FIFA World Cup: List of all Golden Boot winners since 1930

As the Golden Boot Winner speculations continue, Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe are the favourites to be the tournament's Golden Boot Winner, which is presented to the tournament’s highest goal-scorer, heading into the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals. So far in the competition, both players have five goals each.

Golden Boot Winners List
1930: Guillermo Stabile of Argentina with 8 goals


1934: Oldrich Nejedly of Czechoslovakia with 5 goals

1938: Leonidas of Brazil with 7 goals

1950: Ademir of Brazil with 9 goals

1954: Sandor Kocsis of Hungary with 11 goals

1958: Just Fontaine of France with 13 goals

1962: Garrincha of Brazil, Leonel Sanchez of Chile, Florian Albert of Hungary, Vava of Brazil, Valentin Ivanov of the Soviet Union, Drazan Jerkovic of Yugoslavia, with 4 goals

1966: Eusebio of Portugal with 9 goals

1970: Gerd Muller of West Germany with 10 goals

1974: Grzegorz Lato of Poland with 7 goals

1978: Mario Kempes of Argentina with 6 goals

1982: Paolo Rossi of Italy with 6 goals

1986: Gary Lineker of England with 6 goals

1990: Salvatore Schillaci of Italy with 6 goals

1994: Hristo Stoichkov of Bulgaria, Oleg Salenko of Russia with 6 goals

1998: Davor Suker of Croatia with 6 goals

2002: Ronaldo of Brazil with 8 goals

2006: Miroslav Klose of Germany with 5 goals



FAQs:


What is a Golden Boot winner?

The Golden Boot winner is the player with the most goals throughout the football tournament.



Is Messi retiring?

After his Semi-Finale win, Messi declared that 2022 would be his final chance to win the World Cup, a prize that has evaded him throughout his spectacular career.