FIFA World Cup Golden Boot
| Year
| Top Scorer(s)
| Country
| Matches Played
| Goals Scored |
| 1930
| Guillermo Stabile
| Argentina
| 4
| 8
|
| 1934
| Angelo Schiavio
| Italy
| 4
| 4
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| Oldrich Nejedly
| Czechoslovakia
| 4
| 4
|
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| Edmund Conen
| Germany
| 4
| 4
|
| 1938
| Leonidas da Silva
| Brazil
| 4
| 8
|
| 1950
| Marques Ademir
| Brazil
| 6
| 7
|
| 1954
| Sandor Kocsis
| Hungary
| 5
| 11
|
| 1958
| Just Fontaine
| France
| 6
| 13
|
| 1962
| Drazen Jerkovic
| Yugoslavia
| 6
| 5
|
| 1966
| Ferreira Eusebio
| Portugal
| 6
| 9
|
| 1970
| Gerd Muller
| West Germany
| 6
| 10
|
| 1974
| Grzegorz Lato
| Poland
| 7
| 9
|
| 1978
| Mario Kempes
| Argentina
| 7
| 6
|
| 1982
| Paolo Rossi
| Italy
| 7
| 6
|
| 1986
| Gary Lineker
| England
| 5
| 6
|
| 1990
| Salvatore Schillaci
| Italy
| 7
| 6
|
| 1994
| Oleg Salenko
| Russia
| 3
| 6
|
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| Hristo Stoitchkov
| Bulgaria
| 7
| 6
|
| 1998
| Davor Suker
| Croatia
| 7
| 6
|
| 2002
| Ronaldo
| Brazil
| 7
| 8 |
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Most Goals in One Match
12 Goals - Austria vs Switzerland - 7:5 (1954)
11 Goals - Brazil vs Poland - 6:5 (1938)
11 Goals - Hungary vs West Germany - 8:3 (1954)
11 Goals - Hungary vs El Salvador - 10:1 (1982)
10 Goals - France vs Paraguay (1958) 7-5 (1958)
Fastest goal
Scored by Czechoslovakia's Vaclav Masek after only 16 seconds against Mexico in 1962.
Latest goal
Scored by David Platt of England, in their second round match against Belgium in 1990 after 119 minutes.
Fastest hat-trick
Made by Hungary's Laszlo Kiss against El Salvador in 1982, when he scored after 70, 74 and 77 minutes. He is infact also the only substitute to have scored a hat-trick.
Oldest player to have scored goal
Roger Milla of Cameroon when he scored against Russia in 1994. He was then 42 years and 39 days old.
Youngest player to have scored
Pele of Brazil when he scored against Wales in 1958. He was then only 17 years and 239 days old.
Only players to have scored in every match including the final
Jairzinho of Brazil, who did this in the 1970 World Cup and Alcide Ghiggia of Uruguay in 1950. The latter only played four games where as Jairzinho played six.
Fastest goal by a substitute
Ebbe Sand of Denmark against Nigeria in the second round in 1998. Sand scored only 16 secs after coming on in Denmark's 4-1 win.
Only players to have scored in two World Cup finals
Vava of Brazil in 1958 and 1962, Pele of Brazil 1958 and 1970 and Paul Breitner of West Germany in 1974 and 1982.
Only player to have scored for two countries
Robert Prosinecki who represented Yugoslavia in 1990 scoring against the United Arab Emirates, and Croatia in 1998 scoring against Jamaica.
Only player to have scored a goal plus an own-goal in the same match is Ernie Brandts of Holland in the second phase match against Italy in 1978. The Dutch team won 2-1.
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