List of FIFA World Cup goalscorers
Top goalscorers
Tournaments in round brackets, e.g., (1982): Played in the tournament, but did not score a goal Tournaments in square brackets: e.g., [1994]: Part of the squad for the tournament, but did not play

List of FIFA World Cup goalscorers

Section Title: Top goalscorers
Table Section Text: Tournaments in round brackets, e.g., (1982): Played in the tournament, but did not score a goal Tournaments in square brackets: e.g., [1994]: Part of the squad for the tournament, but did not play

Rank	Player	Team	Goals scored	Matches played	Goal average	Tournament(s)

1	Miroslav Klose	Germany	16	24	0.67	2002, 2006, 2010, 2014

2	Ronaldo	Brazil	15	19	0.79	[1994], 1998, 2002, 2006

3	Gerd Müller	West Germany	14	13	1.08	1970, 1974

4	Just Fontaine	France	13	6	2.17	1958

5	Pelé	Brazil	12	14	0.86	1958, 1962, 1966, 1970

6	Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	11	5	2.20	1954

Jürgen Klinsmann	West Germany Germany	11	17	0.65	1990, 1994, 1998

8	Helmut Rahn	West Germany	10	10	1.00	1954, 1958

Teófilo Cubillas	Peru	10	13	0.77	1970, 1978, (1982)

Grzegorz Lato	Poland	10	20	0.50	1974, 1978, 1982

Gary Lineker	England	10	12	0.83	1986, 1990

Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	10	12	0.83	1994, 1998, 2002

Thomas Müller	Germany	10	16	0.63	2010, 2014, (2018)

Sentence(s)

Gerd Müller scored 14 goals in FIFA World Cup tournaments.

final_sentence: Gerd Müller scored 14 goals in FIFA World Cup tournaments.