Terry Yegbe scored a wonderstrike against AGF in Lech Poznan's victory from an astonishing 33.1 Yards out.
Average speed of 107km/h and an estimated 131 km/h peak speed. What a hit!
We have finished the World Cup!
42 goals scored from outside the box. 36 different players. Here are some notable mentions.
Hans Vanaken takes the crown for the longest distance strike with a 35.1 Yard goal vs USA.
Erling Haaland's 2nd goal vs Brazil takes the crown for the highest AVERAGE speed on the shot at 116 km/h (estimated top speed of 136 km/h)
Lionel Messi Takes the crown for the player with the most outside the box goals with 3.
Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele share the crown for being the only players to score with both feet at this World cup from outside the box.
Malik Tillman takes the crown for the player with the most free kick goals with 2.
The average distance the ball traveled for all of these goals was 24.6 Yards.
We have finished the World Cup!
42 goals scored from outside the box. 36 different players. Here are some notable mentions.
Hans Vanaken takes the crown for the longest distance strike with a 35.1 Yard goal vs USA.
Erling Haaland's 2nd goal vs Brazil takes the crown for the highest AVERAGE speed on the shot at 116 km/h (estimated top speed of 136 km/h)
Lionel Messi Takes the crown for the player with the most outside the box goals with 3.
Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele share the crown for being the only players to score with both feet at this World cup from outside the box.
Malik Tillman takes the crown for the player with the most free kick goals with 2.
The average distance the ball traveled for all of these goals was 24.6 Yards.
We have finished the World Cup!
42 goals scored from outside the box. 36 different players. Here are some notable mentions.
Hans Vanaken takes the crown for the longest distance strike with a 35.1 Yard goal vs USA.
Erling Haaland's 2nd goal vs Brazil takes the crown for the highest AVERAGE speed on the shot at 116 km/h (estimated top speed of 136 km/h)
Lionel Messi Takes the crown for the player with the most outside the box goals with 3.
Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele share the crown for being the only players to score with both feet at this World cup from outside the box.
Malik Tillman takes the crown for the player with the most free kick goals with 2.
The average distance the ball traveled for all of these goals was 24.6 Yards.
41 outside-the-box goals have been scored at this World Cup by 35 different players. The USA account for 3 of them.
Malik Tillman leads the tournament with 2 free kicks from range — no other player has more than one. For a team that doesn't always get credit for technical quality, that's a statement.
Sebastian Berhalter adds the third — a long-range effort against Turkiye that's now frame-verified and in the database with distance, speed and GoalPOV attached.
As we approach the end of the quarter finals we wanted to showcase the goals that have made it on the leaderboard for all longshots.
As it stands, Hans Vanaken's quick thinking remains as the LONGEST distance goal this World Cup just overtaking Kevin Pina's Free Kick against Uruguay.
There have been 39 goals from outside the box this whole tournament scored by 33 different players.
- Lionel Messi is the player with the most (3) goals from outside the box
- Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele are the only player's to score from outside the box using both of their feet.
- Malik Tillman is the only player to score on 2 free kicks this World Cup.
Let's hope for some more longshots! Will any of these records be beaten or added to?
Erling Haaland. 26.0 yards. 117 km/h. Bottom corner. Alisson Becker beaten.
A low drive from outside the box — one of the rarest things in football from Haaland. He saved it for the biggest moment. Norway beat Brazil in the Round of 32 and reach their first ever World Cup quarter final.
Ronny Hébereson's 2006 free kick for Sporting CP has been quoted at 211 km/h for nearly 20 years. No methodology. No source. Just a number that spread everywhere and never got questioned.
We questioned it.
We've been building a frame-verified long-range goal database at longshot.football throughout World Cup 2026 — every distance measured using a to-scale pixel map of the pitch, every speed calculated contact frame to entry frame using verified fps.
For Ronny's goal, the footage is blurry 2006 broadcast quality. We couldn't track the ball directly. So we used the goalkeeper's peak jump as the entry reference and Ronny's run-up movement to identify contact. 14 frames at 30fps. 20.6 yards.
Result: 145 km/h average speed.
That's still one of the most violent strikes ever recorded.
We then applied NASA's drag equation (Cd = 0.25 for a football, sourced directly from grc.nasa.gov) combined with FIFA's official ball specifications (410–450g, circumference 68–70cm) to estimate the peak speed at the moment the ball left his foot:
k = (Cd × ρ × A) / (2 × m) → k ≈ 0.01351 m⁻¹
v_max = v_avg × e^(k × d/2)
v_max ≈ 165 km/h
~165 km/h estimated max. Still one of the most violent strikes ever recorded. The reining champion on our database.
Cross-validation: Pape Gueye scored twice for Senegal at World Cup 2026. His first goal — 26.9 yards, verified at 110 km/h average — gives an estimated max of ~130 km/h through our formula. FIFA's optical tracking clocked his second goal at 131 km/h. Same player, same game, same technique. 1 km/h difference between our physics-derived estimate and FIFA's direct measurement.
We're confident enough in the methodology to say: 211 km/h was never real. Where it came from, we still don't know.
Ronny's average still beats every World Cup 2026 strike we've tracked so far. That's the real story — the goal was genuinely extraordinary. Just not 211.
Full video with the frame analysis, bell curve, and methodology breakdown in the comments.
NASA source: https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/socdrag.html
Ronny's goal on Longshot: https://www.longshot.football/player/ronny-heberson
Full database: https://www.longshot.football
We've been building a frame-verified outside-the-box goal database at longshot.football throughout World Cup 2026. Every distance is measured using a to-scale pixel map of the pitch and every average speed is calculated from contact frame to entry frame using the verified fps of the footage.
We recently added an estimated max (exit) speed on top of the verified average. Here's the methodology:
The physics:
A football decelerates continuously from the moment it leaves the foot due to aerodynamic drag. Given the average speed over the full flight we back-calculate the initial speed using:
k = (Cd × ρ × A) / (2 × m)
v_max = v_avg × e^(k × d/2)
Variables — all sourced from official specs:
We run the formula across the full FIFA spec range to produce a ± margin rather than a single point estimate. The midpoint k value comes out at 0.01351 m⁻¹, meaning the ball loses roughly 1.35% of its speed per metre travelled at sea level.
Cross-validation:
Pape Gueye scored twice for Senegal against Iraq. His first goal — 26.9 yards out, verified at 110 km/h average — produces an estimated max of ~130 km/h through our formula.
FIFA's own optical tracking system clocked his second goal (struck from inside the box, shorter distance, same player and technique) at 131 km/h.
One kilometre per hour difference between our physics-derived estimate and FIFA's direct measurement on the same player in the same game. We'll take that.
How it appears on the site:
A few numbers from the current database:
| Player | Avg speed | Est. max | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson Isidor (Haiti) | 123 km/h | ~145 km/h | 26.1 yds |
| Iliman Ndiaye (Senegal) | 114 km/h | ~133 km/h | 23.1 yds |
| Pape Gueye (Senegal) | 110 km/h | ~130 km/h | 26.9 yds |
| Ayase Ueda (Japan) | 117 km/h | ~138 km/h | 27.8 yds |
Full methodology and interactive database at longshot.football ⚽
Happy to discuss the physics or the measurement approach — always open to scrutiny on the methodology.
🇨🇦 Stephen Eustaquio. 21.0 yards. 90 km/h. Half volley. Stoppage time.
Canada's first ever World Cup knockout win. One moment, one half volley, one place in the Round of 16.
Eustaquio wrote himself into Canadian football history tonight.
Yoane Wissa. 26.9 yards. 86 km/h. Curler. Comeback win.
DR Congo came from behind to beat Uzbekistan and Wissa's well-placed curler was the moment that turned it. Not the fastest on the site but it didn't need to be — it was placed perfectly.
Frame-verified on longshot.football — link in bio ⚽🇨🇩
Petar Sučić scores from 30.3 yards. 104 km/h. Bottom corner
Croatia advance to the knockouts and Sučić announces himself with one of the longer verified strikes of the tournament just being beat out by Mbappe and Kevin Pina. 30+ yards and it still ends up in the corner.
Longshot.football is the site where you can see these longshots.
Iliman Ndiaye. 23.1 yards. 114 km/h. Top right corner.
Pape Gueye. 26.9 yards. 110 km/h. Top left corner. His second goal came inside the box — and judging by the pace he was hitting them, that might have saved the speed record on goals we have tracked.
Senegal put 5 past Iraq and finished with some of the fastest verified strikes of the tournament in the same game. Haiti's Isidor's 123 km/h record is looking over its shoulder.
20.1 yards. 104 km/h. Half volley. Made it 2-2.
A beautiful equalizer at a home World Cup, only for Türkiye to win it in the last minute — their first win of this World Cup to send them off on a high after their first game performances.
Full database → longshot.football 🇺🇸⚡
24.8 yards. 92 km/h. Manuel Neuer. Ecuador's first goal of the tournament and arguably the result of the group stage.
First knockout qualification in 20 years. Full database → longshot.football 🇪🇨⚡
24.8 yards. 92 km/h. Manuel Neuer. Ecuador's first goal of the tournament and arguably the result of the group stage.
First knockout qualification in 20 years. Full database → longshot.football 🇪🇨⚡
Historic day for Cabo Verde football. Two goals verified from their draw with Uruguay.
Goal 1 — Kevin Pina:
Goal 2 — Helio Varela:
It is also worth noting that Kevin Pina's Free kick now makes his goal the longest range goal at the 2026 Fifa World Cup overtaking Kylian Mbappe's 30.7 Yard strike.
Full World Cup 2026 long range goals available at longshot.football 🇨🇻⚽
Nuno Mendes. 19.7 yards. 115 km/h. Ronaldo as the decoy.
In this clip we show the goal alongside our brand new 3D POV feature — see the free kick from the shooter's exact eye line, with the wall positioned using the real recorded coordinates. We are still working on fixing some bugs, but viewing the goal from the player's perspective is a nice addition!
Every goal on Longshot now has a POV view. Real distance. Real entry point. Real flight time. The wall sits exactly 10 yards in front of the ball covering the near post — just like the real thing.
This is how football data should feel.
🌍 Full database → longshot.football
Portugal vs Uzbekistan. 2026 World Cup. 5-0.
Ronaldo stood over the free kick. The wall committed. The goalkeeper set himself for Ronaldo.
Nuno Mendes stepped up and hit it at 115 km/h from 19.7 yards. Frame-verified.
At that distance with that pace the goalkeeper had roughly 0.63 seconds to react — and he'd already been sent the wrong way before the ball moved.
Full database at longshot.football 🇵🇹⚡
Is the Ronaldo decoy the most psychologically effective set piece routine at this World Cup
Frame-verified.
Right foot vs Senegal: 30.7 yards · 103 km/h
Left foot today: 26.1 yards · 108 km/h
Five yards closer but five km/h faster with what's supposed to be his weaker foot. At this point it barely matters which foot he uses.
Full database at longshot.football 🇫🇷⚡
Is Mbappé's left foot actually stronger than most players' right foot?