2018 FIFA World Cup statistics

• Total number of goals scored: 169
• Average goals per match: 2.64
• Total number of braces: 10
  Edinson Cavani, Denis Cheryshev, Diego Costa, Eden Hazard, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku (2), Kylian Mbappé, Ahmed Musa, John Stones
• Total number of hat-tricks: 2
  Harry Kane, Cristiano Ronaldo
• Total number of penalty kicks awarded: 29
• Total number of penalty kicks scored: 22
  Salman Al-Faraj, Karim Ansarifard, Artem Dzyuba, Andreas Granqvist (2), Antoine Griezmann (3), Eden Hazard, Mile Jedinak (2), Shinji Kagawa, Harry Kane (3), Luka Modrić, Victor Moses, Cristiano Ronaldo, Mohamed Salah, Ferjani Sassi, Gylfi Sigurðsson, Carlos Vela
• Total number of penalty kicks missed or saved: 7
  Fahad Al-Muwallad, Christian Cueva, Lionel Messi, Luka Modrić, Cristiano Ronaldo, Bryan Ruiz, Gylfi Sigurðsson
• Penalty kick success rate: 75.86%
• Own goals scored: 12
  Edson Álvarez, Aziz Behich, Aziz Bouhaddouz, Denis Cheryshev, Thiago Cionek, Oghenekaro Etebo, Ahmed Fathy, Fernandinho, Sergei Ignashevich, Mario Mandžukić, Yassine Meriah, Yann Sommer

• First goal of the tournament: Yury Gazinsky for Russia against Saudi Arabia
• First brace of the tournament: Denis Cheryshev for Russia against Saudi Arabia
• First hat-trick of the tournament: Cristiano Ronaldo for Portugal against Spain
• Last goal of the tournament: Mario Mandžukić for Croatia against France
• Last brace of the tournament: Edinson Cavani for Uruguay against Portugal
• Last hat-trick of the tournament: Harry Kane for England against Panama
• Fastest goal in a match from kickoff: 1st minute
  Mathias Jørgensen for Denmark against Croatia
• Fastest goal in a match after coming on as a substitute: 1st minute
  Artem Dzyuba for Russia against Saudi Arabia (introduced in the 70th minute)
• Latest goal in a match without extra time: 90+7th minute
  Neymar for Brazil against Costa Rica
• Latest goal in a match with extra time: 115th minute
  Mário Fernandes for Russia against Croatia
• Latest winning goal in a match without extra time: 90+5th minute
  Aziz Bouhaddouz (own goal) for Iran against Morocco, Toni Kroos for Germany against Sweden, Salem Al-Dawsari for Saudi Arabia against Egypt
• Latest winning goal in a match with extra time: 109th minute
  Mario Mandžukić for Croatia against England
• Shortest time difference between two goals scored by the same team in a match: 3 minutes
  Diego Costa and Nacho for Spain against Portugal

• Most goals scored by a team: 16
  Belgium
• Fewest goals scored by a team: 2
  Australia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Germany, Iceland, Iran, Morocco, Panama, Peru, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Serbia
• Most goals conceded by a team: 11
  Panama
• Fewest goals conceded by a team: 2
  Denmark, Iran, Peru
• Best goal difference: +10
  Belgium
• Worst goal difference: -9
  Panama
• Most goals scored in a match by both teams: 7
  Belgium 5–2 Tunisia, England 6–1 Panama, France 4–3 Argentina
• Most goals scored in a match by one team: 6
  England against Panama
• Most goals scored in a match by the losing team: 3
  Argentina against France
• Biggest margin of victory: 5 goals
  Russia 5–0 Saudi Arabia, England 6–1 Panama
• Most clean sheets achieved by a team: 4
  France
• Fewest clean sheets achieved by a team: 0
  Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Morocco, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Switzerland, Tunisia
• Most clean sheets given by an opposing team: 2
  Costa Rica, England, Germany, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Saudi Arabia
• Fewest clean sheets given by an opposing team: 0
  Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia
• Most consecutive clean sheets achieved by a team: 3
  Brazil, Uruguay
• Most consecutive clean sheets given by an opposing team: 2
  Costa Rica, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Saudi Arabia

• Most goals scored by an individual: 6
  Harry Kane
  
• Most assists provided by an individual: 2
  Éver Banega, Nacer Chadli, Viktor Claesson, Philippe Coutinho, Kevin De Bruyne, Artem Dzyuba, Aleksandr Golovin, Antoine Griezmann, Eden Hazard, Lucas Hernandez, Lionel Messi, Thomas Meunier, Juan Fernando Quintero, James Rodríguez, Carlos Andrés Sánchez, Youri Tielemans, Wahbi Khazri
  
• Most goals and assists produced by an individual: 6
  Antoine Griezmann (4 goals, 2 assists), Harry Kane (6 goals)
  
• Most clean sheets achieved by a goalkeeper: 3
  Alisson, Thibaut Courtois, Hugo Lloris, Fernando Muslera, Robin Olsen
  
• Most consecutive clean sheets achieved by a goalkeeper: 3
  Alisson, Fernando Muslera
  
• Most goals scored by one player in a match: 3
  Harry Kane for England against Panama, Cristiano Ronaldo for Portugal against Spain
• Oldest goal scorer: 37 years, 120 days
  Felipe Baloy for Panama against England
  
• Youngest goal scorer: 19 years, 183 days
  Kylian Mbappé for France against Peru

• Oldest coach: Óscar Tabárez  Uruguay - 71 years and 104 days in the first game against Egypt, after Otto Rehhagel (71 years and 317 days at the 2010 World Cup), he is the second oldest World Cup coach.[75]
• Youngest coach: Aliou Cissé  Senegal - 42 years and 87 days in the first game against Poland.
• Country with most coaches:  Argentina with four coaches, alongside Argentina, Egypt, Colombia and Peru are coached by Argentines. This is followed by  Spain with three coaches (Belgium, Saudi Arabia and Spain), then Germany, France, Colombia (with the Colombian coaches serving only other teams as in 2014) and Portugal with two coaches each.
• Teams with foreign coaches: Twelve teams are trained by foreign coaches, including two teams (Australia and Denmark) of coaches whose home countries (Netherlands and Norway) did not qualify for the 2018 World Cup.
• Longest serving coach: As in 2014, the longest serving team coaches of the World Cup are Joachim Löw and Óscar Tabárez, who have been in charge of the German and Uruguayan national teams since 2006. Tabárez, however, was previously coach of Uruguay from 1988 to 1990, while Löw have worked as an assistant coach for Germany since 2004. Besides them, Didier Deschamps  France, José Pékerman  Colombia and Carlos Queiroz  Iran were at the 2014 World Cup with their current teams and Jorge Sampaoli  Argentina with Chile and Fernando Santos  Portugal with Greece at the 2014 World Cup.
• Shortest serving coach: The coach having the shortest time in charge is Fernando Hierro  Spain, who became in charge only two days before his team's first game. In addition to him were Mladen Krstajić  Serbia, Bert van Marwijk  Australia, Akira Nishino  Japan and Juan Antonio Pizzi  Saudi Arabia who resumed duty as coach only after the successful qualification of their current teams. Of these, however, van Marwijk had qualified with Saudi Arabia for the World Cup, but then refused to renew his contract.
• Coaches who were former players: Didier Deschamps (France / 1998) became world champion having previously contested as a player, equaling the record of Mário Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer. Beside him, Aliou Cissé (Senegal / 2002), Gareth Southgate (England / 1998 and unused in 2002), Óscar Ramírez (Costa Rica / 1990), Adam Nawałka (Poland / 1978), Fernando Hierro (Spain / 1994, 1998, 2002 and unused in 1990), Stanislav Cherchesov (Russia / 1994 and unused in 2002) and Mladen Krstajić (Serbia / 2006 with Serbia & Montenegro) were also coaches who previously played at the World Cup.

• Appearance record: Rafael Márquez  Mexico participated in the World Cup for the fifth time, equaling the record of compatriot Antonio Carbajal and Germany player Lothar Matthäus
• Oldest player: At 45 years and five months, Essam El Hadary  Egypt is the oldest player ever to be nominated for a World Cup finals. By his use in the last group match on June 25, he was 45 years and 161 days, thereby becoming the oldest World Cup player.[76]
• Youngest player: Daniel Arzani  Australia is the youngest player at the age of 19 years and 163 days. He came on in the group match against France in the 84th minute.[77]
• Sofyan Amrabat  Morocco, who came on as a substitute for his brother Nordin Amrabat in the 76th minute in the group match against Iran, is the first player in World Cup history to come in for his brother.[75]
• Aleksandr Yerokhin  Russia is the first player to feature as the fourth substitute player in a World Cup match - coming on in the 97th minute of extra time in the Round of 16 match against Spain. This match is also the first ever World Cup match in which eight players have been substituted.[78]
• 30 teams nominated at least one player from the domestic league, but only England exclusively fielded players of its own domestic league.[79] By contrast, Sweden and Senegal nominated only players from foreign leagues.
• The most players (129) are active in clubs based in England, the majority of them in the Premier League, with some in the lower leagues. In total 27 of the 32 team squads have players who play in England.
• One player each plays in the leagues of Finland, Guinea, Honduras, Norway, Paraguay, Romania, Slovakia and South Africa.
• From the leagues of countries that did not qualify for the World Cup, the Italian Serie A have the strongest representation with 58 players.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts	APts	GF	AGF	GA	AGA	GD	AGD	CS	ACS	YC	AYC	RC	ARC
Argentina	4	1	1	2	4	1.00	6	1.50	9	2.25	-3	−0.75	0	0.00	11	2.75	0	0.00
Australia	3	0	1	2	1	0.33	2	0.67	5	1.67	-3	−1.00	0	0.00	7	2.33	0	0.00
Belgium	7	6	0	1	18	2.57	16	2.29	6	0.86	+10	1.43	3	0.43	11	1.57	0	0.00
Brazil	5	3	1	1	10	2.00	8	1.60	3	0.60	+5	1.00	3	0.60	7	1.40	0	0.00
Colombia	4	2	1	1	7	1.75	6	1.50	3	0.75	+3	0.75	2	0.50	9	2.25	1	0.25
Costa Rica	3	0	1	2	1	0.33	2	0.67	5	1.67	-3	−1.00	0	0.00	6	2.00	0	0.00
Croatia	7	4	2	1	14	2.00	14	2.00	9	1.29	+5	0.71	2	0.29	15	2.14	0	0.00
Denmark	4	1	3	0	6	1.50	3	0.75	2	0.50	+1	0.25	2	0.50	6	1.50	0	0.00
Egypt	3	0	0	3	0	0.00	2	0.67	6	2.00	-4	−1.33	0	0.00	5	1.67	0	0.00
England	7	3	1	3	10	1.43	12	1.71	8	1.14	+4	0.57	1	0.14	8	1.14	0	0.00
France	7	6	1	0	19	2.71	14	2.00	6	0.86	+8	1.14	4	0.57	12	1.71	0	0.00
Germany	3	1	0	2	3	1.00	2	0.67	4	1.33	-2	−0.67	0	0.00	2	0.67	1	0.33
Iceland	3	0	1	2	1	0.33	2	0.67	5	1.67	-3	−1.00	0	0.00	3	1.00	0	0.00
Iran	3	1	1	1	4	1.33	2	0.67	2	0.67	0	0.00	1	0.33	7	2.33	0	0.00
Japan	4	1	1	2	4	1.00	6	1.50	7	1.75	-1	−0.25	0	0.00	5	1.25	0	0.00
Mexico	4	2	0	2	6	1.50	3	0.75	6	1.50	-3	−0.75	1	0.25	9	2.25	0	0.00
Morocco	3	0	1	2	1	0.33	2	0.67	4	1.33	-2	−0.67	0	0.00	8	2.67	0	0.00
Nigeria	3	1	0	2	3	1.00	3	1.00	4	1.33	-1	−0.33	1	0.33	4	1.33	0	0.00
Panama	3	0	0	3	0	0.00	2	0.67	11	3.67	-9	−3.00	0	0.00	11	3.67	0	0.00
Peru	3	1	0	2	3	1.00	2	0.67	2	0.67	0	0.00	1	0.33	5	1.67	0	0.00
Poland	3	1	0	2	3	1.00	2	0.67	5	1.67	-3	−1.00	1	0.33	3	1.00	0	0.00
Portugal	4	1	2	1	5	1.25	6	1.50	6	1.50	0	0.00	1	0.25	7	1.75	0	0.00
Russia	5	2	2	1	8	1.60	11	2.20	7	1.40	+4	0.80	1	0.20	6	1.20	1	0.20
Saudi Arabia	3	1	0	2	3	1.00	2	0.67	7	2.33	-5	−1.67	0	0.00	1	0.33	0	0.00
Senegal	3	1	1	1	4	1.33	4	1.33	4	1.33	0	0.00	0	0.00	6	2.00	0	0.00
Serbia	3	1	0	2	3	1.00	2	0.67	4	1.33	-2	−0.67	1	0.33	9	3.00	0	0.00
South Korea	3	1	0	2	3	1.00	3	1.00	3	1.00	0	0.00	1	0.33	10	3.33	0	0.00
Spain	4	1	3	0	6	1.50	7	1.75	6	1.50	+1	0.25	1	0.25	2	0.50	0	0.00
Sweden	5	3	0	2	9	1.80	6	1.20	4	0.80	+2	0.40	3	0.60	8	1.60	0	0.00
Switzerland	4	1	2	1	5	1.25	5	1.25	5	1.25	0	0.00	0	0.00	9	2.25	1	0.25
Tunisia	3	1	0	2	3	1.00	5	1.67	8	2.67	-3	−1.00	0	0.00	4	1.33	0	0.00
Uruguay	5	4	0	1	12	2.40	7	1.40	3	0.60	+4	0.80	3	0.60	3	0.60	0	0.00
Total	64(1)	51	13(2)	51	179	1.40	169	1.32	169	1.32	0	0.00	33	0.26	219	1.71	4	0.03

Team(s) rendered in italics represent(s) the host nation(s). The competition's winning team is rendered in bold.
⁽¹⁾ – Total games lost not counted in total games played (total games lost = total games won)
⁽²⁾ – Total number of games drawn (tied) for all teams = Total number of games drawn (tied) ÷ 2 (both teams involved)
⁽³⁾ – As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Host nation(s) are situated in the region(s) rendered in italics.
⁽¹⁾ – Total games lost not counted in total games played (total games lost = total games won)
⁽²⁾ – Total number of games drawn (tied) for all teams = Total number of games drawn (tied) ÷ 2 (both teams involved)
⁽³⁾ – As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Top 10 highest attendances.

Rank	Attendance	Match	Venue	City	Date	Ref
1	78,011	Russia vs  Saudi Arabia	Luzhniki Stadium	Moscow	14 June 2018	[107]
		Germany vs  Mexico			17 June 2018	[108]
		Portugal vs  Morocco			20 June 2018	[109]
		Denmark vs  France			26 June 2018	[110]
		Spain vs  Russia			1 July 2018	[111]
		Croatia vs  England			11 July 2018	[112]
		France vs  Croatia			15 July 2018	[113]
8	64,468	Russia vs  Egypt	Krestovsky Stadium	Saint Petersburg	19 June 2018	[114]
		Brazil vs  Costa Rica			22 June 2018	[115]
		Nigeria vs  Argentina			26 June 2018	[116]

• Lowest attendance: 27,015 –  Egypt vs  Uruguay, Central Stadium, Yekaterinburg, 15 June 2018[117]