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Brazil - 5
No nation has matched Brazil’s combination of longevity, style memory, and winning ceiling at the World Cup.
Records
World Cup records help explain what greatness looks like
Records pages do more than list numbers. They give readers a shorthand for scale, show which achievements have truly endured, and turn isolated facts into a larger sense of tournament history.
Most goals by a player
Miroslav Klose - 16
The modern scoring record is a reminder that tournament greatness is often about sustained presence across cycles.
Youngest champion
Pele - 17
Some records are also myths of football history, and few are more enduring than Pele’s emergence in 1958.
Largest final attendance
1950 final - 170,000+
The Maracana remains one of the defining symbols of scale, pressure, and drama in the tournament’s history.