Most Goals Scored in a Single FIFA World Cup Tournament

Most Goals Scored in a Single FIFA World Cup Tournament

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Key Findings

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Just Fontaine (France, 1958) leads in Goals in Single World Cup with 13 in 2006.
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1954 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.
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Gap in 2006: Just Fontaine (France, 1958) is 2.6× larger than Luca Toni (Italy, 2006).

About This Dataset

Most Goals Scored in a Single FIFA World Cup Tournament
Countries ranked by the total number of goals scored in a single FIFA World Cup tournament edition, since the competition began in 1930. France's 1958 World Cup team — featuring Just Fontaine, who scored a record 13 goals in a single tournament — and Hungary's 1954 squad are among the most prolific attacking sides in tournament history. The 1954 tournament in Switzerland remains the highest-scoring World Cup ever with 140 goals across 26 matches, an average of 5.38 per game.
Analysis

Just 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

Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart

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Data Points
8
8 categories  ·  7 years
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Top Value
13
Just Fontaine (France, 1958)
Goals in Single World Cup · 1958
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Goals in Single World Cup
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Period
1950 – 2006
7 years of data

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
How the figures are calculated
  • 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.

Rankings & Full Data

8 records · Goals in Single World Cup · ranked by 2006

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# Category 1950 1954 1958 1966 1970 2002 2006 Change Source
🥇 Just Fontaine (France, 1958) — — 13 — — — — —
🥈 Sandor Kocsis (Hungary, 1954) — 11 — — — — — —
🥉 Gerd Muller (Germany, 1970) — — — — 10 — — —
4 Ademir (Brazil, 1950) 9 — — — — — — —
5 Eusebio (Portugal, 1966) — — — 9 — — — —
6 Ronaldo (Brazil, 2002) — — — — — 8 — —
7 Helmut Rahn (Germany, 1954) — 7 — — — — — —
8 Luca Toni (Italy, 2006) — — — — — — 5 —
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