Which player has scored the opening goal at each World Cup?

Year:

Goalscorer:

Result:

2022

Enner Valencia (Ecuador)

Qatar 0-2 Ecuador

2018

Yury Gazinsky (Russia)

Russia 5-0 Saudi Arabia

2014

Marcelo (Brazil)

Brazil 3-1 Croatia

2010

Siphiwe Tshabalala (South Africa)

South Africa 1-1 Mexico

2006

Philipp Lahm (Germany)

Germany 4-2 Costa Rica

2002

Papa Bouba Diop (Senegal)

France 0-1 Senegal

1998

Cesar Sampaio

Brazil 2-1 Scotland

1994

Jurgen Klinsmann (Germany)

Germany 1-0 Bolivia

1990

Francois Omam-Biyik (Cameroon)

Argentina 0-1 Cameroon

1986

Alessandro Altobelli (Italy)

Italy 1-1 Bulgaria

1982

Erwin Vandenbergh (Belgium)

Argentina 0-1 Belgium

1978

Bernard Lacombe (France)

France 1-2 Italy

1974

Paul Breitner (West Germany)

West Germany 1-0 Chile

1970

Dinko Dermendzhiev (Bulgaria)

Peru 3-2 Bulgaria

1966

Pele (Brazil)

Brazil 2-0 Bulgaria

1962

Hector Facundo (Argentina)

Argentina 1-0 Bulgaria

1958

Oreste Corbatta (Argentina)

West Germany 3-1 Argentina

1954

Milos Milutinovic (Yugoslavia)

Yugoslavia 1-0 France

1950

Ademir (Brazil)

Brazil 4-0 Mexico

1938

Josef Gauchel (Germany)

Switzerland 1-1 Germany

1934

Ernesto Belis (Argentina)

Sweden 3-2 Argentina

1930

Lucien Laurent (France)

France 4-1 Mexico