Sheet Three

             GAME    GAME                                             GOALS

           THREE    TWO       NAME                            TOTAL 

                 1              3          S. THOMSON                      35

                 2            11          B. BURROUGHS                34

                 3              1          D. BARRETT                      33

                 4            25          T. KING (2)                         33

                 5           12           MANGO                              33

                 6           13           I. SMITH                             33

                 7           10           J. WOOD                             33

                 8             9           S. REEVE                            32

                 9             8           A. NEWMAN                      31

               10           37           P. REEVE                             31

               11           19           C. SETFORD                       31

               12           21           STALKY (2)                        31

               13           15           A. STUBBS                         31

               14             4           D. WOOD                            31

               15           32           R. WOOD                            31

As you can see from the table above, Scott Thomson is in the lead now, after the end of the first round. Scott’s teams are Argentina, Brazil, France and Germany.

We had four players who have picked up the highest score after the first round, third games, with a total of 13 goals each. They are Tony King (2), Mick Liddle, Phil Reeve and Richie Williams. 

So who are the best teams that we have in the 2026 World Cup after the end of the first round games. I can tell you that they are

FRANCE (10) GERMANY (10) NETHERLANDS (10) ARGENTINA (8) total of 38 goals

All but seven of our teams have scored in the third games in the first round, and they have collected a total of 49 goals. That has beaten our best score in the France 1998 Golden Goals World Cup, we reached a total of 31 goals at the end of the first round. The seven teams that did not score are CAPE VERDE, CZECH REPUBLIC, PARAGUAY, PORTUGAL, SCOTLAND, SOUTH KOREA and URUGUAY.

GERMANY still holds the current record for the highest score with that 7-1 win over Curacao in Group E in their opening game.

SCOTLAND from Group C are our worst team as they have only picked up one goal in all of their first round games.

We still have 23 of our 28 teams that have made it through to the Second Round. The teams that have gone home are CZECH REPLULIC, SCOTLAND, SOUTH KOREA, TURKEY and URUGUAY. 

The fastest goal has been scored by Matías Galarza for Paraguay in Group C after they won 1-0 against Turkey in their second game in the first round. It took just 64 seconds (1 minute and 4 seconds)

Top goal scorers in the World Cup 2026 “Golden Boot” are Argentina’s Lionel Messi with 6 goals, and then he is followed by France’s Kylian Mbappe, and Norway’s Erling Haaland with 4 goals each. Germany’s Deniz Undav and Canada’s Jonathan David are on 3 goals each. We then have 20 players with 2 goals each.