This is a list of all own goals scored during FIFA Men's World Cup matches (not including qualification games). In 1997, FIFA published guidelines for classifying an own goal as "when a player plays the ball directly into his own net or when he redirects an opponentâÂÂs shot, cross or pass into his own goal", and excludes "shots that are on target (i.e. goal-bound) and touch a defender or rebound from the goal frame and bounce off a defender or goalkeeper".
Of the 2,720 goals scored at the 22 final tournaments of the World Cup, only 54 have been own goals. No player has scored multiple own goals. Mexico's players have scored own goals on four occasions each, while France has benefited on six occasions from opponents scoring own goals. Of the 53 matches with an own goal, nine have ended as wins for the team scoring the own goal, and eight have ended as draws. All but 13 own goals have been scored in the first stages of the tournament.
Following the 1994 murder of Colombian Andrés Escobar by a fan who was angry that Escobar's own goal had led to their country's early exit from that year's World Cup, own goals at the tournament have been subject to intense scrutiny, to stave off accusations of collusion. The 2018 World Cup, dubbed by The Washington Post as "among the cruelest in history" based on own goals mid-way through the group stages, ended up doubling the previous record for number of own goals at a single tournament.
List
Notes
Statistics and notable own goals
Time
* Manuel Rosas, Mexico vs Chile, 1930
* Sead KolaÃ
¡inac, 3', Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Argentina, 2014
- Latest regulation-time own goal
* Aziz Bouhaddouz, 90+5', Morocco vs Iran, 2018
* Jimmy Dickinson, 94', England vs Belgium, 1954
- Only own goal to open scoring in a tournament
* Marcelo, Brazil vs Croatia, 2014
* Mario MandÃ
¾ukiÃÂ, Croatia vs France, 2018
- Only match with two own goals
* United States vs Portugal, 2002. Jorge Costa of Portugal scored for the United States, and Jeff Agoos of the United States scored for Portugal.
Tournament
- Most own goals, tournament
* 12 (2018)
- Tournaments without own goals
* 1934, 1950, 1958, 1962, 1990
- Most own goals by a team in one tournament
* 2, (1966) and (2018)
- Most own goals in favour of a team in one tournament
* 2, (2014, 2018)
Teams
- Most own goals by a team, overall
* 4,
- Most own goals in favour of a team, overall
* 6,
- Most matches, never scoring an own goal
* 73,
- Most matches, never benefiting from an own goal
* 60,
- Most matches, never scoring or benefiting from an own goal
* 26,
- Only team to have scored multiple own goals for the same opponent
* / scored two own goals for / (1954, 1998)
- Only pair of teams to have scored own goals for each other
* and , in the same match in 2002
Players
- Youngest player with an own goal
*Manuel Rosas, age 18, Mexico vs Chile, 1930
- Oldest player with an own goal
*Sergei Ignashevich, age 38, Russia vs Spain, 2018
*Ernie Brandts, Netherlands vs Italy, 1978
*Mario MandÃ
¾ukiÃÂ, Croatia vs France, 2018
Various
- The own goal that Honduran goalkeeper Noel Valladares scored for France in 2014 was the first World Cup goal (of any kind) to be awarded with goal-line technology.
- has scored more own goals (one) than regular goals (zero).
- It is believed that the murder of Colombian footballer Andrés Escobar in the immediate aftermath of the 1994 World Cup was a retaliation for his having scored an own goal which contributed to his team's elimination from the tournament.
By team
See also
Notes
References
Reports
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