By The Numbers

5.38: Record for the average number of goals per game at a World Cup was 5.38, set in 1954. The average at the 2018 tournament was 2.64.

8: Stadiums used for this tournament, the fewest at a World Cup in the modern era. 13:

Highest number of goals scored by a player at a single World Cup, set by France’s Just Fontaine in 1958. 29:

Record for penalties awarded at the

2018 tournament in Russia, the first World Cup with VAR. That’s a 61% increase on the previous record. 48: Number of teams that will play in the next World Cup in 2026, with this being the last with 32 teams. 117:

How many goals Cristiano Ronaldo has scored for Portugal, a record in men’s international soccer. 974: Recycled shipping containers used to build the temporary 40,000-capacity Stadium 974. Organizers say it is the first full demountable covered soccer stadium. Also, 974 is the international dialling code for Qatar. 5,850: Price in Qatari riyals ($1,607) for the most expensive tickets on general sale for the Dec. 18 final at Lusail Stadium, up 46% from the 2018 final won by France. 10,000: Liters of water needed every day for each of the eight fields used to stage games in Qatar. 69,174: Highest average match attendance at a World Cup, in the United States in 1994. Qatar will not come close, given only one of the eight stadiums has a capacity over 60,000. 130,000: Hotel rooms occupied per day for the World Cup. 1.2M: Fans coming to Qatar during the World Cup. 440M: Total prize money in U.S. dollars on offer at the World Cup, of which $42 million will go to the winner. The prize fund was $400 million at the 2018 tournament. 6B:

FIFA is set to generate revenues of at least this amount in U.S. dollars from the World Cup in Qatar.