[OC] Jedes Tor in der Gruppenphase der Weltmeisterschaft 2026 pro Minute und die Last-Minute-Tore in der Nachspielzeit

Data: goal events from all 72 group-stage matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, collected through my own live-match pipeline.

Image 1: every goal at its match minute (first-half stoppage clustered at 45, second-half stoppage tailing past 90). Colour is what the goal did to the score from the running scoreline: took the lead, equaliser, extended a lead, or scored while still behind. Counts per 15 minutes run along the top.

Image 2: goals per minute of play, by phase. Divide by minutes actually played and regulation is basically flat (around 2 a minute). The only phase that clearly runs hot is second-half stoppage at about 3.2 a minute, roughly 1.6x normal. The “late goals” feeling is mostly because the 90+ bar bundles about 6 minutes of play into one bin.

Tools: Python, pandas, matplotlib. Limitations: first-half added time is estimated at about 4.5 min per game; “minute” is the official event minute. This is OC.

The extended extra time is really doing wonders for the games.

how many goal were scored in total up until the group stages?