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Stat Leaders

Soccer talks about goals and assists and forgets the other eighty-eight minutes. So here is the Golden Boot race — and the tackles, the saves, the bookings, and the team races, given the same typographic dignity. Every number is summed from the same verified match records as the tracker; nothing is re-keyed, nothing is guessed.

Updated June 12, 2026 · through the first 2 played matches · all times Eastern

Golden Boot

1goals

5 players level

Assists

1assists

2 players level

Clean sheets

1kept

RangelMEX

Scoring

Goals and the creation behind them. This is the part of the game everyone already counts — I count it too, then keep going.

Golden Boot

Goals

The race everyone watches — goals only, shootout kicks excluded, FIFA’s tiebreak order underneath.

T-15 players▸1
- Julián QuiñonesMEX
- Raúl JiménezMEX
- Ladislav KrejčíCZE
- Hwang In-beomKOR
- Oh Hyeon-gyuKOR

Assists

The pass before the goal, credited only where a source names it — a deflection off a turnover doesn’t count.

T-12 players▸1
- Roberto AlvaradoMEX
- Hwang In-beomKOR

Goal contributions

G + A

Goals plus the passes that made them — the fuller measure of a tournament’s most decisive attackers.

1Hwang In-beomKOR1G 1A2
T-25 players▸1
- Oh Hyeon-gyuKOR
- Ladislav KrejčíCZE
- Roberto AlvaradoMEX
- Julián QuiñonesMEX
- Raúl JiménezMEX

Headed goals

Headers

Goals scored with the head — the striker’s bravest finish and the centre-back’s set-piece reward.

T-12 players▸1
- Raúl JiménezMEX
- Ladislav KrejčíCZE

Keepers

Clean sheets, saves, and the only rate stat that earns its place in v1.

Clean sheets

Matches

Ninety minutes, nothing past you — the goalkeeper’s Golden Boot.

1RangelMEX1

Saves

Team saves attribute to the keeper who played; a mid-match change splits the tally only when a source does.

1KovářCZE2 conceded4
2Kim Seung-gyuKOR1 conceded3
T-32 players▸2
- RangelMEX
- WilliamsRSA

Save percentage

Saved

Shots saved as a share of shots faced — the one v1 rate stat, because its inputs are complete by construction.

1RangelMEX2/2100%
2Kim Seung-gyuKOR3/475%
3KovářCZE4/666.7%
4WilliamsRSA2/450%

Discipline

Cards by player, by referee, and by team — the bookkeeping of a bad-tempered afternoon.

Yellow cards

Yellows

Bookings, by player.

T-13 players▸1
- Brian GutiérrezMEX
- Nkosinathi SibisiRSA
- Lee Gi-hyukKOR

Red cards

Reds

Dismissals — straight reds and second yellows alike.

T-13 players▸1
- Sphephelo SitholeRSA
- Themba ZwaneRSA
- César MontesMEX

Cards by referee

Cards

Some whistles cost more than others. The referee is in every record, so this one writes itself.

1Wilton Pereira Sampaio (Brazil)1 match5
2Amin Omar (Egypt)1 match1

Most-carded team

Cards

Yellows and reds combined, by team.

1South Africa1Y 2R3
2Mexico1Y 1R2
3Korea Republic1Y 0R1

Team races

The team-level tables — goals, defense, and who’s keeping the ball.

Goals scored

Goals

Goals for, from the verified scorelines.

T-12 teams▸2
- Mexico
- Korea Republic
3Czechia1
4South Africa0

Goals conceded

Against

Fewest conceded leads — the defensive mirror of the column above.

1Mexico0
2Korea Republic1
T-32 teams▸2
- South Africa
- Czechia

Goal difference

Diff

Scored minus conceded — the group-table tiebreaker that actually moves.

1Mexico+2
2Korea Republic+1
3Czechia-1
4South Africa-2

Possession

Avg %

Average share of the ball across matches played.

1Korea Republic62%
2Mexico61%
3South Africa39%
4Czechia38%

Shots

Total shots taken.

1Mexico16
2Korea Republic15
3Czechia7
4South Africa3

Biggest win: Mexico 2–0 South Africa · best-attended: Estadio Azteca, 80,824.

Passing

The most under-rated skill on the pitch — every attack is built on it, so it gets its own rows. Team-level for now; per-player passing arrives with the box sheets.

Passes completed

Passes

Total completed passes — the raw volume of a side that keeps the ball.

1Korea Republic468
2Mexico467
3South Africa272
4Czechia229

Pass accuracy

Completed

Completed as a share of attempted, aggregated on attempts — not by averaging percentages. Team-level and complete by construction, like save %.

1Mexico467 cmp90%
2Korea Republic468 cmp86%
3South Africa272 cmp81%
4Czechia229 cmp71%

Notable so far

The edge cases worth a second look — the bench goals, the comebacks, the cards after the whistle. Small now; they fill in as the tournament does.

Earliest goal

Julián Quiñones — Mexico.

Latest goal

80'

Oh Hyeon-gyu — Korea Republic.

Super-sub goal

Oh Hyeon-gyuKorea Republic

Came on 69', scored 80' — the bench’s only goal so far.

Comeback win

Korea Republic

Fell behind to Ladislav Krejčí (59'), won 2–1.

Goal from the back

Ladislav KrejčíCzechia

A centre-back on the scoresheet.

Most cards in a match

5cards

Mexico 2–0 South Africa, 3 reds.

Stoppage-time cards

Bookings shown after the 90th minute.

Tournament firsts

First goal: Julián Quiñones (9') · First red: Sphephelo Sithole (49') · First comeback: Korea Republic.

These freeze into the permanent record once the final whistle goes.

2.5

Goals per match

3.0

Cards per match

62,904

Avg attendance

About this board

The per-player box-sheet groups — creation (chances created, dribbles, crosses), defense (tackles, interceptions, clearances, duels), and physical (distance, top speed) — populate as the daily refresh transcribes each match’s full sheet. Until a table has data it doesn’t render at all, rather than show a partial total dressed up as complete.

Every figure is aggregated from the per-match records behind the match pages — the same verified scorers, cards, line-ups, and box scores, summed here and nowhere re-typed. Each player resolves against a canonical squad registry, so a name spelled two ways still counts once. External leader tables (FIFA’s stats centre, FBref) are used only to cross-check, never as the source. Counting stats lead v1; rate stats wait for minutes coverage, save percentage excepted.

No betting odds and no prop bets — a leaderboard is exactly where the industry puts them, and they are not here, ever. After the final this board freezes as the tournament’s permanent statistical record. Mungomash is an independent reference site, not affiliated with FIFA. Data as of 2026-06-12 09:56 ET.