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Best performances by confederations

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 To date, the final of the World Cup has only been contested by teams from the UEFA (Europe) and CONMEBOL (South America) confederations. European nations have won twelve titles, while South American nations have won ten. Only three teams from outside these two continents have ever reached the semi-finals of the competition: United States (North, Central America and Caribbean) in 1930; South Korea (Asia) in 2002; and Morocco (Africa) in 2022. Only one Oceanian qualifier, Australia in 2006, has advanced to the second round, a feat they later reaccomplished in 2022.[b]

Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Germany are the only teams to win a World Cup hosted outside their continental confederation; Brazil came out victorious in Europe (1958), North America (1970 and 1994) and Asia (2002). Argentina won a World Cup in North America in 1986 and in Asia in 2022. Spain won in Africa in 2010. In 2014, Germany became the first and so far the only European team to win in the Americas. Only on five occasions have consecutive World Cups been won by teams from the same continent; the longest streak of tournaments won by a single confederation is four, with the 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018 tournaments all won by UEFA teams (Italy, Spain, Germany, and France, respectively).

Total times teams qualified by confederation
ConfederationAFCCAFCONCACAFCONMEBOLOFCUEFATotal
Teams434946894258489
Top 169111537199172
Top 8245360105152
Top 41112306288
Top 20001502944
4th110501522
3rd001301822
2nd000501722
1st0001001222

Records and statistics

Main article: FIFA World Cup records and statistics
Main article: National team appearances in the FIFA World Cup
See also: List of players who have appeared in the most FIFA World Cups, List of FIFA World Cup winning players, and List of FIFA World Cup winning managers
Argentina's Lionel Messi has played a record 26 World Cup matches across a joint-record five tournaments.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the first and only player to score in five tournaments.

Six players share the record for playing in the most World Cups; Mexico's Antonio Carbajal (1950–1966). Rafael Márquez (2002–2018), and Andrés Guardado (2006–2022); Germany's Lothar Matthäus (1982–1998); Argentina's Lionel Messi (2006–2022); and Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo (2006–2022) all played in five tournaments, with Ronaldo also being the first and only player to score in five tournaments.[116][117] Messi has played the most World Cup matches overall, with 26 appearances.[118] Brazil's Djalma Santos (1954–1962), West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer (1966–1974), and Germany's Philipp Lahm (2006–2014) are the only players to be named to three World Cup All-Star Teams.[119]

Miroslav Klose of Germany (2002–2014) is the all-time top scorer at the World Cup with 16 goals. He broke Ronaldo of Brazil's record of 15 goals (1998–2006) during the 2014 semi-final match against Brazil. West Germany's Gerd Müller (1970–1974) is third, with 14 goals.[120] The fourth-placed goalscorer, France's Just Fontaine, holds the record for the most goals scored in a single World Cup; all his 13 goals were scored in the 1958 tournament.[121]

Pelé is the only person to win the World Cup three times as a player.

In November 2007, FIFA announced that all members of World Cup-winning squads between 1930 and 1974 were to be retroactively awarded winners' medals.[65] This made Brazil's Pelé the only player to have won three World Cup winners' medals (1958, 1962, and 1970, although he did not play in the 1962 final due to injury),[122] with 20 other players who have won two winners' medals. Seven players have collected all three types of World Cup medals (winners', runner- ups', and third-place); five players were from West Germany's squad of 1966–1974: Franz Beckenbauer, Jürgen Grabowski, Horst-Dieter Höttges, Sepp Maier, and Wolfgang Overath (1966–1974), Italy's Franco Baresi (1982, 1990, 1994) and the most recent has been Miroslav Klose of Germany (2002–2014) with four consecutive medals.[123]

Brazil's Mário Zagallo, West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer and France's Didier Deschamps are the only people to date to win the World Cup as both player and head coach. Zagallo won in 1958 and 1962 as a player and in 1970 as head coach.[124] Beckenbauer won in 1974 as captain and in 1990 as head coach,[125] and Deschamps repeated the feat in 2018, after having won in 1998 as captain.[126] Italy's Vittorio Pozzo is the only head coach to ever win two World Cups (1934 and 1938).[127] All World Cup-winning head coaches were natives of the country they coached to victory.[128]

Among the national teams, Brazil has played the most World Cup matches (114), Germany appeared in the most finals (8), semi-finals (13), and quarter-finals (16), while Brazil has appeared in the most World Cups (22), has the most wins (76) and has scored the most goals (237).[129][130] The two teams have played each other twice in the World Cup, in the 2002 final and in the 2014 semi-final.[131]

Top goalscorers

Main article: FIFA World Cup top goalscorers
Individual

Players in bold are still active.

Miroslav Klose scored a record 16 goals across four World Cups.
RankPlayerGoalsMatchesGoals per game
1Germany Miroslav Klose16240.67
2Brazil Ronaldo15190.84
3West Germany Gerd Müller14131.08
4France Just Fontaine1362.17
Argentina Lionel Messi13260.50
6France Kylian Mbappé12140.86
Brazil Pelé12140.86
8Hungary Sándor Kocsis1152.20
Germany Jürgen Klinsmann11170.65
10Germany Helmut Rahn10101.00
Argentina Gabriel Batistuta10120.83
England Gary Lineker10120.83
Peru Teófilo Cubillas10130.77
Germany Thomas Müller10190.53
Poland Grzegorz Lato10200.50
Country
RankNational teamGoals scored
1 Brazil237
2 Germany232
3 Argentina152
4 France136
5 Italy128
6 Spain108
7 England104
8 Netherlands96
9 Uruguay89
10 Hungary87

Awards

Main article: FIFA World Cup awards

At the end of each World Cup, awards are presented to the players and teams for accomplishments other than their final team positions in the tournament.

  • There are five post-tournament awards from the FIFA Technical Study Group:[132][133]
Diego Maradona (holding the World Cup) received the Golden Ball for best player at the 1986 World Cup.
    • the Golden Ball (named for its sponsor "Adidas Golden Ball") for best player, first awarded in 1982;
    • the Golden Boot (named for its sponsor "Adidas Golden Boot", formerly known as the "adidas Golden Shoe" from 1982 to 2006) for top goalscorer, first awarded in 1982;
    • the Golden Glove (named for its sponsor "Adidas Golden Glove", formerly known as the "Lev Yashin Award" from 1994 to 2006) for best goalkeeper, first awarded in 1994;
    • the FIFA Young Player Award (formerly known as the "Best Young Player Award" from 2006 to 2010) for best player under 21 years of age at the start of the calendar year, first awarded in 2006;
    • the FIFA Fair Play Trophy for the team that advanced to the second round with the best record of fair play, first awarded in 1970.
  • There is currently one award voted on by fans during the tournament.:
    • the Player of the Match (currently commercially termed "Budweiser Player of the Match", formerly known as the "Man of the Match" from 2002 to 2018) for outstanding performance during each match of the tournament, first awarded in 2002.
  • There are two awards voted on by fans after the conclusion of the tournament:
    • the Goal of the Tournament, (currently commercially termed "Hyundai Goal of the Tournament") for the fans' best goal scored during the tournament, first awarded in 2006;
    • the Most Entertaining Team during the World Cup final tournament, as determined by a poll of the general public.
  • One other award was given between 1994 and 2006:[134]
    • an All-Star Team comprising the best players of the tournament chosen by the FIFA Technical Study Group. From 2010 onwards, all Dream Teams or Statistical Teams are unofficial, as reported by FIFA itself.
World CupGolden BallGolden BootGoalsGolden GloveClean sheetsFIFA Young Player AwardFIFA Fair Play Trophy
Uruguay 1930 UruguayNot AwardedArgentina Guillermo Stábile8Not AwardedN/ANot AwardedNot Awarded
Italy 1934 ItalyCzechoslovakia Oldřich Nejedlý5
France 1938 FranceBrazil Leônidas7
Brazil 1950 BrazilBrazil Ademir8
Switzerland 1954 SwitzerlandHungary Sándor Kocsis11
Sweden 1958 SwedenFrance Just Fontaine13Brazil Pelé
Chile 1962 ChileHungary Flórián Albert
Brazil Garrincha
Brazil Vavá
Soviet Union Valentin Ivanov
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dražan Jerković
Chile Leonel Sánchez		4Hungary Flórián Albert
England 1966 EnglandPortugal Eusébio9West Germany Franz Beckenbauer
Mexico 1970 MexicoWest Germany Gerd Müller10Peru Teófilo Cubillas Peru
West Germany 1974 West GermanyPoland Grzegorz Lato7Poland Władysław Żmuda West Germany
Argentina 1978 ArgentinaArgentina Mario Kempes6Italy Antonio Cabrini Argentina
Spain 1982 SpainItaly Paolo RossiItaly Paolo Rossi6France Manuel Amoros Brazil
Mexico 1986 MexicoArgentina Diego MaradonaEngland Gary Lineker6Belgium Enzo Scifo Brazil
Italy 1990 ItalyItaly Salvatore SchillaciItaly Salvatore Schillaci6Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Robert Prosinečki England
United States 1994 United StatesBrazil RomárioRussia Oleg Salenko
Bulgaria Hristo Stoichkov		6Belgium Michel Preud'homme2Netherlands Marc Overmars Brazil
France 1998 FranceBrazil RonaldoCroatia Davor Šuker6France Fabien Barthez5England Michael Owen England
 France
South KoreaJapan 2002 South Korea/JapanGermany Oliver KahnBrazil Ronaldo8Germany Oliver Kahn5United States Landon Donovan Belgium
Germany 2006 GermanyFrance Zinedine ZidaneGermany Miroslav Klose5Italy Gianluigi Buffon5Germany Lukas Podolski Brazil
 Spain
South Africa 2010 South AfricaUruguay Diego ForlánGermany Thomas Müller5Spain Iker Casillas5Germany Thomas Müller Spain
Brazil 2014 BrazilArgentina Lionel MessiColombia James Rodríguez6Germany Manuel Neuer4France Paul Pogba Colombia
Russia 2018 RussiaCroatia Luka ModrićEngland Harry Kane6Belgium Thibaut Courtois3France Kylian Mbappé Spain
Qatar 2022 QatarArgentina Lionel MessiFrance Kylian Mbappé8Argentina Emiliano Martínez3Argentina Enzo Fernández England

See also

Notes

  1.  FIFA considers that the national team of Russia succeeds the Soviet Union, the national team of Serbia succeeds the Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro, and the national teams of Czechia and Slovakia succeed the Czechoslovakia.[110][111][112][113]
  2.  Australia's qualification in 2006 was through the Oceanian zone as they were a member of the OFC member during qualifying. However, on 1 January 2006, they left the Oceania Football Confederation and joined the Asian Football Confederation. In 2022, they again reached the second round, albeit representing Asia.

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