Mbappé's World Cup Final Goals: Four in Two Finals, and a Hat-Trick That Lost
Mbappé World Cup final goals: four across the 2018 and 2022 finals, including a hat-trick against Argentina, the first in a World Cup final since 1966.
Most great forwards never score in a World Cup final. Kylian Mbappé has scored four goals across two of them, a tally no player in the history of the tournament has matched, and he did it in two of the most dramatic finals ever played. One made him a teenage world champion; the other was a hat-trick that still ended in defeat. This page is about those four goals, as of 2026-10-19. The full tournament record sits in the Mbappé World Cup stats article.
The two finals
| World Cup final | Opponent | Mbappé goals | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Croatia | 1 | Won 4-2 |
| 2022 | Argentina | 3 | Lost on penalties (3-3) |
Four goals in World Cup finals is the most any player has ever scored. Geoff Hurst's famous hat-trick in 1966 came in a single match; Pelé and Vavá each scored three across two finals. Mbappé has gone past all of them, and he is the only man to score in two different finals in the modern era and reach three in one of them.
2018: one goal, a world champion at nineteen
In Moscow against Croatia, Mbappé scored France's fourth in a 4-2 win, a low drive from the edge of the box that made the game safe. He became the first teenager to score in a World Cup final since Pelé in 1958, finished the tournament as its Best Young Player, and lifted the trophy at nineteen. It was a single goal, but it arrived on the biggest stage in the sport and it came with a winner's medal, the one prize that frames everything else in his career.
2022: the hat-trick that history will remember
Four years later in Qatar, Mbappé produced the greatest individual performance a losing finalist has ever given. France were 2-0 down to Argentina and dead on their feet when he scored twice in 97 seconds, a penalty and a volley, to force extra time. He scored again in extra time, completing a hat-trick, the first in a World Cup final since Geoff Hurst in 1966. And then France lost on penalties. He had done everything a forward can do in a final and still finished on the losing side, the cruellest footnote to the finest night of his career. His complete international record sits on the international stats page.
Why there was no 2026 final goal
France did not reach the 2026 World Cup final, finishing fourth, so Mbappé's record in finals still stands at the two matches above. He added ten goals across the 2026 tournament to push his overall World Cup tally to 22, the all-time record, but the stage of the final itself eluded France that year. For a player who has twice decided the destiny of a World Cup with his finishing, the absence of a third final is the one gap in an otherwise complete tournament résumé.
Verdict
No one has scored more in World Cup finals than Mbappé, and no one has packed more drama into so few goals. A title-sealing strike at nineteen, a hat-trick at twenty-three that forced the greatest final of the century to penalties: four goals, two finals, one trophy and one of the most painful defeats the competition has produced. Whether a third final ever comes is the open question, and every number here is tracked alongside his full record on the Mbappé World Cup stats page.
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