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Football - Golden Boots Wearers

  • Golden Boot - A golden boot is awarded  to the highest goal scorer in a world cup.
  • Highest Goal Scorer in world cup - Just Fontaine of France, who scored 13 goals in 1958 world cup.
  • Past Golden Boot wearers:

Player

Country

No. of goals

Year of WC

Guillermo Stabile     

Argentina

8

1930

Oldrich Nejedly

Czechoslvakia    

5

1934

Leonidas da Silva

Brazil

7

1938

Ademir Marques de Menezes

Brazil

9

1950

Sandor Kocsis Peter

Hungary

11

1954

Just Fontaine

France

13

1958

Manuel 'Garrincha' Francisco dos Santos

Brazil

4

1962 (Shared)

Leonel Sanchez

Chile

4

Edvaldo 'Vava' Izidio Neto

Brazil

4

Drazan Jerkovic

Yugoslavia

4

Valentin Ivanov

USSR

4

Florian Albert

Hungary

4

Eusebio

Portugal

9

1966

Gerd Muller

Germany

10

1970

Grzegorz Boleslaw Lato

Poland

7

1974

Mario Kempes

Argentina

6

1978

Paolo Rossi

Italy

6

1982

Gary Linekar

England

6

1986

Salvatore 'Toto' Schillaci

Italy

6

1990

Oleg Salenko

Russia

6

1994

Davor Suker

Croatia

6

1998

Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima

Brazil

8

2002

Miroslav Klose

Germany

5

2006

Thomas Mueller

Germany

 5

2010




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