FIFA World Cup 2022 top goal-scorers: The Golden Boot race
Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi, team-mates at Paris Saint-Germain, are in the running for the Golden Boot at the FIFA World Cup 2022 along with Olivier Giroud.
Golden Boot
Among the current players, only Thomas Muller in 2010 and Harry Kane in 2018 have previously won the <anchor>Golden Boot</anchor>, which is awarded to the top goal-scorer of every edition. While Muller smashed five goals in South Africa, Kane scored six in Russia. No player has ever won the Golden Boot twice.
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# From Guillermo Stabile to Harry Kane: Know all Golden Boot winners at the FIFA World Cup

French striker Just Fontaine netted 13 goals in six matches in 1958, the record for most goals in a single FIFA World Cup edition.

05 November, 2022

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The FIFA World Cup, held once every four years, rolls out several awards to the top players in every edition.

While the Golden Ball is awarded to the best player and the Golden Glove goes to the goalkeeper with the most clean sheets, the top goal-scorer at the end of the edition is awarded the Golden Boot. The second and third-highest goal-scorers are awarded the Silver Boot and the Bronze Boot, respectively.

Branded originally as the Golden Shoe, the award officially started in 1982. Its current iteration, the Golden Boot, came recently in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

Brazil and Germany have the players with the most Golden Boots in the tournament's history.

## Golden Boot winners at FIFA World Cup

Year

Player

Country

Goals

1930

Guillermo Stabile

Argentina

8

1934

Oldrich Nejedly

Czechoslovakia

5

1938

Leonidas

Brazil

7

1950

Ademir

Brazil

8

1954

Sandor Kocsis

Hungary

11

1958

Just Fontaine

France

13

1962

Florian Albert

Valentin Ivanov

Garrincha

Vava

Drazan Jerkovic

Leonel Sanchez

Hungary

Soviet Union

Brazil

Brazil

Yugoslavia

Chile

4

1966

Eusebio

Portugal

9

1970

Gerd Muller

Germany

10

1974

Grzegorz Lato

Poland

7

1978

Mario Kempes

Argentina

6

1982

Paolo Rossi

Italy

6

1986

Gary Lineker

England

6

1990

Salvatore Schillaci

Italy

6

1994

Oleg Salenko

Hristo Stoichkov

Russia

Bulgaria

6

1998

Davor Suker

Croatia

6

2002

Ronaldo Nazario

Brazil

6

2006

Miroslav Klose

Germany

5

2010

Thomas Muller

Germany

5

2014

James Rodriguez

Colombia

6

2018

Harry Kane

England

6

Guillermo Stabile topped the charts with eight goals in the inaugural edition of the football World Cup in 1930. On the back of his performances, Argentina finished runners up, losing an all-South American final against Uruguay.

Just Fontaine is one of the three players who have notched up double figures in a single FIFA World Cup edition. Fontaine’s 13 goals in the 1958 edition remain the record for most goals scored in a single edition of the tournament. The French striker scored two hat-tricks in the edition, including a four-goal performance against West Germany in the third-place playoff.

Along with Fontaine, Hungary’s Sandor Kocsis and German legend Gerd Muller have also crossed the 10-goal mark in a single FIFA World Cup edition.

Kocsis previously held the record for most goals in an edition with 11 goals in the 1954 edition. Despite the best efforts of the Hungarian legend, his team lost the final to Germany in 'The Miracle of Bern'.

Meanwhile, Gerd Muller scored 10 goals in the 1970 edition, becoming the first German player to win the Golden Boot. Muller was key in the Germans winning the title in the 1974 edition.

The Golden Boot could be shared between multiple players until the 1994 FIFA World Cup. FIFA, the international governing body of football, introduced a tie-breaker system from the 1994 edition onwards. Currently, if two players are level, most non-penalty goals, followed by most assists, and, if required, least minutes played, are the criteria used to judge the winner.

At the turn of the century, Ronaldo Nazario provided the impetus in front of goal, scoring eight goals in the 2002 edition, enabling Brazil to lift the title.

Two German players, Miroslav Klose and Thomas Muller won the Golden Boot in 2006 and 2010, respectively. Colombia’s James Rodriguez claimed the award in 2014 while taking his team to the quarter-finals.

Harry Kane of England is the latest Golden Boot winner at the FIFA World Cup. Kane’s six goals guided England to a fourth-placed finish.

Gary Lineker, Eusebio, Leonidas and Davor Suker are among other notable players to have won the Golden Boot.

So far, no player has won the FIFA World Cup Golden Boot award twice.

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