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1. In the match against England Marcus Allbäck scored the 2000th goal in World Cup history.
2. Switzerland is the first country ever to be knocked out without conceding a single goal.
3. Portuguese goalie Ricardo is the first ever to save 3 penalties in one shootout (against England).
4. Germany is the only country to have participated in 4 shootouts and have won every one of them.
5. Lionel Messi is the 5th youngest player to have scored in a World Cup, aged 18 years and 357 days when he scored against Serbia/Montenegro.
6. Yahya Golmohammadi is the 5th oldest player to have scored in a World Cup, aged 35 years and 84 days when he scored against Mexico.
7. Ali Boumnijel is the 5th oldest player to have played a match, aged 40 years and 71 days against Ukraine.
8. Otto Pfister was the 2nd oldest coach ever in a World Cup (68 years and 211 days)
9. Fabien Barthez kept a clean sheet for 5 matches, bringing his total to 10, a record shared with Peter Shilton.
10. With the draw against England, Scolari's series of 11 matches won in a row came to an end. However, being undefeated in 12 matches does give him the unbeaten record.
11. With 11 wins in a row, Brazil also set a record.
12. Gianluigi Buffon didn't concede a single goal in 459 minutes. Zidane's penalty in the final kept him from grabbing a record.
13. Horacio Elizondo is the first referee ever to have led the opening match and the final match of the same tournament. Also, he is the only referee along with Benito Archundia to have led 5 games this world cup.
14. Archundia was the first ref to lead 5 matches in a World Cup.
15. With a total of 16 yellow cards and 4 red cards, the match Portugal-Holland set a negative record.
16. With 20 matches, Cafu became the Brazilian with most World Cup matches played, and also the most wins (16)
17. Ronaldo scored his 15th goal and passed Gerd Müller on the all-time topscorer list.
18. Guus Hiddink got past the group stage for the third time in a row, and with three different teams as well (Holland, South Korea, Australia)
19. Brazilian coach Carlos Alberto Parreira is the first coach to have played against a country from all six continents in the World Cup.
20. With 5 World Cups Parreira also equalled the record of Bora Milutinovic.
21. With 20 matches Parreira also equalled Zagallo and Milutinovic; Helmut Schön, however, still holds the record (25)
22. The match between Spain and France was the 700th match in World Cup history.
23. The penalty shootout between Switzerland and Ukraine is the shortest in WC history. Also, Switzerland is the first country to have missed all their penalties.
24. Italy's 12 goals were scored by 10 different players, a record that is also held by France (1982)
25. The average attendance is the 2nd highest ever, 52,500. Only the WC of 1994 in the US had more: 68,991
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