World Cup Trivia Questions and Answers
34 soccer trivia questions about the World Cup, written after the 2026 final so the answers are current. Every answer opens the FootyTracks anthem for that nation, player or moment. Facts are checked against the match records, and the World Cup 2026 songs are all at footytracks.com/collections/world-cup-2026.
Who won the 2026 World Cup?
Spain beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time at MetLife Stadium on 19 July 2026, sixteen years after their first star.Song: Spain Are World Cup 26 Champions
Who scored in the 2026 World Cup final?
Ferran Torres, in the 106th minute, finishing a Nico Williams header. Both had started the night on the bench.Song: Spain Are World Cup 26 Champions
How many goals did Spain concede in the whole 2026 tournament?
One. Unai Simon kept seven clean sheets and Rodri took the Golden Ball.Song: Spain Are World Cup 26 Champions
Who did Lionel Messi face in his final World Cup match?
Spain and Lamine Yamal, the nineteen-year-old wearing the number ten Messi left behind at Barcelona.Song: Messi vs Yamal: The Final
How did Messi open the 2026 World Cup?
With a hat-trick against Algeria in Kansas City at thirty-eight, the oldest hat-trick ever scored at a World Cup.Song: Hat-Trick Hero
Whose record did Messi break to become the World Cup's all-time top scorer?
Miroslav Klose's sixteen goals.Song: Goodbye Messi
How did Cristiano Ronaldo's last World Cup end?
Spain 1-0 Portugal in the round of 16, Mikel Merino scoring in the first minute of stoppage time. It was his sixth World Cup, at forty-one.Song: One Last Crown
Who kept Portugal's round of 32 tie alive against Croatia?
Goncalo Ramos, with a winner four minutes into stoppage time in a 2-1 win.Song: One Last Crown
Which debutant nation held Spain to 0-0?
Cape Verde, thanks to seven saves from their forty-year-old goalkeeper Vozinha. They finished second in the group, the smallest nation ever in the World Cup knockouts.Song: Vozinha
Who knocked out the champions-elect debutants Cape Verde?
Argentina, 3-2 after extra time in the round of 32, with Messi on the scoresheet.Song: One More Ride
Who eliminated Brazil?
Norway, 2-1 in the round of 16. Erling Haaland scored twice late, in the 79th and 90th minutes, to send the five-time champions home.Song: Haaland: Norway Anthem
How long had Norway waited to be back at a World Cup?
Twenty-eight years. Haaland announced the return with a brace in his first World Cup game.Song: Haaland: Norway Anthem
What was unusual about Germany's exit?
Paraguay beat them on penalties after a 1-1 draw in the round of 32, Germany's first-ever World Cup penalty shootout defeat.Song: Die Mannschaft
How did Germany start their group?
Leroy Sane scored inside two minutes, Ecuador clawed two goals back, and Die Mannschaft still finished top of the group.Song: Die Mannschaft
Who scored the latest regulation winning goal in World Cup knockout history?
Gabriel Martinelli, in the 95th minute of Brazil's 2-1 win over Japan in the round of 32.Song: Goodbye Martinelli
What did England do at the Azteca that no team had done before?
Beat Mexico there at a World Cup, winning 3-2 with ten men. Harry Kane scored from the spot.Song: Haaland vs Kane
Whose record did Jude Bellingham match at the Azteca?
Diego Maradona's. Bellingham scored twice in 98 seconds, the first player since Maradona to score twice in a World Cup match there.Song: Haaland vs Kane
Who scored England's extra-time winner against Norway in the quarter-final?
Jude Bellingham, in the 93rd minute, for a 2-1 win.Song: Who Better Than Jude?
How did Argentina beat Egypt in the round of 16?
From 2-0 down: Romero in the 79th minute, Messi in the 83rd, and Enzo Fernandez with the winner two minutes into stoppage time.Song: One More Ride
Who scored Argentina's extra-time goals against Switzerland in the quarter-final?
Julian Alvarez with a curling goal in the 112th minute and Lautaro Martinez in the 121st, for a 3-1 win.Song: One More Ride
Who won the semi-finals?
Spain beat France 2-0, with Yamal outshining Mbappe, and Argentina beat England 2-1 with Enzo Fernandez in the 85th minute and Lautaro Martinez in stoppage time.Song: La Roja
Which hosts were still in the tournament after the round of 16?
None. Mexico lost 3-2 to England, the USA lost 4-1 to Belgium and Canada lost 3-0 to Morocco, with Azzedine Ounahi scoring twice.Song: Vamos
How did Morocco get past the Netherlands?
On penalties after a 1-1 draw in the round of 32, before beating Canada 3-0 and losing 2-0 to France in the quarter-final.Song: Atlas Lions
Who scored for France against Sweden in the round of 32?
Kylian Mbappe, twice, in a 3-0 win. Mbappe and Dembele then beat Morocco 2-0 in the quarter-final.Song: Allez Les Bleus
Why did the 2026 World Cup have hydration breaks?
For the first time FIFA made them mandatory, stopping play 22 minutes into each half, because nine of the sixteen host cities pass the extreme-heat threshold on most hot afternoons.Song: Hydration Break
How many goals were scored at the 2026 World Cup?
294 in 101 matches, about three a game, at the first World Cup hosted by three nations and the first with 48 teams.Song: World Cup 2026: One Ball, One World
Where does the 2026 World Cup's biggest meme come from?
A tabby cat in a curly black wig that looks like Marc Cucurella. The clip started on TikTok in July 2025 and exploded a year later while Spain won the tournament. After the final, Google added a cat Easter egg to searches for his name.Song: Cucurella Cat
Which country has millions of Argentina fans and no football team at the World Cup?
Bangladesh, where the bond goes back to Maradona in 1986. Argentina opened an embassy in Dhaka after the 2022 win.Song: Bangladesh Argentina Anthem
When did Lionel Messi finally win the World Cup?
Qatar 2022, the one trophy that had kept escaping him.Song: Goodbye Messi
How old was Kylian Mbappe when he won the World Cup?
Nineteen, in 2018. Four years later he scored a hat-trick in the final and still lost.Song: Mbappe Song
When did Spain win their first World Cup?
2010, sixteen years before the second star in 2026.Song: Spain Are World Cup 26 Champions
How many World Cups has Brazil won, and when was the last?
Five, the last in 2002. The wait for the Hexa, the sixth star, passed twenty-four years in 2026.Song: Hexa
Which World Cup started Bangladesh's love affair with Argentina?
Mexico 1986, when Maradona lit the flame and fathers passed the sky-blue name to their sons.Song: Bangladesh Argentina Anthem
How many goals has Cristiano Ronaldo scored for Portugal?
146, alongside the most career goals ever scored and five Champions Leagues.Song: Messi vs Ronaldo
- The 2026 World Cup was the first hosted by three nations (Canada, Mexico and the USA) and the first with 48 teams.Song: World Cup 2026: One Ball, One World
- 294 goals were scored in 101 matches, roughly three a game, beating the 172 scored in 64 matches in 2022.Song: World Cup 2026: One Ball, One World
- Cape Verde became the smallest nation ever to reach the World Cup knockout rounds, on their debut.Song: Vozinha
- Germany lost a World Cup penalty shootout for the first time in their history, to Paraguay in the round of 32.Song: Die Mannschaft
- Gabriel Martinelli's 95th-minute winner against Japan is the latest regulation winning goal in World Cup knockout history.Song: Goodbye Martinelli
- All three host nations were eliminated by the end of the round of 16.Song: Vamos
- Spain conceded one goal in the entire tournament. Unai Simon kept seven clean sheets.Song: Spain Are World Cup 26 Champions
- Lionel Messi became the World Cup's all-time top scorer, passing Miroslav Klose's sixteen, and reached the final at thirty-nine.Song: Goodbye Messi
- Messi's opening hat-trick against Algeria, at thirty-eight, was the oldest hat-trick ever scored at a World Cup.Song: Hat-Trick Hero
- Hydration breaks were mandatory for the first time, stopping play 22 minutes into each half.Song: Hydration Break
- England became the first team to beat Mexico at the Azteca at a World Cup, and did it with ten men.Song: Haaland vs Kane
- Erling Haaland's first World Cup was Norway's first in 28 years. He scored a brace in his opening game and knocked Brazil out in the round of 16.Song: Haaland: Norway Anthem
- The final was decided by two substitutes: Nico Williams headed the ball down and Ferran Torres finished it in the 106th minute.Song: Spain Are World Cup 26 Champions
- Cristiano Ronaldo played his sixth World Cup at forty-one. It ended in the round of 16 to a stoppage-time Spain goal.Song: Goodbye Cristiano Ronaldo
- The tournament's biggest meme was a cat: a tabby in a curly wig that looked like Spain defender Marc Cucurella.Song: Cucurella Cat
What is the World Cup 2026 song?
The official FIFA anthem is DNA and the official song is Dai Dai by Shakira and Burna Boy. FootyTracks made its own unofficial 2026 anthems for nations, players and moments; the tournament anthem is at footytracks.com/music/world-cup-2026-anthem and the full set is at footytracks.com/collections/world-cup-2026.
How many World Cup songs does Shakira have?
Dai Dai for 2026 joins Waka Waka, her 2010 song, as her best-known World Cup songs, alongside La La La for 2014.