Sky Sports
UK's dominant sports broadcaster; published the World Cup's first tournament goal total, 308 goals.
Sky Sports, the UK's leading sports broadcaster, published the World Cup's first audited goal total on 20 July 2026: 308 goals across 104 matches, a 2.96-per-game average FIFA's own statistics pages had not yet matched.
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Published a 308-goal tournament total on 20 July
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Sky Sports is the UK's dominant premium sports broadcasting brand, owned by Sky, which Comcast acquired for £30.6bn in 2018. It operates across more than eleven dedicated channels in the UK and Ireland, with around 10 million subscribers, and holds UK rights including shared Premier League coverage, exclusive Formula 1, county cricket and golf.
For the 2026 World Cup, Sky Sports acted as a results and statistics outlet rather than a rights-holder. On 20 July it published the tournament's first goal count, 308 goals across 104 matches (2.96 per game), a figure FIFA's own statistics pages had not yet matched . It also reported England's 23 June group-stage draw with Ghana, the team's 13th scoreless World Cup match, more than any other nation in the tournament's history .