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Most Goals In Fifa World Cup History

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★ Uruguay is the first nation to win World Cup, 1930.

★ Lucien Laurent of France scored the first goal in World Cuphistory.

World Cup all time top scorers – FIFA World Cup is an international football competition contested by national team of the member of the FIFA. World Cup is the biggest and most pretigious football tournament or event sporting event. Brazil is the country with the most World Cup titles (5 trophies), while Germany is the current champions holder, having won 2014 World Cup. The Czech ended the tournament as runners-up, losing to Brazil in the final, but Masek's. FOX Sports countdown the most memorable moments in the history of the FIFA WORLD CUP™SUBSCRIBE to get the latest FOX Soccer content: http://foxs.pt/Subscribe. Some of these goals have changed football history as we know it. The FIFA World Cup is considered as an elite tournament in the footballing world. The biggest football event in the world, all the teams perform here to their fullest to bring honours to their respective countries.

★ Most goals in a tournament by one team by Hungary, with 27goals in 1954 World Cup Match.

Home Events Football Football World Cup History Awards Top Scorers. World Cup Top Goal Scorers (Golden Boot) These are the 'golden shoe' or 'golden boot' winners from each World Cup event. The record for the most goals at a single World Cup is 13 by Frenchman Just Fontaine in 1958, which he achieved in six games.

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★ Most goals scored in a tournament is 171 goals in 1998World Cup Match.

★ With 67 win, Brazil win most matches in World Cup.

★ With 24 losses, Mexico lost most matches in World Cup.

★ Brazil wins World Cup for 5 times (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994,2002), most by any team.

★ Germany and Brazil finishes most times in top two places inFIFA World Cup, 7 each.

★ Brazil has the record of Most World Cup appearances, 19times. They have played every tournament till now frombeginning.

★ Most matches played by Lothar Matthäus , Germany with 25matches.

★ Most matches played by Germany, 99 matches.

★ Italy has most draws with 21 matches.

Who Has The Most Goals In The History Of Soccer

★ Most goals scored by Brazil 210.

★ Most goals conceded by Germany with 117 till now in WorldCup.

★ Brazil, In 2002 World Cup win 7 matches, most by any teamin a single World Cup tournament.

★ In 1954 World Cup Hungary scored 27 goals, most goal scoredby a team in a single World Cup tournament.

★ Norman Whiteside, Northern Ireland is the youngest playerto appeared in World Cup at the age of 17 years and 41 days.

★ Roger Milla from Cameroon is the oldest player to play inWorld Cup at the age of 42 years and 39 days.

★ Most consecutive wins by Brazil with 11 win from 2002 to2006.

★ Most consecutive losses by Mexico with 9 matches 1930 to1958.

★ Most tournaments played by Antonio Carbajal, Mexico andLothar Matthäus, Germany. Both have played 5 World Cuptournaments.

★ Ronaldo, Brazil (1998–2006) scored most goals in World Cupwith 15 goals.

★ Just Fontaine, France scored 13 goals in 1958 World Cup,most goals scored in a tournament.

★ Cafu from Brazil played most matches won, 16.

★ Diego Maradona, Argentina( 1986–1994), has the record ofMost appearances as captain with 16 matches.

★ Peter Shilton from England is the oldest captain in WorldCup at the age of 40 years and 292 days.

★ Most goals scored in a match by Oleg Salenko(Russia vs.Cameroon, 1994) with 5 goals.

★ Most goals scored in one Final by Geoff Hurst (England vs.West Germany, 1966) with 3 goals.

★ Most hat-tricks by Sándor Kocsis (Hungary), Just Fontaine(France), Gerd Müller (West Germany) and Gabriel Batistuta(Argentina) each 2 times.

★ Youngest hat-trick scorer is Pele, Brazil at 17 years and244 days.

★ Fastest goal in a Fifa World Cup by Hakan Şükür (Turkey vs.Korea Republic, 2002) in 10.89 seconds.

★ Most goals scored in a final; by one team is Brazil in 1958World Cup Match with 5 goals.

★ Most times hosted by Mexico, Italy, France, Germany 1974and Brazil each 2 times.

★ Most Attendance in World Cup final match is 114,600,Argentina v West Germany, 1986, Mexico World Cup 1986.

FIFA World Cup
YearHostWinnersRunners-up
1930Uruguay Uruguay Argentina
1934Italy Italy Czechoslovakia
1938France Italy Hungary
1950Brazil Uruguay Brazil
1954Switzerland West Germany Hungary
1958Sweden Brazil Sweden
1962Chile Brazil Czechoslovakia
1966England England West Germany
1970Mexico Brazil Italy
1974West Germany West Germany Netherlands
1978Argentina ArgentinaNetherlands
1982Spain Italy West Germany
1986Mexico Argentina West Germany
1990Italy West Germany Argentina
1994United States Brazil Italy
1998France France Brazil
2002S Korea & Japan Brazil Germany
2006Germany Italy France
2010South Africa Spain Netherlands
2014BrazilGermanyArgentina
2018RussiaFrance Croatia


These are the 'golden shoe' or 'golden boot' winners from each World Cup event. The record for the most goals at a single World Cup is 13 by Frenchman Just Fontaine in 1958, which he achieved in six games. The overall top goal scorer in the Wolrd Cup is German player Miroslav Klose, who has scored 16 goals overall. See the list of World Cup Top Goal Scorers.

The current rules for a tie-breaker, is that if there is a tie for the most number of goals in the tournament, the award goes to the player who has given the most assists (as decided by the FIFA Technical Study Group). If there is still more than one player, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has played the least amount of time. Goals scored from penalty shoot-outs are not counted.

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YearTop Scorer(s)CountryMatches PlayedGoals Scored
1930Guillermo StabileArgentina48
1934Angelo SchiavioItaly *44
Oldrich NejedlyCzechoslovakia44
Edmund ConenGermany44
1938Leonidas da SilvaBrazil48
1950Marques AdemirBrazil67
1954Sandor KocsisHungary511
1958Just FontaineFrance613
1962Drazen JerkovicYugoslavia65
1966Ferreira EusebioPortugal69
1970Gerd MullerWest Germany610
1974Grzegorz LatoPoland77
1978Mario KempesArgentina *76
1982Paolo RossiItaly *76
1986Gary LinekerEngland56
1990Salvatore SchillaciItaly76
1994Oleg SalenkoRussia36
Hristo StoitchkovBulgaria76
1998Davor SukerCroatia76
2002RonaldoBrazil *78
2006Miroslav KloseGermany75
2010Thomas MüllerGermany65
2014James RodríguezColumbia56
2018Harry KaneEngland67

* Champion country

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