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Gary Lineker is the top scorer for England at the World Cup, with ten goals. Grzegorz Lato (left) became the top scorer for Poland at FIFA World Cups during the 1974 tournament, with ten total goals. Teófilo Cubillas is the top scorer for Peru at the World Cup, with ten goals.
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.
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. Thirteen nations (Azerbaijan, Bermuda, Brunei, Bulgaria, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Faroe Islands, Puerto Rico, Romania, Scotland, South Sudan, United States and U.S. Virgin Islands) have a pair of players tied for national l
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]
World Cup Golden Ball. The World Cup Golden Ball has been given by FIFA to the best player at the World Cup since 1982; Argentina players have won it thrice; Maradona in 1986 and Messi in 2014 and 2022. [17] World Cup top goalscorer. Guillermo Stábile in 1930 and Mario Kempes in 1978 were both the top-scoring players at their respective World ...
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 94 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 ...
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.
He scored his 50th goal in a friendly match against Sierra Leone on 6 July 1978, aged 23 years, 8 months and 6 days. [36] Stern John of Trinidad and Tobago was the first player from North America to score 50 international goals. He scored 70 goals in 115 matches, with his 50th goal coming in a friendly match against the Dominican Republic on 13 ...