; Most World Cup appearances: 18, (only country to appear in every World Cup): For a detailed list, see National team appearances in the FIFA World CupMost championships: 5, ; Most appearances in a World Cup final: 7, and : Note: Includes Brazil's second place finish in 1950, which was played without an official final.Most appearances in semifinal/last four: 11, ; Most matches played: 92, and Fewest matches played: 1, (as ); Most wins: 64, Most losses: 22, ; Most draws: 19, and Most matches played without a win or a draw: 6, ; Most matches played without a win: 6, and Most goals scored: 201, ; Most goals conceded: 112, Fewest goals scored: 0, , , (as ), , , and (as ).; Fewest goals conceded: 2, Most matches played without scoring a goal: 3, , , , , and (as ).; Highest average of goals scored per match: 2.72, Lowest average of goals conceded per match: 0.77, (minimum 4 matches):0.67, (3 matches)Most meetings between two teams: 7 times, vs (1938, 1950, 1958, 1978, 1990 and twice in the 1994); Most appearances, always advancing from first round: 3, and Most appearances, always advancing from group stage: 14, : Note: Germany lost its first-round match in 1938, which was played without a group stage, and did not advance.Most appearances, never advancing from first round: 8,
; Most goals scored in a tournament: 171 goals, 1998 FIFA World Cup.Most goals per match in a tournament: 5.38 goals per match, 1954 FIFA World Cup.; Fewest goals per match in a tournament: 2.21 goals per match, 1990 FIFA World Cup.
Most clean sheets (matches without conceding): 10, Peter Shilton (, 1982-1990) and Fabien Barthez (, 1998-2006)Most consecutive minutes without conceding: 517 mins, Walter Zenga (, 1990); Most goals conceded, one tournament: 16, Hong Duk-Yung (), 1954 (also the overall record)Fewest goals conceded, one tournament: 0, Pascal Zuberbühler (), 2006; Most penalties saved, one tournament (excluding during shootouts): 2, Jan Tomaszewski (), 1974 and Brad Friedel (), 2002
Fastest Yellow Card: 0 seconds, Sergei Gorlukovich (), Sweden vs Russia [1] , 1994 FIFA World Cup; Giampiero Marini (), Italy vs Poland, 1982 FIFA World Cup.Fastest Red Card: 56 seconds, José Batista (), Scotland vs Uruguay, 1986 FIFA World Cup.;Most Cards: 6, Zinedine Zidane (, 1998-2006) and Cafu (, 1994-2006).Most Yellow Cards: 6, Cafu (, 1994-2006).;Most Red Cards: 2, Rigobert Song (, 1994 and 1998) and Zinedine Zidane (, 1998 and 2006).Most Red Cards (Tournament): 28 (in 64 games), 2006 FIFA World Cup.; Most Red Cards (Team): 10, (in 64 games)Most Red Cards (Game): 4 (2 each) in Portugal vs Netherlands, 2006 FIFA World Cup. (referee: Valentin Ivanov); Most Yellow Cards (Tournament): 345 in 64 matches, 2006 FIFA World Cup.Most Yellow Cards Against One Team (Game): 9, , in Portugal vs Netherlands, 2006 FIFA World Cup. (referee: Valentin Ivanov); Most Yellow Cards (Team): 88, (in 64 games)Most Yellow cards (Match): 16 - Portugal vs Netherlands, 2006 FIFA World Cup.(referee: Valentin Ivanov), and 16 - Cameroon v Germany, June 11 2002[2]; Most Yellow Cards by a player in a single match: 3 (61', 90', 93') Josip Šimunić () Croatia vs Australia, 2006 FIFA World Cup (referee: Graham Poll) (3): Note: Šimunić was given three yellow cards in the match: the referee failed to send him off the pitch after the second yellow, and was only red carded after the third yellow. The original FIFA match report listed all three yellow cards, however was revised shortly after, with the second yellow card (90') not being recorded; it is unknown whether this was for consistency in the reports, or whether the card was retrospectively overturned.
Most penalty shootouts, team: 4, , , and Most penalty shootouts, one tournament: 4, 1990 FIFA World Cup ; 2006 FIFA World Cup; Most penalty shootouts, one tournament, team: 2, 1990 FIFA World Cup and 2002 FIFA World CupMost wins, penalty shootout: 4, ; Most wins, penalty shootout, one tournament: 2, 1990 FIFA World CupMost losses, penalty shootout: 3, and ; Most goals, penalty shootout, team: 5, (tie-5 teams)Most goals, penalty shootout, both teams: 9, (tie-4 times); Most kicks taken, penalty shootout, both teams: 12, vs 1982 FIFA World Cup and vs 1994 FIFA World CupFewest goals, penalty shootout, team: 0, 2006 FIFA World Cup; Goalkeeper with most penalties saved in a penalty shoot-out: 3, Ricardo , vs , 2006 FIFA World Cup.
