Football: World Cup database
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3 Brazil (1958, 1962, 1970); Italy (1934, 1938, 1982); Germany (1954, 1974, 1990).
MOST MATCH WINS AT FINALS
44 Brazil.
MOST DEFEATS AT FINALS
17 Mexico.
MOST GOALS IN MATCH
13 New Zealand v Fiji (1981).
MOST GOALS IN MATCH AT FINALS
10 Hungary v El Salvador (1982).
MOST CONSECUTIVE GAMES
WITHOUT DEFEAT AT FINALS
13 Brazil: 1958 (6), 1962 (6) and 1966 (1) (won 11, drawn 2).
MOST CONSECUTIVE WINS AT
FINALS
7 Italy (1934, 1938).
MOST CONSECUTIVE DEFEATS
AT FINALS
9 Mexico (1930, 1950, 1958).
MOST CONSECUTIVE DRAWS
AT FINALS
4 Republic of Ireland (1990).
MOST CONSECUTIVE GAMES
WITHOUT WIN AT FINALS
16 Bulgaria: 1962 to 1974 inclusive, 1986 (drawn 6, lost 10).
MOST GOALS AT FINALS
13 Just Fontaine, France (1958).
MOST CAREER GOALS AT FINALS
14 Gerd Muller, West Germany (1970, 1974).
ANNIVERSARIES
Today Italy wear shirts in the fascist colour of black for their 3-1 second-round win over France in Paris. Against Cuba in Antibes, Sweden become first team eight goals in match at finals (both 1938).
Tomorrow Lowest attendance at semi- final match: 5,890 to watch Czechoslovakia beat Yugoslavia 3-1 in Vina del Mar, Chile.
Tuesday Scotland record first win at finals - 2-0 v Zaire in Dortmund - but low- scoring victory contributes to first-round elimination (1974).
Wednesday Laszlo Kiss, of Hungary, becomes first substitute to score hat-trick at finals (v El Salvador, 1982).
Thursday England's Bryan Robson, after 27 seconds, scores fastest goal in history of finals (v France, 1982).
Friday Norman Whiteside, of Manchester United, becomes youngest World Cup finalist when he appears for Northern Ireland against Yugoslavia at age of 17 years and 41 days (1982).
Saturday The last man to score four goals in match at finals: Emilio Butragueno, for Spain v Denmark (1986).
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