2018 FIFA World Cup statistics

Assists

Scoring

Overall

Timing

Teams

Individual

Wins and losses

Match awards

Man of the Match

Clean sheets

Squads

Coaches

• Oldest coach: Óscar Tabárez - 71 years and 104 days in the first game against Egypt, after Otto Rehhagel, he is the second oldest World Cup coach.
• Youngest coach: Aliou Cissé - 42 years and 87 days in the first game against Poland.
• Country with most coaches: with four coaches, alongside Argentina, Egypt, Colombia and Peru are coached by Argentines. This is followed by with three coaches, then Germany, France, Colombia and Portugal with two coaches each.
• Teams with foreign coaches: Twelve teams are trained by foreign coaches, including two teams of coaches whose home countries 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, José Pékerman and Carlos Queiroz were at the 2014 World Cup with their current teams and Jorge Sampaoli with Chile and Fernando Santos with Greece at the 2014 World Cup.
• Shortest serving coach: The coach having the shortest time in charge is Fernando Hierro, who became in charge only two days before his team's first game. In addition to him were Mladen Krstajić, Bert van Marwijk, Akira Nishino and Juan Antonio Pizzi 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 became world champion having previously contested as a player, equaling the record of Mário Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer. Beside him, Aliou Cissé, Gareth Southgate, Óscar Ramírez, Adam Nawałka, Fernando Hierro, Stanislav Cherchesov and Mladen Krstajić were also coaches who previously played at the World Cup.

  Players

• Appearance record: Rafael Márquez 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 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.
• Youngest player: Daniel Arzani 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.
• Sofyan Amrabat, 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.
• Aleksandr Yerokhin 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.
• 30 teams nominated at least one player from the domestic league, but only England exclusively fielded players of its own domestic league. By contrast, Sweden and Senegal nominated only players from foreign leagues.
• The most players 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.

  Discipline

• Receiving a red card
• Receiving two yellow cards in two matches; yellow cards expire after the completion of the quarter-finals

Multiple World Cups

• Messi played in 2010 but did not score.

• Márquez became the first player to captain his team in five different World Cups.

Overall results

By team

By confederation

Stadiums

Attendance records

• Lowest attendance: 27,015 – vs, Central Stadium, Yekaterinburg, 15 June 2018