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The following article outlines the statistics for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which took place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July.
Goals scored from penalty shoot-outs are not counted, and matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
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Goalscorers
The winner of the Golden Boot was James Rodríguez.
- James Rodríguez
- Thomas Müller
- Sead Kola?inac (against Argentina)
- Marcelo (against Croatia)
- John Boye (against Portugal)
- Noel Valladares (against France)
- Joseph Yobo (against France)
Source: FIFA
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Assists
Juan Cuadrado and Toni Kroos topped the assists table with four assists each during the tournament.
Source: UEFA
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Scoring
- Total number of goals scored: 171
- Average goals per match: 2.67
- Total number of braces: 14
Karim Benzema, Toni Kroos, Mario Mand?uki?, Jackson Martínez, Lionel Messi, Ahmed Musa, Neymar (2), Robin van Persie, Arjen Robben, James Rodríguez, André Schürrle, Luis Suárez, Enner Valencia - Total number of hat-tricks: 2
Thomas Müller, Xherdan Shaqiri - Total number of penalty kicks awarded: 13
- Total number of penalty kicks scored: 12
Xabi Alonso, Karim Benzema, Edinson Cavani, Juan Cuadrado, Sofiane Feghouli, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Mile Jedinak, Thomas Müller, Neymar, Robin van Persie, James Rodríguez, Georgios Samaras - Total number of penalty kicks missed or saved: 1
Karim Benzema - Penalty kick success rate: 92.31%
- Own goals scored: 5
John Boye, Sead Kola?inac, Marcelo, Noel Valladares, Joseph Yobo
- First goal of the tournament: Marcelo (own goal) for Croatia against Brazil
- First brace of the tournament: Neymar for Brazil against Croatia
- First hat-trick of the tournament: Thomas Müller for Germany against Portugal
- Last goal of the tournament: Mario Götze for Germany against Argentina
- Last brace of the tournament: André Schürrle for Germany against Brazil
- Last hat-trick of the tournament: Xherdan Shaqiri for Switzerland against Honduras
- Fastest goal in a match from kickoff: 1st minute (0:30)
Clint Dempsey for United States against Ghana - Fastest goal in a match after coming on as a substitute: 2 minutes
Marco Ureña for Costa Rica against Uruguay (introduced in the 83rd minute), Admir Mehmedi for Switzerland against Ecuador (introduced in the 46th minute), Miroslav Klose for Germany against Ghana (introduced in the 69th minute), Leroy Fer for Netherlands against Chile (introduced in the 75th minute), Julian Green for United States against Belgium (introduced in the 105+2nd minute) - Latest goal in a match without extra time: 90+5th minute
Silvestre Varela for Portugal against United States - Latest goal in a match with extra time: 120+1st minute
Abdelmoumene Djabou for Algeria against Germany - Latest winning goal in a match without extra time: 90+4th minute
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar for Netherlands against Mexico - Latest winning goal in a match with extra time: 118th minute
Ángel Di María for Argentina against Switzerland - Shortest time difference between two goals scored by the same team in a match: 2 minutes (1:06)
Olivier Giroud and Blaise Matuidi for France against Switzerland
- Most goals scored by a team: 18
Germany - Fewest goals scored by a team: 1
Cameroon, Honduras, Iran - Most goals conceded by a team: 14
Brazil - Fewest goals conceded by a team: 2
Costa Rica - Best goal difference: +14
Germany - Worst goal difference: -8
Cameroon - Most goals scored in a match by both teams: 8
Brazil 1-7 Germany - Most goals scored in a match by one team: 7
Germany against Brazil - Most goals scored in a match by the losing team: 2
Australia against Netherlands, Switzerland against France, South Korea against Algeria, Nigeria against Argentina - Biggest margin of victory: 6 goals
Brazil 1-7 Germany - Most clean sheets achieved by a team: 4
Argentina, Germany, Netherlands - Fewest clean sheets achieved by a team: 0
Algeria, Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon, Ghana, Honduras, Italy, Ivory Coast, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, United States - Most clean sheets given by an opposing team: 2
Argentina, Brazil, Cameroon, Costa Rica, France, Greece, Honduras, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Nigeria - Fewest clean sheets given by an opposing team: 0
Algeria, Colombia, Croatia, Germany, Ghana, Ivory Coast - Most consecutive clean sheets achieved by a team: 3
Argentina, Netherlands - Most consecutive clean sheets given by an opposing team: 2
Argentina, Cameroon, Greece, Iran, Italy, Netherlands
- Most goals scored by an individual: 6
James Rodríguez - Most assists given by an individual: 4
Juan Cuadrado, Toni Kroos - Most goals and assists produced by an individual: 8
James Rodríguez (6 goals, 2 assists), Thomas Müller (5 goals, 3 assists) - Most clean sheets achieved by a goalkeeper: 4
Jasper Cillessen, Manuel Neuer, Sergio Romero - Fewest clean sheets achieved by a goalkeeper: 0
Igor Akinfeev, Boubacar Barry, Asmir Begovi?, Beto, Gianluigi Buffon, Iker Casillas, Fatau Dauda, Panagiotis Glykos, Joe Hart, Tim Howard, Charles Itandje, Jung Sung-ryong, Kim Seung-gyu, Adam Kwarasey, Raïs M'Bolhi, Rui Patrício, Mathew Ryan, Salvatore Sirigu, Noel Valladares - Most consecutive clean sheets achieved by a goalkeeper: 3
Jasper Cillessen, Sergio Romero - Most goals scored by one player in a match: 3
Thomas Müller for Germany against Portugal, Xherdan Shaqiri for Switzerland against Honduras - Oldest goal scorer: 37 years and 43 days
Noel Valladares (own goal) for France against Honduras - Youngest goal scorer: 19 years and 25 days
Julian Green for United States against Belgium
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Wins and losses
- Most wins: 6 - Germany
- Fewest wins: 0 - Australia, Cameroon, England, Ghana, Honduras, Iran, Japan, Russia, South Korea
- Most losses: 3 - Australia, Cameroon, Honduras
- Fewest losses: 0 - Costa Rica, Germany, Netherlands
- Most draws: 3 - Costa Rica
- Fewest draws: 0 - Australia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon, Colombia, Croatia, Honduras, Italy, Ivory Coast, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay
- Most points in the group stage: 9 - Argentina, Belgium, Colombia, Netherlands
- Fewest points in the group stage: 0 - Australia, Cameroon, Honduras
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Match awards
Man of the Match
Clean sheets
The winner of the Golden Glove was Manuel Neuer.
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Discipline
- Total number of yellow cards: 187
- Average yellow cards per match: 2.92
- Total number of red cards: 10
- Average red cards per match: 0.16
- First yellow card of the tournament:
Neymar for Brazil against Croatia - First red card of the tournament:
Maxi Pereira for Uruguay against Costa Rica - Fastest yellow card from kick off: 2 minutes
Thiago Silva for Brazil against Netherlands - Fastest yellow card after coming on as a substitute: 3 minutes
José Miguel Cubero for Costa Rica against Italy (introduced in the 68th minute) - Latest yellow card in a match without extra time: 90+4 minutes
João Moutinho for Portugal against Ghana - Latest yellow card in a match with extra time: 120+4 minutes
Ezequiel Garay for Argentina against Switzerland - Fastest dismissal from kick off: 37 minutes
Pepe for Portugal against Germany - Fastest dismissal of a substitute: 20 minutes
Ante Rebi? for Croatia against Mexico (introduced in the 69th minute) - Latest dismissal in a match without extra time: 90+4 minutes
Maxi Pereira for Uruguay against Costa Rica - Shortest time difference between two yellow cards given to the same player: 11 minutes
Kostas Katsouranis for Greece against Japan (booked in the 27th minute and again in the 38th minute) - Most yellow cards (team): 14
Brazil - Most red cards (team): 1
Belgium, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Croatia, Ecuador, Greece, Honduras, Italy, Portugal, Uruguay - Fewest yellow cards (team): 2
Portugal - Most yellow cards (player): 3
Thiago Silva - Most red cards (player): 1
Steven Defour, Óscar Duarte, Kostas Katsouranis, Claudio Marchisio, Wilson Palacios, Pepe, Maxi Pereira, Ante Rebi?, Alex Song, Antonio Valencia - Most yellow cards (match): 8
Costa Rica vs Greece - Most red cards (match): 1
Uruguay vs Costa Rica, France vs Honduras, Germany vs Portugal, Cameroon vs Croatia, Japan vs Greece, Croatia vs Mexico, Italy vs Uruguay, Ecuador vs France, South Korea vs Belgium, Costa Rica vs Greece - Fewest yellow cards (match): 1
England vs Italy, Iran vs Nigeria, Switzerland vs France, Germany vs Ghana, United States vs Portugal, Honduras vs Switzerland, Ecuador vs France, France vs Nigeria, Brazil vs Germany - Most cards in one match: 1 red card, 8 yellow cards
Costa Rica vs Greece
Multiple World Cups
- Gianluigi Buffon attended the 1998 FIFA World Cup as an unused substitute.
- In 2014, Rafael Márquez became the first player to captain his team in four different World Cups.
Overall results
Bold numbers indicate the maximum values in each column.
By team
The Netherlands was the only team that used all 23 players during the tournament, making it the first team in World Cup history to ever use all of its squad players.
Team(s) rendered in italics represent(s) the host nation(s). The competition's winning team is rendered in bold.
(1) - Total games lost not counted in total games played (total games lost = total games won)
(2) - Total number of games drawn (tied) for all teams = Total number of games drawn (tied) ÷ 2 (both teams involved)
(3) - As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
By confederation
Host nation(s) are situated in the region(s) rendered in italics.
(1) - Total games lost not counted in total games played (total games lost = total games won)
(2) - Total number of games drawn (tied) for all teams = Total number of games drawn (tied) ÷ 2 (both teams involved)
(3) - As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.
Stadiums
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