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Golden Boot - Top Goalscorers

The Golden Boot (or Golden Shoe) is awarded to the top goalscorer of the World Cup final tournament. The award was introduced at the 1982 World Cup for the first time.
World Cup Top Goal Scorer Goals
1930 Uruguay Guillermo Stábile (Argentina) 8
1934 Italy Edmund Conen (Germany)
Oldřich Nejedlý (Czechoslovakia)
Angelo Schiavio (Italy)
4
1938 France Leônidas (Brazil) 8
1950 Brazil Ademir (Brazil) 9
1954 Switzerland Sándor Kocsis (Hungary) 11
1958 Sweden Just Fontaine (France) 13
1962 Chile Garrincha (Brazil)
Vavá (Brazil)
Leonel Sánchez (Chile)
Dražen Jerković (Yugoslavia)
Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union)
Flórián Albert (Hungary)
4
1966 England Eusébio (Portugal) 9
1970 Mexico Gerd Müller (West Germany) 10
1974 West Germany Grzegorz Lato (Poland) 7
1978 Argentina Mario Kempes (Argentina) 6
adidas Golden Boot winners  
1982 Spain Paolo Rossi (Italy) 6
1986 Mexico Gary Lineker (England) 6
1990 Italy Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) 6
1994 USA Hristo Stoitchkov (Bulgaria)
Oleg Salenko (Russia)
6
1998 France Davor Šuker (Croatia) 6
2002 Korea/Japan Ronaldo (Brazil) 8
2006 Germany Miroslav Klose (Germany) 5