Stephen Dunmoye
The first World Cup where the top goalscorer received an award was the 1982 tournament in Spain.
Between 1982 and 2006, it was known as the Golden Shoe before being renamed to the Golden Boot for the 2010 World Cup.
Here are the players who scored the most goals at each World Cup.
1930: Guillermo Stabile (Argentina) — 8 goals
1934: Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia) — 5 goals
1938: Leonidas (Brazil) — 7 goals
1950: Ademir (Brazil) — 8 goals
1954: Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) — 11 goals
1958: Just Fontaine (France) — 13 goals
1962: Florian Albert (Hungary), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union), Garrincha (Brazil), Vava (Brazil), Drazan Jerkovic (Yugoslavia), Leonel Sanchez (Chile) — 4 goals
1966: Eusebio (Portugal) — 9 goals
1970: Gerd Muller (West Germany) — 10 goals
1974: Grzegorz Lato (Poland) — 7 goals
1978: Mario Kempes (Argentina) — 6 goals
1982: Paolo Rossi (Italy) — 6 goals
1986: Gary Lineker (England) – 6 goals
1990: Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) — 6 goals
1994: Oleg Salenko (Russia), Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria) — 6 goals
1998: Davor Suker (Croatia) — 6 goals
2002: Ronaldo (Brazil) — 8 goals
2006: Miroslav Klose (Germany) — 5 goals
2010: Thomas Muller (Germany) — 5 goals
2014: James Rodriguez (Colombia) — 6 goals
2018: Harry Kane (England) — 6 goals
