Anevi Mundial 2026

World Cup 2026 statistics

Champion, final standings, FIFA awards and curious facts — official figures plus totals from our results file.

World champions

🇪🇸

Spain

Second title in the nation's history (2010, 2026)

Final 1-0 Extra time

Goal by Ferran Torres (106')

🇪🇸 Spain vs 🇦🇷 Argentina

New York/New Jersey Stadium · 2026-07-19

Final ranking

  1. 1 🇪🇸 Spain Champions
  2. 2 🇦🇷 Argentina Runners-up
  3. 3 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England Third place
  4. 4 🇫🇷 France Fourth place

Places 5–8 (quarter-finals)

  1. 5 🇨🇭 Switzerland Out in quarter-finals
  2. 6 🇳🇴 Norway Out in quarter-finals
  3. 7 🇨🇴 Colombia Out in quarter-finals
  4. 8 🇵🇹 Portugal Out in quarter-finals

Ranking per the official FIFA bracket at the end of the tournament.

FIFA awards

Golden Ball

Rodri

🇪🇸 Spain

Golden Boot

Kylian Mbappé

🇫🇷 France

10 goals

Golden Glove

Unai Simón

🇪🇸 Spain

Best Young Player

Pau Cubarsí

🇪🇸 Spain

Golden Boot table

# Player Goals Assists
1 Kylian Mbappé 🇫🇷 France 10 4
2 Lionel Messi 🇦🇷 Argentina 8 4
3 Jude Bellingham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England 7 1
4 Erling Haaland 🇳🇴 Norway 7 0
5 Ousmane Dembélé 🇫🇷 France 6 2
6 Harry Kane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England 6 1
7 Mikel Oyarzabal 🇪🇸 Spain 5 1

Tournament totals (our data)

Automatically calculated from data/official-results.json.

Finished matches
104 / 104
Total goals
308
Average goals per match
2.96
Highest-scoring match
M103 · 4-6 (10 goals)

Curious (and not-so-curious) stats

  • First World Cup in history with 48 teams and 104 matches.
  • First tournament jointly hosted by three countries: Canada, Mexico and the United States.
  • Expanded format: 12 groups of four and a knockout phase from the round of 32.
  • Spain conceded only one goal in seven matches — an all-time record in the 32+ team era (previous record was two).
  • Unai Simón kept six clean sheets in Spain's seven games, including the final.
  • Rodri completed 648 passes at the World Cup, a tournament record according to FIFA.
  • Argentina did not register their first shot on target in the final until the 101st minute of extra time — unprecedented in a World Cup final.
  • Kylian Mbappé won the Golden Boot with 10 goals; only the second player to win it at two different World Cups (2018 and 2026).
  • Spain finished unbeaten: seven wins in seven matches, including the semi-final and final in extra time.
  • The third-place play-off (France 4-6 England) was the highest-scoring match of the tournament with 10 goals.
  • Spain became the first nation to hold the FIFA men's and women's World Cup titles at the same time.
  • Luis de la Fuente, aged 64, became the oldest winning World Cup coach since Otto Pfister in 1990.
  • Ferran Torres scored the winning goal in the 106th minute after coming off the bench — first substitute scorer in a final since 2014.
  • Our official file records 308 goals in 104 finished matches (2.96 per game on average).

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