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Players with multiple goals in FIFA World Cup Finals Player Team Goals scored Finals played Final(s) Kylian Mbappé France: 4 2 2018, 2022 Geoff Hurst England: 3 1 1966: Vavá Brazil: 2 1958, 1962: Pelé Brazil: 2 1958, 1970: Zinedine Zidane France: 2 1998, 2006 Gino Colaussi Italy: 2 1 1938: Silvio Piola Italy: 1 1938: Helmut Rahn West Germany ...
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]
Switzerland's top goalscorer during the qualifying period was Xherdan Shaqiri, with 4 goals. [71] At the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, Switzerland were drawn to play France, Honduras and Ecuador in the group stage. [72] They advanced to the round of sixteen with a 3–0 win over Honduras, with a hat-trick from Xherdan Shaqiri.
Switzerland 1-5 Spain: Jorge Vilda’s side responded to their 4-0 defeat to Japan to reach the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time
He scored the opening and closing goal of the final in 2018. Geoff Hurst and Kylian Mbappé are the only men's players to score a hat trick in a final. Only two players have scored in two consecutive FIFA World Cup finals: Vavá and Mbappé. Only two scorers, Pelé and Mbappé, have scored in a final goal as teenagers. [1] Mbappé is also the ...
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 ...