What is the highest goal margin defeat in the world cup history?
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Year Goal Margin\n----------------\n1982 10-1 Hungary beat El Salvador\n1974 9-0 Yugoslavia beat Zaire\n1954 9-0 Hungary beat South Korea\n1938 8-0 Sweden beat Cuba\n1950 8-0 Uruguay beat Bolivia\n1954 7-0 Turkey beat South Korea\n1954 7-0 Uruguay beat Scotland\n1974 7-0 Poland beat Haiti\n1934 7-1 Italy beat United States\n1950 7-1 Brazil beat Sweden\n1938 6-0 Hungary beat Dutch East Indies\n1978 6-0 West Germany beat Mexico\n1986 6-0 Soviet Union beat Hungary\n1978 6-0 Argentina beat Peru\n\nMost goals in a match\n---------------------\n1954 - 12 (Austria 7 — Switzerland 5)\n1938 - 11 (Brazil 6 — Poland 5)\n1954 - 11 (Hungary 8 — West Germany 3)\n1982 - 11 (Hungary 10 — El Salvador 1)\n1958 - 10 (France 7 — Paraguay 3)\n1930 - 9 (Argentina 6 — Mexico 3)\n1954 - 9 (West Germany 7 — Turkey 2)\n1958 - 9 (France 6 — West Germany 3)\n1974 - 9 (Yugoslavia 9 — Zaire 0)\n\nIn Qualifing Match\n\nAustralia netted 31 goals against newcomers American Samoa - the highest-scoring match and biggest margin victory ever. Also, Archie Thompson’s 13 goals surpassed the previous record (7) by far
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The recent one is Brazil vs Italy 1994 Final which was decided by penalty kicks.
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Hakan Sukur scored the fastest goal in World Cup history in just 11 seconds and combined with Ilhan Mansiz on two others last night as Turkey beat co-host South Korea 3-2 to clinch third place. \n\n(~~)
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Considering every penalty taken in World Cup history (proper stage only, including shoot-outs), 248 have been scored and 75 missed, making it 76,78%\n\nThe tournaments with the highest percentage were 1966 and 1970 (100%, 8/8 and 5/5 respectively).\n\nThe tournament with the lowest percentage was 1930 (25%, 1/4)
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If you are just talking about this world cup alone, the answer is Miroslav Klose of Germany.  He has 4 goals.\n\nBut if you are talking about all-time leaders, including the two goals that Ronaldo of Brazil made against Japan, Ronaldo of Brazil and Gerd Muller of Germany are tied for the top spot of 14 goals.
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BRAZIL has won the World Cup 5 times since they first participate back in 1930. they are the only team to have appeared in all 18 World Cup finals including the current tournament. here are all the world cup final results since it's started back in 1930:\n\n1930 - URUGUAY\nURUGUAY 4-2 ARGENTINA\n\n1934 - ITALY \nITALY 2-1 CZECHOSLOVAKIA\n\n1938 - FRANCE\nITALY 4-2 HUNGARY\n\n1950 - BRAZIL\nURUGUAY 2-1 BRAZIL\n\n1954 - SWITZERLAND\nWEST GERMANY 3-2 HUNGARY\n\n1958 - SWEDEN\nBRAZIL 5-2 SWEDEN\n\n1962 - CHILE\nBRAZIL 2-1 CZECHOSLOVAKIA\n\n1966 - ENGLAND\nENGLAND 4-2 WEST GERMANY\n\n1970 - MEXICO\nBRAZIL 4-1 ITALY\n\n1974 - WEST GERMANY\nWEST GERMANY 2-1 NETHERLANDS\n\n1978 - ARGENTINA\nARGENTINA 3-1 NETHERLANDS\n\n1982 - SPAIN\nITALY 3-1 WEST GERMANY\n\n1986 - MEXICO\nARGENTINA 3-2 WEST GERMANY\n\n1990 - ITALY\nWEST GERMANY 1-0 ARGENTINA\n\n1994 - UNITED STATES\nBRAZIL 0-0 ITALY (Brazil won 3-2 on penalties)\n\n1998 - FRANCE\nFRANCE 3-0 BRAZIL\n\n2002 - KOREA REPUBLIC & JAPAN\nBRAZIL 2-0 GERMANY\n\n\nbreakdown of the world cup winners: \n\n5 - BRAZIL\n3 - ITALY \n3 - WEST GERMANY \n2 - ARGENTINA\n2 - URUGUAY\n1 - ENGLAND\n1 - FRANCE
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It's difficult to find statistics because it's an unwanted record, but it doesn't occur too often,  but it could happen again in any match, mainly for the preasure of the tournament over the players and any one could make a mistake.\nIn this world cup, it happen in the match: England vs Paraguay, final socre: 1:0 (The goal was by Carlos Gamarra of Paraguay) so that was worst than the result of the match USA vs Italy, final score 1:1 (The goal of USA, was by Cristian Zaccardo of Italy)\n\nFor your record, these are the statistics related to FIFA world cup: \n# Carlos Gamarra’s misplaced header against England, timed at three minutes, was the quickest own goal in FIFA World Cup history. The previous fastest was scored by Yugoslavia’s Ivan Horvat, who netted an own goal in the 9th minute against Germany FR in 1954.\n# England have twice benefited from own goals in the competition, the first was scored for them by Josef Barmos of Czechoslovakia in 1982. But Italy have benefited most of all – four FIFA World Cup own goals have worked to their advantage.\n\n# The first ever FIFA World Cup own goal was scored by Switzerland’s Ernst Loertscher v Germany in 1938 while only one game in FIFA World Cup history has featured two own goals – the clash between Portugal and USA on 5 June 2002 with Jorge Costa and Jeff Agoos the luckless pair.
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fastest goal in the World Cup history:\n\nHakan Sukur of Turkey who scored after 11 seconds against Korea Republic in the 3rd & 4th place playoff in Daegu, Korea Republic in the World Cup 2002. Turkey won 3-2 to finish third. \n\nPreviously, it was Bryan Robson of England who scored after 27 seconds against France in 1982. England won 3-1 that day.
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games wins draw loses  goals(f/a) points\nGermany           85    50   18   17      176-106   129\n\nThis is a great site for info on all World Cups.
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Gerd Muller scored a total of 14 goals in 2 World Cups - 10 in 1970 and 4 in 1974.\n\nJust Fontaine of France scored a record 13 goals in a single world cup in 1958.
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Gerd Muller of Germany (then West Germany) scored a total of 14 goals in two world cups (10 goals in 1970 and 4 in 1974).\n\nJust Fontaine of France holds the record for a single World Cup with 13 goals.
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France-Brazil World Cup 1998 Finale. Why? Because it was the first time Brazil got their arses kicked really bad. 3-0.
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West Germany.  Held in Italy, the West German side beat Argentina 1-0 to garner it's third Cup.  Franz Beckenbauer became the first person to win the World Cup as a player (1974) and as a coach.
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Gerd Müller of Germany holds the cumulative record of 14 goals.  He had 10 in Mexico in 1970 and four in West Germany in 1974.  The single tournament record is 13 by Just Fontaine of France in Sweden in 1958.
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THis is a tough question to answer, considering the WC is made up of the BESt of the BEST, however there have been some missfires.  \n\nMy answer:  \nZaire in 1974.  Lost all 3 games, 0 goals for, 14 against.\n\nScores: \nLost 2-0 to Scotland\nlost 9-0 to Yugoslavia\nLost 3-0 to Brazil
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Lost 1-0 to Germany in the quarter finals. Dominated most of the game but couldn't beat Oliver Kahn.
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If you mean the record number of goals in one single match, then that would be when Hungary beat El Salvador in 1982, 10-1 for the highest goal differential in a World Cup match (Hungary is also the only team to score 10 or more goals in a World Cup). However, if you mean the highest number of goals in a single match by both teams combined then that would be in the 1954  World Cup when Austria beat Switzerland 7-5 for a total of 12 goals combined. \n\nIf you mean the record total number of goals scored by any one team over the course of a world cup competition then that would also be Hungary when they scored 27 goals in the 1954 World Cup. \n\nThe 1954 World Cup also had the highest average for goals per game 5.38 (140 goals in 26 matches).