WORLD CUP RECORDS (Part 45) - MOST FREQUENT PENALTY TAKERS
Picture : Argentina has already got 4 penalties in this World Cup ! Lionel Messi scored 3 goals, the last yesterday against Croatia.
Most frequent penalty takers in a single edition
Argentina got 4 penalties in their favor in the 2022 World Cup. This is the record of the competition shared also by Portugal in 1966 and Netherlands in 1978 (not counting shootouts).
In each of these 3 cases, all 4 penalties were taken by the same player (Eusébio, Rob Rensenbrink, Lionel Messi). Thus, they share the record for players on the number of penalties taken in a single edition.
Besides, Messi equaled Harry Kane as the player with the most penalties taken (5) in the World Cup history overall.
| PLAYERS WITH MOST | PENALTIES | TAKEN | ||
| IN A SINGLE | WORLD CUP | EDITION | ||
| Player | Country | Penalties | Edition | |
| Taken | Scored | |||
| Eusébio | Portugal | 4 | 4 | 1966 |
| Rob Rensenbrink | Netherlands | 4 | 4 | 1978 |
| Lionel Messi | Argentina | 4 | 3 | 2022 |
| Johan Neeskens | Netherlands | 3 | 3 | 1974 |
| Michal Bílek | Czechoslovakia | 3 | 2 | 1990 |
| Hristo Stoichkov | Bulgaria | 3 | 3 | 1994 |
| Asamoah Gyan | Ghana | 3 | 2 | 2010 |
| Harry Kane | England | 3 | 3 | 2018 |
| Antoine Griezmann | France | 3 | 3 | 2018 |