List of FIFA World Cup penalty shoot-outs
This is a list of all penalty shoot-outs that have taken place in the final tournaments of the FIFA World Cup. For knockout matches tied after regulation and extra time, the first editions of the World Cup used the rule of replaying the game. Replacement of the rule was first proposed in 1970 to the IFAB, and penalty shoot-outs were adopted for the World Cup from the 1978 tournament (from 1986 for final matches), although in practice they did not occur before 1982. Twice, in 1994 and 2006, the World  Cup title has been decided by a penalty shoot-out. Of the 30 shoot-outs that have taken place in the competition, only two reached the sudden death stage after still being tied at the end of "best of five kicks". Statistics. By tournament. Before the introduction of penalty shoot-outs in 1978: Highest values in bold.