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This article is about the Golden Boot award given in association football (soccer). For the Golden Boot Awards given by the Motion Picture & Television Fund for achievement in western movies, see: Golden Boot Awards
The Golden Boot is the award given to the top goalscorer in a football tournament, most commonly used in conjunction with the FIFA World Cup.
| Year | Player(s) | Country | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Guillermo Stabile | Argentina | 8 |
| 1934 | Angelo Schiavio | Italy | 4 | Oldrich Nejedly | Czechoslovakia | Edmund Conen | Germany | 1938 | Leonidas da Silva | Brazil | 8 | 1950 | Marques Ademir | Brazil | 7 | 1954 | Sandor Kocsis | Hungary | 11 | 1958 | Just Fontaine | France | 13 | 1962 | Drazen Jerkovic | Yugoslavia | 5 | 1966 | Eusebio | Portugal | 9 | 1970 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | 10 | 1974 | Grzegorz Lato | Poland | 7 | 1978 | Mario Kempes | Argentina | 6 | 1982 | Paolo Rossi | Italy | 6 | 1986 | Gary Lineker | England | 6 | 1990 | Salvatore Schillaci | Italy | 6 | 1994 | Oleg Salenko | Russia | 6 | Hristo Stoichkov | Bulgaria | 1998 | Davor Suker | Croatia | 6 | 2002 | Ronaldo | Brazil | 8 |