WORLD CUP HISTORY
Records
World Cup Records
While just the participation in a final phase of a World Cup (an effort that takes more than a year of qualification matches), for a number of teams and players, it is also a matter of breaking records. Some of them will take years to be broken. Some others get surpassed on every edition of the competition. Let’s take a look at the most interesting tops, who can break them and who can just tie.
Team Honors
Individual Honors
Some Others Interesting Statistics:
- Argentina have faced Germany in 3 finals and 7 times overall
- Brazil have faced Sweden 7 times in a final phas. In 1994 they faced each other twice
- The recorord for the youngest player to appear in a final phase is still held by Norman Whiteside of Northern Ireland at 17 years and 41 days of age.
- The record for the oldest player is 45 years and 161 days of age and is held by Essam El-Hadary of Egypt
- The record for the youngest goalscorer belongs to Pelè at the age of 17 years and 239 days.
- The oldest player to ever score in a final phase is Roger Milla (Cameroon) at 42 years and 39 days.
- Hakan Şükür (Turkey) holds the record of the earliest goal scored at 11 seconds after kick-off.
- Lionel Messi has never scored a hat-trick in any match for the final phase of a world cup. However, he is the only player to have scored in all 3 decades of his career (up to 20, from 20 to 30, over 30 years old).
- England have been eliminated 3 times without having lost a match.