This market will based on the number of goals scored in the highest-scoring match in the 2026 FIFA (men's) World Cup. Totals include all goals in regular time and extra time (if played), but exclude penalty shootouts.

The highest scoring World Cup match in history had 12 goals: Austria 7–5 Switzerland in 1954. Three matches have had 12 goals, with scorelines of 6–5, 8–3 and 10–1; the last of these is the only occasion on which a team has scored 10 or more goals in a single match, and one of three times a team has won by a 9-goal margin. The highest scoring match at the 2022 FIFA World Cup had 8 goals, when England beat Iran 6–2.