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World Cup Records



Quiz on FIFA World Cup record-breaking and achievements



  1. Which country is the only one to have appeared in all 22 tournaments?
  2. Can you name the youngest player to ever play at the World Cup?
  3. Which country has finished a record 8 times in the top two?






  4. Which player has scored the most goals in a single tournament?
  5. In which city was the 1986 final between Argentina and West Germany played in front of a massive 114,600 stadium crowd?
  6. Which country has been eliminated most at the quarter-final stage?
  7. Two players hold the dubious record of being sent of twice, Cameroon player Rigobert Song was sent of in both 1994 and 1998, which other player was also sent of on two occasions?
  8. The youngest ever goalscorer became Pele when he scored aged 17 years and 239 days against which country?
  9. Who received a record 9 match suspension in 2014?
  10. Which country holds the record for the longest gap between successive appearances in the finals, a gap of 64 years?
  11. Can you name the oldest ever hat-trick scorer at the tournament?
  12. Which team have been at three tournaments, in 1934, 1990, and 2018, yet have never won a match?
  13. Two keepers have kepts clean sheets for a record 10 matches. Can you name both?
  14. Two countries have been eliminated in the first round 8 times, can you name both?
  15. Which player made a record 25 appearances at the World Cup between 1982 and 1998?
  16. Who became the tournament's oldest goalscorer in 1994?
  17. Which two countries have met in the World Cup Final a record three times?
  18. According to FIFA rankings the biggest upset happened when which team beat France in 2010?
  19. Who is the oldest player to ever win a World Cup medal?
  20. Who holds the record for most FIFA World Cup goals in history, having scored 16 times in 24 appearances?
  21. In the 2018 tournament, there were 16 players from which club?
  22. Who was the oldest member of England's 1966 World Cup winning squad? He made 467 appearances for Wolverhampton Wanderers and appeared in 40 consecutive England international matches, a record only bettered by Billy Wright.


Answers



  1. Brazil
  2. Norman Whiteside (Northern Ireland)
  3. Germany (1954, 1966, 1974, 1982, 1986, 1990, 2002, 2014)
  4. Just Fontaine (France, 1958)
  5. Mexico City (Estadio Azteca, 1986)
  6. England (1950, 1954, 1962, 1970, 1982, 1986, 2002, 2006)
  7. Zinedine Zidane (France, 1998 and 2006)
  8. Wales (1958)
  9. Luis Suarez (Uruguay, for biting Italian Giorgio Chiellini in 2014)
  10. Wales (1958–2022)
  11. Cristiano Ronaldo (33 years, 130 days, Portugal in 2018)
  12. Egypt
  13. Peter Shilton (England, 1982–1990) and Fabien Barthez (France, 1998–2006)
  14. South Korea and Scotland
  15. Lothar Matthaus (Germany)
  16. Roger Milla (42 years, 39 days, Cameroon) (vs Russia, 28 June 1994)
  17. Argentina vs Germany (1986, 1990, 2014)
  18. South Africa (2010 against France)
  19. Dino Zoff (Italy. 40 years, 133 days in 1982.)
  20. Miroslav Klose (Germany, 2002–2014)
  21. Manchester City
  22. Ron Flowers