yugoslavia in 1990 scoring
against the United Arab Emirates, and Croatia in 1998 scoring
against Jamaica.
12) First own-goal in World Cup history was scored
by Ernst Lötscher of Switzerland against Germany in a first round
replay game in 1938.
13) Only player to have scored a goal plus an
own-goal in the same match is Ernie Brandts of Holland in the
second phase match against Italy in 1978. The Dutch team won 2-1
14) First substitute to score a goal was
Juan Basaguren when he netted the last goal against El Salvador
in Mexico's 4-0 win in 1970 Top of the page
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All-time Table Play W D L Goals Pts 1. Brazil 80 53 14 13 173- 78 120 2. Germany (West) 78 45 17 16 162-103 107 3. Italy 66 38 16 12 105- 62 92 4. Argentina 57 29 10 18 100- 69 68 5. England 45 20 13 12 62- 42 53 6. France 41 21 6 14 86- 58 48 +4 7. Spain 40 16 10 14 61- 48 42 -1 8. Yugoslavia 37 16 8 13 60- 46 40 +3 9. Russia/USSR 34 16 6 12 60- 40 38 -2 10. Uruguay 37 15 8 14 61- 52 38 -2 11. Holland 32 14 9 9 56- 36 37 +3 12. Sweden 38 14 9 15 66- 60 37 -3 13. Hungary 32 15 3 14 87- 57 33 -1 14. Poland 25 13 5 7 39- 29 31 -1 15. Austria 29 12 4 13 43- 47 28 +1 16. Czechoslovakia 30 11 5 14 44- 45 27 -1 17. Mexico 37 8 10 19 39- 75 26 +1 18. Belgium 32 9 7 16 40- 56 25 -1 19. Romania 21 8 5 8 30- 32 21 +1 20. Chile 25 7 6 12 31- 40 20 -1 21. Scotland 23 4 7 12 25- 41 15 +1 22. Switzerland 22 6 3 13 33- 51 15 -1 23. Paraguay 15 4 6 5 19- 27 14 +4 24. Bulgaria 26 3 8 15 22- 53 14 -1 25. Portugal 9 6 - 3 19- 12 12 -1 26. Cameroon 14 3 6 5 13- 26 12 +2 27. Denmark 9 5 1 3 19- 13 11 +4 28. North. Ireland 13 3 5 5 13- 23 11 -3 29. Peru 15 4 3 8 19- 31 11 -3 30. Croatia 7 5 - 2 11- 5 10 0 31. United States 17 4 1 12 18- 38 9 -2 32. Nigeria 8 4 - 4 13- 13 8 +5 33. Morocco 13 2 4 7 12- 18 8 +2 34. Colombia 13 3 2 8 14- 23 8 -1 35. Norway 8 2 3 3 7- 8 7 +6 36. Ireland 9 1 5 3 4- 7 7 -6 37. East Germany 6 2 2 2 5- 5 6 -5 38. Wales 5 1 3 1 4- 4 5 -4 39. Algeria 6 2 1 3 6- 10 5 -3 40. Saudi Arabia 7 2 1 4 7- 13 5 -2 41. Tunisia 6 1 2 3 4- 6 4 -1 42. Costa Rica 4 2 - 2 4- 6 4 -3 43. South Korea 14 - 4 10 11- 43 4 +1 44. North Korea 4 1 1 2 5- 9 3 -2 45. Cuba 3 1 1 1 5- 12 3 -2 46. Iran 6 1 1 4 4- 12 3 +5 47. Turkey 3 1 - 2 10- 11 2 -2 48. Honduras 3 - 2 1 2- 3 2 -2 49. Israel 3 - 2 1 1- 3 2 -2 50. Egypt 4 - 2 2 3- 6 2 -2 51. South Africa 3 - 2 1 3- 6 2 0 52. Jamaica 3 1 - 2 3- 9 2 0 53. Kuwait 3 - 1 2 2- 6 1 -4 54. Australia 3 - 1 2 0- 5 1 -4 55. Bolivia 6 - 1 5 1- 20 1 -3 56. Japan 3 - - 3 1- 4 0 0 56. Iraq 3 - - 3 1- 4 0 -3 58. Canada 3 - - 3 0- 5 0 -4 59. DutchEastIndies 1 - - 1 0- 6 0 -4 60. Utd A. Emirates 3 - - 3 2- 11 0 -4 61. New Zealand 3 - - 3 2- 12 0 -4 62. Greece 3 - - 3 0- 10 0 -4 63. Haiti 3 - - 3 2- 14 0 -4 64. Zaïre 3 - - 3 0- 14 0 -4 65. El Salvador 6 - - 6 1- 22 0 -4
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1930 - 8 goals -Guillermo Stábile (ARG)
1934 - 5 goals -Oldrich Nejedly (CZE)
1938 - 8 goals -Leonidas (BRA)
1950 - 9 goals -Ademir (BRA)
1954 -11 goals -Sandor Kocsis (HUN)
1958 -13 goals -Juste Fontaine (FRA)
1962 - 4 goals -Garrincha (BRA)
1962 - 4 goals -Valentin Ivanov (SOV)
1962 - 4 goals -Leonel Sanchez (CHI)
1962 - 4 goals -Florian Albert (HUN)
1962 - 4 goals -Vava (BRA)
1962 - 4 goals -Drazan Jerkovic (YUG)
1966 - 9 goals -Eusebio (POR)
1970 -10 goals -Gerd Müller (GER)
1974 - 7 goals -Grzegorz Lato (POL)
1978 - 6 goals -Mario Kempes (ARG)
1982 - 6 goals -Paolo Rossi (ITA)
1986 - 6 goals -Gary Lineker (ENG)
1990 - 6 goals -Salvatore Schillaci (ITA)
1994 - 6 goals -Hristo Stoitchkov (BUL)
1994 - 6 goals -Oleg Salenko (RUS)
1998 - 6 goals -Davor Suker (CRO)
MOST GOALS IN ONE MATCH
5 goals -Oleg Salenko (RUS) vs Cameroon in 1994.
4 goals -Emilio Butragueño (SPA) vs Denmark in 1986.
4 goals -Eusebio (POR) vs North Korea in 1966
4 goals -Juste Fontaine (FRA) vs West Germany in 1958.
4 goals -Sandor Kocsis (HUN) vs West Germany in 1954.
4 goals -Ademir (BRA) vs Sweden in 1950.
4 goals -Juan Schiaffino (URU) vs Bolivia in 1950.
4 goals -Leonidas (BRA) vs Poland in 1938.
4 goals -Ernst Willimowski (POL) vs Brazil in 1938.
4 goals -Gustav Wetterström (SWE) vs Cuba in 1938.
MOST HAT-TRICKS
Sandor Kocsis (HUN)
vs South Korea in 1954 and vs West Germany in 1954 (4 goals)
Juste Fontaine (FRA)
vs Paraguay in 1958 and vs West Germany in 1958 (4 goals)
Gerd Müller (GER)
vs Bulgaria in 1970 and vs Peru in 1970. (2 goals)
Gabriel Batistuta (ARG)
vs Greece in 1994 and vs Jamaica in 1998. (2 goals)
37 other players have scored one hat-trick each
VARIOUS GOAL RECORDS