FIFA World Cup Golden Boot Award

FIFA World Cup Golden Boot Award

Golden boot award (previously known as Golden Shoe) award is presented to the top goal scorer of the World Cup matches during each tournament. The award is introduced in 1982 just like Golden Ball award. It was named “Golden Shoe” in the start but in 2010 the name was changed to “Golden Boot”. 

The winner of this award is decided on the basis of goal scored by the player. If two players score same number of goals in a world cup than the winner is decided with less penalty goals and if players have same number of penalty goals then winner is decided on number of assists.

Players	Wins & Year
Paolo Rossi	1 (1982 World Cup )
Gary Lineker	1 (1986 World Cup)
Salvatore Schillaci	1 (1990 World Cup)
Oleg Salenko (Shared)	1 (1994 World Cup)
Hristo Stoichkov (Shared)	1 (1994 World Cup)
Davor Šuker	1 (1998 World Cup )

Ronaldo
1 (2002 World Cup)
Miroslav Klose
1 (2006 World Cup)
Thomas Müller
1 (2010 World Cup)
James
1 (2014 World Cup)
Harry Kane
1 (2018 World Cup)