The Golden Boot Award is given to the top goalscorer at the FIFA World Cup at the end of the tournament. FIFA started giving this award officially from 1982 World Cup. Until 2006 it was called Golden Su. It is known as Golden Boot since 2010.
In previous editions, the second and third highest goal scorers were given silver and bronze medals along with golden medals. Argentina's Guillermo Stabile scored eight goals in the first ever World Cup in 1930 and became the first footballer to win the Golden Shoe Award.
In the 1958 World Cup in Sweden, France's Just Fontaine won the award with 13 goals, the highest ever scored by a player in a World Cup. No player has ever won the award more than once. However, six Brazilians made the list, the most for any country.
The trophy, weighing around one kg, is gold plated. List of players who have won the Golden Boot so far—
1930 Uruguay World Cup: Guillermo Stabile, Argentina, 8 goals
1934 Italy World Cup: Aldrich Nevedli, Czechoslovakia, 5 goals
1938, France World Cup: Leonidas, Brazil, 7 goals
1950, Brazil World Cup: Ademir, Brazil, 8 goals
1954, Sweden World Cup: Just Fontaine, France, 13 goals
1962, Chile World Cup: Florian Albert (Hungary), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Russia), Garincha & Vava (Brazil), Drajan Jarkovic (Yugoslavia Croatia), Lionel Sanchez (Chile), 4 goals
1966, England World Cup: Eusebio, Portugal, 9 goals
1970, Mexico World Cup: Gerd Müller, Germany, 10 goals
1974, West Germany World Cup: Grigorz Lato, Poland, 7 goals
1978, Argentina World Cup: Mario Kempes, Argentina, 6 goals
1982, Spain World Cup: Paolo Rossi, Italy, 6 goals
1986, Mexico World Cup: Gary Lineker, England, 6 goals
1990, Italy World Cup: Salvato Schillaci, Italy, 6 goals
1994, USA World Cup: Oleg Selenko (Russia), Risto Stoichkov (Bulgaria), 6 goals
1998, France World Cup: Devor Sukar, Croatia, 6 goals
2002, South Korea/Japan World Cup: Ronaldo Nazario, Brazil, 8 goals
2006, Germany World Cup: Miroslav Klose, Germany, 5 goals
2010, South Africa World Cup: Thomas Müller, Germany, 5 goals
2014, Brazil World Cup: James Rodriguez, Colombia, 6 goals
2018, Russia World Cup: Harry Kane, England, 6 goals
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