FIFA World Cup: List of golden boot winners in football history

Dec 19, 2022

By: Rahul Verma

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FIFA World Cup 2022

The fight to be the top scorer of the FIFA World Cup 2022 ended with Kylian Mbappe winning the Golden Boot. Mbappe scored a hat-trick in the final against Argentina, taking his goal tally to 12.

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FIFA golden boot winners list

Let's look back at the golden boot winners of the FIFA World Cup till 2018.

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2010-2018

2018: Harry Kane from England with 6 goals | 2014: James Rodriguez from Colombia with 6 goals | 2010: Thomas Muller from Germany with 5 goals

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1998-2006

2006: Miroslav Klose from Germany with 5 goals: 5 | 2002: Ronaldo from Brazil with 8 goals | 1998: Davor Suker from Croatia with 6 goals

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1994-1986

1994: Oleg Salenko from Russia with 5 goals | 1990: Salvatore Schillaci from Italy with 6 goals | 1986: Gary Lineker from England with 6 goals

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1982-1974

1982: Paolo Rossi from Italy with 6 goals | 1978: Mario Kempes from Argentina with 6 goals | 1974: Grzegorz Lato from Poland with 7 goals

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1970-1958

1970: Gerd Muller from Germany with 10 goals | 1966: Eusebio from Portugal with 9 goals | 1962: Florian Albert from Hungary with 4 goals | 1958: Just Fontaine from France with 13 goals

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1954-1938

1954: Sandor Kocsis from Hungary with 11 goals | 1950: Ademir from Brazil with 8 goals | 1938: Leonidas from Brazil with 8 goals

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1934-1930

1934: Oldrich Nejedly from Czechoslovakia with 5 goals | 1930: Guillermo Stabile from Argentina with 8 goals

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