Watch: The goal archive -- 172 strikes from World Cup 2022

by Mike Woitalla @MikeWoitalla, Dec 20, 2022

In the 64 World Cup 2022 games, 172 goals were scored for an average of 2.69 per game. That's the highest goal total since the tournament was expanded in 1998 to 32 teams/64 games). Both the 1998 and 2014 World Cups saw 171 goals hit the net.

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World Cup — goals per game average
1930 — 3.89
1934 — 4.12
1938 — 4.67
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1950 — 4.00
1954 — 5.38*
1958 — 3.6
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1962 — 2.78
1966 — 2.78
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1970 — 2.97
1974 — 2.55
1978 — 2.68
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1982 — 2.81
1986 — 2.54
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1990 — 2.21**
1994 — 2.71
1998 — 2.67
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2002 — 2.52
2006 — 2.30
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2010 — 2.27
2014 — 2.67
2018 — 2.64
2022 — 2.69

* highest. ** lowest.

Here's video of all the World Cup 2022 goals from Fox Sports — all in one batch (1), and sorted round-by-round (2), group-by-group (3), and top scorer compilations (4). Plus, all of Messi's 13 World Cup goals 2006-2022.

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