2010 FIFA World Cup statistics

This article gives an overview of the Records and Statistics for the Soccer World Cup in 2010.

Scorer

Final Table 2010 World Cup

The following rankings take into account the criteria of FIFA.

Notes:

• Decisive for the order after FIFA criteria is reached the first round (winner, finalist, Third, semi-finalist, quarter-finalist, finalist eighth, first round participants). If the achieved lap right to decide the number according to the number of points, the goal difference, the number of goals scored and the direct comparison.
• Decisions on penalties are counted in these statistics as a draw. The goals were scored in a penalty shootout are not counted as in all statistics as gates.

Player

• The youngest player was 18 years and 130 days, the Dane Christian Eriksen ( born February 14, 1992), he was once employed.
• The oldest was 39 years of goalkeeper David James ( born August 1, 1970) from England.
• The largest player was 2.02 m Nikola Žigić (Serbia ), the smallest Aaron Lennon ( England) with 1.65 m.
• In the last match of group D for the first duel of two brothers in a World Cup. Kevin -Prince Boateng ( Ghana) met his younger half-brother Jérôme Boateng ( Germany ).
• With Wilson, Jerry and Johnny Palacios ( Honduras all ) were for the first time three brothers together in a World Cup squad. Johnny, the youngest of the brothers, but did not play.
• With the bench in the final group game Rigobert Song (Cameroon ) was used as the first African player in four World Cups. Song has played at the World Championships in 1994, 1998 and 2002 for Cameroon; In 2006, he was missing because Cameroon did not qualify. Your fourth world (after 1998, 2002 and 2006) also played Fabio Cannavaro (Italy ), Thierry Henry ( France) and Denis Caniza (Paraguay ). For the fourth time in a World Cup squad, but without having been used in any FIFA World Cup, also survived the keeper Gianluigi Buffon ( Italy), Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi and Seigo Narazaki (both Japan) and Lee Woon- jae (South Korea).
• A total of 14 players participated, who had already won at a previous world championship title ( nine Italians, four Brazilians and a Frenchman ).
• Two players at the World Cup denied her 100th international game: Giovanni van Bronckhorst (Netherlands, in the group match against Denmark) and Miroslav Klose ( Germany, in the quarter- final against Argentina). A total of 14 players were used, who played at least 100 matches.
• The Mexicans Cuauhtémoc Blanco went through his Foulelfmetertor in the preliminary round match against France with 37 years and 151 days, the third oldest scorer in World Cup history. Blanco (born 17 January 1973) was also the oldest outfield player of the tournament.
• Only three teams exclusively use a player from domestic leagues. In contrast, in Nigeria's squad were only players who play in foreign leagues. The following table is the number for the World Cup qualifiers, the playing in foreign leagues in the various confederations and the domestic league players together (as Before the World Cup ).

Coach

• Otto Rehhagel surpassed with 71 years as coach of Greece eight years earlier established by Cesare Maldini record as the oldest coach at the World Cup.
• Vicente del Bosque surpassed with 59 years as coach of Spain 's record of Helmut Schön in 1974 58 years and 295 days old was the oldest coach of a world champion.
• Twelve teams coached by foreign coaches.
• Most coaches came from Argentina and Germany (three ), two each from Brazil, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Serbia.
• The coach of Colombia (Honduras ) and Sweden ( Ivory Coast and Nigeria ) were the only ones whose homelands had not qualified for the tournament.
• Carlos Alberto Parreira, coach of South Africa experienced its sixth World Cup as a head coach. He previously oversaw five different countries at the World Championships ( first Kuwait 1982); with Brazil 1994 he became world champion.
• The senior team leader of the World Cup was Morten Olsen, who looks after the Danish selection since July 2000.
• Two head coach (Diego Maradona for Argentina, Dunga for Brazil) had already become a world champion players. However, both resigned from their teams in the quarterfinals.
• Only two countries joined again with the same head coach as early as 2006 in Germany: World champions Italy with Marcello Lippi and runners-up France with Raymond Domenech. Both countries have failed in the preliminary round.
• Overall, attended eleven coaches who had acted already at least one previous World Cup as a head coach.
• Eight trainers were earlier used themselves as a player in a World Cup.
• For two teams, a son of the particular coach was part of the squad: For Slovakia Vladimír Weiss played under the auspices of his father of the same name, for the United States expired on Michael Bradley, who was cared for by his father Bob Bradley. Michael Bradley is also the first World Cup goal scorer, who was trained by his father. For the Netherlands Mark van Bommel was used, the son of the coach of the Netherlands, Bert van Marwijk.

Penalties

• The first penalty was in the game Serbia - Ghana whistled. Asamoah Gyan scored to make it 1-0 final score for Ghana.
• Ghana is the first team, which reached only by penalty goals the knockout stages of a World Cup. In the quarter- final against Uruguay they then retired but from on penalties, which Gyan could have prevented, if he had converted a penalty shortly before the end of extra time.
• In the quarter- final match Paraguay - Spain there was within two minutes of each one penalty for both teams, however, could not be changed.
• The missed David Villa in the match against Honduras Penalty was the first who was fired for Spain at the World Cup.
• Iker Casillas is held by his penalty against Paraguay the first goalkeeper who could hold in two World Cup tournaments a penalty. Previously, he had given a penalty against Ireland in 2002.

Sent off

• The first yellow card saw Nicolás Lodeiro of Uruguay in the 81st minute of the match against France.
• Tim Cahill (Australia) sent off in the match against Germany was the first red card of the tournament.
• John Heitinga received a second player in a World Cup final and first in the extension of the final yellow card. The first Marcel Desailly had received in the regular season in 1998.

Goals

• The North Korean national football team suffered with twelve gates in the first round the most goals.
• Argentina and Portugal the most goals (both 7 ), Portugal achieved in the preliminary round while all in the same game ( against North Korea).
• The highest-scoring games of the tournament: Portugal - North Korea 7-0 ( first round ); Argentina - South Korea 4-1 ( first round ); Slovakia - Italy 3-2 ( first round ); Germany - England 4-1 ( second round ); Uruguay - Netherlands 2:3 ( semifinal ); Uruguay - Germany 2:3 ( 3rd place match ); Argentina - Germany 0:4 ( Quarter-finals ).
• Six Preliminaries - including two with Portuguese participation - ended 0:0; also the last sixteen Paraguay - Japan, which was by extension from Paraguay won by 0-0 in a penalty shootout.
• The first goal of the World Cup Siphiwe Tshabalala scored in the 55th minute of the opening game. It was also also the first World Cup goal of the story on African soil.
• The first shot Daniel Agger own goal in the 46th minute in the match Netherlands against Denmark.
• Portugal and Uruguay survived as the only teams the first round without conceding a goal. Both had only suffered a goal in the second round, which meant the resignation of Portugal.
• Algeria and Honduras eliminated from the tournament, to have achieved without a goal.
• The average of 2.2 goals per game after the second round was just below the negative record of 2.21 goals per game of the World Cup 1990. Due to the quarterfinals of the average rose to 2.22 and the semi-finals to 2.24 goals per game. By the finals, especially the 3rd place match in the fall 5 goals, the cut was raised to 2.27. He is the second worst in World Cup history. Torquoten at the World Cup tournaments
• The 1:1 by Dimitrios Salpingidis in the second group match of the Greeks against Nigeria in the 44th minute was the first Greek World Cup goal.
• The fastest goal in a game at the World Cup 2010 Thomas Mueller scored in the quarter final Argentina - Germany after 158 seconds.
• The Latest Gate ( without extensions ) achieved Álvaro Pereira ( Uruguay), when he met in the second group match against South Africa in the fifth minute of stoppage time in a 3-0 final score. The latest game -winning goal succeeded Winston Reid ( New Zealand), the offsetting in the first group match against Slovakia in the third minute of injury time to 1:1.
• For the first time since the second round takes place after the group stage, he managed a team in Germany with eighth - and to achieve a total of 8 goals quarterfinals. The previous record was seven gates (Brazil, 1998).
• With 16 hits Germany was the highest-scoring team in the tournament.
• Spain ranged absolute and relative terms, the fewest goals of all previous world champion: 8 goals in 7 games = 1.14 / game. The previous record low was 11 Goals ( Italien/1938, England/1966 and Brasilien/1994 ) or 1.57 goals / game ( Brasilien/1994 ).

Draw games

• The draw against Slovakia gave New Zealand their first point at a World Cup.
• Italy increased its draw - record at world championships to 21, previously held Italy and Germany share the record with 19 draws.
• The 1-1 draw against Australia was the first draw for Ghana at the World Cup.
• The 2-2 draw against the United States was the first Slovenian draw in a World Cup.
• The 0-0 draw against Portugal was the first draw for the Ivory Coast at the World Cup.

Win

• Argentina and the Netherlands were the only teams to win all three group games.
• The 7:0 Portugal against North Korea is the highest Portuguese World Cup victory.
• The 2-1 victory against Nigeria was the first Greek victory in a World Cup.
• The 1-0 win over Algeria was the first Slovenian victory in a World Cup.
• In group D all four teams ( Germany, Ghana, Australia and Serbia) managed at least one victory, Germany won two games.

Loss

• The 0:7 North Korea vs Portugal is the heaviest defeat of North Korea.
• The 1:4 of England against Germany is the highest World Cup defeat of England.
• The 0:4 Argentina against Germany is the biggest defeat of Argentina against Germany and the second highest of Argentina at a World Cup.
• In Group D, all four teams lost at least one game, Serbia lost two games.
• Mexico increased its own defeats record to 24 ( previously 22) and retired for the fifth time in a row in the second round.
• Brazil and Argentina eliminated twice in a row in the quarterfinals of the tournament; Argentina, both times against the later bronze medalist Germany ( in both 2006 and 2010), Brazil to the eventual World Cup runner-up ( 2006, France, Holland, 2010 ).

For in the first round

• With Italy for the fourth time difference, the reigning world champion in the first round, Italy was hit for the second time after 1950.
• New Zealand retired after three draws unbeaten from a group of third parties. When applying the previously applicable ( up to and including the World Cup 1990) Two - point rule New Zealand had reached the knockout stages. As the world champions Spain had lost his first round match against Switzerland, New Zealand remained as the only unbeaten team in the tournament.
• The Ivory Coast team scored four goals in the group stage and yet they are not moved into the second round. The teams from England and Ghana, however, ranged two, Mexico and Chile only three goals for the feeder. Already in 2006, the Ivory Coast had only the third -ranked group even though they shot more goals than other teams.
• With South Africa for the first time different from the host in the first round.
• With France and Italy left the first time at a World Cup both finalists of the previous World Cup in the preliminary round of. In 1934 defending champion Uruguay, did not participate and finalist Argentina already retired from in the 1st round.
• Denmark arbitration for the first time in the first round of a football World Cup, they survived in their last three finals appearances in 1986, 1998, 2002 always the first round.

Knockout round

• A negative goal difference ranged South Korea ( 5:6 ) and Slovakia ( 4:5 ) for the knockout phase, while the Ivory Coast 4-3 performed better here.
• With Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay for the first time reached four South African teams the quarterfinals. The previous record was three teams (1970 and 1978). With 5 teams in the second round of the South American teams set also set a new record for the CONMEBOL. Thus, the South African Association of the only one whose representative was the preliminary round survived completely. This was the South Americans had previously only in 1978 with three teams in 1986 with 4 teams ( thereby Uruguay as one of the best third ), 1990 with 4 teams (where Argentina, Colombia and Uruguay as three of the best third ), Central and North America in 1994 with two teams (including the United States as one of the best third ), the Asians in 1966 with the North Koreans and Oceania 2006 Australia (now a member of the Asian Association ).
• Mexico arbitration for the fifth time in a row in the second round of a World Cup tournament.
• With Germany, the Netherlands and Spain for the first time reached only three European teams the quarterfinals. The previous negative record was 4 teams (1970 and 2002). However, could reach the semifinals all three European teams, while of the four South American representatives only Uruguay reached the semifinals. The maximum number of eight was reached in 1934.
• The first extension played teams from Ghana and the USA. Ghana was able to prevail in this case with a goal by Asamoah Gyan in the 93rd minute.
• The first penalty shootout at this World Cup took place in the second-round match Paraguay - instead of Japan, this won Paraguay by 5-3.
• With Ghana reached the third time (after Cameroon in 1990 and Senegal in 2002 ), an African team the quarterfinals.
• For the second time after 2002 came together each teams from different continents in every quarter finals. In 2002 the event has gathered four European representatives, representatives from 4 different confederations (Africa, Asia, North and South America ), 2010 there were 4 South American teams that met three European teams and one African team.
• The first time was no South American team in an outside Europe taking place finish.
• Spain is the first world champion, the to four 1-0 victories were enough in the K. -o- round and the first world champion after a defeat in the first game.
• Spain is the first European team that wins the title outside Europe.

Referee

• Jorge Larrionda presented with the game Germany - England a record of Joël Quiniou who first eight games conducted 1986-1994 at three World Cup tournaments. Larrionda needed for only two World Cup tournaments. With the game for 3rd place also presented Benito Archundia a record, for which he also took only two tournaments.
• Ravshan Ermatov provided a record of five games at the World Cup, the Benito Archundia had set in 2006.
• Howard Webb set a new record for cautions in the final on: With 13 yellow cards (8 for Dutch and 5 for Spaniards ), he surpassed the record from the finale Argentina - Germany at the World Cup 1986 ( 4x yellow for Argentina, 2x yellow for Germany ). In addition, he showed John Heitinga received a second yellow card.

Generally

• Mexico presented its fifth participation in the opening game after 1930 ( unofficially ), 1950, 1958 and 1970, a new record.
• Throughout the first round there was not a single game between two countries that are geographically directly adjacent. Only in the second round met with Spain and Portugal successive two neighboring states.
• The WM- experienced countries that could not qualify for 2010 were Belgium and Sweden (both 11 participations ). Sweden was also not qualify for 2014, while Belgium 2014 participates for the 12th time.
• Saudi Arabia was missing for the first time since 1990.
• North Korea qualified for the first time after 44 years of World Cup abstinence. More time between two World Cup participations required only Egypt (56 years from 1934 to 1990 ), Norway (56 years from 1938 to 1994 ) and Turkey (48 years 1954-2002 ).
• The smallest participating country this World Cup ( by area as a per capita basis ) was Slovenia, the largest the United States. The teams met in the preliminary round directly and parted 2:2.
• Spain managed to win the first European team the World Cup outside their own continent.
• With 6 games in which both teams spoke Spanish, a new World Cup record for meeting was set up where both teams speak a language. The previous maximum number of 5 was also set up at the first World Cup in 1930 for Spanish. The total number of same-language encounters was 10, whereby the record of 2006 ( 9 Matches ) was exceeded. In addition, a new record for participants was 8 countries where English is the official language or one of the official languages ​​, set up with an official language. The previous record of seven Spanish-speaking countries has also been set up at the first World Cup in 1930 and 1998 by the English and set in 2002 by Spanish-speaking countries. 2014, the record is surpassed again by the participation of nine Spanish-speaking countries.

• The 2010 World Cup was the first World Cup on the African continent.
• Germany introduced the first country twice in a row, the top scorer Miroslav Klose (2006) and Thomas Mueller (2010) and was the second time winning the first awarded at the World Cup finals 2006 Award for the best young players. Thomas Müller was followed by Lukas Podolski, who received the award in 2006.
• The German national football team was also the first country in the World Championships with her ​​third place successfully repeat this placement (also at the 2006 World Championships at home, Germany ranked the 3rd place). In addition, it came with the game Germany - Uruguay for the first time in the match for 3rd place to repeat a mating in the " small final " that there had been on a previous World Cup (1970 in Mexico). In both cases, Germany won scarce.

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