World Cup Golden Boot Winners

The proverbial Golden Boot is an award and acknowledgment given to the player who scores the most goals in a football tournament, namely the World Cup. There are also golden boot awards (sometimes referred to as golden shoe awards) in the European divisions.

FIFA World Cup Golden Boot Winners and Profiles

Year	Player	Country	Goals
2006	Klose	Germany	5
2002	Ronaldo	Brazil	8
1998	Davor Suker	Croatia	6
1994	Oleg Salenko	Russia	6
"	Hristo Stoichkov	Bulgaria	"
1990	Salvatore Schillaci	Italy	6
1986	Gary Lineker	England	6
1982	Paolo Rossi	Italy	6
1978	Mario Kempes	Argentina	6
1974	Grzegorz Lato	Poland	7
1970	Gerd Müller	Germany	10
1966	Eusebio	Portugal	9
1962	Florian Albert	Hungary	4
"	Garrincha	Brazil	"
"	Valentin Ivanov	USSR	"
"	Drazan Jerkovic	Yugoslavia	"
"	Leonel Sanchez	Chile	"
"	Vava	Brazil	"
1958	Just Fontaine	France	13
1954	Sandor Kocsis	Hungary	11
1950	Marques Ademir	Brazil	7
1938	Leonidas da Silva	Brazil	8
1934	*Oldrich Nejedly	Czechoslovakia	5
1930	Guillermo Stabile	Argentina	8

*Oldrich Nejedly's tally was revised to five goals by FIFA in 2006 making him the outright winner. He previously shared the award with Edmund Conen (Germany) and Angelo Schiavio (Italy) on four goals.

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