Most Goals Scored in a Single FIFA World Cup Tournament
Key Findings
About This Dataset
Most Goals Scored in a Single FIFA World Cup TournamentJust Fontaine (France, 1958) (13), Sandor Kocsis (Hungary, 1954) (11) and Gerd Muller (Germany, 1970) (10) take the top three in Goals in Single World Cup in 2006. No single entity dominates: the leader, Just Fontaine (France, 1958), holds 18.1% of the combined total of all 8. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 6 run from 10 down to 5.
Data Insights
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Methodology & source
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 1950–2006 (7 years) · 8 observations
- Measure
- Goals in Single World Cup
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2006.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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