Overview
- Ellyes Skhiri put a Denzel Dumfries low cross into his own net in the third minute of Tunisia’s Group F loss to the Netherlands on Thursday, taking the tournament total to 12 and helping the Netherlands finish top of the group.
- Opta data cited by multiple outlets says the 12 own goals in 2026 make up over 18% of the 66 own goals recorded across men's World Cup history.
- The run began earlier in the tournament with Paraguay’s Damian Bobadilla and has since included own goals by players such as Miro Muheim, Mohamed Manai, Mohamed Hany, Aymen Hussein, Cameron Burgess and Yassine Bounou.
- Iraq’s Aymen Hussein became only the third player in World Cup history to score for both sides in one match when he scored an own goal and later for his team, and Qatar joined Bulgaria (1966) and Russia (2018) as the only teams to record two own goals in a single tournament.
- By way of context, the first World Cup own goal was scored in 1930 by Mexico’s Manuel Rosas, Mexico hold the most own goals by a nation with four, and France have benefited from the most opponent own goals with six.