football records
🥅 Goal Records
- Most career goals (official): Cristiano Ronaldo – 936+ goals (as of 2025).
- Most goals in World Cup history: Miroslav Klose (Germany) – 16 goals.
- Most goals in a calendar year: Lionel Messi – 91 goals in 2012.
- Fastest hat-trick in Premier League: Sadio Mané – 2 minutes 56 seconds (2015).
🎯 Assist & Playmaking Records
- Most assists in football history: Lionel Messi – 400+ career assists.
- Most assists in a single Premier League season: Kevin De Bruyne & Thierry Henry – 20 assists.
- Most assists in World Cup history: Pelé – 10 assists.
- Most assists in a single UCL campaign: James Milner – 9 assists (2017–18).
👕 Appearance Records
- Most international appearances (caps): Cristiano Ronaldo – 221 caps for Portugal.
- Most Premier League appearances: Gareth Barry – 653 games.
- Most World Cup tournaments played: Antonio Carbajal, Lothar Matthäus, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Guillermo Ochoa, and Andrés Guardado – 5 World Cups each.
- Oldest professional footballer: Kazuyoshi Miura (Japan) – still playing at 57 years old in 2025.
🧤 Goalkeeping Records
- Most clean sheets in Premier League: Petr Čech – 202 clean sheets.
- Most clean sheets in Champions League: Iker Casillas – 57 clean sheets.
- Most penalty saves in a single UCL season: Keylor Navas – 3 saves.
- Goalkeeper with most goals scored: Rogério Ceni (Brazil) – 131 goals.
🏃 Speed & Physical Records
- Fastest recorded sprint: Kylian Mbappé – 38 km/h.
- Longest-distance goal: Asmir Begović (goalkeeper) – 91.9m goal (2013).
- Most distance covered in a World Cup match: Marcelo Brozović – 16.7 km (Croatia vs England, 2018).
- Highest jump for a header: Cristiano Ronaldo – 2.93m jump vs Sampdoria (2019).
🌍 World Cup Records
- Most World Cup wins: Pelé – 3 titles (1958, 1962, 1970).
- Youngest World Cup goalscorer: Pelé – 17 years, 239 days (1958).
- Oldest World Cup goalscorer: Roger Milla – 42 years, 39 days (1994).
- Fastest World Cup goal: Hakan Şükür (Turkey) – 11 seconds (2002).
🤯 Fun & Unusual Records
- Fastest red card: Keith Gillespie – 12 seconds after coming on (2007).
- Most own goals in Premier League: Richard Dunne – 10 own goals.
- Most yellow cards in World Cup history: Sergio Ramos – 24 yellow cards in international career.
- Longest throw-in goal: Rory Delap (famous for “missile throws”).
✅ These records show that football is more than just goals—it’s about speed, skill, endurance, and sometimes even strange moments.
