Hungary v El Salvador (1982 FIFA World Cup)

1982 FIFA World Cup
Group 3
The Nuevo Estadio held the match
Event1982 FIFA World Cup
Date15 June 1982
VenueNuevo Estadio, Elche
RefereeIbrahim Youssef Al-Doy (Bahrain)
Attendance23,000

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]

  1. ^ (in Portuguese) "Hungria é o país que mais goleou em jogos da Copa do Mundo" Archived 19 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine (The Brazilian Post)
  2. ^ "World Cup: 25 stunning moments … No18: El Salvador humiliated in Spain". Guardian. 20 May 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  3. ^ Richards, Alex (9 July 2014). "5 biggest World Cup thrashings after Brazil's humiliation against Germany". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Laszlo Kiss". The Times of India. 8 June 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2014.