FIFA World Cup top goalscorers

Miroslav Klose celebrating his record-breaking sixteenth World Cup goal during Germany's 2014 semi-final victory

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. ^[1] Since the first goal scored by French player Lucien Laurent in 1930, ^[2] nearly 1,300 footballers have scored goals at the World Cup tournaments, ^[3] of whom 101 have scored five or more.

Numbers of goalscorers ^{[3] [4]}

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. ^[5] 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. ^[6] 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

Ronaldo ranks second among players with the most goals at the World Cup, scoring fifteen, including two in the 2002 final.

Among players still active at international level, Lionel Messi has the most goals at FIFA World Cups, with thirteen goals to his name, including two in the 2022 final.

Gary Lineker is the top scorer for England at the World Cup, with ten goals.

Grzegorz Lato (left) became the top scorer for Poland at FIFA World Cups during the 1974 tournament, with ten total goals.

Teófilo Cubillas is the top scorer for Peru at the World Cup, with ten goals.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the only male player to score in five different World Cup tournaments.

With six goals for Ghana, Asamoah Gyan is the only player outside of Europe or South America to score more than five goals at the World Cup.

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 ^{[5] [7] [8]}

Rank	Player	Team	Goals scored	Matches played	Goals per match [nb 1]	Tournaments	Notes
1	Miroslav Klose ♦	Germany	16	24	0.67	2002, 2006, 2010, 2014†	list [10]
2	Ronaldo ♦	Brazil	15	19	0.79	[1994]†, 1998, 2002†, 2006	list [11]
3	Gerd Müller	West Germany	14	13	1.08	1970, 1974†	list [12]
4	Lionel Messi ♦#	Argentina	13	26	0.50	2006, (2010), 2014, 2018, 2022†	list [13] [14]
	Just Fontaine ♦	France		6	2.17	1958	list [15]
6	Pelé	Brazil	12	14	0.86	1958†, 1962†, 1966, 1970†	list [16]
	Kylian Mbappé #	France		14	0.86	2018†, 2022	list
8	Sándor Kocsis ♦	Hungary	11	5	2.20	1954	list [17]
	Jürgen Klinsmann	West Germany   Germany		17	0.65	1990† 1994, 1998	list [18]
10	Helmut Rahn	West Germany	10	10	1.00	1954†, 1958	list [19]
	Gary Lineker ♦	England		12	0.83	1986, 1990	list [20]
	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina		12	0.83	1994, 1998, 2002	list [21]
	Teófilo Cubillas ♦	Peru		13	0.77	1970, 1978, (1982)	list [22]
	Thomas Müller	Germany		19	0.53	2010, 2014†, (2018), (2022)	list [ broken anchor ] [23] [24]
	Grzegorz Lato ♦	Poland		20	0.50	1974, 1978, 1982	list [25]
16	Ademir	Brazil	9	6	1.50	1950	list [nb 2] [28]
	Eusébio ♦	Portugal		6	1.50	1966	list [29]
	Christian Vieri ♦	Italy		9	1.00	1998, 2002	list [30]
	Vavá	Brazil		10	0.90	1958†, 1962†	[31]
	David Villa ♦	Spain		12	0.75	2006, 2010†, 2014	list [32]
	Paolo Rossi ♦	Italy		14	0.64	1978, 1982†, [1986]	list [33]
	Jairzinho	Brazil		16	0.56	(1966), 1970†, 1974	list [34]
	Roberto Baggio ♦	Italy		16	0.56	1990, 1994, 1998	list [35]
	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	West Germany		19	0.47	1978, 1982, 1986	list [36]
	Uwe Seeler	West Germany		21	0.43	1958, 1962, 1966, 1970	[37]
26	Guillermo Stábile	Argentina	8	4	2.00	1930	list [38]
	Leônidas	Brazil		5	1.60	1934, 1938	list [nb 3] [40]
	Óscar Míguez ♦	Uruguay		7	1.14	1950†, 1954	[41]
	Harry Kane #	England		11	0.73	2018, 2022	list [42]
	Neymar #	Brazil		13	0.62	2014, 2018, 2022	list [13] [43]
	Rivaldo	Brazil		14	0.57	1998, 2002†	list [44]
	Rudi Völler	West Germany   Germany		15	0.53	1986, 1990† 1994	list [45]
	Diego Maradona	Argentina		21	0.38	1982, 1986†, (1990), 1994	list [46]
	Cristiano Ronaldo #	Portugal		22	0.36	2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022	list [13] [47]
35	Oldřich Nejedlý ♦	Czechoslovakia	7	6	1.17	1934, 1938	[nb 4] [48]
	Lajos Tichy	Hungary		8	0.88	1958, 1962, [1966]	list [49]
	Careca	Brazil		9	0.78	1986, 1990	[50]
	Johnny Rep ♦	Netherlands		13	0.54	1974, 1978	[51]
	Andrzej Szarmach	Poland		13	0.54	1974, 1978, 1982	[52]
	Hans Schäfer	West Germany		15	0.47	1954†, 1958, (1962)	[53]
	Luis Suárez	Uruguay		16	0.44	2010, 2014, 2018, (2022)	list [54] [13]
42	Josef Hügi ♦	Switzerland	6	3	2.00	1954	[55]
	Oleg Salenko ♦	Russia		3	2.00	1994	list [56]
	György Sárosi	Hungary		5	1.20	1934, 1938	[57]
	Max Morlock	West Germany		5	1.20	1954†	[58]
	Erich Probst ♦	Austria		5	1.20	1954	[59]
	Enner Valencia ♦#	Ecuador		6	1.00	2014, 2022	list
	Salvatore Schillaci	Italy		7	0.86	1990	list [60]
	Davor Šuker ♦	Yugoslavia   Croatia		8	0.75	[1990], 1998, (2002)	list [61]
	James Rodríguez ♦#	Colombia		8	0.75	2014, (2018)	list [62] [63]
	Helmut Haller	West Germany		9	0.67	(1962), 1966, (1970)	[64]
	Hristo Stoichkov ♦	Bulgaria		10	0.60	1994, (1998)	list [65]
	Diego Forlán	Uruguay		10	0.60	2002, 2010, (2014)	list [66]
	Asamoah Gyan ♦	Ghana		11	0.55	2006, 2010, 2014	list [67]
	Dennis Bergkamp	Netherlands		12	0.50	1994, 1998	list [68]
	Rob Rensenbrink	Netherlands		13	0.46	1974, 1978	[69]
	Rivellino	Brazil		15	0.40	1970†, 1974, (1978)	[70]
	Bebeto	Brazil		15	0.40	(1990), 1994†, 1998	list [71]
	Arjen Robben	Netherlands		15	0.40	2006, 2010, 2014	list [72]
	Zbigniew Boniek	Poland		16	0.38	1978, 1982, (1986)	list [73]
	Thierry Henry	France		17	0.35	1998†, (2002), 2006, (2010)	list [74]
	Robin van Persie	Netherlands		17	0.35	2006, 2010, 2014	list [75]
	Wesley Sneijder	Netherlands		17	0.35	(2006), 2010, 2014	list [76]
	Ivan Perišić ♦#	Croatia		17	0.35	2014, 2018, 2022	list [13] [77]
	Mario Kempes	Argentina		18	0.33	(1974), 1978†, (1982)	list [78]
	Lothar Matthäus	West Germany   Germany		25	0.24	(1982), 1986, 1990† 1994, (1998)	list [79]
67	Pedro Cea	Uruguay	5	4	1.25	1930†	list [80]
	Silvio Piola	Italy		4	1.25	1938†	list [81]
	Gyula Zsengellér	Hungary		4	1.25	1938	[82]
	Peter McParland ♦	Northern Ireland		5	1.00	1958	list [83]
	Tomáš Skuhravý	Czechoslovakia		5	1.00	1990	[84]
	Juan Alberto Schiaffino	Uruguay		6	0.83	1950†, 1954	[85]
	Geoff Hurst	England		6	0.83	1966†, 1970	list [86]
	Jon Dahl Tomasson ♦	Denmark		6	0.83	2002, 2010	list [87]
	Alessandro Altobelli	Italy		7	0.71	1982†, 1986	[88]
	Kennet Andersson ♦	Sweden		7	0.71	1994	list [89]
	Fernando Morientes	Spain		7	0.71	1998, 2002	list [90]
	Romário	Brazil		8	0.63	(1990), 1994†	list [91]
	Marc Wilmots ♦	Belgium		8	0.63	[1990], (1994), 1998, 2002	list [92]
	Mario Mandžukić	Croatia		8	0.63	2014, 2018	list [13] [93]
	Valentin Ivanov	Soviet Union		9	0.56	1958, 1962	list [94]
	Emilio Butragueño	Spain		9	0.56	1986, (1990)	list [95]
	Roger Milla ♦	Cameroon		9	0.56	(1982), 1990, 1994	list [96]
	Tim Cahill ♦	Australia		9	0.56	2006, 2010, 2014, (2018)	list [97] [98]
	Hans Krankl	Austria		10	0.50	1978, 1982	list [99]
	Raúl	Spain		11	0.45	1998, 2002, 2006	list [100]
	Garrincha	Brazil		12	0.42	(1958†), 1962†, 1966	[101]
	Johan Neeskens	Netherlands		12	0.42	1974, (1978)	[102]
	Fernando Hierro	Spain		12	0.42	[1990], 1994, 1998, 2002	list [103]
	Zinedine Zidane	France		12	0.42	1998†, (2002), 2006	list [104]
	Landon Donovan ♦	United States		12	0.42	2002, (2006), 2010	list [105]
	Romelu Lukaku ♦#	Belgium		12	0.42	2014, 2018, (2022)	list [106]
	Xherdan Shaqiri	Switzerland		12	0.42	(2010), 2014, 2018, 2022	list
	Henrik Larsson ♦	Sweden		13	0.38	1994, 2002, 2006	list [107]
	Michel Platini	France		14	0.36	1978, 1982, 1986	list [108]
	Zico	Brazil		14	0.36	1978, 1982, (1986)	[109]
	Gonzalo Higuaín	Argentina		14	0.36	2010, 2014, (2018)	list [110] [111]
	Lukas Podolski	Germany		15	0.33	2006, 2010, (2014†)	list [112]
	Edinson Cavani	Uruguay		17	0.29	2010, 2014, 2018, (2022)	list [13] [113]
	Franz Beckenbauer	West Germany		18	0.28	1966, 1970, (1974†)	list [114]
	Olivier Giroud	France		18	0.28	2014, (2018†), 2022	list

Timeline

Leônidas scored a record eight World Cup goals for Brazil, coming at the 1934 and 1938 tournaments.

Ademir scored a record nine World Cup goals for Brazil, all coming at the 1950 tournament.

Sándor Kocsis was the first player to score ten or more goals in a single World Cup: he scored a record eleven goals in just five matches for Hungary during the 1954 tournament.

Just Fontaine scored a record thirteen World Cup goals for France, all coming at the 1958 tournament.

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	Ref.
1	13 July 1930	Lucien Laurent	France	1–0	Mexico	4–1	1930, Uruguay Group stage	N/A	[nb 5]
		Bart McGhee	United States	1–0	Belgium	3–0
		Marcel Langiller	France	2–0	Mexico	4–1
		André Maschinot	France	3–0	Mexico	4–1
		Tom Florie	United States	2–0	Belgium	3–0
		Bert Patenaude	United States	3–0	Belgium	3–0
		Juan Carreño	Mexico	1–3	France	1–4
2		André Maschinot	France	4–1	Mexico	4–1		1930 vs Mexico
	16 July 1930	Carlos Vidal	Chile	3–0	Mexico	3–0		1930 vs Mexico	[117]
	17 July 1930	Ivan Bek	Yugoslavia	1–0	Bolivia	4–0		1930 vs Brazil	[118]
3				3–0
		Bert Patenaude	United States	2–0	Paraguay	3–0		1930 vs Belgium, Paraguay	[119]
4				3–0
	22 July 1930	Guillermo Stábile	Argentina	1–0	Chile	3–1		1930 vs Mexico (3)	[120]
5				2–0
6	26 July 1930			3–0	United States	6–1	1930, Uruguay Semi-final
7				6–0
8	30 July 1930			2–1	Uruguay	2–4	1930, Uruguay Final
	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	[121]
	13 July 1950	Ademir	Brazil	1–0	Spain	6–1	1950, Brazil Final round	1950 vs Mexico (2), Yugoslavia, Sweden (4)	[28]
9				5–0
	27 June 1954	Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	4–2	Brazil	4–2	1954, Switzerland Quarter-final	1954 vs South Korea (3), West Germany (4), Brazil	[122]
10	30 June 1954			3–2	Uruguay	4–2aet	1954, Switzerland Semi-final
11				4–2
	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	[123]
12				5–2
13				6–3
	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	[12]
14	6 July 1974			2–1	Netherlands	2–1	1974, West Germany Final
	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	[124]
15	27 June 2006			1–0	Ghana	3–0	2006, Germany Round of 16
	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)	[125]
16	8 July 2014			2–0	Brazil	7–1	2014, Brazil Semi-final

Top goalscorers for each tournament

Guillermo Stábile scored a then-record eight goals for Argentina at the 1930 World Cup.

Eusébio scored nine goals for Portugal at the 1966 World Cup.

Gerd Müller scored ten goals for West Germany at the 1970 World Cup.

Top goalscorers at each FIFA World Cup final tournament ^{[126] [127] [128]}

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
	Vavá	Brazil	6
	Leonel Sánchez	Chile	6		Bronze Ball
	Flórián Albert	Hungary	3		Best Young Player
	Valentin Ivanov	Soviet Union	4
	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
	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
	Wesley Sneijder	Netherlands	7		Bronze Boot, Silver Ball
	David Villa	Spain	7		Silver Boot, Bronze Ball
	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
	Pelé	Brazil		12	14	0.86	1958, 1962, 1966, 1970
	Miroslav Klose	Germany		16	24	0.67	2002, 2006, 2010, 2014
	Lionel Messi	Argentina		13	26	0.50	2006, 2014, 2018, 2022
6	Grzegorz Lato	Poland	3	10	20	0.50	1974, 1978, 1982
	Joe Jordan	Scotland		4	7	0.57	1974, 1978, 1982
	Andrzej Szarmach	Poland		7	13	0.54	1974, 1978, 1982
	Dominique Rocheteau	France		4	10	0.40	1978, 1982, 1986
	Michel Platini	France		5	14	0.36	1978, 1982, 1986
	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	West Germany		9	19	0.47	1978, 1982, 1986
	Diego Maradona	Argentina		8	21	0.38	1982, 1986, 1994
	Rudi Völler	West Germany   Germany		8	15	0.53	1986, 1990, 1994
	Lothar Matthäus	West Germany   Germany		6	25	0.24	1986, 1990, 1994
	Roberto Baggio	Italy		9	16	0.56	1990, 1994, 1998
	Jürgen Klinsmann	West Germany   Germany		11	17	0.65	1990, 1994, 1998
	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina		10	12	0.83	1994, 1998, 2002
	Fernando Hierro	Spain		5	12	0.42	1994, 1998, 2002
	Sami Al-Jaber	Saudi Arabia		3	9	0.33	1994, 1998, 2006
	Raúl	Spain		5	11	0.45	1998, 2002, 2006
	Henrik Larsson	Sweden		5	13	0.38	1994, 2002, 2006
	Ronaldo	Brazil		15	19	0.79	1998, 2002, 2006
	David Beckham	England		3	13	0.23	1998, 2002, 2006
	Park Ji-sung	South Korea		3	14	0.21	2002, 2006, 2010
	Cuauhtémoc Blanco	Mexico		3	11	0.27	1998, 2002, 2010
	Robin van Persie	Netherlands		6	17	0.35	2006, 2010, 2014
	Arjen Robben	Netherlands		6	15	0.40	2006, 2010, 2014
	Tim Cahill	Australia		5	9	0.56	2006, 2010, 2014
	Clint Dempsey	United States		4	10	0.40	2006, 2010, 2014
	Asamoah Gyan	Ghana		6	11	0.55	2006, 2010, 2014
	David Villa	Spain		9	12	0.75	2006, 2010, 2014
	Rafael Márquez	Mexico		3	19	0.16	2006, 2010, 2014
	Luis Suárez	Uruguay		7	16	0.44	2010, 2014, 2018
	Javier Hernández	Mexico		4	12	0.33	2010, 2014, 2018
	Keisuke Honda	Japan		4	10	0.40	2010, 2014, 2018
	Edinson Cavani	Uruguay		5	17	0.29	2010, 2014, 2018
	Xherdan Shaqiri	Switzerland		5	12	0.42	2014, 2018, 2022
	Ivan Perišić	Croatia		6	17	0.35	2014, 2018, 2022
	Neymar	Brazil		8	13	0.62	2014, 2018, 2022
	Ángel Di María	Argentina		3	18	0.17	2014, 2018, 2022

Top goalscorers in final matches

Main article: List of FIFA World Cup final goalscorers

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		2	1958, 1962
Pelé	Brazil		2	1958, 1970
Zinedine Zidane	France		2	1998, 2006
Gino Colaussi	Italy	2	1	1938
Silvio Piola	Italy		1	1938
Helmut Rahn	West Germany		1	1954
Mario Kempes	Argentina		1	1978
Paul Breitner	West Germany		2	1974, 1982
Ronaldo	Brazil		2	(1998), 2002
Lionel Messi	Argentina		2	(2014), 2022

• Bold indicates winning final
• Parentheses indicates no goals scored

See also

• List of FIFA World Cup hat-tricks
• List of FIFA World Cup own goals
• All-time table of the FIFA World Cup

Notes

1. Outside this list is Ernst Wilimowski of Poland, the player with the highest goals-to-games ratio in the World Cup. His ratio is 4.00 as he scored four goals in his only World Cup appearance, in 1938. ^[9]
2. There was a controversy regarding the number of goals scored by Ademir in 1950 because of incomplete data from the final group round game against Spain, that ended in a 6–1 victory for Brazil. The first Brazilian goal was credited as own goal and the fifth was credited to Jair, ^[26] but both are now credited to Ademir. ^[27]
3. FIFA initially credited Leônidas with eight goals in the 1938 tournament, but in November 2006, FIFA revised it to seven (he scored one additional goal in the 1934 tournament). ^[39]
4. FIFA initially credited Nejedlý with only four goals in 1934. However, FIFA changed it to five goals in November 2006, meaning he scored a total of seven goals overall (he scored two goals in 1938). ^[39]
5. The two initial games of the 1930 FIFA World Cup (France vs Mexico ^[115] and United States vs Belgium ^[116] ) were played at the same time, as seven players scored, with André Maschinot scoring two goals. The order in which these players are listed reflects the actual elapsed time in the games when their goals were scored.

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External links

• FIFA World Cup statistics at FIFA.com
• Statistics at RSSSF Archived 13 December 2022 at the Wayback Machine
• Planet World Cup Archived 3 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine