WORLD CUP RECORDS (Part 14) - PLAYER WITH MOST HEADED GOALS
Picture : Miroslav Klose, the recordman of headed goals !
Player with most headed goals: Miroslav Klose
*Miroslav Klose has scored 7 headed goals at World Cups: more than any other players in the history of competition.
*All 5 his first World Cup goals (from total 16), i.e. all 5 his goals at 2002 World Cup, were aerial.
This made Klose the record holder on most headed goals at a single edition (5).
*After 2002 edition were he scored by head vs Saudi Arabia (3 times), Ireland and Cameroon, Klose netted such way also vs Argentina in 2006 and vs Australia in 2010.
*Another one who made a hat-trick of aerial goals was Tomáš Skuhravý (vs Costa Rica in 1990).
| PLAYERS WITH MOST | HEADED GOALS | AT | WORLD CUPS | |
| Player | Country | Goals | Breakdown | |
| 1 | Miroslav Klose | Germany | 7 | 2002 (5), 2006 (1), 2010 (1) |
| 2 | Gerd Müller | Germany | 5 | 1970 (4), 1974 (1) |
| 3 | Oldřich Nejedlý | Czechoslovakia | 4 | 1934 (3), 1938 (1) |
| Sándor Kocsis | Hungary | 4 | 1954 (4) | |
| Andrzej Szarmach | Poland | 4 | 1974 (3), 1978 (1) | |
| Tomáš Skuhravý | Czechoslovakia | 4 | 1990 (4) | |
| Jürgen Klinsmann | Germany | 4 | 1990 (2), 1994 (1), 1998 (1) |