World Cup Top Goal Scorers (Golden Boot)

These are the 'golden shoe' or 'golden boot' winners from each World Cup event. The record for the most goals at a single World Cup is 13 by Frenchman Just Fontaine in 1958, which he achieved in six games. The overall top goal scorer in the Wolrd Cup is German player Miroslav Klose, who has scored 16 goals overall. See the list of World Cup Top Goal Scorers.
The current rules for a tie-breaker, is that if there is a tie for the most number of goals in the tournament, the award goes to the player who has given the most assists (as decided by the FIFA Technical Study Group). If there is still more than one player, the tie-breaker goes to the player who has played the least amount of time. Goals scored from penalty shoot-outs are not counte

Year	Top Scorer(s)	Country	Matches Played	Goals Scored
1930	Guillermo Stabile	Argentina	4	8
1934	Angelo Schiavio	Italy *	4	4
	Oldrich Nejedly	Czechoslovakia	4	4
	Edmund Conen	Germany	4	4
1938	Leonidas da Silva	Brazil	4	8
1950	Marques Ademir	Brazil	6	7
1954	Sandor Kocsis	Hungary	5	11
1958	Just Fontaine	France	6	13
1962	Drazen Jerkovic	Yugoslavia	6	5
1966	Ferreira Eusebio	Portugal	6	9
1970	Gerd Muller	West Germany	6	10
1974	Grzegorz Lato	Poland	7	7
1978	Mario Kempes	Argentina *	7	6
1982	Paolo Rossi	Italy *	7	6
1986	Gary Lineker	England	5	6
1990	Salvatore Schillaci	Italy	7	6
1994	Oleg Salenko	Russia	3	6
	Hristo Stoitchkov	Bulgaria	7	6
1998	Davor Suker	Croatia	7	6
2002	Ronaldo	Brazil *	7	8
2006	Miroslav Klose	Germany	7	5
2010	Thomas Müller	Germany	6	5
2014	James Rodríguez	Columbia	6	5