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World Cup 2022 - the top goalscorers

FIFA+ looks at the battle to finish as top goalscorer at Qatar 2022.


  • Kylian Mbappe leads the race for the adidas Golden Boot

  • A host of players are now two goals behind

  • Watch videos on former Golden Boot winners

Qatar 2022 top goalscorers

5 goals

Kylian Mbappe (France)

3 goals

Alvaro Morata (Spain) Lionel Messi (Argentina) Marcus Rashford (England) Olivier Giroud (France) Enner Valencia (Ecuador) * Cody Gakpo (Netherlands) 2 goals

Bruno Fernandes (Portugal) Niclas Fullkrug (Germany) * Vincent Aboubakar (Cameroon) * Mehdi Taremi (IR Iran) * Kai Havertz (Germany) * Giorgian de Arrascaeta (Uruguay) * Ritsu Doan (Japan) Ferran Torres (Spain) Bukayo Saka (England) Richarlison (Brazil) Cho Guesung (Korea Republic) Julian Alvarez (Argentina) Andrej Kramaric (Croatia) Breel Embolo (Switzerland) Mohammed Kudus (Ghana) * Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia) * Salem Al-Dawsari (Saudi Arabia) * * Denotes a player whose team have been eliminated.


Golden Boot criteria

The Golden Boot will be awarded to the player who scores the most goals at Qatar 2022. If two players are equal, the one with the most assists will win it. If two or more players are still equal, the one who has played the fewest minutes will triumph.



Golden Boot winners

1930: Guillermo Stabile (8 goals)

1934: Oldrich Nejedly (5)

1938: Leonidas da Silva (7)

1950: Ademir de Menezes (8)

1954: Sandor Kocsis (11)

1958: Just Fontaine, France (13)

1962: Florian Albert, Garrincha, Valentin Ivanov, Drazan Jerkovic, Leonel Sanchez and Vava (4)

1966: Eusebio (9)

1970: Gerd Muller (10)

1974: Grzegorz Lato (7)

1978: Mario Kempes (6)

1982: Paolo Rossi (6)

1986: Gary Lineker (6)

 1990: Toto Schillaci (6)

 1994: Oleg Salenko and Hristo Stoichkov (6)

 1998: Davor Suker (6)

 2002: Ronaldo (8)

 2006: Miroslav Klose (5)

 2010: Thomas Muller (5)

 2014: James Rodriguez (6)

 2018: Harry Kane (6)


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