World Cup group stage statistics and games that earned punters big money courtesy of UG3+ promotion
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Reading Time: 3min | Mon. 29.06.26. | 09:16
A total of 215 goals were scored in 72 group stage matches, with Turkey having the most shots
The Round of 16 of the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicked off on Sunday, with South Africa losing 1-0 to Canada.
Before the contest, 72 group stage matches had been played, with a total of 215 goals scored.
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An average of close to three per game. With the knockout stage on, this is an ideal time to go through the statistics of what we have seen in the previous 17 days of the tournament in North America.
So far, this is the most effective World Cup, which is to be expected considering that the number of participants has increased from 32 to 48.
The two most convincing victories were recorded by Germany over Curacao.
The 2014 champions won 7-1, while Canada beat Qatar 6-0.
Portugal and Senegal were also big winners in the group stage, both humbling Uzbekistan and Iraq 5-0, respectively.
In a total of 40 out of 72 matches, we saw three or more goals.
On average, at 55.5 games, in almost all bookmakers in the world, a UG3+ game is rounded.
We say on almost all of them, because Mozzart Bet had a unique offer.
As you probably already know, it is only at Mozzart Bet that you can bet that at least three goals will be scored in any World Cup match, in classic or live betting, land or web, and round this guy on the ticket after only 600 seconds of the match if the net shakes during this period!
We had seven such cases in the group stage.
In the matches Mexico - South Africa (2:0), Portugal - DR Congo (1:1), Czech Republic - South Africa (1:1), Scotland - Morocco (1:0), Turkey - Paraguay (0:1), Ivory Coast - Curaçao (2:0) and Egypt - Iran (1:1). So, as for Mozzart , UG3+ came in 65.28 percent of the games. It's not a small difference.
As many as 11 teams played to be 3+ in each of their three group stage games.
These are the selections of Germany, the Netherlands, France, Norway, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia, New Zealand, Iraq, Jordan and Uzbekistan.
In the Round of 16, we will see only the first six from that list.
Other interesting statistics can be useful to bettors in the rest of the competition.
In addition, Canada (35), Uruguay (26) and England (24) took the most corners, and England, Canada (49 each) and Egypt (46) took the most goals.
Uruguay (14), Colombia (13) and Brazil (nine) were offside the most times, the most fouls were committed by players from Haiti (55), Ghana and Panama (46 each), while South Africa (13), Qatar (12) and Paraguay (11) received the most cards.
Interestingly, the most shots on goal were directed by the Turkish team (71), which failed to advance to the knockout stage mainly due to the fact that it did not score a single goal in the first two rounds.
Next are Belgium with 70 and Colombia with 61 shots, with the fact that they will have the opportunity to improve their statistics in the round of 16.
It is also interesting that all three of the youngest national teams advanced.
Ivory Coast, whose average age is 25.38, Ecuador with an average of 25.65 and Bosnia and Herzegovina with 26.04.
On the other hand, the two oldest, Panama (30.08) and Iran (29.85) were eliminated.