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The top goalscorer of the inaugural competition was Argentina 's Guillermo Stábile, with eight goals. Since then, only 25 players have scored more World Cup goals in total than Stábile did during the 1930 tournament. The first to do so was Hungary 's Sándor Kocsis, scoring eleven in 1954. At the following tournament, France's Just Fontaine ...
Players in bold are still active at international level. Players in italics also hold the record for most caps for their nation. Rank is a count of the 211 FIFA nations. Twelve nations (Aruba, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Scotland, Suriname, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied for national l
Cristiano Ronaldo is the competition's all-time top scorer with 140 goals. The UEFA Champions League, known until 1992 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or colloquially as the European Cup, is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1955. Originally a straight knockout competition open only to champion clubs ...
There are currently five post-tournament awards from the FIFA Technical Study Group:[1][2] the Golden Ball(currently commercially termed "adidasGolden Ball") for best player, first awarded in 1982. the Golden Boot(currently commercially termed "adidas Golden Boot", formerly known as the "adidas Golden Shoe" from 1982 to 2006) for top goalscorer ...
FIFA World Cup records and statistics. As of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, 80 national teams have competed at the finals of the FIFA World Cup. [ 1] Brazil is the only team to have appeared in all 22 tournaments to date, with Germany having participated in 20, Italy and Argentina in 18 and Mexico in 17. [ 2] Eight nations have won the tournament.
Most appearances in Finals without ever being champions. 11, England (1968, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024) Least appearances in Finals with at least one title won. 4, Greece (1980, 1984, 2008, 2012) Most finishes in the top four without ever finishing in the top two.
Argentina's Diego Maradona (1986, 1990) and Lionel Messi (2014, 2022), Brazil's Dunga (1994, 1998), and France's Hugo Lloris (2018, 2022) captained their sides in two final matches, but only won on one occasion, while West Germany's Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1982, 1986) lost both finals as captain. Brazil's Pelé and Vavá are the only two players ...
Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal holds the all-time record with 130 international goals. [ 2] Brazil, Hungary and Iran hold the record of having the most players to have scored 50 or more international goals with four each. England, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia and Thailand each have three players who have achieved the feat.