Explore the World Cup · 1930–2026

What's your World Cup question?

From legendary goals to surprising records, follow your curiosity. Ask about players, teams, stadiums and more.

1,069
Matches: 3,028
Goals: 209
Venues: 23
Editions: 1930–2026
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Computed answer

How this was calculated

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Keep pulling the thread

Try a rabbit hole

Pick a question and see where your curiosity takes you.

Stadiums

Every World Cup venue as a playable atlas.

Click a dot, open the venue dossier, then jump from geography into records, scorers and attendance anomalies.

Edition

Dot size = matches hosted · click a venue

Select a stadium
on the map

Rankings lab

Sort the archive until something strange appears.

Switch category and metric to generate live all-time rankings for venues, players and teams.

Edition dossiers

Twenty-three tournaments. One archive wall.

Each card opens into a compact tournament profile with champions, attendance, venues, goals, top scorers and drama markers.

The chart room

Data nobody thought to draw.

Five ways of seeing 96 years of World Cups — every pixel computed live from the verified archive. Save any chart as a shareable image.

01 · The 90-minute clock

When goals happen

All 3,028 goals in the archive plotted by minute around one clock face. Added-time goals stack in amber on top of their base minute, so the stoppage-time spike at 45' and 90' becomes visible. Filter it and watch the clock change.

Added time was only officially recorded from 1990 onward. Goals logged at a flat 45' or 90' in earlier tournaments may in fact have been stoppage-time goals — the archive records them as the referee's era recorded them.

Regulation Extra time Added (stoppage) time

02 · Stadium fingerprint

Every venue has a shape

Six dimensions, normalised against the all-time record in each — matches, goals per game, average crowd, peak crowd, extra time, shootouts. Overlay two venues and compare their DNA.

03 · The full-house index

How full were the stands?

Matches with recorded attendance and capacity, grouped by edition in 5% fullness bands. Higher means fuller. Gold dots went past 100% — more people than the ground officially held. Dot size scales with the number of matches.

Hover any dot for the edition, fullness band and match count. Attendance records are patchy in early editions — missing matches are simply not plotted.

04 · Comeback heartbeat

The anatomy of a comeback

Explore 20 featured recoveries, then watch the scoreline as a pulse — below the line is trouble, above the line is the recovery. Dots are goals. Includes sides that equalised and won the shootout.

Winner's goals Opponent's goals

05 · The late-drama index

Is football getting more clutch?

Each bar is one World Cup, split by when its goals arrived: first half, second half, or the 90th minute and beyond. The gold band is pure late drama — and it has been growing.

1'–45' 46'–89' 90'+ & extra time

The guessing game

Call it before you see it.

Twelve numbers from 96 years of World Cups. Commit to a guess, lock it in, then find out how wrong you were. Every answer is computed live from the archive.

Round 1

drag to guess

Your guess

The truth

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About the data

A World Cup archive built to show its work.

Ask is useful only if you can see what sits underneath it. These are the archive boundaries, historical conventions, source methodology and limitations used by every computed answer.

Current data build · 2026.09 · 1930–2026

Archive scope

The structured dataset currently used by Ask.

1,069 World Cup matches
3,028 goal events
209 tournament venues
23 editions · 1930–2026
Scores, phases, dates, attendance and capacity where available

Sources & verification

The archive is curated from public historical sources rather than generated from model memory.

Wikipedia used as the primary compilation layer
FIFA documentation used for cross-checks
RSSSF used for historical cross-checks
Ask calculates against the embedded archive; it does not silently add web facts to the result

Historical lineages

Team totals use explicit lineage rules so historical records are reproducible.

West Germany (FRG) → Germany (GER)
Czechoslovakia (TCH) → Czechia (CZE)
Yugoslavia (YUG) → Serbia (SRB)
Soviet Union (URS) → Russia (RUS)
East Germany (GDR) remains separate

Methodology conventions

Some historical questions require a defined rule. The application states these assumptions instead of hiding them.

The Uruguay–Brazil decider in 1950 is tagged as the tournament Final
The other 1950 final-round matches remain “Final Round”, not Finals
Match goal totals exclude penalty-shootout kicks
Venue goals-per-match rankings require at least 5 matches
Added-time detail is treated as reliable from 1990 onward

Currently unsupported

Ask refuses questions that the current fields cannot support reliably.

Player appearances, starts and minutes played
Player goals-per-match / scoring-rate metrics
Yellow and red cards
Referees and coaching staff
Assists and xG-style event data
Exact fastest/latest goal records requiring seconds

Goal-event limits

The goal layer is rich, but it has explicit precision boundaries.

Scorers, scoring teams, opponents and venues are linked
Own-goal flags are stored
Goal time is stored to the minute, not the second
Added time is explicitly represented where recorded
A player's distinct scoring matches are “matches scored in”, never appearances

Version history

Data builds use a YYYY.MM version so shared results can identify the archive used.

2026.09 · currentFull archive through the completed 2026 World Cup. 1,069 matches, 3,028 goals, 209 venues and 23 editions.

Future updatesMaterial archive corrections or new data layers will be listed here when released.

What “computed” means

The language model is not trusted as the source of the statistic.

Your question is interpreted into an archive query
The calculation runs against the structured World Cup data
The computed result is the authoritative evidence
The model then writes a short answer from that result
The computed result table is shown directly beneath the written answer whenever tabular data is available

Publication use

The trust layer is designed to make checking easier, not to eliminate editorial verification.

Copy a stable question link to reproduce a query
Shared cards include the archive build
Report any scorer, score, venue, date or interpretation issue
Verify material facts before consequential publication or commercial use