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JUN 11 — JUL 1948 TEAMS104 MATCHES3 NATIONS

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Release 2026.08.18

Data methodology and source ledger

Source facts and calculations are kept apart. Scores, goals and lineups are normalized at build time; derived team and player totals must reconcile before a release is generated.

23Editions
1,068Matches
3,028Goals
7Sources

What is counted

Coverage rules

Included

All 23 completed men's finals

1,068 matches and 3,028 match goals, 1930 to 2026.

Excluded

Penalty shootout kicks

Stored separately and never added to match or player goal totals.

Split

Own goals

Count in the match score, but not in the named player's career total.

Left null

Missing assists and minutes

Never converted to zero and never estimated.

Merged

West Germany into Germany

For national-team history. The original name stays on the edition match.

Build-time checks

Validation gates

Generation fails if any of these is untrue, so a release cannot ship with numbers that disagree with their own source.

  • Every edition carries provenance
  • No duplicated IDs
  • Match scores add up to edition totals
  • Goal events reconcile with scores
  • 2026 holds at 104 matches, 48 teams, 308 goals
  • The archive stays at exactly 23 editions

Provenance

Source ledger

PublisherLicenceRetrievedRevision
OpenFootballCC0-1.02026-08-18516d3825c3
ESPNSource attribution; publication rights remain with the source2026-08-112026-07-21
FIFASource attribution; publication rights remain with the source2026-08-112026-07-21
FIFASource attribution; publication rights remain with the source2026-08-112026-07-21
FIFASource attribution; publication rights remain with the source2026-08-112026-07-21
FIFASource attribution; publication rights remain with the source2026-08-112026-07-21
FIFASource attribution; publication rights remain with the source2026-08-112026-07-21

Release history

Changelog

18 August 2026

Release 2026.08.18: introduced the normalized 1930–2026 archive, field-level coverage, all-time scorer aggregation, edition APIs and null handling for unavailable minutes.