2006
Edition #18
Germany2006-06-09 → 2006-07-09
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Italy
Champion
Italy32
Teams
64
Matches
147
Total goals
2.30/match
3,359,439
Attendance
🥈
FranceRunner-up
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ItalyChampion
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GermanyThird
Awards & marks
Top scorer
Miroslav KloseGermany · 5 goals
Best player
Zinedine ZidaneFrance
Best young
Lukas PodolskiGermany
Best GK
Gianluigi BuffonItaly
Match ball
Adidas Teamgeist
Mascot
Goleo VI and Pille
Notes
Italy's fourth title, won 5-3 on penalties after 1-1 a.e.t. with France. The match is remembered for Zidane's headbutt on Materazzi in the 110th minute (red card, his last act in football). Italy conceded only 2 goals all tournament (one own goal, one Zidane penalty in final). Germany hosted; Klinsmann's young team finished 3rd. First Best Young Player award introduced — won by Lukas Podolski. Trinidad & Tobago, Angola, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Ukraine all made WC debuts. Bizarre Adidas mascot 'Goleo' (a lion in shorts but no pants) and his football-shaped sidekick Pille.
Stadiums & venues
12 venues · 64 matches · click any marker for details
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Allianz Arena
Munich
6 matches
75,000 cap
Signal Iduna Park
Dortmund
6 matches
81,365 cap
Olympiastadion
Berlin
6 matches
74,475 cap
MHPArena
Stuttgart
6 matches
60,449 cap
Veltins-Arena
Gelsenkirchen
5 matches
62,271 cap
Deutsche Bank Park
Frankfurt
5 matches
51,500 cap
Volksparkstadion
Hamburg
5 matches
57,000 cap
Red Bull Arena (Leipzig)
Leipzig
5 matches
47,069 cap
Max-Morlock-Stadion
Nuremberg
5 matches
50,000 cap
RheinEnergieStadion
Cologne
5 matches
50,000 cap
HDI-Arena
Hannover
5 matches
49,000 cap
Fritz-Walter-Stadion
Kaiserslautern
5 matches
49,850 cap
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Top scorers
Goals scored, top 12
- 1.Miroslav KloseGermany· FW5
- 2.
David VillaSpain· FW3 - 3.Fernando TorresSpain· FW3
- 4.
Hernán CrespoArgentina· FW3 - 5.Lukas PodolskiGermany· FW3
- 6.Maxi RodríguezArgentina· MF3
- 7.
RonaldoBrazil· FW3 - 8.Thierry HenryFrance· FW3
- 9.Zinedine ZidaneFrance· MF3
- 10.AdrianoBrazil· FW2
- 11.
Agustín DelgadoEcuador· FW2 - 12.
Alexander FreiSwitzerland· FW2
Confederation breakdown
32 qualifying teams
Italy's road to the title
Every match Italy played, group stage through the final
3W1D0L·7 GF1 GA·4 matches
- R16Wvs
Australia2006-06-261–0 - QFWvs
Ukraine2006-06-303–0 - SFWvs Germany2006-07-042–0AET
- FinalDvs France2006-07-091–1AET
📚 Trivia
2 curated facts
- finalsZinedine Zidane's last act in football was headbutting Italy's Marco Materazzi in the chest in the 110th minute of the 2006 final. He was sent off; Italy won 5-3 on penalties after 1-1 a.e.t. Zidane still won Best Player.
- firsts2006 was the first WC with a Best Young Player award. The inaugural winner: Lukas Podolski (Germany), aged 21.