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World Cup 2026 — final overview
Everything that happened at the 2026 World Cup: champion, awards, broken records and the corresponding top lists.
🏆 Final
Spain — world champion (2nd title: 2010, 2026)
Spain 1–0 Argentina — Ferran Torres, 106th minute (extra time).
Head coach
Luis de la Fuente — oldest World Cup–winning coach ever.
Runner-up
Argentinië
Third-place play-off
England 6–4 France.
Individual awards
Golden Ball
Best player of the tournament — Rodri (Spain). First Spaniard ever to win the Golden Ball.
Golden Boot
Top scorer — Kylian Mbappé (France), 10 goals. First player ever to win the Golden Boot at two World Cups (also 2022).
View list — WC 2026 — Top scorers →Golden Glove
Best goalkeeper — Unai Simón (Spain). 7 clean sheets (World Cup record) and just 1 goal conceded across the whole tournament.
View list — WC 2026 — Clean sheets →Best Young Player
Pau Cubarsí (Spain, 19).
Records broken at the 2026 World Cup
Statistical milestones from the tournament — each linked to its record list.
- 308 goals in 104 matches — the most ever in a single World Cup tournament (new 48-team format).
- Kylian Mbappé is now the all-time World Cup top scorer with 22 goals (passing Miroslav Klose, 16); fourth player ever with double digits in a single tournament (10).
- Unai Simón: most clean sheets at a single World Cup (7); Spain conceded the fewest goals ever by a champion (1).
- Michael Olise (France): most assists at a single World Cup since 1966 (7).
- Lionel Messi and Jude Bellingham: most Player of the Match awards at a single World Cup (5 each).
- Jude Bellingham: most goals by an England player at a single World Cup (7).
- Harry Kane: England's all-time World Cup top scorer (passing Gary Lineker).
- Record number of red cards at a single World Cup.
All related record lists
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