Football World Cup 2006 / Statistics

This article gives an overview of the records and statistics for the 2006 World Cup .

General

• With its 4th participation in the opening game after 1938 (unofficially), 1978 and 1994, Germany set the record for Mexico. This was then expanded back to 5 games by Mexico in 2010.
• The opening game was the second highest-scoring game after Italy's 7-1 win against the USA in 1934, which at the time was only the first game of the tournament without an official opening.
• The youngest player was Theo Walcott from England at the age of 17 , but he was not used. The oldest was goalkeeper Ali Boumnijel from Tunisia at 40 , he was in goal in all three preliminary round matches of his team, but was eliminated after the preliminary round.
• Philipp Lahm scored the first goal of the World Cup in the sixth minute of the opening game between Germany and Costa Rica .
• Carlos Gamarra headed the first own goal in the third minute of the England v Paraguay game from a David Beckham free kick ; it was also the earliest own goal in a World Cup game to date.
• The fastest goal was scored by Ghanaian Asamoah Gyan in 67 seconds against the Czech Republic .
• A total of 147 goals were scored in the 64 games. This gives an average of 2.3 goals per game. Only in the 1990 World Cup in Italy and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa were fewer goals scored per game (2.21 and 2.27, respectively).
• The first penalty kick was taken in the match between Spain and Ukraine . David Villa made it 3-0 for Spain.
• The penalty given in the last 16 match between Italy and Australia was the first decisive penalty in a World Cup match in stoppage time in the 90th minute, previous penalties in the 90th minute had no direct influence on the outcome or progress in the tournament.
• Avery John from Trinidad and Tobago saw the first yellow-red card in the 46th minute of the game against Sweden .
• Wladyslaw Waschtschuks (Ukraine) was sent off in the game against Spain and was the first red card of the tournament.
• Most of the field references (four) were in the game Portugal against the Netherlands , which is also a record in World Cup history. The Portuguese Costinha and Deco and the Dutch Boulahrouz and van Bronckhorst were sent off the field prematurely in this round of 16 game with yellow-red cards. In addition, the negative record from the game Germany - Cameroon at the 2002 World Cup was set in which there were also 16 yellow cards, including 2 yellow-red cards.
• In the match between Croatia and Australia , the Croatian Josip Šimunić was accidentally not sent off the field after the second yellow card, this only happened after the third yellow card.
• The first player to receive a red card after the end of the game was the Argentine substitute Leandro Cufré , he received this in the quarter-finals Germany - Argentina after the end of the penalty shoot-out.
• The first coach to be relegated to the stands was Ratomir Dujković , the Ghanaian coach was expelled from the interior during the half-time break of the Brazil-Ghana match for protests against Brazil's 2-0 win.
• The fairest teams in the preliminary round were the German and the English with only four yellow cards each in three games. The most unfair players in the preliminary round were the players from Tunisia with twelve yellow cards and one yellow-red card and from Serbia and Montenegro with ten yellow cards , one yellow-red card and one red card.
• The 2000th World Cup goal was scored in the 51st minute by Swede Marcus Allbäck in the game Sweden - England .
• The 100th goal in this World Cup shot the Italian Marco Materazzi in the game against the Czech Republic .
• With his goal against Ghana, Ronaldo now leads Gerd Müller (14 goals) in the "eternal" goalscorer list with 15 goals. Gerd Müller only needed 2 World Cup appearances for his 14 goals.
• Zinédine Zidane is the fourth player after Vavá , Pelé and Paul Breitner to score a goal in two finals, and also the second player after Rigobert Song to receive a red card in two World Cup tournaments.
• The 0: 1 by Miroslav Klose in the 4th minute of the game Ecuador - Germany is the second fastest German goal in World Cup history. Schalke's Rüdiger Abramczik scored the fastest German World Cup goal in the game against the Netherlands in 1978 in the third minute.
• For the first time, no player scored more than 2 goals in a game at a World Cup tournament.
• The Serbian-Montenegrin team had to accept the most goals with ten goals in the preliminary round.
• With just four points, the Mexican team and the Australian team made it to the round of 16, but not the tied South Korean team .
• The Ivorian team scored five goals in the preliminary round and yet they did not reach the last sixteen. The teams from France , the Netherlands and Sweden, on the other hand, only had 3 goals each for entry.
• The best goal difference without making it into the last sixteen had the Paraguayan team of 2: 2 (± 0); With the same goal difference of 5: 5 (± 0), however, the Australian team was able to secure the entry.
• With eight goals each, the teams from Argentina , Germany and Spain scored first place in their preliminary group groups; the Swiss team only needed four goals. The team from Trinidad and Tobago did not score a single goal in the preliminary round .
• In the preliminary round groups A , C and H the most goals were scored: 18 each; in group B the fewest with ten goals. A total of 117 goals were scored in the preliminary round.
• The Swiss team was the only team to not have conceded a single goal in the preliminary round and was the first team to be eliminated from a World Cup in the knockout round without conceding a goal in the game.
• With the victory over Sweden , the German selection set in the 777th international match of a DFB -Elf the 36-year-old DFB record of four victories in a row at a soccer world championship set up at the soccer world championship in Mexico in 1970 and surpassed it with the Victory in the quarter-finals against Argentina.
• With the win against Croatia , Brazil broke France's record of 8 consecutive wins and increased it to 11 in a row with wins against Australia, Japan and Ghana. The series ended in the quarterfinals after losing to France .
• Luiz Felipe Scolari set a new record as coach of Portugal: In 12 World Cup games (7 with Brazil, 5 with Portugal) he was unbeaten, the series ended in the semi-finals with a defeat against France.
• With the 1-1 draw against the USA Italy initially drew level with Germany in most of the draw games. At the time, both had drawn 18 times, including the games that were decided on penalties. The game against Argentina then increased Germany to 19 draws. (In some statistics, however, these games are counted as a win.)
• Fabien Barthez set Peter Shilton's record in the semifinals against Portugal and was thus also 10 World Cup games without conceding a goal.
• The teams from Argentina and Mexico played the first extension of the 2006 World Cup . Argentina prevailed here with a goal from Maxi Rodríguez in the 98th minute.
• The first penalty shootout at this World Cup took place in the round of 16 between Switzerland and Ukraine , which Ukraine won 3-0. This makes Switzerland the first team to fail to score a goal in a penalty shoot-out at a World Cup.
• Argentina and Germany set a new record on penalties in the quarter-finals. It was the fourth penalty shootout in World Cup history for both of them. With Germany's victory, the German team is now the sole record holder with four wins in four penalty shootouts. Argentina had also won all three penalty shoot-outs so far.
• England broke Italy's record against Portugal in the quarter-finals and lost their third of three World Cup penalties.
• After the 1994 World Cup , it was the second time that a final was decided on penalties.
• For the first time with Australia a team from Oceania reached the round of 16 of a World Cup.
• After the World Championships of 1934 , 1966 and 1982 , it was the fourth time that the last four teams in the competition were European teams.
• In the fifth match between the teams of Germany and Italy at the World Cup, the German selection failed to leave the field as the winner. It is noteworthy that the games in which Germany had home rights were all 0-0 after the end of regular time.
• For the first time since 1986, both final opponents scored a goal in regular time. This was always the case from 1930 to 1986. In 1990 Germany won 1-0 against Argentina, in 1994 it was 0-0 aet between Brazil and Italy, in 1998 France won 3-0 against Brazil, while Brazil beat Germany 2-0 in 2002.
• Benito Armando Archundia from Mexico was the first referee to oversee five games at a World Cup (Brazil - Croatia, France - South Korea, Czech Republic - Italy, Switzerland - Ukraine and Germany - Italy).
• Horacio Marcelo Elizondo from Argentina was the first referee in World Cup history to whistle both the opening game and the final.

Goalscorer list

space	player	Gates
1	Miroslav Klose	5
2	Hernán Crespo	3
	Thierry Henry	3
	Lukas Podolski	3
	Maxi Rodríguez	3
	Ronaldo	3
	Fernando Torres	3
	David Villa	3
	Zinedine Zidane	3
8th	Bartosz Bosacki	2
	Omar Bravo	2
	Tim Cahill	2
	Agustín Delgado	2
	Aruna Dindane	2
	Alexander Frei	2
	Steven Gerrard	2
	Maniche	2
	Marco Materazzi	2
	Tomáš Rosický	2
	Andrij Shevchenko	2
	Bastian Schweinsteiger	2
	Carlos Tenorio	2
	Luca Toni	2
	Patrick Vieira	2
	Paulo Wanchope	2

Final table 2006 World Cup

rank	team	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Goal difference	Points
1	Italy	7th	5	2	0	12: 2	+10	17th
2	France	7th	4th	3	0	9: 3	+6	15th
3	Germany	7th	5	1	1	14: 6	+8	16
4th	Portugal	7th	4th	1	2	7: 5	+2	13
5	Brazil	5	4th	0	1	10: 2	+8	12
6th	Argentina	5	3	2	0	11: 3	+8	11
7th	England	5	3	2	0	6: 2	+4	11
8th	Ukraine	5	2	1	2	5: 7	−2	7th
9	Spain	4th	3	0	1	9: 4	+5	9
10	Switzerland	4th	2	2	0	4-0	+4	8th
11	Netherlands	4th	2	1	1	3: 2	+1	7th
12	Ecuador	4th	2	0	2	5: 4	+1	6th
13	Ghana	4th	2	0	2	4: 6	−2	6th
14th	Sweden	4th	1	2	1	3: 4	−1	5
15th	Mexico	4th	1	1	2	5: 5	0	4th
16	Australia	4th	1	1	2	5: 6	−1	4th
17th	South Korea	3	1	1	1	3: 4	−1	4th
18th	Paraguay	3	1	0	2	2: 2	0	3
19th	Ivory Coast	3	1	0	2	5: 6	−1	3
20th	Czech Republic	3	1	0	2	3: 4	−1	3
21st	Poland	3	1	0	2	2: 4	−2	3
22nd	Croatia	3	0	2	1	2: 3	−1	2
23	Angola	3	0	2	1	1: 2	−1	2
24	Tunisia	3	0	1	2	3: 6	−3	1
25th	Iran	3	0	1	2	2: 6	−4	1
	United States	3	0	1	2	2: 6	−4	1
27	Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	1	2	0: 4	−4	1
28	Japan	3	0	1	2	2: 7	−5	1
	Saudi Arabia	3	0	1	2	2: 7	−5	1
30th	Togo	3	0	0	3	1: 6	−5	0
31	Costa Rica	3	0	0	3	3: 9	−6	0
32	Serbia and Montenegro	3	0	0	3	2:10	−8	0

Remarks:

• The points given are purely statistical in nature and are only relevant within ranks 5 to 8, 9 to 16 and 17 to 32. Ukraine is better placed with 7 points than Spain with 9 points, as Ukraine reached the quarter-finals while Spain was eliminated in the second round.
• Decisions after penalty shootouts are counted as a tie in this statistic.

Player statistics

The fact that this world championship cannot be called the "European championship" (with a wink from Joachim Löw ) is not only evident from the sporting European dominance (all semi-finalists were European teams), but even more from the fact that a disproportionately high proportion of the players involved earned their money in Europe:
Although only 14 of the 32 final teams (corresponding to 44%) represent this continent, 525 of the total of 736 final nominated table footballers (71%) played for a European club. The majority of them, namely 347 players or 47% of all World Cup participants, concentrated on the five countries whose highest leagues are commonly referred to as "the big five", i.e. England (102 players), Germany (75), Italy (61), France (59) and Spain (50) - although the World Cup participants were not all under contract in the respective first division. Of the European associations whose national teams could not qualify for this tournament, the Turkish (12 players at local clubs) and the Scottish (11 players) were at least represented "in team strength" at the 2006 World Cup.
Clubs from Asia (just under 12%) and North / Central America (under 9%) followed at a considerable distance; South America (5%), Africa (3%) and Oceania (0.4%) were represented far less than proportionally.
On the other hand: The 736 players who took part in Germany represented clubs from a total of 51 countries, i.e. around a quarter of the FIFA member associations.

In the case of the 32 team squads, the extent to which the nominees were under contract in their own country was enormous:

• All 23 listed played only for Italy and Saudi Arabia in a domestic club; Germany, England (21 players each), Costa Rica, Mexico (20 each) and the Ukraine (19) followed.
• Not a single player who played for a club in his own country was to be found in the Ivory Coast and Togo; it was followed by the Czech Republic and Australia (2 each), Argentina and Brazil (3 each) as well as Trinidad and Tobago, Ghana, Croatia and Tunisia (4 each).
• On average for all 32 participants, 11 of the 23 players were under contract in their own country; the national teams of the USA and France corresponded exactly to this value.

The most watched World Cup games in Germany

space	game	Channel	Viewers in millions	Quota
1	Germany - Italy (semi-finals)	ZDF	29.66	84.1%
2	Italy - France (final)	ARD	25.87	72.3%
3	Germany - Argentina (quarter-finals)	ARD	24.80	86.1%
4th	Germany - Portugal (game for 3rd place)	ZDF	23.92	76.0%
5	Germany - Poland	ARD	23.85	72.5%
6th	Germany - Sweden (round of 16)	ZDF	22.38	86.3%
7th	Ecuador - Germany	ARD	21.27	82.2%
8th	Germany - Costa Rica (opening match)	ZDF	20.13	75.7%
9	Portugal - France (semi-finals)	ARD	15.33	53.3%
10	Brazil - Croatia	ARD	15.16	52.3%
11	Brazil v France (quarter-finals)	ZDF	14.97	57.5%
12	Portugal v Netherlands (round of 16)	RTL	14.71	48.3%

World Cup city check

The international student organization AIESEC , under the leadership of the Leipzig Local Committee, carried out a representative survey in all World Cup cities during the preliminary round. The students asked almost 4,000 World Cup guests for their assessment of the game cities. The study was scientifically accompanied by the Marketing Department at Leipzig University .

A total of 18 questions were asked about the following topics: shopping, cleanliness, party, World Cup events, food, volunteers, tradition, modernity, accommodation, coming back, architecture, relaxation, friendliness, safety, World Cup atmosphere, organization of the games, public transport and orientation posed. The sum of the individual maximum 180 points results in the following sequence:

space	World Cup city	Points (max. 180)
1	Berlin	150.18
2	Munich	148.29
3	Hamburg	144.69
4th	Nuremberg *	143.24
5	Kaiserslautern	142.66
6th	Gelsenkirchen	142.01
7th	Hanover *	141.82
8th	Stuttgart	141.21
9	Leipzig *	141.09
10	Cologne *	139.66
11	Frankfurt am Main *	136.37
12	Dortmund	135.16

It is astonishing that the cities marked with * that have already gained experience from the FIFA Confederations Cup 2005 , with the exception of Nuremberg, performed relatively poorly.

See also

• Soccer World Cup / Records

Web links

• Detailed scorer statistics on fifaworldcup.com
• World Cup city check (with detailed report)