2010 FIFA World Cup statistics

Goalscorers

The winner of the Golden Boot was Thomas Müller. Of all players that scored five goals during the tournament, Müller had the most assists (three); the other three players had one assist each. In total, 145 goals were scored by 98 different players, with two of them credited as own goals.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goals

Daniel Agger (against the Netherlands)

Park Chu-young (against Argentina)

Assists

Kaká won the assists table with three assists in 337 minutes (least minutes).

3 assists

2 assists

1 assist

Source: FIFA

Scoring

Overall

Total number of goals scored: 145

Average goals per match: 2.27

Total number of braces: 10
Luís Fabiano, Diego Forlán, Miroslav Klose, Thomas Müller, Wesley Sneijder, Luis Suárez, Carlos Tevez, Tiago, David Villa, Róbert Vittek

Total number of hat-tricks: 1
Gonzalo Higuaín

Total number of penalty kicks awarded: 15

Total number of penalty kicks scored: 9
Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Landon Donovan, Samuel Eto'o, Diego Forlán, Asamoah Gyan (2), Vincenzo Iaquinta, Róbert Vittek, Yakubu

Total number of penalty kicks missed or saved: 6
Xabi Alonso, Óscar Cardozo, Asamoah Gyan, Lukas Podolski, Jon Dahl Tomasson, David Villa

Penalty kick success rate: 7001600000000000000♠60%

Own goals scored: 2
Daniel Agger, Park Chu-Young

Timing

First goal of the tournament: Siphiwe Tshabalala for South Africa against Mexico

First brace of the tournament: Diego Forlán for Uruguay against South Africa

First hat-trick of the tournament: Gonzalo Higuaín for Argentina against South Korea

Last goal of the tournament: Andrés Iniesta for Spain against Netherlands

Last brace of the tournament: Miroslav Klose for Germany against Argentina

Last hat-trick of the tournament: Gonzalo Higuaín for Argentina against South Korea

Fastest goal in a match from kickoff: 3rd minute (2:38)
Thomas Müller for Germany against Argentina

Fastest goal in a match after coming on as a substitute: 2 minutes
Cacau for Germany against Australia, Rodrigo Millar for Chile against Spain, Kamil Kopúnek for Slovakia against Italy

Latest goal in a match without extra time: 90+5th minute
Álvaro Pereira for Uruguay against South Africa

Latest goal in a match with extra time: 116th minute
Andrés Iniesta for Spain against Netherlands

Latest winning goal in a match without extra time: 90+1st minute
Landon Donovan for United States against Algeria

Latest winning goal in a match with extra time: 116th minute
Andrés Iniesta for Spain against Netherlands

Shortest time difference between two goals scored by the same team in a match: 2 minutes (1:29)
Cristiano Ronaldo and Tiago for Portugal against North Korea

Teams

Most goals scored by a team: 16
Germany

Fewest goals scored by a team: 0
Algeria, Honduras

Most goals conceded by a team: 12
North Korea

Fewest goals conceded by a team: 1
Portugal, Switzerland

Best goal difference: +11
Germany

Worst goal difference: -11
North Korea

Most goals scored in a match by both teams: 7
Portugal 7–0 North Korea

Most goals scored in a match by one team: 7
Portugal against North Korea

Most goals scored in a match by the losing team: 2
Italy against Slovakia, Uruguay against Netherlands, Uruguay against Germany

Biggest margin of victory: 7 goals
Portugal 7–0 North Korea

Most clean sheets achieved by a team: 5
Spain

Fewest clean sheets achieved by a team: 0
Australia, Cameroon, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Nigeria, North Korea, Slovakia, South Africa

Most clean sheets given by an opposing team: 3
Algeria, Honduras, Paraguay, Portugal

Fewest clean sheets given by an opposing team: 0
Italy, South Korea, United States

Most consecutive clean sheets achieved by a team: 4
Spain

Most consecutive clean sheets given by an opposing team: 3
Algeria, Honduras, Paraguay

Individual

Most goals scored by an individual: 5
Diego Forlán, Thomas Müller, Wesley Sneijder, David Villa

Most assists given by an individual: 3
Kaká, Dirk Kuyt, Thomas Müller, Mesut Özil, Bastian Schweinsteiger

Most goals and assists produced by an individual: 8
Thomas Müller (5 goals, 3 assists)

Most clean sheets achieved by a goalkeeper: 5
Iker Casillas

Fewest clean sheets achieved by a goalkeeper: 0
Gianluigi Buffon, Hans-Jörg Butt, Faouzi Chaouchi, Vincent Enyeama, Robert Green, Souleymanou Hamidou, Moeneeb Josephs, Itumeleng Khune, Federico Marchetti, Ján Mucha, Ri Myong-Guk, Mark Schwarzer, Thomas Sørensen, Alexandros Tzorvas

Most consecutive clean sheets achieved by a goalkeeper: 4
Iker Casillas

Most goals scored by one player in a match: 3
Gonzalo Higuaín for Argentina against South Korea

Oldest goal scorer: 37 years and 5 months
Cuauhtémoc Blanco for Mexico against France

Youngest goal scorer: 20 years and 9 months
Thomas Müller for Germany against Australia

Wins and losses

Most wins: 6 – Netherlands, Spain

Fewest wins: 0 – Algeria, Cameroon, France, Honduras, Italy, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Korea

Most losses: 3 – Cameroon, North Korea

Fewest losses: 0 – New Zealand

Most draws: 3 – New Zealand, Paraguay

Fewest draws: 0 – Argentina, Cameroon, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, North Korea, Serbia, Spain

Most points in the group stage: 9 – Argentina, Netherlands

Fewest points in the group stage: 0 – Cameroon, North Korea

Man of the Match

Wesley Sneijder received four Man of the Match awards, more than any other player.

Discipline

Total number of yellow cards: 261

Average yellow cards per match: 4.08

Total number of red cards: 17

Average red cards per match: 0.27

First yellow card of the tournament:
Efraín Juárez for Mexico against South Africa

First red card of the tournament:
Nicolás Lodeiro for Uruguay against France

Fastest yellow card from kick off: 2nd minute
Humberto Suazo for Chile against Switzerland

Fastest yellow card after coming on as a substitute: 1 minute
Abdelkader Ghezzal for Algeria against Slovenia (introduced in the 58th minute)

Latest yellow card in a match without extra time: 90+5th minute
Hassan Yebda for Algeria against Slovenia, Mark van Bommel for Netherlands against Uruguay

Latest yellow card in a match with extra time: 120+1st minute
Xavi for Spain against Netherlands

Fastest dismissal from kick off: 24 minutes
Harry Kewell for Australia against Ghana

Fastest dismissal of a substitute: 15 minutes
Abdelkader Ghezzal for Algeria against Slovenia (introduced in the 58th minute)

Latest dismissal in a match without extra time: 90+3rd minute
Antar Yahia for Algeria against United States

Latest dismissal in a match with extra time: 120+1st minute
Luis Suárez for Uruguay against Ghana

Shortest time difference between two yellow cards given to the same player: 3 minutes
Kaká for Brazil against Ivory Coast (booked in the 85th minute and again in the 88th minute)

Most yellow cards (team): 24
Netherlands

Most red cards (team): 2
Algeria, Australia, Brazil, Uruguay

Fewest yellow cards (team): 2
North Korea

Most yellow cards (player): 3
Víctor Cáceres, Nigel de Jong, John Heitinga, Kaká, Aleksandar Luković, Gregory van der Wiel

Most red cards (player): 1
Valon Behrami, Tim Cahill, Ricardo Costa, Marco Estrada, Abdelkader Ghezzal, Yoann Gourcuff, Johnny Heitinga, Sani Kaita, Kaká, Harry Kewell, Itumeleng Khune, Miroslav Klose, Nicolás Lodeiro, Aleksandar Luković, Felipe Melo, Luis Suárez, Antar Yahia

Most yellow cards (match): 14
Netherlands vs Spain

Most red cards (match): 1
17 different matches

Fewest yellow cards (match): 0
North Korea vs Ivory Coast, Germany vs Spain

Most cards in one match: 14 yellow cards and 1 red card
Netherlands vs Spain

Multiple World Cups

Scoring at three or more World Cups

Appearing in four World Cups

Overall results

Bold numbers indicate the maximum values in each column.

By team

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.