1. Longest unbeaten streak – AC Milan holds the record for the longest unbeaten run in top-flight football, going 58 games without a loss from 1991 to 1993.
2. Fastest hat-trick – Sadio Mané scored the fastest Premier League hat-trick in just 2 minutes and 56 seconds for Southampton against Aston Villa in 2015.
3. Most World Cup wins – Brazil holds the record with 5 World Cup titles (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002).
4. First World Cup goal – Lucien Laurent from France scored the first-ever World Cup goal in 1930 against Mexico.
5. Highest-scoring match – The highest-scoring professional football match was 149-0 in Madagascar in 2002, when AS Adema won after their opponents deliberately scored own goals in protest.
6. Oldest professional player – Kazuyoshi Miura, known as "King Kazu," played professionally at 56 years old in 2023.
7. Most goals in a calendar year – Lionel Messi scored 91 goals for club and country in 2012, breaking Gerd Müller’s long-standing record.
8. Fastest red card – Keith Gillespie received a red card 0 seconds after coming on as a substitute for Sheffield United in 2007 — he elbowed an opponent before the ball was even in play.
9. Youngest World Cup winner – Pele won the World Cup at 17 years old in 1958, scoring twice in the final against Sweden.
10. Longest goal ever scored – Tom King, Newport County goalkeeper, scored from 105 yards (96 meters) in 2021, recognized as the longest goal in football history by Guinness World Records.
10 Football Facts...(Historic Records)