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All-time record book

World Cup goal records

Career, single-tournament, single-match and edition scoring records across all 23 completed men's World Cups, calculated from 3,028 match goals.

Career record

22

Kylian Mbappé

Goals from 2018 through 2026.

Career breakdown →

One tournament

13

Just Fontaine

At the 1958 World Cup.

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One match

12

Austria 7–5 Switzerland

1954 · Final

Highest-scoring matches

The biggest combined totals

1Austria 7–5 Switzerland1954 · Final122Brazil 6–5 Poland1938 · 1st Round113Hungary 8–3 West Germany1954 · Group stage114Hungary 10–1 El Salvador1982 · Group stage115France 7–3 Paraguay1958 · Group stage106France 4–6 England2026 · Third place107Argentina 6–3 Mexico1930 · Group stage98Hungary 9–0 South Korea1954 · Group stage99West Germany 7–2 Turkey1954 · Group stage910France 6–3 West Germany1958 · Third place911Yugoslavia 9–0 Zaire1974 · Group stage912Italy 7–1 USA1934 · Preliminary Round8

Highest-scoring editions

Total goals by tournament

12026 · Canada / Mexico / United States104 matches · 2.96 per match30822022 · Qatar64 matches · 2.69 per match17231998 · France64 matches · 2.67 per match17142014 · Brazil64 matches · 2.67 per match17152018 · Russia64 matches · 2.64 per match16962002 · South Korea / Japan64 matches · 2.52 per match16172006 · Germany64 matches · 2.30 per match14781982 · Spain52 matches · 2.81 per match14692010 · South Africa64 matches · 2.27 per match145101994 · United States52 matches · 2.71 per match141

Totals include regulation and extra-time goals but exclude penalty-shootout kicks from match scores and player records. Own goals count toward the match total but not a player's career total.