List of Top Goal scorers from each FIFA World Cup (1930-2018)
FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar is just around the corner and all the 32 teams in the tournament will look to proceed to the later stages and eventually put their hands on the prestigious trophy. Alongside the ravishing World cup trophy, there are various individual awards as well that are solely for the players.
The Golden ball for example is given to the best player from that particular edition, while the Golden glove is awarded to the Goalkeeper with most clean sheets. The Golden Boot on the other hand is a dream for almost every forward attacking player to win. The highest goal scorer wins the Golden boot, Silver boot is felicitated to the second highest goal scorer and the third highest scorer is given the Bronze boot.
Argentinian Guillermo Stabile was the first player to win the Golden Boot in the inaugural edition of the FIFA World Cup 1930 hosted by Uruguay. Guillermo found the back of the net 8 times in that edition and he is also the first Argentinian to achieve this feat.
Only for once was the Golden boot shared between 6 players during the 1962 edition in Chile. Meanwhile Russia’s Oleg Salanko scored 6 goals during the 1994 edition and 5 out of those 6 goals came in the same match, when Russia faced Cameroon in the Group stages. He is also the only player to have his team knocked out of the tournament but still was able to win the Golden boot.
Find the table of Golden boot winners below –
| Year | Player | Host Nation | Goals scored |
| 1930 | Guillermo Stabile (Argentina) | Uruguay | 8 |
| 1934 | Oldrich Nejedly (Czech Republic) | Italy | 5 |
| 1938 | Leonidas (Brazil) | France | 7 |
| 1950 | Ademir (Brazil) | Brazil | 8 |
| 1954 | Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) | Switzerland | 11 |
| 1958 | Just Fontaine (France) | Sweden | 13 |
| 1962 | Florian Albert (Hungary
Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union) Garrincha (Brazil) Vava (Brazil) Drazan Jerkovic (Yugoslavia) Leonel Sanchez (Chile) |
Chile | 4 |
| 1966 | Eusebio (Portugal) | England | 9 |
| 1970 | Gerd Muller (Germany) | Mexico | 10 |
| 1974 | Grezgorz Lato (Poland) | West Germany | 7 |
| 1978 | Mario Kempes (Argentina) | Argentina | 6 |
| 1982 | Paolo Rossi (Italy) | Spain | 6 |
| 1986 | Gary Lineker (England) | Mexico | 6 |
| 1990 | Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) | Italy | 6 |
| 1994 | Oleg Salanko (Russia)
Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria) |
USA | 6 |
| 1998 | Davor Suker (Croatia) | France | 6 |
| 2002 | Ronaldo Nazario (Brazil) | South Korea/Japan | 8 |
| 2006 | Miroslav Klose (Germany) | Germany | 5 |
| 2010 | Thomas Muller (Germany) | South Africa | 5 |
| 2014 | James Rodriguez (Colombia) | Brazil | 6 |
| 2018 | Harry Kane (England) | Russia | 6 |
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