FIFA: The biggest record in football history! Spain’s Unai Simon created history, entered the ‘Guinness Book’ name registered in

FIFA Unai Simon Guinness World Record: Spain’s goalkeeper has created history in the FIFA World Cup. Spain’s goalkeeper Unai Simon has created history in the FIFA World Cup and has made a new Guinness World Record for keeping a clean sheet for the longest time. After combining the two World Cups, Simon has not conceded any goals in a total of 5 matches, which is also a new record.

With this special achievement, Spain’s goalkeeper Unai Simon has also broken a 36-year-old record. Including the two World Cups, Simon has been thwarting every attack of the opposition teams for 519 minutes so far. He achieved this historic milestone in Spain’s 3-0 victory against Austria.

Great goalkeeper Walter Jenga’s record broken

Earlier this record was in the name of Italy’s great goalkeeper Walter Zenga, who did not concede a goal for 517 minutes in the 1990 World Cup. Guinness World Records has confirmed this achievement by sharing the social media platform ‘X’ Information has also been shared on. He told that Spain’s Unai Simon has set a new record of not conceding a goal for 519 consecutive minutes in World Cup matches.

New record: Longest football (soccer) FIFA World Cup clean sheet ⚽🙌

The longest time played in World Cup finals matches by a goalkeeper without conceding a goal is 519 minutes by Spain’s Unai Simón 🇪🇸

— Guinness World Records (@GWR) July 2, 2026

Record made by combining two World Cups

Simon has achieved this record by combining two World Cups. In the 2026 World Cup, he kept a clean sheet for a total of 360 minutes against Cape Verde, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay and Austria. Earlier also in the Qatar World Cup held in 2022, he had not conceded any goal for 159 minutes.

The previous record of 518 minutes by Italy’s Walter Zenga has stood since 1990.

— Guinness World Records (@GWR) July 2, 2026

Although Spain’s journey in 2022 ended in a penalty shootout against Morocco in the Round of 16, Simon did not allow any goals in 120 minutes of play, which shows his strong and excellent performance.

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His last World Cup goal came against Japan in 2022, when Ao Tanaka scored in the 51st minute. Since then Simon has been continuously stopping goals. Even before this achievement, Simon had also broken the record of former legendary Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas. Casillas kept clean sheets for 476 consecutive minutes in the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.

(with agency input)