2010 FIFA World Cup statistics

These are the statistics for the 2010 FIFA World Cup which took place in South Africa.

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.

Scoring

  • Total number of goals scored: 145, including 101 in the group stage
  • Average goals per match: 2.27
  • Total number of hat-tricks: 1 (Gonzalo Higuaín, Argentina)
  • Total number of penalty kicks awarded: 15
  • Total number of penalty kicks scored: 9
  • Most goals scored, team: 16 — Germany
  • Most goals scored, individual: 5 — David Villa, Wesley Sneijder, Thomas Müller, Diego Forlán
  • Most assists given: 3 — Mesut Özil, Dirk Kuyt, Kaká, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Thomas Müller
  • Most goals and assists: 8 — Thomas Müller
  • Fewest goals scored: 0 — Algeria, Honduras
  • Most goals conceded: 12 — Korea DPR
  • Fewest goals conceded: 1 — Portugal, Switzerland
  • Best goal difference: +11 — Germany
  • Worst goal difference -11 — Korea DPR
  • Most goals, match, both teams: 7 — Portugal (7) and Korea DPR (0)
  • Most goals, match, one team: 7 — Portugal against Korea DPR
  • Most goals, match, losing team: 2 — Italy against Slovakia (3); Uruguay against Netherlands (3); Uruguay against Germany (3)
  • Biggest margin of victory: 7 — Portugal 7–0 Korea DPR
  • Most clean sheets: 5 — Spain
  • Fewest clean sheets: 0 — Australia, Cameroon, Denmark, Greece, Italy, North Korea, Nigeria, Slovakia, South Africa
  • Most clean sheets (by opponents): 3 — Algeria, Honduras, Paraguay, Portugal
  • Fewest clean sheets (by opponents): 0 — Italy, Korea Republic, United States
  • Most consecutive clean sheets: 4 — Spain
  • Most consecutive clean sheets (by opponents): 3 — Algeria, Honduras, Paraguay
  • First goal of the tournament: Siphiwe Tshabalala for South Africa against Mexico
  • First hat-trick of the tournament: Gonzalo Higuaín for Argentina against Korea Republic
  • Fastest goal in a match from kickoff: 3rd minute (2:38) — Thomas Müller for Germany against Argentina
  • Fastest goal in a match by a substitute: 2 minutes — Cacau for Germany against Australia, Rodrigo Millar for Chile against Spain, and Kamil Kopúnek for Slovakia against Italy
  • Latest goal in a match without extra time: 90+5 minute — Álvaro Pereira for Uruguay against South Africa
  • Latest winning goal in a match without extra time: 90+1 minute — Landon Donovan for the United States against Algeria
  • Latest winning goal in a match with extra time: 116 minute — Andrés Iniesta for Spain against the Netherlands
  • Most goals scored by one player in a match: 3 — Gonzalo Higuaín for Argentina against Korea Republic
  • Own goals scored: 2 — Park Chu-Young and Daniel Agger
  • Oldest goal scorer: 37 years and 151 days old — Cuauhtémoc Blanco for Mexico against France
  • Youngest goal scorer: 20 years and 273 days old — Thomas Müller for Germany against Australia

Assists

Players with two or more assists were as follows:

Name

Team

Assists

Netherlands

3

Brazil

3

Germany

3

Germany

3

Germany

3

Uruguay

2

Korea Republic

2

Côte d'Ivoire

2

Netherlands

2

Uruguay

2

Spain

2

Germany

2

Man of the Match

Rank

Name

Team

Awards

Against

1

Netherlands

4

vs Uruguay (SF), vs Brazil (QF), vs Japan (GM), vs Denmark (GM)

2

Spain

3

vs the Netherlands (FI), vs Paraguay (QF), vs Chile (GM)

Japan

3

vs Paraguay (R16), vs Denmark (GM), vs Cameroon (GM)

Portugal

3

vs Brazil (GM), vs Korea DPR (GM), vs Côte d'Ivoire (GM)

Uruguay

3

vs Ghana (QF), vs South Africa (GM), vs France (GM)

6

Nigeria

2

vs Argentina (GM), vs Greece (GM)

Korea Republic

2

vs Nigeria (GM), vs Greece (GM)

USA

2

vs Algeria (GM), vs Slovenia (GM)

Slovakia

2

vs Italy (GM), vs New Zealand (GM)

Ghana

2

vs Serbia (GM), vs Australia (GM)

Uruguay

2

vs South Korea (R16), vs Mexico (GM)

Germany

2

vs England (R16), vs Uruguay (3P)

Spain

2

vs Germany (SF), vs Portugal (R16)

Stadiums

Stadium

City

Capacity

Matches played

Overall
attendance

Average
attendance
per match

Average
attendance
as % of Capacity

Overall
goals scored

Average
goals scored
per match

Elevation

Cape Town Stadium

Cape Town

64,100

8

{{#expr: +64100 +62869 + 64100 +63644 +63093 + 62955 + 64100 + 62479}}

63,418

98.9

22

2.75

0 (sea level)

Ellis Park Stadium

Johannesburg

55,686

7

{{#expr: +55686 +54331 + 45573 + 54386 +53412 + 54096 + 55359}}

53,263

95.7

19

2.71

1753 m

Free State Stadium

Bloemfontein

40,911

6

{{#expr: +30620 +31593 + 26643 + 39415 + 28042 + 40510}}

32,804

80.2

14

2.33

1400 m

Loftus Versfield Stadium

Pretoria

42,858

6

{{#expr: +38833 +42658 + 38074 + 35827 + 41958 + 36742}}

39,015

91.0

11

1.83

1214 m

Mbombela Stadium

Nelspruit

40,929

4

{{#expr: +32664 + 38229 + 37836 + 34763}}

35,873

87.6

9

2.25

660 m

Moses Mabhida Stadium

Durban

62,760

7

{{#expr: +62660 +62453 + 62010 + 61874 + 62712 + 61962 + 60960}}

62,090

98.9

14

2.00

0 (sea level)

Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium

Port Elizabeth

42,486

8

{{#expr: +31513 +37034 + 38294 + 34872 + 36893 + 30597 + 40186 + 36254}}

35,705

84.0

16

2.00

0 (sea level)

Peter Mokaba Stadium

Polokwane

41,733

4

{{#expr: +30325 + 35370 + 38891 +34850}}

34,859

83.5

5

1.25

1310 m

Royal Bafokeng Stadium

Rustenburg

38,646

6

{{#expr: +38646 +23871 + 34812 + 33425 +27967 + 34976}}

32,283

83.5

14

2.33

1500 m

Soccer City

Johannesburg

84,490

8

{{#expr: +84490 + 83465 + 82174 + 84445 + 83391 + 84337 + 84017 + 84490}}

83,851

99.2

21

2.63

1753 m

Total

{{#expr: +64100*8 + 55686*7 + 40911*6 + 42858*6 + 40929*4 + 62760*7 + 42486*8 + 41733*4 +38646*6 + 84490*8 }}

64

{{#expr: +84490 + 64100 + 31513 + 55686 + 38646 + 30325 + 38833 + 62660 + 83465 + 30620 + 62869 + 23871 + 37034 + 54331 + 32664 + 62453 + 42658 + 82174 + 31593 + 35370 + 38294 + 45573 + 64100 + 62010 + 34812 + 38074 + 26643 + 38229 + 84455 + 63644 + 34872 + 54386 + 33425 + 39415 + 61874 + 38891 + 35827 + 36893 + 37836 + 83391 + 53412 + 34850 + 63093 + 27967 + 34763 + 62712 + 41958 + 28042 + 30597 + 34976 + 40510 + 84377 + 61962 + 54096 + 36742 + 62955 + 40186 + 84017 + 64100 + 55359 + 62479 + 60960 + 36254 + 84490}}

49,670

92.9

145

2.27

Wins and losses

  • Most wins: 6 — Spain, Netherlands
  • Fewest wins: 0 — Algeria, Cameroon, France, Honduras, Italy, Korea DPR, New Zealand, Nigeria
  • Most losses: 3 — Cameroon, Korea DPR
  • Fewest losses: 0 — New Zealand
  • Most draws: 3 — New Zealand, Paraguay
  • Fewest draws: 0 — Argentina, Cameroon, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Korea DPR, Netherlands, Serbia, Spain
  • Most points in group stage: 9 — Argentina, Netherlands
  • Fewest points in group stage: 0 — Cameroon, Korea DPR

Team rankings

Shortly after the final, FIFA issued the following final ranking of every team in the tournament. The ranking was based on progress in the competition, overall results and quality of the opposition.

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6.

7.

8. 9.

10.

11.

12.

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22.

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24. 25.

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32.

Overall statistics

In the table below, the following abbreviations are used:

  • Pld = total games played
  • W = total games won
  • D = total games drawn (tied)
  • L = total games lost
  • Pts = total points accumulated (teams receive three points for a win, one point for a draw and no points for a loss)
  • APts = average points per game
  • GF = total goals scored (goals for)
  • AGF = average goals scored per game
  • GA = total goals conceded (goals against)
  • AGA = average goals conceded per game
  • GD = goal difference (GF−GA)
  • AGD = average goal difference (GD/Pld)
  • CS = clean sheets
  • ACS = average clean sheets
  • YC = yellow cards
  • AYC = average yellow cards
  • RC = red and/or yellow-red cards
  • ARC = average red cards

Bold numbers indicate the maximum values in each column.

Nation

Pld

W

D

L

Pts

APts

GF

AGF

GA

AGA

GD

AGD

CS

ACS

YC

AYC

RC

ARC

Algeria

3

0

1

2

1

0.33

0

0.00

2

0.67

−2

−0.67

1

0.33

8

2.67

2

0.67

Argentina

5

4

0

1

12

2.40

10

2.00

6

1.20

4

0.80

2

0.40

8

1.60

0

0.00

3

1

1

1

4

1.33

3

1.00

6

2.00

−3

−1.00

0

0.00

7

2.33

2

0.67

Brazil

5

3

1

1

10

2.00

9

1.80

4

0.80

5

1.00

2

0.40

9

1.80

2

0.40

3

0

0

3

0

0.00

2

0.67

5

1.67

−3

−1.00

0

0.00

3

1.00

0

0.00

Chile

4

2

0

2

6

1.50

3

0.75

5

1.25

−2

−0.50

2

0.50

11

2.75

1

0.25

3

1

1

1

4

1.33

4

1.33

3

1.00

1

0.33

2

0.67

5

1.67

0

0.00

Denmark

3

1

0

2

3

1.00

3

1.00

6

2.00

−3

−1.00

0

0.00

3

1.00

0

0.00

England

4

1

2

1

5

1.25

3

0.75

5

1.25

−2

−0.50

2

0.50

6

1.50

0

0.00

France

3

0

1

2

1

0.33

1

0.33

4

1.33

−3

−1.00

1

0.33

6

2.00

1

0.33

Germany

7

5

0

2

15

2.14

16

2.29

5

0.71

11

1.57

3

0.43

10

1.43

1

0.17

Ghana

5

2

2

1

8

1.40

5

1.00

4

0.80

1

0.20

1

0.20

12

2.40

0

0.00

Greece

3

1

0

2

3

1.00

2

0.67

5

1.67

−3

−1.00

0

0.00

5

1.67

0

0.00

Honduras

3

0

1

2

1

0.33

0

0.00

3

1.00

−3

−1.00

1

0.33

3

1.00

0

0.00

Italy

3

0

2

1

2

0.67

4

1.33

5

1.67

−1

−0.33

0

0.00

5

1.67

0

0.00

Japan

4

2

1

1

7

1.50

4

1.00

2

0.50

2

0.50

2

0.50

4

1.00

0

0.00

Korea DPR

3

0

0

3

0

0.00

1

0.33

12

4.00

−11

−3.67

0

0.00

2

0.67

0

0.00

4

1

1

2

4

1.00

6

1.50

8

2.00

−2

−0.50

1

0.25

6

1.50

0

0.00

Mexico

4

1

1

2

4

1.00

4

1.00

5

1.25

−1

−0.25

1

0.25

9

2.25

0

0.00

Netherlands

7

6

0

1

18

2.57

12

1.71

6

0.86

6

0.86

2

0.29

23

3.29

1

0.14

New Zealand

3

0

3

0

3

1.00

2

0.67

2

0.67

0

0.00

1

0.33

6

2.00

0

0.00

Nigeria

3

0

1

2

1

0.33

3

1.00

5

1.67

−2

−0.67

0

0.00

5

1.67

1

0.33

Paraguay

5

1

3

1

6

1.60

3

0.60

2

0.40

1

0.20

3

0.60

9

1.80

0

0.00

Portugal

4

1

2

1

5

1.25

7

1.75

1

0.25

6

1.50

3

0.75

8

2.00

1

0.25

Serbia

3

1

0

2

3

1.00

2

0.67

3

1.00

−1

−0.33

1

0.33

8

2.67

1

0.33

Slovakia

4

1

1

2

4

1.00

5

1.25

7

1.75

−2

−0.50

0

0.00

11

2.75

0

0.00

Slovenia

3

1

1

1

4

1.33

3

1.00

3

1.00

0

0.00

1

0.33

9

3.00

0

0.00

South Africa

3

1

1

1

4

1.33

3

1.00

5

1.67

−2

−0.67

0

0.00

4

1.33

1

0.33

Spain

7

6

0

1

18

2.57

8

1.14

2

0.29

6

0.86

5

0.71

8

1.14

0

0.00

Switzerland

3

1

1

1

4

1.33

1

0.33

1

0.33

0

0.00

2

0.67

7

2.33

1

0.33

United States

4

1

2

1

5

1.25

5

1.25

5

1.25

0

0.00

1

0.25

8

2.00

0

0.00

Uruguay

7

3

2

2

11

1.86

11

1.57

8

1.14

3

0.43

3

0.43

13

1.85

2

0.29

Total

64

48

16

48

160

2.50

145

2.27(1)

145

2.27(1)

0

0.00

43

0.67(1)

241

3.77(1)

17

0.27(1)

(1): per match in total, not per side.

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