Analytics
The tournament in numbers.
The field, the football, and ninety-six years of history. Click a continent on the map to focus every chart on its confederation.
Fun facts
Cristiano Ronaldo🇵🇹 Portugal
Lionel Messi🇦🇷 Argentina
Carlos Queiroz🇬🇭 Ghana
Carlos Queiroz🇬🇭 Ghana
Dick Advocaat🇨🇼 Curaçao
Marcelo Bielsa🇺🇾 Uruguay
Where the 48 come from
Qualified nations by confederation — click a country to filter, click again to clear.
Teams per confederation
Most attacking qualifiers
Goals per game on the road here (hosts excluded)
Squad experience
Distribution of international caps per confederation
Goals per qualifying game
By confederation
Preferred formations
Most common shapes across the 48 squads
How tall is the World Cup?
Height of every player with a Wikidata record (94% of the field)
Squad ages
Age distribution across all 1,247 players
Club pipelines
Clubs supplying the most players to the tournament
Goals by day
Top scorers
Match stats · 11 matches with data
Most attacking — xG per game
Finishing — goals vs expected
Across matches with xG data
Goals per game, 1930 → today
Every World Cup edition — the green dot is 2026, live
The Cup keeps growing
Finalist teams per edition
World champions
Titles by country
In the stands
Average attendance per match, by edition
On the screens
Estimated worldwide TV audience of the final, in millions — figures are industry estimates
The referee's book
Cards per match since they were introduced in 1970 — yellows on the left axis, reds on the right. Hover any point for the edition's totals.
From twelve yards
World Cup penalty shoot-out records — won in green, lost in red