Football World Cup: 2010 S Africa

  Goal-Scorers   

         

An Over View
Total Matches Played:  64 (Group 48, Second Stage 8, Quarter Finals 4, Semi Finals, 3rd Place & Final 3)
Total Goals Scored: 145 (Group Matches: 101, Second Stage: 22, Quarter Finals: 10, Semi Finals, 3rd Place & Final: 12 )
Most Goals in a Match: 7 Portugal (7) Vs Korea DPR (0)
Most Goals in a Match by a Team: 7 by Portugal Vs Korea DPR
Biggest Margin of victory 7-0 by 7 Portugal (7) Vs Korea DPR (0)
Most Individual Goals in a Match: 3 by Gonzalo Higuain (Argentina) Vs Korea Rep.
Most Goals scored by a Team in WC: 16 by Germnay
Fewest Goals scored by a Team in WC: 0 by Algeria & Honduras
Most Goals conceded by a Team in WC: 12 by Korea DPR
Fewest Goals conceded by a Team in WC: 1 by Portugal & Switzerland
First goal of the tournament Siphiwe Tshabalala (South Africa) Vs Mexico
Fastest Goal: 2 min 38 sec by Thomas Mueller (Germany) Vs Korea Rep.
Most Goals in the WC: 5 by four players - Diego Forlan (Uruguay), Thomas Mueller (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands) and David Villa (Spain)
Hat-trick: Gonzalo Higuain (Argentina) Vs Korea Rep.
Youngest goal scorer: Thomas Mueller (Germany) Vs Australia at 20 yrs 273 days
Oldest goal scorer: Cuauhtemoc Blanco (Mexico) Vs France at 37 yrs 151 days

        

Goal Scorers
5 goals: Thomas Mueller (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands), David Villa (Spain), Diego Forlan (Uruguay)

 

4 goals: Gonzalo Higuain (Argentina), Miroslav Klose (Germany), Robert Vittek (Slovakia)

 

3 goals: Luis Fabiano (Brazil), Asamoah Gyan (Ghana), Landon Donovan (USA), Luis Suarez (Uruguay)

 

2 goals: Carlos Tevez ((Argentina), Brett Holman (Australia), Elano & Robinho (both Brazil), Samuel Etoo (Cameroon), Lukas Podolski (Germany), Keisuke Honda (Japan), Lee Chung Yong & Lee Jung Soo (both Korea Rep.), Javier Hernandez (Mexico), Arjen Robben (Netherlands), Kalu Uche (Nigeria), Tiago (Portugal),  Andres Iniesta (Spain)

 

1 goal: Martin Demichelis, Gabriel Heinze, Martin Palermo (all Argentina), Tim Cahill (Australia), Juan & Maicon (Brazil), Jean Beausejour, Mark Gonzalez, Rodrigo Miller (Chile), Didier Drogba, Salomon Kalou, Romaric, Yaya Toure (Cote d'Ivoire), Nicklas Bendtner, Dennis Rommedahl,  Jon Dahl Tomasson (Denmark), Jermain Defoe, Steven Gerrard, Matthew Upson (England), Florent Malouda (France), Cacau, Arne Friedrich, Mesut Ozil, Marcell Jansen, Sami Khedira (Germany), Kevin Prince Boateng, Sulley Muntrai (Ghana), Dimitris Salpigidis, Vasilis Torosidis (Greece), Daniele De Rossi, Antonio Di Natale, Vincenzo Iaquinta, Fabio Quagliarella (Italy), Yasuhito Endo, Shinji Okazaki (Japan), Ji Yun Nam (Korea DPR), Park Chu Young, Park Ji Sung (Korea Rep.), Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Rafael Marquez (Mexico), Klaas Jan Huntelaar, Dirk Kuyt, Robin Van Persie, Giovanni Van Bronckhorst (Netherlands), Winston Reid, Shane Smeltz (New Zealand), Yakubu Aiyegbeni (Nigeria), Antolin Alcaraz, Cristian Riveros, Enrique Vera (Paraguay), Hugo Almeida, Liedson, Raul Meireles, Cristiano Ronaldo, Simao (Portugal), Milan Jovanovic, Marko Pantelic (Serbia), Kamil Kopunek (Slovakia), Valter Birsa, Robert Koren, Zlatan Ljubijankic (Slovenia), Bongani Khumalo, Katlega Mphela, Siphiwe Tshabalala (South Africa), Carles Puyol (Spain), Gelson Fernandes (Switzerland), Michael Bradley, Clint Dempsey (USA), Alvaro Pereira, Maximiliano Pereira, Edinson Cavani (Uruguay)
   
   
Own Goals  
Daniel Agger (Denmark)            Vs Netherlands
Park Chu Young (Korea Rep.)     Vs Argentina