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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]
Miroslav Klose celebrating his record-breaking sixteenth World Cup goal during Germany's 2014 semi-final victory. A total of over 2,700 goals have been scored in matches across the 22 final tournaments of the men's FIFA World Cup, not counting penalties scored during shoot-outs. [1]
Most top-level club games scoring: 523 – Cristiano Ronaldo, 2002– Most top club competitions scored in one season with the same team: 7 – Fernando Torres, 2012–13 for Chelsea (Premier League, FA Cup, Football League Cup, FA Community Shield, FIFA Club World Cup, UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League) [53] [54]
Pages in category "FIFA World Cup records and statistics" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers;
Leônidas scored a record 8 goals for Brazil at the 1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cups. Ademir scored a record 9 goals for Brazil at the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Sándor Kocsis was the first player to have scored 10 or more goals in an edition. He scored a record 11 goals in just 5 matches. Just Fontaine scored a record 13 goals at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.
Lionel Messi is the player with the most games played at the FIFA World Cup, and one of only six along with German Lothar Matthäus, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and Mexicans Antonio Carbajal, Andrés Guardado, and Rafael Márquez to have entered the field in five different tournaments.
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
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 ...