World Cup Golden Boot: which players have top scored at each tournament?

Scoring goals at the World Cup remains one of the most eagerly awaited moments in a footballer’s career, and come June 11, some of the best strikers will get a chance to add their names to the goal-scoring charts for the tournament.

The forwards with the most goals by July 19 will walk away with the Golden Boot award and find themselves in the company of the sport’s all-time greats.

Here is a list of its Golden Boot winners over the years:

• 1930: Guillermo Stabile (Argentina) – eight goals
• 1934: Oldrich Nejedly (Czech Republic) – five goals
• 1938: Leonidas (Brazil) – seven goals
• 1950: Ademir (Brazil) – eight goals
• 1954: Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) – 11 goals
• 1958: Just Fontaine (France) – 13 goals
• 1962: Florian Albert (Hungary), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union), Garrincha (Brazil), Vava (Brazil), Leonel Sanchez (Chile), Drazan Jerkovoch (Yugoslavia)  – four goals
• 1966: Eusebio (Portugal) – nine goals
• 1970: Gerd Muller (Germany) – 10 goals
• 1974: Grzegorz Lato (Poland) – seven goals
• 1978: Mario Kempes (Argentina) – six goals

England’s Harry Kane was awarded the Golden Boot at the 2018 World Cup in Russia and was the joint-top scorer at Euro 2024 in Germany [File: Albert Gea/Reuters]

• 1982: Paolo Rossi (Italy) – six goals
• 1986: Gary Lineker (England) – six goals
• 1990: Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) – six goals
• 1994: Oleg Salenko (Russia), Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria) – six goals
• 1998: Davor Suker (Croatia) – six goals
• 2002: Ronaldo (Brazil) – eight goals
• 2006: Miroslav Klose (Germany) – five goals
• 2010: Thomas Muller (Germany) – five goals