Golden Shoe

The Golden Shoe Award goes to the top goalscorer of the FIFA World Cup.

The award was introduced at the 1930 World Cup. The 1994 World Cup in the United States was the first time that Silver and Bronze boots awards were added to reward the second and third top scorers in the tournament. Since 1994, if there is more than one player with the same amount of goals, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has contributed the most assists (with the FIFA Technical Study Group deciding whether an assist is to be counted as such). If there is still more than one player, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has played the least amount of time.

World Cup	Top Goalscorer	Goals
1930 Uruguay	Guillermo Stabile	8
1934 Italy	Oldrich Nejedly	5
1938 France	Leonidas da Silva	7
1950 Brazil	Ademir	9
1954 Switzerland	Saandor Kocsis	11
1958 Sweden	Just Fontaine	13
1962 Chile	Garrincha  Vava  Leonel Sanchez  Drazan Jerkovic Valentin Ivanov Florian Albert	4

 

World Cup	Golden Shoe Award	Goals
1966 England	Eusebio	9
1970 Mexico	Gerd Muller	10
1974 West Germany	Grzegorz Lato	7
1978 Argentina	Mario Kempes	6