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Players with at least 5 goals at FIFA World Cup tournaments [5] [7] [8] Rank Player Team Goals scored Matches played Goals per match [nb 1] Tournaments Notes 1 Miroslav Klose ♦ Germany: 16: 24 0.67 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 † list [10] 2 Ronaldo ♦ Brazil: 15 19 0.79 [1994] †, 1998, 2002 †, 2006 list [11] 3 Gerd Müller West Germany: 14 ...
Switzerland vs Costa Rica match in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup, but usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), the sport's global governing body.
Of all the players who have played in the World Cup tournaments, only six have achieved an average of two goals or more per game played: Kocsis, Fontaine, Stábile, Russia's Oleg Salenko, Switzerland's Josef Hügi, and Poland's Ernst Wilimowski — the last of these scored four in his single World Cup game in 1938. [5]
[96] [97] [98] Before the World Cup, Switzerland were ranked 6th in the world ranking, even ranking higher than eventual World Cup winners France. [99] The Switzerland national team line-up before the game against Sweden, on 3 July 2018, in Saint Petersburg [100] At the World Cup, Switzerland were drawn to play Brazil, Serbia and Costa Rica in ...
France's Kylian Mbappe, left, celebrates after scoring the third goal for his side during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between France and Poland, at the Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar ...
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. Fourteen nations (Azerbaijan, Bermuda, Brunei, Bulgaria, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Faroe Islands, Puerto Rico, Romania, Scotland, South Sudan, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied ...
Hopefully, the 2022 edition of the World Cup will provide a moment -- like Landon Donovan's late winner -- that will be recalled for years to come.
To ensure that no group contained three European teams, Serbia and Montenegro was placed in a special pot, as they were the lowest ranked qualified team from Europe on the latest FIFA World Ranking; while it was deemed of less importance they had been seeded higher than Switzerland and Ukraine by the 2006 World Cup seeding tool. [36]