# List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers

A total of over 2,700 goals have been scored in matches across the 22 final tournaments of the men's FIFA World Cup, not counting penalties scored during shoot-outs. Since the first goal scored by French player Lucien Laurent in 1930, nearly 1,300 footballers have scored goals at the World Cup tournaments, of whom 101 have scored five or more.
Numbers of goalscorers :
| Goals | ≥11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Total |
| Nos. of players | 9 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 25 | 35 | >50 | >90 | >200 | >750 | >1,250 |
The top goalscorer of the inaugural competition was Argentina's Guillermo Stábile, with eight goals. Since then, only 25 players have scored more World Cup goals in total than Stábile did during the 1930 tournament. The first to do so was Hungary's Sándor Kocsis, scoring eleven in 1954. At the following tournament, France's Just Fontaine improved on this record, recording thirteen goals in just six matches. Gerd Müller then scored ten goals for West Germany in 1970, before breaking the overall record when he scored his fourteenth World Cup goal during West Germany's win in the 1974 final. Müller's record stood for more than three decades, until Ronaldo recorded fifteen goals between 1998 and 2006 for Brazil. The record is currently held by Germany's Miroslav Klose, who went on to score a record sixteen goals across the four consecutive tournaments he played between 2002 and 2014.
Of all the players who have played at the World Cup, only six have achieved an average of two goals or more per match played: Kocsis, Fontaine, Stábile, Russia's Oleg Salenko, Switzerland's Josef Hügi, and Poland's Ernst Wilimowski — the latter of whom scored four in his only ever World Cup match, played in 1938. The top 101 goalscorers have represented 30 nations, with 14 players scoring for Brazil, and another 14 for Germany or West Germany. In total, 67 footballers came from UEFA (Europe), 30 from CONMEBOL (South America), and only four from elsewhere: Cameroon and Ghana from CAF (Africa), Australia from AFC (Asia) (formerly from OFC of Oceania), and the United States from CONCACAF (North/Central America).
Fontaine's thirteen goals in 1958 remains the record for the most scored in a single World Cup tournament. The players that came closest to this tally were Kocsis in 1954 (eleven goals), Müller in 1970 (ten goals), and Portugal's Eusébio in 1966 (nine goals). The top scorers with the fewest goals were from the 1962 tournament, when six players finished joint-top with just four goals each. Across the 22 tournaments of the World Cup, 31 footballers have been credited as the tournament top scorer, and no one has achieved this feat twice. Ten of these players scored at least seven goals in a tournament, while Brazil's Jairzinho in 1970 and Argentina's Lionel Messi in 2022 were the only footballers to record at least seven goals but still not finish as the tournament's top scorer. These 31 top goalscorers played for 20 different nations, with the most (five) coming from Brazil. Another five came from other South American countries, with the remaining 21 coming from Europe.
In 2006, Ronaldo became the first player to score eight goals in knockout matches (excluding the third place play-off) at the World Cup, coming in his three tournaments for Brazil, a feat which would be equalled in 2022 by France's Kylian Mbappé. Mbappé himself became the first player to score four goals in World Cup final matches: he netted one in the 2018 final followed by a hat-trick in the 2022 final. England's Geoff Hurst is the only other player to record a hat-trick in a World Cup final, doing so in 1966.

## Overall top goalscorers

Table key :
| ♦ | Denotes national top scorers (or joint top scorers) at the World Cup |
| # | 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 |
| † | Denotes tournaments where the player's team won the World Cup |
Players with at least 5 goals at FIFA World Cup tournaments :
| Rank | Player | Team | Goals scored | Matches played | Goals per match | Tournaments | Notes |
| 1 | Miroslav Klose$^♦$ | Germany | 16 | 24 | 0.67 | 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014$^†$ | list |
| 2 | Ronaldo$^♦$ | Brazil | 15 | 19 | 0.79 | [1994]$^†$, 1998, 2002$^†$, 2006 | list |
| 3 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | 14 | 13 | 1.08 | 1970, 1974$^†$ | list |
| 4 | Lionel Messi$^{♦#}$ | Argentina | 13 | 26 | 0.50 | 2006, (2010), 2014, 2018, 2022$^†$ | list |
| 4 | Just Fontaine$^♦$ | France | 13 | 6 | 2.17 | 1958 | list |
| 6 | Pelé | Brazil | 12 | 14 | 0.86 | 1958$^†$, 1962$^†$, 1966, 1970$^†$ | list |
| 6 | Kylian Mbappé$^#$ | France | 12 | 14 | 0.86 | 2018$^†$, 2022 | list |
| 8 | Sándor Kocsis$^♦$ | Hungary | 11 | 5 | 2.20 | 1954 | list |
| 8 | Jürgen Klinsmann | West Germany Germany | 11 | 17 | 0.65 | 1990$^†$ 1994, 1998 | list |
| 10 | Helmut Rahn | West Germany | 10 | 10 | 1.00 | 1954$^†$, 1958 | list |
| 10 | Gary Lineker$^♦$ | England | 10 | 12 | 0.83 | 1986, 1990 | list |
| 10 | Gabriel Batistuta | Argentina | 10 | 12 | 0.83 | 1994, 1998, 2002 | list |
| 10 | Teófilo Cubillas$^♦$ | Peru | 10 | 13 | 0.77 | 1970, 1978, (1982) | list |
| 10 | Thomas Müller | Germany | 10 | 19 | 0.53 | 2010, 2014$^†$, (2018), (2022) | list |
| 10 | Grzegorz Lato$^♦$ | Poland | 10 | 20 | 0.50 | 1974, 1978, 1982 | list |
| 16 | Ademir | Brazil | 9 | 6 | 1.50 | 1950 | list |
| 16 | Eusébio$^♦$ | Portugal | 9 | 6 | 1.50 | 1966 | list |
| 16 | Christian Vieri$^♦$ | Italy | 9 | 9 | 1.00 | 1998, 2002 | list |
| 16 | Vavá | Brazil | 9 | 10 | 0.90 | 1958$^†$, 1962$^†$ | |
| 16 | David Villa$^♦$ | Spain | 9 | 12 | 0.75 | 2006, 2010$^†$, 2014 | list |
| 16 | Paolo Rossi$^♦$ | Italy | 9 | 14 | 0.64 | 1978, 1982$^†$, [1986] | list |
| 16 | Jairzinho | Brazil | 9 | 16 | 0.56 | (1966), 1970$^†$, 1974 | list |
| 16 | Roberto Baggio$^♦$ | Italy | 9 | 16 | 0.56 | 1990, 1994, 1998 | list |
| 16 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | West Germany | 9 | 19 | 0.47 | 1978, 1982, 1986 | list |
| 16 | Uwe Seeler | West Germany | 9 | 21 | 0.43 | 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970 | |
| 26 | Guillermo Stábile | Argentina | 8 | 4 | 2.00 | 1930 | list |
| 26 | Leônidas | Brazil | 8 | 5 | 1.60 | 1934, 1938 | list |
| 26 | Óscar Míguez$^♦$ | Uruguay | 8 | 7 | 1.14 | 1950$^†$, 1954 | |
| 26 | Harry Kane$^#$ | England | 8 | 11 | 0.73 | 2018, 2022 | list |
| 26 | Neymar$^#$ | Brazil | 8 | 13 | 0.62 | 2014, 2018, 2022 | list |
| 26 | Rivaldo | Brazil | 8 | 14 | 0.57 | 1998, 2002$^†$ | list |
| 26 | Rudi Völler | West Germany Germany | 8 | 15 | 0.53 | 1986, 1990$^†$ 1994 | list |
| 26 | Diego Maradona | Argentina | 8 | 21 | 0.38 | 1982, 1986$^†$, (1990), 1994 | list |
| 26 | Cristiano Ronaldo$^#$ | Portugal | 8 | 22 | 0.36 | 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 | list |
| 35 | Oldřich Nejedlý$^♦$ | Czechoslovakia | 7 | 6 | 1.17 | 1934, 1938 | |
| 35 | Lajos Tichy | Hungary | 7 | 8 | 0.88 | 1958, 1962, [1966] | list |
| 35 | Careca | Brazil | 7 | 9 | 0.78 | 1986, 1990 | |
| 35 | Johnny Rep$^♦$ | Netherlands | 7 | 13 | 0.54 | 1974, 1978 | |
| 35 | Andrzej Szarmach | Poland | 7 | 13 | 0.54 | 1974, 1978, 1982 | |
| 35 | Hans Schäfer | West Germany | 7 | 15 | 0.47 | 1954$^†$, 1958, (1962) | |
| 35 | Luis Suárez | Uruguay | 7 | 16 | 0.44 | 2010, 2014, 2018, (2022) | list |
| 42 | Josef Hügi$^♦$ | Switzerland | 6 | 3 | 2.00 | 1954 | |
| 42 | Oleg Salenko$^♦$ | Russia | 6 | 3 | 2.00 | 1994 | list |
| 42 | György Sárosi | Hungary | 6 | 5 | 1.20 | 1934, 1938 | |
| 42 | Max Morlock | West Germany | 6 | 5 | 1.20 | 1954$^†$ | |
| 42 | Erich Probst$^♦$ | Austria | 6 | 5 | 1.20 | 1954 | |
| 42 | Enner Valencia$^{♦#}$ | Ecuador | 6 | 6 | 1.00 | 2014, 2022 | list |
| 42 | Salvatore Schillaci | Italy | 6 | 7 | 0.86 | 1990 | list |
| 42 | Davor Šuker$^♦$ | Yugoslavia Croatia | 6 | 8 | 0.75 | [1990], 1998, (2002) | list |
| 42 | James Rodríguez$^{♦#}$ | Colombia | 6 | 8 | 0.75 | 2014, (2018) | list |
| 42 | Helmut Haller | West Germany | 6 | 9 | 0.67 | (1962), 1966, (1970) | |
| 42 | Hristo Stoichkov$^♦$ | Bulgaria | 6 | 10 | 0.60 | 1994, (1998) | list |
| 42 | Diego Forlán | Uruguay | 6 | 10 | 0.60 | 2002, 2010, (2014) | list |
| 42 | Asamoah Gyan$^♦$ | Ghana | 6 | 11 | 0.55 | 2006, 2010, 2014 | list |
| 42 | Dennis Bergkamp | Netherlands | 6 | 12 | 0.50 | 1994, 1998 | list |
| 42 | Rob Rensenbrink | Netherlands | 6 | 13 | 0.46 | 1974, 1978 | |
| 42 | Rivellino | Brazil | 6 | 15 | 0.40 | 1970$^†$, 1974, (1978) | |
| 42 | Bebeto | Brazil | 6 | 15 | 0.40 | (1990), 1994$^†$, 1998 | list |
| 42 | Arjen Robben | Netherlands | 6 | 15 | 0.40 | 2006, 2010, 2014 | list |
| 42 | Zbigniew Boniek | Poland | 6 | 16 | 0.38 | 1978, 1982, (1986) | list |
| 42 | Thierry Henry | France | 6 | 17 | 0.35 | 1998$^†$, (2002), 2006, (2010) | list |
| 42 | Robin van Persie | Netherlands | 6 | 17 | 0.35 | 2006, 2010, 2014 | list |
| 42 | Wesley Sneijder | Netherlands | 6 | 17 | 0.35 | (2006), 2010, 2014 | list |
| 42 | Ivan Perišić$^{♦#}$ | Croatia | 6 | 17 | 0.35 | 2014, 2018, 2022 | list |
| 42 | Mario Kempes | Argentina | 6 | 18 | 0.33 | (1974), 1978$^†$, (1982) | list |
| 42 | Lothar Matthäus | West Germany Germany | 6 | 25 | 0.24 | (1982), 1986, 1990$^†$ 1994, (1998) | list |
| 67 | Pedro Cea | Uruguay | 5 | 4 | 1.25 | 1930$^†$ | list |
| 67 | Silvio Piola | Italy | 5 | 4 | 1.25 | 1938$^†$ | list |
| 67 | Gyula Zsengellér | Hungary | 5 | 4 | 1.25 | 1938 | |
| 67 | Peter McParland$^♦$ | Northern Ireland | 5 | 5 | 1.00 | 1958 | list |
| 67 | Tomáš Skuhravý | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 5 | 1.00 | 1990 | |
| 67 | Juan Alberto Schiaffino | Uruguay | 5 | 6 | 0.83 | 1950$^†$, 1954 | |
| 67 | Geoff Hurst | England | 5 | 6 | 0.83 | 1966$^†$, 1970 | list |
| 67 | Jon Dahl Tomasson$^♦$ | Denmark | 5 | 6 | 0.83 | 2002, 2010 | list |
| 67 | Alessandro Altobelli | Italy | 5 | 7 | 0.71 | 1982$^†$, 1986 | |
| 67 | Kennet Andersson$^♦$ | Sweden | 5 | 7 | 0.71 | 1994 | list |
| 67 | Fernando Morientes | Spain | 5 | 7 | 0.71 | 1998, 2002 | list |
| 67 | Romário | Brazil | 5 | 8 | 0.63 | (1990), 1994$^†$ | list |
| 67 | Marc Wilmots$^♦$ | Belgium | 5 | 8 | 0.63 | [1990], (1994), 1998, 2002 | list |
| 67 | Mario Mandžukić | Croatia | 5 | 8 | 0.63 | 2014, 2018 | list |
| 67 | Valentin Ivanov | Soviet Union | 5 | 9 | 0.56 | 1958, 1962 | list |
| 67 | Emilio Butragueño | Spain | 5 | 9 | 0.56 | 1986, (1990) | list |
| 67 | Roger Milla$^♦$ | Cameroon | 5 | 9 | 0.56 | (1982), 1990, 1994 | list |
| 67 | Tim Cahill$^♦$ | Australia | 5 | 9 | 0.56 | 2006, 2010, 2014, (2018) | list |
| 67 | Hans Krankl | Austria | 5 | 10 | 0.50 | 1978, 1982 | list |
| 67 | Raúl | Spain | 5 | 11 | 0.45 | 1998, 2002, 2006 | list |
| 67 | Garrincha | Brazil | 5 | 12 | 0.42 | (1958$^†$), 1962$^†$, 1966 | |
| 67 | Johan Neeskens | Netherlands | 5 | 12 | 0.42 | 1974, (1978) | |
| 67 | Fernando Hierro | Spain | 5 | 12 | 0.42 | [1990], 1994, 1998, 2002 | list |
| 67 | Zinedine Zidane | France | 5 | 12 | 0.42 | 1998$^†$, (2002), 2006 | list |
| 67 | Landon Donovan$^♦$ | United States | 5 | 12 | 0.42 | 2002, (2006), 2010 | list |
| 67 | Romelu Lukaku$^{♦#}$ | Belgium | 5 | 12 | 0.42 | 2014, 2018, (2022) | list |
| 67 | Xherdan Shaqiri | Switzerland | 5 | 12 | 0.42 | (2010), 2014, 2018, 2022 | list |
| 67 | Henrik Larsson$^♦$ | Sweden | 5 | 13 | 0.38 | 1994, 2002, 2006 | list |
| 67 | Michel Platini | France | 5 | 14 | 0.36 | 1978, 1982, 1986 | list |
| 67 | Zico | Brazil | 5 | 14 | 0.36 | 1978, 1982, (1986) | |
| 67 | Gonzalo Higuaín | Argentina | 5 | 14 | 0.36 | 2010, 2014, (2018) | list |
| 67 | Lukas Podolski | Germany | 5 | 15 | 0.33 | 2006, 2010, (2014$^†$) | list |
| 67 | Edinson Cavani | Uruguay | 5 | 17 | 0.29 | 2010, 2014, 2018, (2022) | list |
| 67 | Franz Beckenbauer | West Germany | 5 | 18 | 0.28 | 1966, 1970, (1974$^†$) | list |
| 67 | Olivier Giroud | France | 5 | 18 | 0.28 | 2014, (2018$^†$), 2022 | list |

### Timeline

Key :
* Goal set a new record
* Goal equalled the existing record
Progressive list of footballers that have held the record for most goals scored at the FIFA World Cup final tournaments :
| Goals | Date | Player | Team | Goal | Opponent | Score | Tournament & Stage | Previous goals |
| 1 | 13 July 1930 | Lucien Laurent | France | 1–0 | Mexico | 4–1 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | N/A |
| 1 | 13 July 1930 | Bart McGhee | United States | 1–0 | Belgium | 3–0 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | N/A |
| 1 | 13 July 1930 | Marcel Langiller | France | 2–0 | Mexico | 4–1 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | N/A |
| 1 | 13 July 1930 | André Maschinot | France | 3–0 | Mexico | 4–1 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | N/A |
| 1 | 13 July 1930 | Tom Florie | United States | 2–0 | Belgium | 3–0 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | N/A |
| 1 | 13 July 1930 | Bert Patenaude | United States | 3–0 | Belgium | 3–0 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | N/A |
| 1 | 13 July 1930 | Juan Carreño | Mexico | 1–3 | France | 1–4 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | N/A |
| 2 | 13 July 1930 | André Maschinot | France | 4–1 | Mexico | 4–1 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | 1930 vs Mexico |
| 2 | 16 July 1930 | Carlos Vidal | Chile | 3–0 | Mexico | 3–0 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | 1930 vs Mexico |
| 2 | 17 July 1930 | Ivan Bek | Yugoslavia | 1–0 | Bolivia | 4–0 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | 1930 vs Brazil |
| 3 | 17 July 1930 | Ivan Bek | Yugoslavia | 3–0 | Bolivia | 4–0 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | 1930 vs Brazil |
| 3 | 17 July 1930 | Bert Patenaude | United States | 2–0 | Paraguay | 3–0 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | 1930 vs Belgium, Paraguay |
| 4 | 17 July 1930 | Bert Patenaude | United States | 3–0 | Paraguay | 3–0 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | 1930 vs Belgium, Paraguay |
| 4 | 22 July 1930 | Guillermo Stábile | Argentina | 1–0 | Chile | 3–1 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | 1930 vs Mexico (3) |
| 5 | 22 July 1930 | Guillermo Stábile | Argentina | 2–0 | Chile | 3–1 | 1930, Uruguay Group stage | 1930 vs Mexico (3) |
| 6 | 26 July 1930 | Guillermo Stábile | Argentina | 3–0 | United States | 6–1 | 1930, Uruguay Semi-final | 1930 vs Mexico (3) |
| 7 | 26 July 1930 | Guillermo Stábile | Argentina | 6–0 | United States | 6–1 | 1930, Uruguay Semi-final | 1930 vs Mexico (3) |
| 8 | 30 July 1930 | Guillermo Stábile | Argentina | 2–1 | Uruguay | 2–4 | 1930, Uruguay Final | 1930 vs Mexico (3) |
| 8 | 19 June 1938 | Leônidas | Brazil | 3–2 | Sweden | 4–2 | 1938, France 3rd place play-off | 1934 vs Spain 1938 vs Poland (3), Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia, Sweden |
| 8 | 13 July 1950 | Ademir | Brazil | 1–0 | Spain | 6–1 | 1950, Brazil Final round | 1950 vs Mexico (2), Yugoslavia, Sweden (4) |
| 9 | 13 July 1950 | Ademir | Brazil | 5–0 | Spain | 6–1 | 1950, Brazil Final round | 1950 vs Mexico (2), Yugoslavia, Sweden (4) |
| 9 | 27 June 1954 | Sándor Kocsis | Hungary | 4–2 | Brazil | 4–2 | 1954, Switzerland Quarter-final | 1954 vs South Korea (3), West Germany (4), Brazil |
| 10 | 30 June 1954 | Sándor Kocsis | Hungary | 3–2 | Uruguay | 4–2$^{aet}$ | 1954, Switzerland Semi-final | 1954 vs South Korea (3), West Germany (4), Brazil |
| 11 | 30 June 1954 | Sándor Kocsis | Hungary | 4–2 | Uruguay | 4–2$^{aet}$ | 1954, Switzerland Semi-final | 1954 vs South Korea (3), West Germany (4), Brazil |
| 11 | 28 June 1958 | Just Fontaine | France | 3–1 | West Germany | 6–3 | 1958, Sweden 3rd place play-off | 1958 vs Paraguay (3), Yugoslavia (2), Scotland, Northern Ireland (2), Brazil, West Germany |
| 12 | 28 June 1958 | Just Fontaine | France | 5–2 | West Germany | 6–3 | 1958, Sweden 3rd place play-off | 1958 vs Paraguay (3), Yugoslavia (2), Scotland, Northern Ireland (2), Brazil, West Germany |
| 13 | 28 June 1958 | Just Fontaine | France | 6–3 | West Germany | 6–3 | 1958, Sweden 3rd place play-off | 1958 vs Paraguay (3), Yugoslavia (2), Scotland, Northern Ireland (2), Brazil, West Germany |
| 13 | 3 July 1974 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | 1–0 | Poland | 1–0 | 1974, West Germany Second round | 1970 vs Morocco, Bulgaria (3), Peru (3), England, Italy (2) 1974 vs Australia, Yugoslavia |
| 14 | 6 July 1974 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | 2–1 | Netherlands | 2–1 | 1974, West Germany Final | 1970 vs Morocco, Bulgaria (3), Peru (3), England, Italy (2) 1974 vs Australia, Yugoslavia |
| 14 | 22 June 2006 | Ronaldo | Brazil | 4–1 | Japan | 4–1 | 2006, Germany Group stage | 1998 vs Morocco, Chile (2), Netherlands 2002 vs Turkey, China, Costa Rica (2), Belgium, Turkey, Germany (2) 2006 vs Japan |
| 15 | 27 June 2006 | Ronaldo | Brazil | 1–0 | Ghana | 3–0 | 2006, Germany Round of 16 | 1998 vs Morocco, Chile (2), Netherlands 2002 vs Turkey, China, Costa Rica (2), Belgium, Turkey, Germany (2) 2006 vs Japan |
| 15 | 21 June 2014 | Miroslav Klose | Germany | 2–2 | Ghana | 2–2 | 2014, Brazil Group stage | 2002 vs Saudi Arabia (3), Ireland, Cameroon 2006 vs Costa Rica (2), Ecuador (2), Argentina 2010 vs Australia, England, Argentina (2) |
| 16 | 8 July 2014 | Miroslav Klose | Germany | 2–0 | Brazil | 7–1 | 2014, Brazil Semi-final | 2002 vs Saudi Arabia (3), Ireland, Cameroon 2006 vs Costa Rica (2), Ecuador (2), Argentina 2010 vs Australia, England, Argentina (2) |

## Top goalscorers for each tournament

Top goalscorers at each FIFA World Cup final tournament :
| World Cup | Player | Team | Goals scored | Matches played | Golden Boot | Other FIFA Awards |
| Uruguay 1930 | Guillermo Stábile | Argentina | 8 | 4 | | Silver Ball |
| Italy 1934 | Oldřich Nejedlý | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 4 | | Bronze Ball |
| France 1938 | Leônidas | Brazil | 7 | 4 | | Golden Ball |
| Brazil 1950 | Ademir | Brazil | 9 | 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 |
| Chile 1962 | Vavá | Brazil | 6 | | |
| Chile 1962 | Leonel Sánchez | Chile | 6 | | Bronze Ball |
| Chile 1962 | Flórián Albert | Hungary | 3 | | Best Young Player |
| Chile 1962 | Valentin Ivanov | Soviet Union | 4 | | |
| Chile 1962 | 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 |
| United States 1994 | Oleg Salenko | Russia | 3 | | |
| France 1998 | Davor Šuker | Croatia | 6 | 7 | | Silver Ball |
| South Korea & Japan 2002 | Ronaldo | Brazil | 8 | 7 | | Silver Ball |
| Germany 2006 | Miroslav Klose | Germany | 5 | 7 | | |
| South Africa 2010 | Thomas Müller | Germany | 5 | 6 | | Best Young Player |
| South Africa 2010 | Wesley Sneijder | Netherlands | 7 | | Bronze Boot, Silver Ball |
| South Africa 2010 | David Villa | Spain | 7 | | Silver Boot, Bronze Ball |
| South Africa 2010 | Diego Forlán | Uruguay | 7 | | Golden Ball |
| Brazil 2014 | James Rodríguez | Colombia | 6 | 5 | | |
| Russia 2018 | Harry Kane | England | 6 | 6 | | |
| Qatar 2022 | Kylian Mbappé | France | 8 | 7 | | Silver Ball |

## Goalscorers at multiple tournaments

Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo is the only player to have scored in five different World Cups. Four other players (Uwe Seeler, Pelé, Miroslav Klose and Lionel Messi) have each scored in four tournaments, while another 35 have each scored in three.
In the table below players are listed in order of achieving their tallies.
Players who scored at 3 or more separate World Cups :
| Rank | Player | Team | Tournaments with goals | Goals scored | Matches played | Goals per match | Tournaments with goals |
| 1 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 5 | 8 | 22 | 0.36 | 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 |
| 2 | Uwe Seeler | West Germany | 4 | 9 | 21 | 0.43 | 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970 |
| 2 | Pelé | Brazil | 4 | 12 | 14 | 0.86 | 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970 |
| 2 | Miroslav Klose | Germany | 4 | 16 | 24 | 0.67 | 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 |
| 2 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | 4 | 13 | 26 | 0.50 | 2006, 2014, 2018, 2022 |
| 6 | Grzegorz Lato | Poland | 3 | 10 | 20 | 0.50 | 1974, 1978, 1982 |
| 6 | Joe Jordan | Scotland | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0.57 | 1974, 1978, 1982 |
| 6 | Andrzej Szarmach | Poland | 3 | 7 | 13 | 0.54 | 1974, 1978, 1982 |
| 6 | Dominique Rocheteau | France | 3 | 4 | 10 | 0.40 | 1978, 1982, 1986 |
| 6 | Michel Platini | France | 3 | 5 | 14 | 0.36 | 1978, 1982, 1986 |
| 6 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | West Germany | 3 | 9 | 19 | 0.47 | 1978, 1982, 1986 |
| 6 | Diego Maradona | Argentina | 3 | 8 | 21 | 0.38 | 1982, 1986, 1994 |
| 6 | Rudi Völler | West Germany Germany | 3 | 8 | 15 | 0.53 | 1986, 1990, 1994 |
| 6 | Lothar Matthäus | West Germany Germany | 3 | 6 | 25 | 0.24 | 1986, 1990, 1994 |
| 6 | Roberto Baggio | Italy | 3 | 9 | 16 | 0.56 | 1990, 1994, 1998 |
| 6 | Jürgen Klinsmann | West Germany Germany | 3 | 11 | 17 | 0.65 | 1990, 1994, 1998 |
| 6 | Gabriel Batistuta | Argentina | 3 | 10 | 12 | 0.83 | 1994, 1998, 2002 |
| 6 | Fernando Hierro | Spain | 3 | 5 | 12 | 0.42 | 1994, 1998, 2002 |
| 6 | Sami Al-Jaber | Saudi Arabia | 3 | 3 | 9 | 0.33 | 1994, 1998, 2006 |
| 6 | Raúl | Spain | 3 | 5 | 11 | 0.45 | 1998, 2002, 2006 |
| 6 | Henrik Larsson | Sweden | 3 | 5 | 13 | 0.38 | 1994, 2002, 2006 |
| 6 | Ronaldo | Brazil | 3 | 15 | 19 | 0.79 | 1998, 2002, 2006 |
| 6 | David Beckham | England | 3 | 3 | 13 | 0.23 | 1998, 2002, 2006 |
| 6 | Park Ji-sung | South Korea | 3 | 3 | 14 | 0.21 | 2002, 2006, 2010 |
| 6 | Cuauhtémoc Blanco | Mexico | 3 | 3 | 11 | 0.27 | 1998, 2002, 2010 |
| 6 | Robin van Persie | Netherlands | 3 | 6 | 17 | 0.35 | 2006, 2010, 2014 |
| 6 | Arjen Robben | Netherlands | 3 | 6 | 15 | 0.40 | 2006, 2010, 2014 |
| 6 | Tim Cahill | Australia | 3 | 5 | 9 | 0.56 | 2006, 2010, 2014 |
| 6 | Clint Dempsey | United States | 3 | 4 | 10 | 0.40 | 2006, 2010, 2014 |
| 6 | Asamoah Gyan | Ghana | 3 | 6 | 11 | 0.55 | 2006, 2010, 2014 |
| 6 | David Villa | Spain | 3 | 9 | 12 | 0.75 | 2006, 2010, 2014 |
| 6 | Rafael Márquez | Mexico | 3 | 3 | 19 | 0.16 | 2006, 2010, 2014 |
| 6 | Luis Suárez | Uruguay | 3 | 7 | 16 | 0.44 | 2010, 2014, 2018 |
| 6 | Javier Hernández | Mexico | 3 | 4 | 12 | 0.33 | 2010, 2014, 2018 |
| 6 | Keisuke Honda | Japan | 3 | 4 | 10 | 0.40 | 2010, 2014, 2018 |
| 6 | Edinson Cavani | Uruguay | 3 | 5 | 17 | 0.29 | 2010, 2014, 2018 |
| 6 | Xherdan Shaqiri | Switzerland | 3 | 5 | 12 | 0.42 | 2014, 2018, 2022 |
| 6 | Ivan Perišić | Croatia | 3 | 6 | 17 | 0.35 | 2014, 2018, 2022 |
| 6 | Neymar | Brazil | 3 | 8 | 13 | 0.62 | 2014, 2018, 2022 |
| 6 | Ángel Di María | Argentina | 3 | 3 | 18 | 0.17 | 2014, 2018, 2022 |

## Top goalscorers in final matches

Players with multiple goals in FIFA World Cup Finals :
| Player | Team | Goals scored | Finals played | Final(s) |
| Kylian Mbappé | France | 4 | 2 | 2018, 2022 |
| Geoff Hurst | England | 3 | 1 | 1966 |
| Vavá | Brazil | 3 | 2 | 1958, 1962 |
| Pelé | Brazil | 3 | 2 | 1958, 1970 |
| Zinedine Zidane | France | 3 | 2 | 1998, 2006 |
| Gino Colaussi | Italy | 2 | 1 | 1938 |
| Silvio Piola | Italy | 2 | 1 | 1938 |
| Helmut Rahn | West Germany | 2 | 1 | 1954 |
| Mario Kempes | Argentina | 2 | 1 | 1978 |
| Paul Breitner | West Germany | 2 | 2 | 1974, 1982 |
| Ronaldo | Brazil | 2 | 2 | (1998), 2002 |
| Lionel Messi | Argentina | 2 | 2 | (2014), 2022 |
* Bold indicates winning final
* Parentheses indicates no goals scored