Most appearances: 25 Lothar Matthaeus (Germany) 1982-98
Most competitions: 5 Antonio Carbajal (Mexico) 1950-66, Lothar Matthaeus (Germany) 1982-98
Youngest player: Norman Whiteside (Northern Ireland) 17 years 42 days against Yugoslavia in 1982
Oldest player: Roger Milla (Cameroon) 42 years 39 days against Russia in 1994
Youngest goalscorer: Pele (Brazil) 17 years 239 days against
Wales in 1958
Oldest goalscorer: Roger Milla (Cameroon) 42 years 39 days against Russia in 1994
Youngest referee: Francisco Matteucci (Uruguay) 27 years 62 days in 1930
Oldest referee: George Reader (England) 53 years 236 days in 1950
Fastest goal: Adalbert Deu (Romania) 15 seconds
against Peru in 1930
Most goals in a match: 5 Oleg Salenko of Russia against Cameroon in 1994
Most goals in a tournament: 13 Just Fontaine (France) 1958
Fastest substitution: Alessandro Nesta (Italy) four minutes against Austria in 1998
Fastest caution: Sergei Gorlukovich (Russia) one
minute against Sweden in 1994
Fastest sending off: Jose Batista (Uruguay) 56 seconds against Scotland in 1986
Biggest win: Hungary 10-1 El Salvador 1982
Highest scoring match: Austria 7-5 Switzerland 1954
Most matches as coach: 25 Helmut Schon (West Germany) 1966-78
Most World Cups attended: 16 Brazil
Most goals overall: 173 Brazil
Most goals in one tournament: 27 Hungary 1954
Smallest crowd: 300 Romania v Peru 1930
Lowest attendance at a final: 45,124 Italy v Hungary 1938
TOP GOALSCORERS IN PREVIOUS WORLD CUPS
1930 - Guillermo Stabile (Uruguay) 8 goals
1934 - Edmund Conen (Germany), Angelo Schiavio (Italy),
Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia) 4 goals
1938 - Leonidas (Brazil) 8 goals
1950 - Ademir (Brazil) 9 goals
1954 - Sandos Kocsis (Hungary) 11 goals
1958 - Just Fontaine (France) 13 goals
1962 - Garrincha, Vava (both Brazil), Drajen Jerkovic (Yugoslavia), Leonel Sanchez (Chile), Valentin Ivanov
(USSR), Florian Albert (Hungary) 4 goals
1966 - Eusebio (Portugal) 9 goals
1970 - Gerd Muller (West Germany) 10 goals
1974 - Grzegorz Lato (Poland) 7 goals
1978 - Mario Kempes (Argentina) 6 goals
1982 - Paolo Rossi (Italy) 6 goals
1986 - Gary Lineker (England) 6 goals
1990 - Toto Schillachi (Italy) 6 goals
1994 - Oleg Salenko (Russia), Hristo Stoitchkov (Bulgaria) 6 goals
1998 - Davor Suker (Croatia) 6 goals
- REUTERS
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