Statistics
- Most wins: Italy (6)
- Most defeats: Korea Republic, Sweden, UAE, United States (3)
- First goal: François Omam Biyik (for Cameroon vs Argentina; Group B, 8 June)
- Fastest goal in a match: 3 minutes 59 seconds – Safet Sušić (for Yugoslavia vs UAE; Group D, 19 June)
- Latest goal scored in a match (apart from penalty shoot-outs): 119 minutes – David Platt (for England vs Belgium; Round of 16, 16 June)
- Biggest win: 5–1 – by Czechoslovakia vs United States, and by West Germany vs UAE
- Most goals in the tournament (team): West Germany (15)
- Most goals in the tournament (player): Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) (6)
- Least goals in the tournament (team): Egypt and Korea Republic (1)
- Most goals in a game: 6 (United States 1 Czechoslovakia 5; West Germany 5 UAE 1)
- Most goals in a game (player): 3, by Míchel (for Spain vs Korea Republic) and Tomáš Skuhravý (for Czechoslovakia vs Costa Rica)
- Fewest goals conceded: Brazil, Egypt and Italy (2)
- Total goals scored: 115 (average 2.21 goals per game, a record low in World Cup history)
- Most clean sheets: Italy (5)
- Number of penalties awarded: 18 (13 scored, 5 missed)
- Most yellow cards in a game: 9 – Austria vs United States (Group A, 19 June)
- Most yellow cards in the tournament: Argentina (22)
- Total yellow cards: 162
- Most red cards in the tournament: Argentina (3)
- Total red cards: 16 (a record high for a 24 team World Cup)
- Highest attendance: 74,765 – West Germany vs Yugoslavia (Group D, 10 June)
- Lowest attendance: 27,833 – Yugoslavia vs UAE (Group D, 19 June)
- Average attendance: 48,391 (5th highest in World Cup history)
- Oldest player: Peter Shilton (England) (40 years 292 days)
- Youngest player: Rónald González Brenes (Costa Rica) (19 years 307 days)
- Italy's performance of 6 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses is the highest ever winning percentage for a team that did not win the World Cup.
- The Republic of Ireland became the second team in World Cup history to reach the last eight without winning a match (Sweden progressed to the last eight by default in 1938 when Austria withdrew).
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