List of world association football records

 

Goals and goalscoring records[edit]

Record	Player	Nationality	Year(s)	Details	Ref	Image
Highest goal-scoring goalkeeper of all time	Rogério Ceni	Brazil	1990–2015	131 goals in 1,266 games	[1]
Player who has scored the most official goals for a single club	Lionel Messi	Argentina	2005–2021	672 goals for Barcelona in 778 games	[2] [3]
The world's all-time goalscorer according to the Guinness Book of World Records and FIFA	Pelé	Brazil	1953–1977	1,283 goals in 1,384 games	[4][5][6]
The world's all-time undocumented goalscorer according to the Guinness Book of World Records	Arthur Friedenreich	Brazil	1909–1935	1,329 undocumented goals. His feat is not recognised by FIFA.	[7]
The world's all-time goalscorer according to RSSSF (official matches)	Erwin Helmchen	Germany	1926–1952	981+ goals in 595 games	[8]
The world's all-time goalscorer according to RSSSF (all matches)	Lajos Tichy	Hungary	1953–1971	1,912 goals in 1,301 games	[9]
All-time league goalscorer according to RSSSF (all leagues including regional/reserve leagues and final tournaments)	Erwin Helmchen	Germany	1926–1952	720+ goals	[10]
All-time first division goalscorer according to RSSSF	Josef Bican	Austria  Czechoslovakia	1931–1955	526 goals	[10]
All-time best club goalscorer according to IFFHS	Romário	Brazil	1985–2009	689 goals	[11]
Players to score at least 100 goals for the most clubs	Romário	Brazil		3 clubs: PSV Eindhoven (128), Flamengo (116) and Vasco da Gama (132)	[12]
	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal		3 clubs: Manchester United (142), Real Madrid (450) and Juventus (101)	[12]
	Neymar	Brazil		3 clubs: Santos (136), FC Barcelona (105) and Paris Saint-Germain (114)	[12]
Player to score most goals in international club competitions	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2004–present	150 goals: Cristiano scored 141 goals in UEFA Champions League, 7 in FIFA Club World Cup, and 2 in UEFA Super Cup.
Only player to win top-scorer awards in third, second, first division and international competitions	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	2005–present	2007 Polish third division, 2008 second division and 2010 first division. Also Bundesliga top-scorer in 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2020 UEFA Champions League.
Player to win top-scorer awards in most continents	Isidro Lángara	Spain	1930–1948	Three. He won the award with Real Club España in Mexico (CONCACAF zone) in 1944, 1946, Real Oviedo in Spain (UEFA) in 1934, 1935, 1936 and San Lorenzo in Argentina (CONMEBOL) in 1940.
Player to win most FIFA World's Best player awards	Lionel Messi	Argentina	2009–	7 awards. Messi won The Best FIFA Men's Player in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2022
Highest goal-scoring defender of all time	Ronald Koeman	Netherlands	1980–1997	207 goals in 581 games. Average of 1 goal every 2.8 games	[13]
Player with most domestic top-scorer awards according to IFFHS	Josef Bican	Austria  Czechoslovakia	1931–1955	12 wins: Czechoslovakian league in 1938, 1939, 1946, 1947, 1950; Austrian league in 1934; Bohemian/Moravian league in 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944; Czechoslovakian second division in 1949
All-time international goalscorer (national team-men)	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2004–	117 goals in 191 games.
All-time international goalscorer (national team-women)	Christine Sinclair	Canada	2000–	190 goals in 317 games.
Player who scored the most free-kick goals	Zico	Brazil	1971–1994	101 free-kick goals. 62 for Flamengo, 17 for Udinese, 15 for Kashima Antlers, and 7 for Brazil.	[14][15]
Youngest international goalscorer (national team)	Aung Kyaw Tun	Myanmar	2000	On 6 November 2000, Aung Kyaw Tun scored for Myanmar in the 2000 AFF Championship match against Thailand (3–1 defeat) at the age of 14 years and 93 days.
Player to have scored more than 50 goals in most consecutive seasons	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2010–2016	6	[16]
Player to have scored more than 40 goals in most consecutive seasons	Lionel Messi	Argentina	2009–2019	11	[17]
Goalkeepers who have scored a hat-trick	Ilija Pantelić	Yugoslavia	1963	First goalkeeper to score a hat-trick for FK Vojvodina against NK Trešnjevka in the Yugoslav first division.	[citation needed]
	José Luis Chilavert	Paraguay	1999	On 28 November 1999, Paraguayan goalkeeper José Luis Chilavert scored a hat-trick of penalties for Vélez Sársfield in a 6–1 victory against Ferro Carril Oeste.	[18][19]
	Grigoris Athanasiou	Greece	2022	Grigorios Athanasiou scored a hat-trick of penalties on 12 February 2022 in the Greek fourth division.	[20]
Player with the most goals scored in an international match	Archie Thompson	Australia	2001	On 11 April 2001, Archie Thompson scored 13 goals, in the Australia 31–0 American Samoa match as a part of the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification.	[21]
Player with most goals scored in a league match	Yanick Manzizila	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2014	Scored 21 goals in the match Kongo United 30–0 Balrog Botkyrka valid for the Swedish seventh level.	[22][23]
Player with the most goals scored in a domestic cup match	Stefan Dembicki	France	1942	In the preliminary round of the 1942-43 French Cup, Stefan Dembicki scored 16 goals in the RC Lens - Auby Asturies match (32-0). He broke the previous record of 12 September 1885, when Jocky Petrie scored 13 goals in the Arbroath - Bon Accord match (36–0), in the Scottish Cup.	[24]
Player with the most goals scored in a calendar year according to the Guinness Book of World Records	Lionel Messi	Argentina	2012	On 22 December 2012, Lionel Messi scored his 91st goal of the year against Real Valladolid. He broke the previous record of 1972, when Gerd Muller scored 85 goals in competitive matches.	[25]
Fastest goal in history	Gavin Stokes	Scotland	2017	2.1 sec	[26]
Youngest player to score a hat trick	Ntinos Pontikas	Greece	1996	On 21 September 1996, Ntinos Pontikas in his debut, aged 14 and 198 days, scored his team's all 3 goals in the Ampelokipoi-Haravgi match (4–3), in the fifth division of the Greek championship.	[27][28]
Most consecutive hat-tricks in history	Stjepan Lucijanic	Croatia	2016	On 9 November 2016, Stjepan Lucijanic scored his fifth consecutive hat-trick during the 10–0 win against NK Zrinski Drenje in the Croatian seventh division. He tallied 20 goals in those five games, breaking an 18-year-old record held by Japanese forward Masashi Nakayama, set between 15 and 29 April in 1998.	[29]
Player who scored the most official hat-tricks	Pelé	Brazil	1957–1977	96 in total	[30][31]
Player who scored at least one hat-trick in most competitions	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2002–present	10 competitions: Cristiano Ronaldo scored at least one hat-trick in the La Liga, Copa del Rey, Serie A, Premier League, FIFA Club World Cup, UEFA Champions League, World Cup qualification, Euros qualification, Nations League, and FIFA World Cup.	[32]
Fastest hat-trick in history (men)	Alex Torr	England	2013	On 4 May 2013, 20-year old Alex Torr scored a hat-trick in 70 seconds during the match between Rawson Springs and Meadowhall (7–1), in the English Sunday league of Sheffield. He broke Tommy Ross' record which was set in 1964 when he scored a hat-trick in 90 seconds for Ross County against Nairn in the Scottish fifth division.	[33]
Fastest hat-trick in history (women)	Fabienne Humm	Switzerland	2015	On 12 June 2015, Humm scored the fastest hat-trick in women's football, scoring three goals in five minutes in Switzerland's 10–1 drubbing of Ecuador during the FIFA Women's World Cup.	[34]
Fastest international hat-trick (national team)	Willie Hall	England	1938	On 16 November 1938, during the friendly between England and Northern Ireland in Manchester (7–0), Hall scored 3 goals in three and a half minutes. In that game Hall scored five goals during a 30-minute period either side of half-time.	[35]
Player to score 2 goals in less than a minute	Ignacio Scocco	Argentina	2013	On 15 August 2013, during the game between Botafogo and Internacional in the Brasileirão, Scocco scored two goals in the 33rd minute, with a difference of 49 seconds between goals.	[36]
Most goals scored by a substitute in a single game	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	2015	On 24 September 2015, during a Bundesliga game between Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg (5-1), Lewandowski came on as a substitute in the second half and scored five goals in nine minutes. 4 of them were scored within five minutes and 42 seconds.	[37]
Fastest 4 goals in a single game
Goalkeeper who scored the most goals from non-set pieces	Jorge Campos	Mexico	1988–2004	46 goals. He would often play as a forward during some games.	[38][39][40]
Player who scored the most bicycle kicks in history	Hugo Sánchez	Mexico	1972–1997	10+ bicycle kick goals	[41]
Player who scored the most Olympic goals (direct corner kick goals) of all time	Şükrü Gülesin	Turkey	1940–1955	32 goals	[42][43]
Player who scored the most penalty kicks	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2002–present	143 penalties: Cristiano Ronaldo converted 143 out of 172 penalties.	[44]
Player converted the most penalty kicks with a 100% success rate	Ledio Pano	Albania  Greece	1986–2002	Ledio Pano scored 50 penalties in 50 attempts during his career in Albania and Greece.	[45]
Longest headed goal scored	Jone Samuelsen	Norway	2011	On 25 September 2011, Jone Samuelsen scored a header from a 58.13 m (190 ft 8.58 in) distance during the ODD Grenland-Tromsø Idrettslag match (3–1), in the Norwegian first division.
Longest distance goal scored	Ubirajara Alcântara	Brazil	1970	On 19 September 1970, Flamengo goalkeeper Ubirajara Alcântara scored against Madureira Esporte Clube in the Campeonato Carioca from his goal area to the other end, a distance of 91.9 meters. The field at the time was 120 meters, the longest distance accepted by FIFA.	[46]
Longest distance goal scored according to the Guinness Book of World Records	Tom King	Wales	2021	On 21 January 2021, goalkeeper Tom King scored from own six-yard box, a distance of 96.01 meters (105 yds) for Newport County in the 1–1 draw with Cheltenham Town, in the League Two.	[47]
Players who scored in all possible minutes of a game	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2002–present	Ronaldo and Ibrahimović are the only two players to score in every minute of a match	[48]
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	1999–present
Player who scored in most competitions in one season	Fernando Torres	Spain	2012–2013	8 competitions: Premier League, FA Cup, Football League Cup, FA Community Shield, FIFA Club World Cup, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, FIFA Confederations Cup.	[49]

Appearances records[edit]

Record	Player	Nationality	Year(s)	Details	Ref	Image
Player with the most seasons as captain for one club	Francesco Totti	Italy	1998–2017	19 seasons: Totti captained Roma from 1998 until his retirement in 2017
Player with the most matches as captain for one club	Rogério Ceni	Brazil	2001–2015	978 games: Rogério Ceni captained São Paulo from 2001 until 2015	[50][51]
Player who played the most games for one club	Rogério Ceni	Brazil	1992–2015	1,237 games	[50][51]
Player who played the most official games in history	Peter Shilton	England	1966–1997	1,390 games over 31 seasons.
Player with the most international club competition appearances in history	Iker Casillas	Spain	1999–2019	192 appearances: 188 in UEFA club competitions, 2 in Intercontinental Cup, 2 in FIFA Club World Cup.	[52]
Player with the most international caps in history (men)	Soh Chin Ann	Malaysia	1969–1984	219 caps.	[53]
Player with the most international caps in history (women)	Kristine Lilly	United States	1987–2010	354 caps.
Player that spent the most years on top of the international caps record list	Billy Wright	England	1957–1970	13 years: Billy Wright broke Ferenc Puskas' record in 1957 but his 105 cap record was surpassed in 1970 by Bobby Charlton.
Player with the most international caps for an amateur national team	Billy Neil	Scotland	1957–1969	45 caps for the Scotland national amateur football team.
Player with most international goals for an amateur national team	Vivian Woodward	England	1906–1914	57 goals for the England national amateur football team.
Youngest footballer to play in a professional league	Eric Godpower Marshall	Liberia	2021	In April 2021, 11-year-old Liberian Eric Godpower Marshall debuted in a professional match in Liberia's fourth division, breaking the record previously held by 12-year-old Bolivian Mauricio Baldivieso since 2009.	[54][55]
Oldest professional football player (longest career span)	Kazuyoshi Miura	Japan	1986–present	Japanese striker Kazu Miura continues playing football for Suzuka Point Getters having surpassed the age of 55.	[56]
Longest career span according to the Guinness Book of World Records	Robert Carmona	Uruguay	1976–present	45 seasons	[57][58]
Oldest footballer according to the Guinness Book of World Records	Ezzeldin Bahader	Egypt	2020	On 6 October 2020, 74-year old Ezzeldin Bahader became the oldest footballer in history featuring in his team's match against El Ayat Sports (defeat by 3–2) in the Egyptian third division. He broke Israeli goalkeeper Isaak Hayik's record who had become the oldest on 5 April 2019 at the age of 73, when he played for Ironi Or Yehuda in the south group of the Israeli third division.	[59]
Oldest (veteran football) player	Dickie Borthwick	England	–2019	86-year old Dickie Borthwick, who made more than 1,600 appearances over the course of a 79-year career, scoring around 400 goals.	[60] [61]

Other records[edit]

Record	Player	Nationality	Year(s)	Details	Ref	Image
Most decorated player of all-time	Ángel Romano	Uruguay	1910–1930	50 titles won	[62]
Most decorated player (official titles)	Dani Alves	Brazil	2001–present	43 titles won	[63] [64]
Player who won most league titles in history	Roar Strand	Norway	1989–2017	16 Norwegian league titles with Rosenborg BK in 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, and 2010.
Player with the most world titles in history	Toni Kroos	Germany	2013–2018	6 world titles: 1 FIFA World Cup (2014) and 5 FIFA Club World Cups (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Goalkeeper who saved most penalties in history according to FIFA	Lev Yashin	Soviet Union	1950–1970	150+ penalties: Russian goalkeeper Lev Yashin saved a world-record 150-plus penalties for Dynamo Moscow and Soviet Union.	[65]
Goalkeeper with the most clean sheets in history	Lev Yashin	Soviet Union	1949–1971	270 matches without a goal	[66]
Goalkeeper with the most consecutive minutes without conceding a goal	Mazaropi	Brazil	1977–1978	1,816 minutes without a goal	[67]
First goalkeeper in history to score a goal	Charlie Williams	England	1900	First goalkeeper ever to score from open play in a competitive match, playing for Manchester City he scored against Sunderland on 14 April 1900.	[68]
Player who missed most penalties in one game	Martín Palermo	Argentina	1999	On 4 July 1999, Martin Palermo missed 3 penalties during the Copa America match between Argentina and Colombia (0-3).	[69]
Player most sent-off during his career	Gerardo Bedoya	Colombia	1995–2015	46 red cards in total	[70]
Players with most not-deliberate own goals in a single match	Stan van den Buys (men)	Belgium	1995	3 own goals	[71]
	Meikayla Moore (women)	New Zealand	2022		[72]
Heaviest football player in history	William Foulke	England	1908	William Foulke was 2.01 m tall, weighed 141 kg when he started, but at the end of his career he was weighing 165 kg.
Tallest professional football player in history	Simon Bloch Jørgensen	Denmark	2010–present	2.10 m (6 ft 10+1⁄2 in)	[73]
Shortest professional football player in history	Bimbinha	Brazil		1.47 m (4 ft 10 in)	[74]
Player who played for most clubs during his professional career	Sebastián Abreu	Uruguay	1993–2021	31 clubs	[75] [76] [77] [78] [79]
Player who played in every continent during his professional career	Lutz Pfannenstiel	Germany	1991–2011	Goalkeeper Lutz Pfannenstiel is the only player in history to have played for clubs in Africa, Central America, North America, South America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. He played for 27 clubs during his career including 2 as a youth player.
Player who played in most divisions with one club	Nathan Pond	England		Played for Fleetwood Town in 7 divisions of English football: North West Counties League, Northern Premier League Division 1 North, Northern Premier League Premier Division, Conference North, Conference Premier, Football League 2 and Football League 1.
Highest number of siblings (3) to score on the same day	Thanasis Dimopoulos, Christos Dimopoulos and Spyros Dimopoulos	Greece	1992	On 2 February 1992, Brothers Thanasis Dimopoulos, Christos Dimopoulos and Spyros Dimopoulos scored on the same day, in the Greek first division. Christos Dimopoulos scored twice for Athinaikos against Panserraikos (2–0), Thanasis scored once for Iraklis Thessaloniki in an away game against Panionios (2–2) and youngest brother Spyros for Ethnikos Piraeus in their win over Apollon Smyrnis at Karaiskakis Stadium.	[80][81]
Footballer to play both an international and a domestic game on the same day	Juninho Paulista	Brazil	1994	On 16 November 1994, Juninho Paulista played two games for São Paulo. The first was during the first leg of the Copa CONMEBOL quarter-finals against Sporting Cristal from Peru (3–1 win) with São Paulo using their the reserve team. In the second, he come on as a second-half substitute against Grêmio in the Brazilian Championship (also with a 3–1 win).	[35]

Coaches[edit]

Coaches in bold are still active.

See also: List of world champion football club winning managers

Record	Manager	Nationality	Details	Ref	Image
Only manager in history to win all six European titles in one calendar year	Pep Guardiola	Spain	In his first season in charge, Pep Guardiola completed a historic double treble, winning the Copa del Rey, La Liga, the Champions League, the Spanish Super Cup, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup: six trophies out of six in the 2009 calendar year.
Longest-serving manager in history	Amadeu Teixeira	Brazil	Amadeu Teixeira was in charge of América de Manaus for 53 years (1955–2008), and he was also one of the founders of the club in 1939.	[82]
Most decorated manager	Alex Ferguson	Scotland	He won 49 titles, including 13 Premier League, 2 UEFA Champions League, 1 Intercontinental Cup and 1 FIFA Club World Cup.	[83]
Manager who won the most league titles	Bill Struth	Scotland	18 league titles: he won the Scottish first division with Rangers in 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1947, 1949, 1950, and 1953.
Most short-lived coach in a club	Leroy Rosenior	England	Ten minutes in charge of Torquay United	[84]

Clubs[edit]

See also: List of association football teams to have won four or more trophies in one season

Record	Club	Nationality	Year(s)	Details	Ref	Image
Club that has scored the most goals in history	Santos	Brazil		12,691 (up to 2021), Source: FIFA	[85][86]
Club with most international major trophies won	Real Madrid	Spain		28 trophies: 14 UEFA Champions League 2 UEFA Cup 5 UEFA Super Cup 3 Intercontinental Cup 4 FIFA Club World Cup	[87]
Club with the most consecutive continental club titles	Auckland City	New Zealand	2010–11 to 2017	7 OFC Champions League titles in a row
Club with most trophies won	Linfield	Northern Ireland		272 trophies	[88]
Club with most titles in the same competition	ABC	Brazil		57 Campeonato Potiguar titles.	[89]
Club with most national league titles	Linfield	Northern Ireland		56 Irish League titles.
Club with the most national championships won in a row	Tafea	Vanuatu	1994 to 2008–09	15 Port Vila Football League consecutive titles.	[90]
Club with most domestic titles in history	Linfield	Northern Ireland		100 national titles won (56 Irish League titles and 44 Irish Cup wins)
Club with more tier level titles	Arsenal de Sarandí	Argentina		Arsenal de Sarandi won 4 of the 5 Argentinian football tier levels, the domestic cup and the supercup.	[91]
First football club	The Gymnastic Society	England	1796		[92]
Oldest football club that is still active	Sheffield F.C.	England		Since 1848	[93]
Longest winning streak for a first division club (Men)	The New Saints	Wales	2016–2017	27 consecutive wins. It broke Ajax's record with 26 consecutive wins which lasted from 3 October 1971 to 29 March 1972.	[94]
Longest winning streak for a first division club (Women)	FC Barcelona	Spain	2021–22	45 consecutive wins	[95]
Longest streak for a club scoring at least 1 goal	River Plate	Argentina	1936–1939	96 consecutive games	[96]
Longest losing streak for a club	Corintians de Casa Branca	Brazil	1980–1984	62 consecutive losses at Paulista third level	[97]

Championships / Cups[edit]

Record	Competition	Country	Year(s)	Details	Ref	Image
Competition with most clubs participated in total	Copa Perú	Peru		More than 20,000 at the District stage	[98]
Shortest National Championship	Greenlandic Football Championship	Greenland		7 days	[99]
Football League with less clubs	Isles of Scilly Football League	Isles of Scilly		Only two clubs contests the league: Woolpack Wanderers and the Garrison Gunners, playing each other eighteen times every season.	[100]
Oldest national championship	English Football League	England		First edition held in 1888
Oldest football competition	FA Cup	England		First edition held in 1871

World Competitions[edit]

FIFA World Cup[edit]

Players and coaches in bold are still active.

Main article: FIFA World Cup records

Record	Name	Nationality	Year(s)	Details	Ref	Image
Sportsman who won most World Cups as player or manager (men)	Mário Zagallo	Brazil	1958, 1962, 1970, 1994	As a Player in 1958 and 1962; as a coach in 1970; as an Assistant coach in 1994.
World Cup's all-time goalscorer (men)	Miroslav Klose	Germany	2002–2014	16 goals in 4 editions: 5 goals at the 2002 World Cup, 5 goals in 2006, 4 goals in 2010, 2 goals in 2014.
World Cup's all-time goalscorer (women)	Marta	Brazil	2003–2019	17 goals in 5 editions: 3 goals at the 2003 World Cup, 7 goals at the 2007 World Cup, 4 goals in 2011, 1 goal in the 2015, 2 goals in 2019.
Player scored most goals in a single edition	Just Fontaine	France	1958	13 goals.
Only player to score in five World Cups	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022.
Fastest goal in World Cup (men)	Hakan Sukur	Turkey	2002	11 seconds
Player who played the most World Cup finals in a row	Cafu	Brazil	1994, 1998, 2002	3 finals: he won 1994 and 2002
Player who played most World Cup matches	Lothar Matthäus	Germany	1982–1998	25 matches (2,052 min.)
Oldest player to score in a World Cup	Roger Milla	Cameroon	1994	42 years and 39 days
Youngest player to score in a World Cup	Pelé	Brazil	1958	17 years and 239 days.
Oldest player to play in a World Cup	Essam El Hadary	Egypt	2018	45 years and 161 days.
Youngest player to play in a World Cup	Norman Whiteside	Northern Ireland	1982	17 years and 41 days.
Youngest player to score hat-trick in a World Cup	Pelé	Brazil	1958	On 24 June 1958, Pele scored a hat-trick in the 1958 semifinal against France (5-2) at 17 years and 244 days.
Manager with most games in charge of the same national team in the World Cup	Óscar Tabárez	Uruguay	1990–2018	20 matches in 4 World Cups for Uruguay: 1990, 2010, 2014 and 2018.	[101]
Manager with most teams managed in the World Cup	Carlos Alberto Parreira	Brazil	1982–2010	Managed a national team during a World Cup Finals for 6 times: Kuwait (1982), United Arab Emirates (1990), Brazil (1994, champions), Saudi Arabia (1998, sacked during the tournament), Brazil (2006), and South Africa (2010, host).
Player who won most World Cup matches	Miroslav Klose	Germany	2002–2014	17 matches in 4 world cups
National team that scored the most goals in a single World Cup	Hungary	Hungary	1954	27 goals

Olympic Games[edit]

Players in bold are still active.

See also: Football at the Summer Olympics

Record	Name	Nationality	Year(s)	Details	Ref	Image
Most goals in an Olympic tournament (Men)	Ferenc Bene	Hungary	1964	12 goals	[102]
Most goals in an Olympic tournament (Women)	Cristiane	Brazil	2012	12 goals
Fastest goal in Olympic Games (Men)	Neymar	Brazil	2016	In the semi-final of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro 2016 against the Honduras National Team, Neymar opened the scoring fourteen seconds into the game
Oldest scorer/ Oldest player in Olympic Games (Men's)	Ryan Giggs	United Kingdom	2012	On July 29, Welsh Ryan Giggs, aged 39, a member of the British National Team, set two records: the oldest player to compete in the Olympic football tournament and the oldest to score a goal in that competition, in the match against the United Arab Emirates.
Oldest player in Olympic Games (Women's)	Formiga	Brazil	2021	43 years and 138 days at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
National team with most Olympic achievements (Men's Football)	Brazil	Brazil	2020, 2016, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2008, 2012	7 Olympic Medals: 2 Gold (2016 and 2020), 3 Silver (1984, 1988 and 2012) and 2 Bronzes (1996 and 2008)
National team that scored the most goals in a single edition of the Olympic Games (Men's)	Denmark	Denmark	1908	26 goals
	Yugoslavia	Yugoslavia	1952
Only team to win the gold medal with a 100% record and without conceding a goal (Men's)	Argentina	Argentina	2004	Gold medal: 6 wins in 6 games, 17 goals scored and no goals conceded

FIFA Club World Cup[edit]

Main article: FIFA Club World Cup records and statistics

See also: List of world champion football clubs

Other world records[edit]

Record	Name	Nationality	Year(s)	Details	Ref	Image
Most own goals scored in a single match (in protest)	AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne	Madagascar	2002	On 31 October 2002, in the Malagasy Pro League, AS Adema beat SO Emyrne 149–0. All goals scored were deliberate own goals in protest against a doubtful penalty against SOE in the previous game.
Highest score in a single match (clubs)	Pelileo SC 44–1 Indi Native	Ecuador	2016	On 23 May 2016, Pelileo Sporting Club beat Indi Native by 44–1, a margin of 43 goals in the Ecuadorian third division (Segunda Categoría de Tungurahua). Pelileo SC scored 24 goals in the first half and 20 in the second half.	[103][104]
Highest score in a single match (international)	Vanuatu 46–0 Micronesia (U–23)	Vanuatu	2015	On 7 July 2015, Vanuatu beat Micronesia by 46–0 in a match valid by the 2015 Pacific Games. Micronesia was also lost by 0–30 and 0–38 against Tahiti and Fiji, respectively. The record is contested as Micronesia is not affiliated with FIFA.	[105][106]
Highest score in a penalty shootout in history	Washington 3–3 Bedlington, penalties 25–24.	England	2022	On 9 March 2022, at the end of the Ernest Armstrong Memorial Cup tie 2021/22, Washington played Bedlington in England's North-East and the match finished in a 3–3 draw. A total of 54 penalties were taken with Washington winning 25–24.	[107]
Longest penalty shootout in history	Washington 3–3 Bedlington, 54 penalties taken
Most red cards given in a match	Claypole – Victoriano Arenas	Argentina	2011	On 3 March 2011, 36 players were shown a red card by referee Damian Rubino in a match between Victoriano Arenas and Claypole, in the Argentine fifth division. All 22 players on the pitch and a combination of 14 subs and coaches received red cards. The match was eventually abandoned.	[108]
Longest football match	Stockport County 3–2 Doncaster Rovers, 3 hours and 23 minutes	England	1946	On 30 March 1946. It was a Division Three North Cup replay, after the first game ended 2–2 and, as it would turn out, 203 more minutes could not yield a victor. Tied once more at 2–2 after 90 minutes, the game between Stockport and Doncaster then went into extra time, but 30 more minutes were insufficient, with the two teams unable to score in that time period. The 'play to win' rule was commonplace in English football during the wartime period of the 1940s and it was a form of 'golden goal' – in essence, 'next goal wins'. Stockport thought they had clinched the winner on the 173rd minute.	[109][110]
Longest women soccer game	SF Winterbach and TGIF‐EC Wallhalben	Germany	2019	A record 168 hours by SF Winterbach and TGIF‐EC Wallhalben was held in Winterbach, Germany from 29 May 2019 to 5 June 2019 with the end results of SF Winterbach 1,797 - TGIF-EC Wallhalben 1,830.	[111]
Team that played most games on the same day	Grêmio	Brazil	1994	On December 11, 1994, Grêmio played three matches on a single day during the 1994 Campeonato Gaúcho, with kick-off times of 2PM, 4PM, and 6PM, due to their extensive schedule. They won two and drew the third match, using a total of 34 different players.	[112]
Highest attendance in a football match	Uruguay 2–1 Brazil, Maracanã	Brazil	1950	199,854 spectators. Unofficially it is estimated that a crowd of 210,000 was in the stadium.