Event | 1982 FIFA World Cup | ||||||
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Date | 15 June 1982 | ||||||
Venue | Nuevo Estadio, Elche | ||||||
Referee | Ibrahim Youssef Al-Doy (Bahrain) | ||||||
Attendance | 23,000 |
Hungary v El Salvador was the second game to be played in Group 3 of the first group stage at the 1982 FIFA World Cup. The game was played at Nuevo Estadio in Elche, Spain on 15 June between the men's national football teams of Hungary and El Salvador. Hungary won the match 10–1, recording the biggest scoreline in men's FIFA World Cup finals history.[1][2]
Hungarian substitute László Kiss scored a hat-trick, the only World Cup hat-trick by a substitute,[3] and the fastest ever in a World Cup, in the space of seven minutes.[4]