Editing FIFA World Cup (section)

== Records and statistics ==
{{Main|FIFA World Cup records and statistics}}
{{See also|List of players who have appeared in the most FIFA World Cups|List of FIFA World Cup winning players|List of FIFA World Cup winning managers}}
[[File:Lionel-Messi-Argentina-2022-FIFA-World-Cup (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Argentina's [[Lionel Messi]] has played a record 26 World Cup matches across a joint-record five tournaments.]]
[[File:Cristiano Ronaldo 20120609.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Cristiano Ronaldo]] is the first and only player to score in five tournaments.]]
Six players share the record for [[List of players who have appeared in multiple FIFA World Cups|playing in the most World Cups]]; [[Mexico national football team|Mexico]]'s [[Antonio Carbajal]] (1950–1966). [[Rafael Márquez]] (2002–2018), and [[Andrés Guardado]] (2006–2022); [[Germany national football team|Germany]]'s [[Lothar Matthäus]] (1982–1998); [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]]'s [[Lionel Messi]] (2006–2022); and [[Portugal national football team|Portugal]]'s [[Cristiano Ronaldo]] (2006–2022) all played in five tournaments, with Ronaldo also being the first and only player to score in five tournaments.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00EFD8103AF933A25752C1A96F958260 |title=Matthaus Is the Latest MetroStars Savior |work=[[The New York Times]] |last=Yannis |first=Alex |date=10 November 1999 |access-date=23 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217020729/https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00EFD8103AF933A25752C1A96F958260 |archive-date=17 December 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Church |first1=Ben |title=Cristiano Ronaldo refuses to let light dim on his career as he makes history at Qatar 2022 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/football/portugal-ghana-cristiano-ronaldo-spt-intl/index.html |work=CNN |date=24 November 2022 |access-date=25 November 2022 |archive-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125202102/https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/football/portugal-ghana-cristiano-ronaldo-spt-intl/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Messi has played the most World Cup matches overall, with 26 appearances.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/lionel-messi-breaks-world-cup-185359648.html |title=Lionel Messi breaks World Cup appearances record en route to glory in Qatar |publisher=Yahoo |access-date=18 December 2022 |archive-date=18 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218202156/https://sports.yahoo.com/lionel-messi-breaks-world-cup-185359648.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]]'s [[Djalma Santos]] (1954–1962), West Germany's [[Franz Beckenbauer]] (1966–1974), and Germany's [[Philipp Lahm]] (2006–2014) are the only players to be named to three World Cup [[FIFA World Cup awards#All-Star Team|All-Star Teams]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Downie |first1=Andrew |title=Brazil's twice World Cup winner Djalma Santos dies at 84 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-brazil-djalmasantos-idUSBRE96N0ZO20130724|access-date=12 July 2014 |work=Reuters |date=24 July 2013|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924183309/http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/24/us-soccer-brazil-djalmasantos-idUSBRE96N0ZO20130724|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Miroslav Klose]] of Germany (2002–2014) is the all-time top scorer at the World Cup with 16 goals. He broke [[Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)|Ronaldo]] of Brazil's record of 15 goals (1998–2006) during the [[Brazil v Germany (2014 FIFA World Cup)|2014 semi-final match against Brazil]]. West Germany's [[Gerd Müller]] (1970–1974) is third, with 14 goals.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/teams/brazil/5112982.stm |title=Ronaldo's riposte |work=BBC Sport |date=27 June 2006 |last=Chowdhury |first=Saj |access-date=23 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060706072508/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/teams/brazil/5112982.stm |archive-date=6 July 2006 |url-status=live}}</ref> The fourth-placed goalscorer, [[France national football team|France]]'s [[Just Fontaine]], holds the record for the most goals scored in a single World Cup; all his 13 goals were scored in the 1958 tournament.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/team_pages/france/newsid_1752000/1752740.stm |title=Goal machine was Just superb |work=BBC Sport |date=4 April 2002 |access-date=23 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020804032601/http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/team_pages/france/newsid_1752000/1752740.stm |archive-date=4 August 2002 |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Pelé à la Coupe du monde de football 1970, 'Mexico 70 - World Cup Story', Panini figurina n°38.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Pelé]] is the only person to win the World Cup three times as a player.]]
In November 2007, FIFA announced that all members of World Cup-winning squads between 1930 and 1974 were to be retroactively awarded winners' medals.<ref name="espnheroes" /> This made Brazil's [[Pelé]] the only player to have won three World Cup winners' medals (1958, 1962, and 1970, although he did not play in the 1962 final due to injury),<ref>{{cite news |url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/classic/bio/news/story?page=Pele |title=Pele, King of Futbol |publisher=ESPN |last=Kirby |first=Gentry |date=5 July 2006 |access-date=23 December 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216151353/http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/classic/bio/news/story?page=Pele |archive-date=16 December 2008}}</ref> with [[List of players who have won multiple FIFA World Cups|20 other players who have won two winners' medals]]. Seven players have collected all three types of World Cup medals (winners', runner- ups', and third-place); five players were from West Germany's squad of 1966–1974: Franz Beckenbauer, [[Jürgen Grabowski]], [[Horst-Dieter Höttges]], [[Sepp Maier]], and [[Wolfgang Overath]] (1966–1974), Italy's [[Franco Baresi]] (1982, 1990, 1994) and the most recent has been [[Miroslav Klose]] of Germany (2002–2014) with four consecutive medals.<ref>{{cite news |title=Brazil, Germany & Every World Cup Winner from 1930 to 2014 |url=http://www.goal.com/en-gb/lists/brazil-germany-every-world-cup-winner-from-1930-to-2014/1elichzqoj1py1xvzpnd3ykw7m |work=Goal |date=13 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319121604/http://www.goal.com/en-gb/lists/brazil-germany-every-world-cup-winner-from-1930-to-2014/1elichzqoj1py1xvzpnd3ykw7m|archive-date=19 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

Brazil's [[Mário Zagallo]], West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer and France's [[Didier Deschamps]] are the only people to date to win the World Cup as both player and head coach. Zagallo won in 1958 and 1962 as a player and in 1970 as head coach.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hughes |first=Rob |date=11 March 1998 |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/1998/03/11/soccer.t_7.php |title=No Alternative to Victory for National Coach : 150 Million Brazilians Keep Heat on Zagalo |work=International Herald Tribune |access-date=31 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226063509/http://www.iht.com/articles/1998/03/11/soccer.t_7.php <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 26 February 2008}}</ref> Beckenbauer won in 1974 as captain and in 1990 as head coach,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://soccernet.espn.go.com/archive/worldcup/editorial/legends_beckenbauer.html |title=World Cup Legends – Franz Beckenbauer |website=ESPNSoccernet.com |publisher=ESPN |last=Brewin |first=John |date=21 December 2001 |access-date=31 December 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091119134454/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/archive/worldcup/editorial/legends_beckenbauer.html |archive-date=19 November 2009}}</ref> and Deschamps repeated the feat in 2018, after having won in 1998 as captain.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/world-cup-final-2018-france-croatia-didier-deschamps-redeemed-victory-results/rvpat6ngduek1pt9nmat3cspn |title=World Cup 2018: Didier Deschamps redeemed as France win final for the ages |author=Wright, Joe |newspaper=[[Sporting News]] |date=15 July 2018|access-date=15 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722022543/https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/world-cup-final-2018-france-croatia-didier-deschamps-redeemed-victory-results/rvpat6ngduek1pt9nmat3cspn|archive-date=22 July 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Italy national football team|Italy]]'s [[Vittorio Pozzo]] is the only head coach to ever win two World Cups (1934 and 1938).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/1938-world-cup-italy-repeats-as-champions-1.853724 |title=1938 World Cup: Italy repeats as champions |publisher=CBC |date=21 November 2009|access-date=12 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519223256/http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/1938-world-cup-italy-repeats-as-champions-1.853724 |archive-date=19 May 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> All World Cup-winning head coaches were natives of the country they coached to victory.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Curse of the Foreign-Born Coach |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704366504575278893868082062 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=13 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725200956/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704366504575278893868082062|archive-date=25 July 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

Among the national teams, Brazil has played the most World Cup matches (114), Germany appeared in the most finals (8), semi-finals (13), and quarter-finals (16), while Brazil has appeared in the most World Cups (22), has the most wins (76) and has scored the most goals (237).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldfootball.net/alltime_table/wm/ |title=World Football – All time table |publisher=World Football |access-date=13 July 2014 |archive-date=9 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609165606/https://www.worldfootball.net/alltime_table/wm/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Brazil pass Germany as all-time top scorers at the World Cup |url=http://www.espn.co.uk/football/fifa-world-cup/story/3554257/brazil-pass-germany-as-all-time-top-scorers-at-the-world-cup |access-date=10 July 2018 |agency=ESPN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702192255/http://www.espn.co.uk/football/fifa-world-cup/story/3554257/brazil-pass-germany-as-all-time-top-scorers-at-the-world-cup |archive-date=2 July 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> The two teams have played each other twice in the World Cup, in the [[2002 FIFA World Cup Final|2002 final]] and in the [[Brazil v Germany (2014 FIFA World Cup)|2014 semi-final]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Five Aside: Germany – Brazil preview |url=https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37398297/brazil-neymar-play-world-cup-semifinal-match-vs-germany |publisher=ESPN|access-date=13 May 2018 |date=7 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514141642/http://www.espn.com/soccer/blog/name/77/post/1936258/headline|archive-date=14 May 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Top goalscorers ===
{{Main|FIFA World Cup top goalscorers}}
;Individual
{{small|Players in '''bold''' are still active.}}
[[File:Miroslav Klose Portrait.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Miroslav Klose]] scored a record 16 goals across four World Cups.]]
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!Rank
!Player
!Goals
!Matches
!Goals per game
|-
|1
|align=left|{{fbicon|GER}} [[Miroslav Klose]]
|16
|24
|{{Decimals|16/24|2}}
|-
|2
|align=left|{{fbicon|BRA}} [[Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)|Ronaldo]]
|15
|19
|{{Decimals|16/19|2}}
|-
|3
|align=left|{{fbicon|FRG}} [[Gerd Müller]]
|14
|13
|{{Decimals|14/13|2}}
|-
|rowspan=2|4
|align=left|{{fbicon|FRA}} [[Just Fontaine]]
|13
|6
|{{Decimals|13/6|2}}
|-
|align=left|{{fbicon|ARG}} '''[[Lionel Messi]]'''
|13
|26
|{{Decimals|13/26|2}}
|-
|rowspan=2|6
|align=left|{{fbicon|FRA}} '''[[Kylian Mbappé]]'''
|12
|14
|{{Decimals|12/14|2}}
|-
|align=left|{{fbicon|BRA}} [[Pelé]]
|12
|14
|{{Decimals|12/14|2}}
|-
|rowspan=2|8
|align=left|{{fbicon|HUN|1949}} [[Sándor Kocsis]]
|11
|5
|{{Decimals|11/5|2}}
|-
|align=left|{{fbicon|GER}} [[Jürgen Klinsmann]]
|11
|17
|{{Decimals|11/17|2}}
|-
|rowspan=6|10
|align=left|{{fbicon|GER}} [[Helmut Rahn]]
|10
|10
|{{Decimals|10/10|2}}
|-
|align=left|{{fbicon|ARG}} [[Gabriel Batistuta]]
|10
|12
|{{Decimals|10/12|2}}
|-
|align=left|{{fbicon|ENG}} [[Gary Lineker]]
|10
|12
|{{Decimals|10/12|2}}
|-
|align=left|{{fbicon|PER}} [[Teófilo Cubillas]]
|10
|13
|{{Decimals|10/13|2}}
|-
|align=left|{{fbicon|GER}} [[Thomas Müller]]
|10
|19
|{{Decimals|10/19|2}}
|-
|align=left|{{fbicon|POL}} [[Grzegorz Lato]]
|10
|20
|{{Decimals|10/20|2}}
|-
|}
;Country
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!Rank
!National team
!Goals scored
|-
| 1 || align="left"|{{fb|Brazil}} || 237
|-
| 2 || align="left"|{{fb|Germany}} || 232
|-
| 3 || align="left"|{{fb|Argentina}} || 152
|-
| 4 || align="left"|{{fb|France}} || 136
|-
| 5 || align="left"|{{fb|Italy}} || 128
|-
| 6 || align="left"|{{fb|Spain}} || 108
|-
| 7 || align="left"|{{fb|England}} || 104
|-
| 8 || align="left"|{{fb|Netherlands}} || 96
|-
| 9 || align="left"|{{fb|Uruguay}} || 89
|-
| 10 || align="left"|{{fb|Hungary}} || 87
|}