2026
What is the highest ranked country on the FIFA rankings NOT to qualify?
Italy (12th)
Which is the only country to feature in every single World Cup?
Brazil
Which country has most coaches represented at the 2026 World Cup?
Argentina (with 6)
Which country has appeared in most finals?
Germany (including West Germany)
What was the last time a host country won the World Cup?
France, 1998
Mexico is the country to have hosted the World Cup most times.
True, as 2026 will be their 3rd time hosting after 1970 and 1986
There are four players who played at the 2006 World Cup who are also playing this year. Who?
Messi, Ronaldo, Modric and Ochoa.
The record for most goals scored in a tournament by a single team sits at 27 in 1954. Which country achieved that?
Hungary
Which three men have won the World Cup both as players and as managers?
Mário Zagallo, Franz Beckenbauer and Didier Deschamps.
Two players have scored a hattrick in the final. Who?
Kylian Mbappé (2022) and Geoff Hurst (1966)
Which World Cup was the first to be hosted in multiple countries?
Cristiano Ronaldo is the oldest player to score in a knockout game.
False, the record is actually held by his teammate Pepe.
Two countries are making their first World Cup appearence in 54 years, having both last appeared in 1974. Which?
Haiti and DR Congo (then Zaire)
Who holds the record for the quickest scored goal, taking 11 seconds?
Hakan Sukur of Turkey.
Greece hasn't qualified for the World Cup, but there is a Greek manager present, Georgios Donis. Who does he manage?
Saudi-Arabia
How many of the last five finals went to extra-time?
Four. Only France-Croatia in 2018 was won in regulation.
Which player was dismissed from the France squad in 2010 by coach Raymond Domenech, which caused the rest of the team refusing to participate in the next training session?
Nicolas Anelka
There has never been a World Cup winning manager, who was managing a country different than their own.
True. All World Cup winning managers have been with their own country.
Outside of Argentina, there are five players to have won the World Cup before. Name at least four of them.
Neuer (Germany 2014) and Mbappe, Dembele, Kante and Lucas Hernandez (France 2018)
Who holds the record for most goals in a single World Cup tournament?
Just Fontaine, 13 (1958)
Vittorio Pozzo ('34 & '38)
Three countries have won 100% of the finals they played in. Which?
Uruguay, Spain and England.
Miroslav Klose
Belgium is the country to have played at most World Cups without winning it.
False. Mexico holds that record, with Belgium being 2nd.
Which is the lowest ranked country in the FIFA rankings that have qualified for the World Cup?
New Zealand (85th)
Who holds the record for most assists in a single World Cup tournament?
Raymond Kopa, 8 (1958)
Which coach holds the records for most games at the World Cup?
(only as coach, not counting eventual games played as a player)
Helmut Schön
Netherlands, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Croatia's Josip Šimunić is the only person to achieve this feat, which he did in a game against Australia in 2006. What was it?
He got three yellow cards before being sent off, as the referee forgot he had already booked him.
A country once went an entire tournament without conceding a goal.
True. Switzerland held a clean sheet in all four matches of the 2006 tournament, but lost to Ukraine on penalities in the round of 16.
Which musical artists are headlining the half-time show?
Madonna, Shakira and BTS
Manuel Rosas of Mexico in 1930 became the first player to do what in World Cup history?
Score an own goal in a match against Chile in 1930.
Bora Milutinović is the only manager to appear in five consecutive tournaments, which he did with five different countries. Name at least three of them.
Mexico ('86), Costa Rica ('90), USA ('94), Nigeria ('98) & China (2002)
While five players have made the World Cup final three times, only one player actually played in all three of those finals. Who?
Cafu
Rigobert Song and Zinedine Zidane share a record, but which?
The only players to receive two red cards at the World Cup.
At the 1978 World Cup, France was forced to borrow shirts from a local team, because of a kit clash when they were gonna play against Hungary.
True, which was caused by people still using black-and-white TVs.