FIFA World Cup top goalscorers
More than 2,000 goals have been scored in the 21 editions of the FIFA World Cup final tournaments, not counting penalties scored during shoot-outs.[1] Since the first goal scored by French player Lucien Laurent at the 1930 FIFA World Cup,[2] more than 1,250 footballers have scored goals in the World Cup final tournaments,[3] of whom just 97 have scored five or more.
Goals | ≥11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Total |
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Nos. of players | 7 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 26 | 34 | >50 | >90 | >200 | >750 | >1,250 |
The top goalscorer of the inaugural competition was Argentina's Guillermo Stábile with eight goals. Since then, only 22 players have scored more at all the games played at the World Cup than Stábile did throughout the 1930 tournament. The first was Hungary's Sándor Kocsis with eleven in 1954. At the next tournament, France's Just Fontaine improved on this record with 13 goals in only six games. Gerd Müller scored 10 for West Germany in 1970 and broke the overall record when he scored his 14th goal in the World Cup final tournament during West Germany's win in the 1974 final. His record stood for more than three decades until Ronaldo's 15 goals between 1998 and 2006 for Brazil. Germany's Miroslav Klose went on to score a record 16 goals across four consecutive tournaments between 2002 and 2014.
Of all the players who have played in the World Cup finals, only six have achieved an average of two goals or more per game played: Kocsis, Fontaine, Stábile, Russia's Oleg Salenko, Switzerland's Josef Hügi, and Poland's Ernst Wilimowski — the last of these scored four in his single World Cup game in 1938.[6] The top 97 goalscorers have represented 28 nations, with 14 players scoring for Brazil, and another 14 for Germany or West Germany. In total, 64 footballers came from UEFA (Europe), 29 from CONMEBOL (South America), and only four from elsewhere: Cameroon, Ghana, Australia, and the United States.
Fontaine holds the record for the most goals scored at a single tournament, with 13 goals in 1958. The players that came closest were Kocsis in 1954, Müller in 1970 and Portugal's Eusébio in 1966, with 11, 10 and 9, respectively. The lowest scoring top scorer was in 1962, when six players tied at only four goals each. Across the 21 editions of the World Cup finals, 30 footballers have been credited with the most tournament goals, and no one has achieved this feat twice. Nine of them scored at least seven goals in a tournament, while Brazil's Jairzinho became the only footballer to score at least seven goals without being the top goalscorer of that tournament in 1970. These 30 top goalscorers played for 19 nations, the most (five) for Brazil. Another five came from other South American countries, with the remaining 20 coming from Europe.
Overall top goalscorers[]
♦ | Denotes national top scorers (or joint top scorers) at the World Cup |
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# | Denotes players still active at international level |
[ ] | Denotes tournaments where the player was part of the squad, but did not play in a match |
( ) | Denotes tournaments where the player played in a match, but did not score a goal |
Rank | Player | Team | Goals scored |
Matches played |
Goals per game [nb 1] |
Tournaments | Notes |
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1 | Miroslav Klose♦ | Germany | 16 | 24 | 0.67 | 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 | list[9] |
2 | Ronaldo♦ | Brazil | 15 | 19 | 0.79 | [1994], 1998, 2002, 2006 | list[10] |
3 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | 14 | 13 | 1.08 | 1970, 1974 | list[11] |
4 | Just Fontaine♦ | France | 13 | 6 | 2.17 | 1958 | list[12] |
5 | Pelé | Brazil | 12 | 14 | 0.86 | 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970 | list[13] |
6 | Sándor Kocsis♦ | Hungary | 11 | 5 | 2.20 | 1954 | list[14] |
Jürgen Klinsmann | West Germany Germany |
17 | 0.65 | 1990, 1994, 1998 |
list[15] | ||
8 | Helmut Rahn | West Germany | 10 | 10 | 1.00 | 1954, 1958 | [16] |
Gary Lineker♦ | England | 12 | 0.83 | 1986, 1990 | list[17] | ||
Gabriel Batistuta♦ | Argentina | 12 | 0.83 | 1994, 1998, 2002 | list[18] | ||
Teófilo Cubillas♦ | Peru | 13 | 0.77 | 1970, 1978, (1982) | list[19] | ||
Thomas Müller# | Germany | 16 | 0.63 | 2010, 2014, (2018) | list[20][21] | ||
Grzegorz Lato♦ | Poland | 20 | 0.50 | 1974, 1978, 1982 | list[22] | ||
14 | Eusébio♦ | Portugal | 9 | 6 | 1.50 | 1966 | list[23] |
Christian Vieri♦ | Italy | 9 | 1.00 | 1998, 2002 | list[24] | ||
Vavá | Brazil | 10 | 0.90 | 1958, 1962 | [25] | ||
David Villa♦ | Spain | 12 | 0.75 | 2006, 2010, 2014 | list[26] | ||
Paolo Rossi♦ | Italy | 14 | 0.64 | 1978, 1982, [1986] | list[27] | ||
Jairzinho | Brazil | 16 | 0.56 | (1966), 1970, 1974 | list[28] | ||
Roberto Baggio♦ | Italy | 16 | 0.56 | 1990, 1994, 1998 | list[29] | ||
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | West Germany | 19 | 0.47 | 1978, 1982, 1986 | list[30] | ||
Uwe Seeler | West Germany | 21 | 0.43 | 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970 | [31] | ||
23 | Guillermo Stábile | Argentina | 8 | 4 | 2.00 | 1930 | list[32] |
Leônidas | Brazil | 5 | 1.60 | 1934, 1938 | list[nb 2][34] | ||
Ademir | Brazil | 6 | 1.33 | 1950 | list[nb 3][37] | ||
Óscar Míguez♦ | Uruguay | 7 | 1.14 | 1950, 1954 | [38] | ||
Rivaldo | Brazil | 14 | 0.57 | 1998, 2002 | list[39] | ||
Rudi Völler | West Germany Germany |
15 | 0.53 | 1986, 1990, 1994 |
list[40] | ||
Diego Maradona | Argentina | 21 | 0.38 | 1982, 1986, (1990), 1994 | list[41] | ||
30 | Oldřich Nejedlý♦ | Czechoslovakia | 7 | 6 | 1.17 | 1934, 1938 | [nb 4][42] |
Lajos Tichy | Hungary | 8 | 0.88 | 1958, 1962, [1966] | list[43] | ||
Careca | Brazil | 9 | 0.78 | 1986, 1990 | [44] | ||
Johnny Rep♦ | Netherlands | 13 | 0.54 | 1974, 1978 | [45] | ||
Andrzej Szarmach | Poland | 13 | 0.54 | 1974, 1978, 1982 | [46] | ||
Luis Suárez# | Uruguay | 13 | 0.54 | 2010, 2014, 2018 | list[47][48] | ||
Hans Schäfer | West Germany | 15 | 0.47 | 1954, 1958, (1962) | [49] | ||
Cristiano Ronaldo# | Portugal | 17 | 0.41 | 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 | list[48][50] | ||
38 | Josef Hügi♦ | Switzerland | 6 | 3 | 2.00 | 1954 | [51] |
Oleg Salenko♦ | Russia | 3 | 2.00 | 1994 | list[52] | ||
György Sárosi | Hungary | 5 | 1.20 | 1934, 1938 | [53] | ||
Max Morlock | West Germany | 5 | 1.20 | 1954 | [54] | ||
Erich Probst♦ | Austria | 5 | 1.20 | 1954 | [55] | ||
Harry Kane# | England | 6 | 1.00 | 2018 | list[56] | ||
Salvatore Schillaci | Italy | 7 | 0.86 | 1990 | list[57] | ||
Davor Šuker♦ | Yugoslavia Croatia |
8 | 0.75 | [1990], 1998, (2002) |
list[nb 5][58] | ||
James Rodríguez♦# | Colombia | 8 | 0.75 | 2014, (2018) | list[59][60] | ||
Helmut Haller | West Germany | 9 | 0.67 | (1962), 1966, (1970) | [61] | ||
Hristo Stoichkov♦ | Bulgaria | 10 | 0.60 | 1994, (1998) | list[62] | ||
Diego Forlán | Uruguay | 10 | 0.60 | 2002, 2010, (2014) | list[63] | ||
Neymar# | Brazil | 10 | 0.60 | 2014, 2018 | list[48][64] | ||
Asamoah Gyan♦ | Ghana | 11 | 0.55 | 2006, 2010, 2014 | list[65] | ||
Dennis Bergkamp | Netherlands | 12 | 0.50 | 1994, 1998 | list[66] | ||
Rob Rensenbrink | Netherlands | 13 | 0.46 | 1974, 1978 | [67] | ||
Rivellino | Brazil | 15 | 0.40 | 1970, 1974, (1978) | [68] | ||
Bebeto | Brazil | 15 | 0.40 | (1990), 1994, 1998 | list[69] | ||
Arjen Robben | Netherlands | 15 | 0.40 | 2006, 2010, 2014 | list[70] | ||
Zbigniew Boniek | Poland | 16 | 0.38 | 1978, 1982, (1986) | list[71] | ||
Thierry Henry | France | 17 | 0.35 | 1998, (2002), 2006, (2010) | list[72] | ||
Wesley Sneijder | Netherlands | 17 | 0.35 | (2006), 2010, 2014 | list[73] | ||
Robin van Persie | Netherlands | 17 | 0.35 | 2006, 2010, 2014 | list[74] | ||
Mario Kempes | Argentina | 18 | 0.33 | (1974), 1978, (1982) | list[75] | ||
Lionel Messi# | Argentina | 19 | 0.32 | 2006, (2010), 2014, 2018 | list[48][76] | ||
Lothar Matthäus | West Germany Germany |
25 | 0.24 | (1982), 1986, 1990, 1994, (1998) |
[77] | ||
64 | Pedro Cea | Uruguay | 5 | 4 | 1.25 | 1930 | list[78] |
Silvio Piola | Italy | 4 | 1.25 | 1938 | [79] | ||
Gyula Zsengellér | Hungary | 4 | 1.25 | 1938 | [80] | ||
Peter McParland♦ | Northern Ireland | 5 | 1.00 | 1958 | list[81] | ||
Tomáš Skuhravý | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 1.00 | 1990 | [82] | ||
Juan Alberto Schiaffino | Uruguay | 6 | 0.83 | 1950, 1954 | [83] | ||
Geoff Hurst | England | 6 | 0.83 | 1966, 1970 | list[84] | ||
Jon Dahl Tomasson♦ | Denmark | 6 | 0.83 | 2002, 2010 | list[85] | ||
Alessandro Altobelli | Italy | 7 | 0.71 | 1982, 1986 | [86] | ||
Kennet Andersson♦ | Sweden | 7 | 0.71 | 1994 | list[87] | ||
Fernando Morientes | Spain | 7 | 0.71 | 1998, 2002 | list[88] | ||
Romário | Brazil | 8 | 0.63 | (1990), 1994 | list[89] | ||
Marc Wilmots♦ | Belgium | 8 | 0.63 | [1990], (1994), 1998, 2002 | list[90] | ||
Mario Mandžukić | Croatia | 8 | 0.63 | 2014, 2018 | list[48][91] | ||
Valentin Ivanov | Soviet Union | 9 | 0.56 | 1958, 1962 | list[92] | ||
Emilio Butragueño | Spain | 9 | 0.56 | 1986, (1990) | list[93] | ||
Roger Milla♦ | Cameroon | 9 | 0.56 | (1982), 1990, 1994 | [94] | ||
Tim Cahill♦ | Australia | 9 | 0.56 | 2006, 2010, 2014, (2018) | list[95][96] | ||
Hans Krankl | Austria | 10 | 0.50 | 1978, 1982 | list[97] | ||
Romelu Lukaku♦# | Belgium | 10 | 0.50 | 2014, 2018 | list[98] | ||
Ivan Perišić# | Croatia | 10 | 0.50 | 2014, 2018 | list[48][99] | ||
Raúl | Spain | 11 | 0.45 | 1998, 2002, 2006 | list[100] | ||
Garrincha | Brazil | 12 | 0.42 | (1958), 1962, 1966 | [101] | ||
Johan Neeskens | Netherlands | 12 | 0.42 | 1974, (1978) | [102] | ||
Fernando Hierro | Spain | 12 | 0.42 | [1990], 1994, 1998, 2002 | list[103] | ||
Zinedine Zidane | France | 12 | 0.42 | 1998, (2002), 2006 | [104] | ||
Landon Donovan♦ | United States | 12 | 0.42 | 2002, (2006), 2010 | list[105] | ||
Henrik Larsson♦ | Sweden | 13 | 0.38 | 1994, 2002, 2006 | list[106] | ||
Michel Platini | France | 14 | 0.36 | 1978, 1982, 1986 | [107] | ||
Zico | Brazil | 14 | 0.36 | 1978, 1982, (1986) | [108] | ||
Gonzalo Higuaín# | Argentina | 14 | 0.36 | 2010, 2014, (2018) | list[109][110] | ||
Edinson Cavani# | Uruguay | 14 | 0.36 | 2010, 2014, 2018 | list[48][111] | ||
Lukas Podolski | Germany | 15 | 0.33 | 2006, 2010, (2014) | list[112] | ||
Franz Beckenbauer | West Germany | 18 | 0.28 | 1966, 1970, (1974) | list[113] |
Timeline[]
Key | |
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Goal set a new record | |
Goal equalled the existing record |
Goals | Date | Player | Team | Goal | Opponent | Score | Tournament & Stage | Previous goals | Ref |
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1 | 13 July 1930 | Lucien Laurent | France | 1–0 | Mexico | 4–1 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage |
N/A | [nb 6] |
Bart McGhee | United States | 1–0 | Belgium | 3–0 | |||||
Marcel Langiller | France | 2–0 | Mexico | 4–1 | |||||
André Maschinot | France | 3–0 | Mexico | 4–1 | |||||
Tom Florie | United States | 2–0 | Belgium | 3–0 | |||||
Bert Patenaude | United States | 3–0 | Belgium | 3–0 | |||||
Juan Carreño | Mexico | 1–3 | France | 1–4 | |||||
2 | André Maschinot | France | 4–1 | Mexico | 4–1 |
| |||
16 July 1930 | Carlos Vidal | Chile | 3–0 | Mexico | 3–0 |
|
[116] | ||
17 July 1930 | Ivan Bek | Yugoslavia | 1–0 | Bolivia | 4–0 |
|
[117] | ||
3 | 3–0 | ||||||||
Bert Patenaude | United States | 2–0 | Paraguay | 3–0 |
|
[118] | |||
4 | 3–0 | ||||||||
22 July 1930 | Guillermo Stábile | Argentina | 1–0 | Chile | 3–1 |
|
[119] | ||
5 | 2–0 | ||||||||
6 | 26 July 1930 | 3–0 | United States | 6–1 | 1930, Uruguay Semi-final | ||||
7 | 6–0 | ||||||||
8 | 30 July 1930 | 2–1 | Uruguay | 2–4 | 1930, Uruguay Final | ||||
19 June 1938 | Leônidas | Brazil | 3–2 | Sweden | 4–2 | 1938, France 3rd place play-off |
|
[120] | |
13 July 1950 | Ademir | Brazil | 5–0 | Spain | 6–1 | 1950, Brazil Final round |
|
[37] | |
27 June 1954 | Sándor Kocsis | Hungary | 2–0 | Brazil | 4–2 | 1954, Switzerland Quarter-final |
|
[121] | |
9 | 4–2 | ||||||||
10 | 30 June 1954 | 3–2 | Uruguay | 4–2aet | 1954, Switzerland Semi-final | ||||
11 | 4–2 | ||||||||
28 June 1958 | Just Fontaine | France | 3–1 | West Germany | 6–3 | 1958, Sweden 3rd place play-off |
|
[122] | |
12 | 5–2 | ||||||||
13 | 6–3 | ||||||||
3 July 1974 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | 1–0 | Poland | 1–0 | 1974, West Germany Second round |
|
[11] | |
14 | 6 July 1974 | 2–1 | Netherlands | 2–1 | 1974, West Germany Final | ||||
22 June 2006 | Ronaldo | Brazil | 4–1 | Japan | 4–1 | 2006, Germany Group stage |
|
[123] | |
15 | 27 June 2006 | 1–0 | Ghana | 3–0 | 2006, Germany Round of 16 | ||||
21 June 2014 | Miroslav Klose | Germany | 2–2 | Ghana | 2–2 | 2014, Brazil Group stage |
|
[124] | |
16 | 8 July 2014 | 2–0 | Brazil | 7–1 | 2014, Brazil Semi-final |
Top goalscorers for each tournament[]
World Cup | Player | Team | Goals scored |
Matches played |
Golden Boot |
Other FIFA Awards |
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Uruguay 1930 | Guillermo Stábile | Argentina | 8 | 4 | Silver Ball | |
Italy 1934 | Oldřich Nejedlý | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 4 | Bronze Ball | |
France 1938 | Leônidas | Brazil | 7 | 5 | Golden Ball | |
Brazil 1950 | Ademir | Brazil | 8 | 6 | Bronze Ball | |
Switzerland 1954 | Sándor Kocsis | Hungary | 11 | 5 | Silver Ball | |
Sweden 1958 | Just Fontaine | France | 13 | 6 | Bronze Ball | |
Chile 1962 | Garrincha | Brazil | 4 | 6 | Golden Ball | |
Vavá | Brazil | 6 | ||||
Leonel Sánchez | Chile | 6 | Bronze Ball | |||
Flórián Albert | Hungary | 4 | Best Young Player | |||
Valentin Ivanov | Soviet Union | 4 | ||||
Dražan Jerković | Yugoslavia | 6 | ||||
England 1966 | Eusébio | Portugal | 9 | 6 | Bronze Ball | |
Mexico 1970 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | 10 | 6 | Best Young Player, Bronze Ball | |
West Germany 1974 | Grzegorz Lato | Poland | 7 | 7 | ||
Argentina 1978 | Mario Kempes | Argentina | 6 | 7 | Golden Ball | |
Spain 1982 | Paolo Rossi | Italy | 6 | 7 | Golden Ball | |
Mexico 1986 | Gary Lineker | England | 6 | 5 | ||
Italy 1990 | Salvatore Schillaci | Italy | 6 | 7 | Golden Ball | |
United States 1994 | Hristo Stoichkov | Bulgaria | 6 | 7 | Bronze Ball | |
Oleg Salenko | Russia | 3 | ||||
France 1998 | Davor Šuker | Croatia | 6 | 7 | Silver Ball | |
South Korea and Japan 2002 |
Ronaldo | Brazil | 8 | 7 | Silver Ball | |
Germany 2006 | Miroslav Klose | Germany | 5 | 7 | ||
South Africa 2010 | Thomas Müller | Germany | 5 | 7 | Best Young Player | |
David Villa | Spain | 7 | Silver Boot, Bronze Ball | |||
Wesley Sneijder | Netherlands | 7 | Bronze Boot, Silver Ball | |||
Diego Forlán | Uruguay | 7 | Golden Ball | |||
Brazil 2014 | James Rodríguez | Colombia | 6 | 5 | ||
Russia 2018 | Harry Kane | England | 6 | 7 |
See also[]
- List of FIFA World Cup goalscorers
- List of FIFA World Cup hat-tricks
- List of FIFA World Cup own goals
- All-time table of the FIFA World Cup
Notes[]
- ^ Outside this list is Ernst Wilimowski of Poland, the player with the highest goals-to-games ratio in the World Cup. His ratio is 4.00 as he scored four goals in his only World Cup appearance, in 1938.[8]
- ^ FIFA initially credited Leônidas with eight goals in the 1938 tournament, but in November 2006, FIFA revised it to seven (he scored one additional goal in the 1934 tournament).[33]
- ^ There was a controversy regarding the number of goals scored by Ademir in 1950 because of incomplete data from the final group round game against Spain, that ended in a 6–1 victory for Brazil. The fifth Brazilian goal was credited to Jair,[35] but is now credited to Ademir.[36]
- ^ FIFA initially credited Nejedlý with only four goals in 1934. However, FIFA changed it to five goals in November 2006, meaning he scored a total of seven goals overall (he scored two goals in 1938).[33]
- ^ Davor Šuker was part of Yugoslavia's squad in the 1990 FIFA World Cup but did not play any games. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, he joined the Croatian national team.
- ^ The two initial games of the 1930 FIFA World Cup (France vs Mexico[114] and United States vs Belgium[115]) were played at the same time, as seven players scored, with André Maschinot scoring two goals. The order in which these players are listed reflects the actual elapsed time in the games when their goals were scored.
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External links[]
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- Lists of international association football players by competition