List of World Cup Golden Boot winners: Every top scorer from 1930 to present

**© Julian Finney/Getty Images**Mbappé is the most recent winner

While the main goal for every player competing in a World Cup is to lift the trophy, individual awards can also secure a place in history. While the Golden Ball is subjective because it recognizes the tournament’s best player, the Golden Boot is more objective, as it crowns the competition’s top scorer.

Even if the greatest players have not always shined at the World Cup, the list of Golden Boot winners features many names that rank among the best in the history of the sport, even if some never won the tournament.

The list also includes some surprising winners who produced the best month of their careers when it mattered most, such as James Rodriguez in 2014 and Salvatore Schillaci in 1990.

World Cup	Player(s)	Country	Goals
1930	Guillermo Stábile	Argentina	8
1934	Oldřich Nejedlý	Czechoslovakia	5
1938	Leônidas	Brazil	7
1950	Ademir	Brazil	9
1954	Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	11
1958	Just Fontaine	France	13
1962	Garrincha, Vavá, Dražan Jerković, Leonel Sánchez, Flórián Albert, Valentin Ivanov	Brazil, Brazil, Yugoslavia, Chile, Hungary, Soviet Union	4
1966	Eusébio	Portugal	9
1970	Gerd Müller	West 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 Šuker	Croatia	6
2002	Ronaldo	Brazil	8
2006	Miroslav Klose	Germany	5
2010	Thomas Müller	Germany	5
2014	James Rodríguez	Colombia	6
2018	Harry Kane	England	6
2022	Kylian Mbappé	France	8