The Worldcup in Numbers
Here are some new records and interesting numbers from Germany’s 2014 Worldcup appearance
Germany now has won FOUR Association Football (Soccer) World championships: 1954, 1974, 1990 and 2014
This ties them with Italy and is one less than Brazil.
Germany now has had the most Final appearances (8), most top-three spots (12) and most consecutive top 3 spots (four: 2002 – 2014)
Germany has now played the most Worldcup games (106) and scored the most Worldcup goals (224). Germany has also conceded the most WC goals (121) of any team.
(source: wikipedia)
At the end of the 2014 Worldcup, Germany’s Mannschaft has not only the highest ELO rating of any football World Champion – they have the highest ELO rating of any national soccer team, ever!! (source fivethirtyeight.com)
The Final – Germany vs Argentina – is now a classic. The two sides have now met in the Final three times: 1986 (ARG), 1990 (GER) and 2014 (GER) and a total of 7 times in the Worldcup.
Miroslav Klose, who has played in 4 tournaments, is now the top goal scorer in all Worldcups (16 goals)! He also has
- won the most Worldcup medals (4)
- played in the most knockout games (14)
- won the most matches (17)
The worldcup Final sets a new TV-viewing record in Germany: 34,65 Million viewers and a 86 percent viewer quota.
The Mannschaft scored 18 goals and conceded four in the 7 games to championship, which ties them with Brazil’s record 18 goals and record goal-differential of 14 in the 2002 Worldcup (stats since 1974). In 2010, Spain scored only 8 goals to win their championship.
Manuel Neuer covered over 30 percent of the pitch during his WC games – more than any other goalie. Also, the best goalie in the Worldcup stopped 85.7% of shots on goal AND had a passing accuracy of 75.8%
Here is a list of records broken, just in the crazy Germany – Brazil game:
- Klose broke Ronaldo’s record of total Worldcup goals scored (15).
- Germany overtook Brazil as the highest scoring team in the history of the WC
- The biggest ever win in a WC semi final
- Most goals ever scored by a team in a semi final
- The biggest ever loss by the host in a WC
- Tied the most goals ever scored against the host
- Brazil’s worst ever home defeat
- Tied Brazil’s worst ever defeat
- Brazil’s worst ever defeat in a WC match
- First time ever that 5 goals were scored in the first half hour in a WC match
- Fastest brace in a WC match – 69 seconds (Kroos)
- Fastest 3 goals scored in a WC match – 179 seconds
- Fastest 4 goals scored in a WC match – 6 minutes
- Müller became the third player to score 5 goals in 2 different WC’s (after Teófilo Cubillas and Klose)
- Germany overtook Brazil as the team with the most WC final appearances
- Not exactly a record, but Müller’s goal was Germany’s 2000th as a national team
- Most tweeted sports event ever
(HT OldGodsAndNew)
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Rekorde und interessante Statistiken am Ende der WM 2014:
Deutschland hat jetzt die meisten Endspiele geschafft (8) die meisten Top-Drei Plätze belegt (12) und die meisten Top-Drei PLätze in Folge belegt (vier: 2002-2014)
Deutschland hat jetzt die meisten WM-spiele geleistet (106) und die meisten WM-Tore geschossen (224). Deutschland hat auch die meisten WM-Tore kassiert (121)