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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]
The article includes comprehensive statistics on official football leagues worldwide in general, without taking league rankings or coefficients into account. These records are divided based on whether they relate to players, coaches, clubs, or stadiums.
Association football is played in accordance with a set of rules known as the Laws of the Game. The game is played using a spherical ball of 68–70 cm (27–28 in) circumference, [95] known as the football (or soccer ball). Two teams of eleven players each compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under the bar ...
The FIFA World Cup, often called the World Cup, is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.
The following tables summarizes the all-time record for the United States men's national soccer team, first broken down by confederation and then the team's head-to-head record by decade. The United States has played matches against 105 current and former national teams, with the latest result, a win, coming against Costa Rica on January 22, 2025.
Despite soccer's relative lack of popularity in the host nation, the tournament was the most financially successful [28] [29] in World Cup history; it broke tournament records with overall attendance of 3,587,538 and an average of 68,991 per match, [30] marks that stood unbroken as of 2018 [31] despite the expansion of the competition from 24 ...
In this ranking, two points are awarded for a win, one for a draw, and zero for a loss. Following statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored.
In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored.