The Golden Boot Award is given to the player who scores the most goals in the FIFA World Cup. If more than one player scores the same goal, the player with the least playing time will receive the Golden Boot award. Similarly, the second place winner will get the silver ball and the third place winner will get the bronze ball.
Since the 12th edition in Spain in 1982, the Golden Boot award has been given to the player who scored the most goals in the World Cup. Before that, there was no separate official award for the top scorer of the World Cup.
Italian Paolo Rossi won the Golden Boot for the first time in 1992. He scored the highest 6 goals that year. Since then, the Golden Boot has been awarded to the top scorer in every edition. Since 1982, the award that started to be given in the name of Adidas Golden Shoe has started to be given as Adidas Golden Boot.
Golden Boot winner so far
1982 Paolo Rossi (Italy) – 6 goals
1986 Gary Lineker (England) – 6 goals
1990 Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) – 6 goals
1994 Oleg Salenko (Russia) – 6 goals
1998 Davor Suker (Croatia) and Hristo Stoitchkov (Bulgaria) – 6 goals
2002 Ronaldo (Brazil) – 8 goals
2006 Miroslav Klose (Germany) – 5 goals
2010 Thomas Müller (Germany) – 5 goals
2014 James Rodriguez (Colombia) – 6 goals
2018 Harry Kane (England) – 6 goals
Highest goalscorers in other editions
1930 Guillermo Stabile (Argentina) – 8 goals
1934 Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia) – 5 goals
1938 Leonidas (Brazil) – 7 goals
1950 Ademir (Brazil) – 8 goals
1954 Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) – 11 goals
1958 Just Fontaine (France) – 13 goals
1962 Florin Albert (Hungary), Valentin Ivanov (Russia), Garrincha and Vava (Brazil), Drazan Jerkovic (Yugoslavia), Leonel Sanchez (Chile) – 4 goals
1966 Eusebio (Portugal) – 9 goals
1970 Gerd Müller (West Germany) – 10 goals
1974 Grzegorz Lato (Poland) – 7 goals
1978 Mario Kempes (Argentina) – 6 goals
