Football World Cup
 

 

   Goals : Important Facts 

 

First Goal in the WC Lucien Laurent (France) Vs Mexico 1930
First Hat-trick Stabile (Argentina) Vs Mexico 1930
Fastest Hat-trick Laszlo Kiss (Hungary) scored in 70th, 74th and 77th seconds Vs El Salvadore 1982.
Fastest Goal In 11th second by Hakan Sukur (Turkey) Vs S Korea 2002
Players to score a goal in every match of a WC Alcide Ghiggia (Uruguay) scored a goal in all the four matches in 1950 WC.

Jairzinho (Brazil) scored a goal in all the six matches in 1970 WC.
Players to have scored in two WC finals Vava (Brazil ) 1958 & 1962

Pele (Brazil) 1958 & 1970

Paul Breitner (Germany) 1974 & 1982

Zinedine Zidane (France) 1998 & 2006
First player to score a self goal Ernst Lotscher (Switzerland) Vs Germany 1938
First substitute to score a goal Juan Basaguren (Mexico) Vs El Salvadore 1970
Fastest goal by a substitute player Ebbe Sand (Denmark) scored only in the 16 seconds after coming on field against Nigeria 1998.
Only substitute player to score a hat-trick Laszlo Kiss (Hungary) scored in 70th, 74th and 77th seconds Vs El Salvadore 1982.
Youngest Player to score a goal Pele (Brazil) Vs Wales 1958 at 17 years 239 days
Oldest Player to score a goal Roger Milla (Cameroon) Vs Russia 1994 at 42 years 39 days.
Only player to score for two different countries Roberst Prosinecki - Vs. UAE 1990 (for Yugoslavia) and there after Vs Jamaica 1998 (for Croatia)
 

  WC and Goals 

 
WC Matches Played Goals Scored Goal-Average
1930 18 70 3.88
1934 17 70 4.11
1938 18 84 4.66
1950 22 88 4.00
1954 26 140 5.38
1958 35 126 3.60
1962 32 89 2.78
1966 32 89 2.78
1970 32 95 2.96
1974 38 97 2.55
1978 38 102 2.68
1982 52 146 2.81
1986 52 132 2.53
1990 52 115 2.21
1994 52 141 2.71
1998 64 171 2.67
2002 64 161 2.51
2006 64 147 2.29
2010 64 145 2.27

 

 Top Scorer in each WC 

 
WC Player Country Goals
1930 Guillermo Stabile Argentina 8
1934 Oldrich Nejedly Czechoslovakia 5
1938 Leonidas da Silva Brazil 7
1950 Ademir Brazil 9
1954 Sandor Cocsis Hungary 11
1958 Juste Fontaine France 13
1962
Garrincha
Vava
Leonel Sanchez
Florian Albert
Valentin Ivanov
Drajan Jerkovic
Brazil
Brazil
Chile
Hungary
USSR
Yugoslvia
4 each
1966 Eusebio Portugal 9
1970 Gerd Mueller Germany 10
1974 Grzegorz Lato Poland 7
1978 Mario Kempes Argentina 6
1982 Paolo Rossi Italy 6
1986 Gary Linekar England 6
1990 Salvatore Schillaci Italy 6
1994
Hristo Stoitchkov
Oleg Salenko
Bulgaria
Russia
6 each
1998 Davor Suker Croatia 6
2002 Ronaldo Brazil 8
2006 Miroslav Klose Germany 5
2010
Thomas Mueller
Wesley Sneijder 
David Villa 
Diego Forlan
Germany
Netherlands
Spain
Uruguay
5

 

 10 or more goals in WC 

 
Goals Player Country WC
15 Ronaldo Brazil 1998-06
14 Gerd Mueller Germany 1970-1974
14 Miroslav Klose Germany 2002-10
13 Juste Fontaine France 1958
12 Pele Brazil 1958-70
11 Sandor Cocsis Hungary 1954
11 Jurgen Klinsman Germany  
10 Helmut Rahn Germany 1954-58
10 Gary Linekar England 1986-90
10 Teofilo Cuvilas Peru 1970-78
10 Grzegorz Lato Poland 1974-82

 

 4 or more goals in a Match 

 
Goals Player Vs WC
5 Oleg Salenko (Russia) Cameroon 1994
4 Gustav Wetterstrom (Sweden) Cuba 1938
4 Ernst Willimowski (Poland) Brazil 1938
4 Ademir (Brazil) Sweden 1950
4 Juan Schiaffino (Uruguay) Bolivia 1950
4 Sandor Cocsis (Hungary) Germany 1954
4 Juste Fontaine (France) Germany 1958
4 Eusebio (Portugal) DPR Korea 1966
4 Emilio Butragueno (Spain) Denmark 1986

 
 

.... Compiled by : Animesh Khare