List of FIFA World Cup own goals

This is a list of all own goals scored during FIFA Men's World Cup matches (not including qualification games). In 1997, FIFA published guidelines for classifying an own goal as "when a player plays the ball directly into his own net or when he redirects an opponent’s shot, cross or pass into his own goal", and excludes "shots that are on target (i.e. goal-bound) and touch a defender or rebound from the goal frame and bounce off a defender or goalkeeper".

Of the 2,720 goals scored at the 22 final tournaments of the World Cup, only 54 have been own goals. No player has scored multiple own goals. Mexico's players have scored own goals on four occasions each, while France has benefited on six occasions from opponents scoring own goals. Of the 53 matches with an own goal, nine have ended as wins for the team scoring the own goal, and eight have ended as draws. All but 13 own goals have been scored in the first stages of the tournament.

Following the 1994 murder of Colombian Andrés Escobar by a fan who was angry that Escobar's own goal had led to their country's early exit from that year's World Cup, own goals at the tournament have been subject to intense scrutiny, to stave off accusations of collusion. The 2018 World Cup, dubbed by The Washington Post as "among the cruelest in history" based on own goals mid-way through the group stages, ended up doubling the previous record for number of own goals at a single tournament.

List

 * Notes

Statistics and notable own goals

 * Time
 * First ever own goal
 * Manuel Rosas, Mexico vs Chile, 1930


 * Fastest own goal
 * Sead Kolašinac, 3', Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Argentina, 2014


 * Latest regulation-time own goal
 * Aziz Bouhaddouz, 90+5', Morocco vs Iran, 2018


 * Only own goal during extra time
 * Jimmy Dickinson, 94', England vs Belgium, 1954


 * Only own goal to open scoring in a tournament
 * Marcelo, Brazil vs Croatia, 2014


 * Only own goal in a final match
 * Mario Mandžukić, Croatia vs France, 2018


 * Only match with two own goals
 * United States vs Portugal, 2002. Jorge Costa of Portugal scored for the United States, and Jeff Agoos of the United States scored for Portugal.


 * Tournament
 * Most own goals, tournament
 * 12 (2018)


 * Fewest own goals, tournament
 * 0 (1934, 1950, 1958, 1962 and 1990)


 * Most own goals by a team in one tournament
 * 2, 🇧🇬 bulgaria (1966) and 🇷🇺 russia (2018)


 * Most own goals in favour of a team in one tournament
 * 2, 🇫🇷 france (2014, 2018)


 * Teams
 * Most own goals by a team, overall
 * 4, 🇲🇽 mexico


 * Most own goals in favour of a team, overall
 * 6, 🇫🇷 france


 * Most matches, never scoring an own goal
 * 73, 🇫🇷 france


 * Most matches, never benefiting from an own goal
 * 60, 🇲🇽 mexico


 * Most matches, never scoring or benefiting from an own goal
 * 26, 🇨🇲 cameroon


 * Only team to have scored multiple own goals for the same opponent
 * / scored two own goals for  / 🇩🇪 germany (1954, 1998)


 * Only pair of teams to have scored own goals for each other
 * and 🇺🇸 united states, in the same match in 2002


 * Players
 * Youngest player with an own goal
 * Manuel Rosas, age 18, Mexico vs Chile, 1930


 * Oldest player with an own goal
 * Sergei Ignashevich, age 38, Russia vs Spain, 2018


 * Players who have scored own goals and regular goals
 * Manuel Rosas of Mexico scored twice against Argentina in 1930
 * Ruud Krol of the Netherlands scored against Argentina in 1974
 * Ernie Brandts of the Netherlands scored against Austria and Italy in 1978
 * Siniša Mihajlović of Yugoslavia scored against Iran in 1998
 * Park Chu-young of South Korea scored against Nigeria in 2010
 * Carles Puyol of Spain scored against Germany in 2010
 * Fernandinho of Brazil scored against Cameroon in 2014
 * Denis Cheryshev of Russia scored twice against Saudi Arabia and once against Egypt and Croatia in 2018
 * Mario Mandžukić of Croatia scored twice against Cameroon in 2014, and once against Denmark, England and France in 2018
 * Enzo Fernández of Argentina scored against Mexico in 2022
 * Players to score for both teams in a match
 * Ernie Brandts, Netherlands vs Italy, 1978
 * Mario Mandžukić, Croatia vs France, 2018


 * Various
 * The own goal that Honduran goalkeeper Noel Valladares scored for France in 2014 was the first World Cup goal (of any kind) to be awarded with goal-line technology.
 * has scored more own goals (one) than regular goals (zero).
 * It is believed that the murder of Colombian footballer Andrés Escobar in the immediate aftermath of the 1994 World Cup was a retaliation for his having scored an own goal which contributed to his team's elimination from the tournament.