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General Numbers:

64 matches played

Games ending in a conclusive result at 90 minutes: 45

Drawn matches at 90 minutes: 19
these include:
3 decided by the golden goal,
2 decided by penalty shoot out.

Straight Winner:

Brazil – the first team since their 1970 side to win all their matches in a World Cup:
6 wins in 6 matches in 1970, and 7 wins in 7 matches in 2002.

Uruguay in 1930 (4 wins in 4 matches), and Italy in 1934 (4 wins in 4 matches),
both playing at home,
finished the very first World Cups also with the maximum points possible.

Brazil is thus the only team to have accomplished this feat away from home
(in Mexico and in Korea/Japan),
playing a larger number of matches, as well.

Highest score:

Germany8 x 0Saudi Arabia (First Round)

In previous World Cups:

Hungary's 10 x 1 over El Salvador, in 1982

Yugoslavia's 9 x 0 over Zaire, in 1974

Sweden's 8 x 0 over Cuba, in 1938

The highest of all was not registered in a World Cup proper,
but in a Preliminary Competition:

Australia's 31 x 0 over American Samoa, in 2001
(an amazing rate of a goal every 3 minutes!)

Best Attack:

Brazil, 18 goals – ratio: 2.57 goals/game.

Compare: 2002 overall scoring ratio

Brazil's own record, however, has held since 1950: 22 goals.

Brazil's second best attack played in the 1970 World Cup:
Pelé, Jairzinho & co. netted 19 goals,
one more than Ronaldo, Rivaldo & co. did in 2002.

Ronaldo’s eight goals has broken a 28-year pattern:

every top-scorer had scored six goals in the finals since 1978.

In 1974 Lato had scored 7 goals.

This is the first time, since the 1982 World Cup, that
the Top Scorer in the competition (Ronaldo)
also plays in the Champion Squad (Brazil).

Twenty years ago, when Italy won their last World Cup,
Italian forward Paolo Rossi was likewise the Top Scorer.

This is only the third time that the Top WC Scorer emerges from a Brazilian Squad:

Leônidas (1938), like Ronaldo in 2002, netted 8 goals to top the list,

while Ademir (1950) has the edge among the three:

Ademir was the top scorer, with 9 goals.

This honor, however, had a bitter-sweet taste, in 1950:
Brazil dramatically lost the Final Match and the Cup to Uruguay.

Quickest goals:

Hakan Sukur, 10.8 seconds after the whistle,

in the 3rd.Place Match S Korea 2 x 3 Turkey – World Cup record !

Emmanuel Olisadebe: 3 minutes after the whistle,

in the First Round match U.S.A. 1 x 3 Poland

In previous World Cups:

Vaclav Masek (Czech Republic) 15 seconds after the whistle, in 1962

Bryan Robson (England) 27 seconds after the whistle, in 1982

Bernard Lacombe (France) 37 seconds after the whistle, in 1978

Hat tricks:

Miroslav Klose, in the First Round match Germany 8 x 0 S.Arabia

Pedro Pauleta, in the First Round match Portugal 4 x 0 Poland

Shots on Target Leaders:

Ronaldo - 21

Rivaldo - 12

Vieri - 11

In the first 13 Final Matches (1930-1986), no goalkeeper held a clean sheet.

But since 1990, this tendency has been reversed:

Brazil’s Marcos (2002), France’s Fabien Barthez (1998),
Brazil’s Taffarel and Italy’s Gianluca Pagliuca (1994), and
Germany’s Bodo Illgner (1990) have all kept a clean sheet
in their Final Matches.

Five Penalties (out of 18) were saved, and none missed
(outside of shoot-outs).

This is quite different from France-1998:
17 (out of 18) penalties were converted and none were saved.

Yugoslavian Predrag Mijatovic was responsible for the single miss in 1998:
he failed to convert a penalty against The Netherlands, in the Second Round.

Goalless Matches:

France x Uruguay (First Round)

England x Nigeria (First Round)

Spain x S.Korea (Quarter-Finals)