Spain vs Belgium Key Stats: FIFA World Cup 2026

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• Spain and Belgium have met twice at the FIFA World Cup. Belgium edged their only knockout‑stage encounter, winning 5-4 on penalties in the 1986 quarter‑finals after a 1-1 draw, while Spain prevailed four years later at Italia ’90 with a 2-1 victory in the group stage.
• Spain are undefeated in their last 11 matches against Belgium (W9 D2), winning all of the last five, four of them FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
• Spain have reached the quarter‑finals for the first time since 2010, when they went on to win the competition after defeating Paraguay 1-0 in the last eight. That is the only Spanish victory in five World Cup quarter-final ties.
• Spain are unbeaten in regular time in their last 35 matches (W26 D9) in a run stretching back to a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Colombia in a friendly in London on 22 March 2024.
• Spain have won five of their last six World Cup knockout matches against European opposition, the lone exception being their 2018 round of 16 exit, when they drew 1-1 with hosts Russia before losing in the penalty shoot‑out.
• Spain are the only team at the 2026 edition of the FIFA World Cup yet to concede a single goal.
• Spain have not conceded a single first-half goal in their last nine FIFA World Cup matches.
• Spain have kept a clean sheet in their last six World Cup matches, moving clear of the previous competition record set by Italy (1990) and Switzerland (2006-2010).
• Unai Simón’s clean sheet against Portugal was his sixth in successive matches at the FIFA World Cup (dating back to December 2022, when Spain’s goalless draw with Morocco ended in defeat on penalties), surpassing Walter Zenga’s record of five for Italy in 1990.
• Unai Simón has now gone 609 minutes without conceding in FIFA World Cup action, extending his record in the tournament’s history.
• Belgium have lost only one of their last seven World Cup matches against European teams (W4 D2).
• Belgium are undefeated in 18 fixtures (W12 D6) since a 3-1 loss to Ukraine in the UEFA Nations League in March last year.
• Belgium have lost only two of their last 15 FIFA World Cup matches (W10 D3).
• Belgium have won two of their three World Cup quarter-finals ties, most recently in 2018 when they beat Brazil 2-1.
• Belgium have won six of their last eight knockout-phase matches at the World Cup, losing in the other two.
• Belgium’s total of 13 goals is their second-highest total at a FIFA World Cup after the 16 they scored in 2018.
• Against the USA, Thibaut Courtois became the first Belgian to reach 20 appearances at the World Cup. The 34-year-old is also just the third goalkeeper in the history of the competition to make it to that milestone, after Manuel Neuer (23) and Hugo Lloris (20).
• Romelu Lukaku is just the second Belgian player to score in three successive matches after Marc Wilmots achieved the feat in 2002.
• Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has been at Real Madrid since 2018, during which he has won 12 trophies including the UEFA Champions League twice and three Spanish La Liga titles. He also spent three seasons on loan at city rivals Atlético Madrid (2011-14), during which he won four trophies including La Liga in 2013/14.
• The only other Belgium squad member currently affiliated to a Spanish club is veteran midfielder Axel Witsel, who joined Girona in 2025 after three seasons at Atlético Madrid, where he played alongside Spain’s Marcos Llorente.
• Belgium winger Dodi Lukébakio played in La Liga for Sevilla from 2023-25.
• Spain trio David Raya, Martín Zubimendi and round of 16 match-winner Mikel Merino won the 2025/26 Premier League title for Arsenal with Belgium forward Leandro Trossard.
• Spain’s Rodri and Belgium’s Jérémy Doku have been Manchester City team-mates since 2023. Rodri was also a Manchester City team-mate of Belgium’s Kevin De Bruyne from 2019-25, the pair highly instrumental in the club’s treble-winning campaign (UEFA Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup) of 2022/23.
• Spain head coach Luis de la Fuente led his country to a UEFA European Under-21 Championship triumph in 2019, his side defeating Belgium 2-1 in a group game. Dani Olmo scored the opening goal for a Spain team that also included Mikel Merino and Mikel Oyarzabal, with Dodi Lukébakio in attack for Belgium.
• Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku’s 93 international goals have been scored against 39 different countries, 29 of them European. He has never scored against Spain.