2026 WORLD CUP FOOTBALL

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World Cup All-time Top Scorers

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Goalscorers are honored, especially when that happens in soccer and at a World Cup. These names are at the top of the all-time top scorers’ list. World-class strikers from the years 1930, 1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022.

TOTAL
Miroslav Klose
(Germany) | 16
Ronaldo (Brazil) | 15
Gerd Müller (West Germany) | 14
Lionel Messi (Argentina) | 13
Just Fontaine (France) | 13
Kylian Mbappé (France) | 12
Pelé (Brazil) | 12
Sándor Kocsis (Hungary) | 11
Jürgen Klinsmann (West Germany / Germany) | 11
Helmut Rahn
(West Germany), Gary Lineker (England), Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina), Teófilo Cubillas (Peru), Thomas Müller (Germany), and Grzegorz Lato (Poland) | 10

TOURNAMENTS
2022: Kylian Mbappé
(France) | 8
2018: Harry Kane (England) | 6
2014: James Rodríguez (Colombia) | 6
2010: Thomas Müller (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands), David Villa (Spain), and Diego Forlán (Uruguay) | 5
2006: Miroslav Klose (Germany) | 5
2002: Ronaldo (Brazil) | 8
1998: Davor Šuker (Croatia) | 6
1994: Oleg Salenko (Russia), Christo Stoitsjkov (Bulgaria) | 6
1990: Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) | 6
1986: Gary Lineker (England) | 6
1982: Paolo Rossi (Italy) | 6
1978: Mario Kempes (Argentina) | 6
1974: Grzegorz Lato (Poland) | 7
1970: Gerd Müller (West Germany) | 10
1966: Eusébio (Portugal) | 9
1962: Flórián Albert (Hungary), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union), Garrincha (Brazil), Dražan Jerković (Yugoslavia), Vavá (Brazil), and Leonal Sanchez (Chili) | 4
1958: Just Fontaine (France) | 13
1954: Sándor Kocsis (Hungary) | 11
1950: Ademir (Brazil) | 9
1938: Leônidas (Brazil) | 7
1934: Oldřich Nejedlý (Czechoslovakia) | 5
1930: Guillermo Stábile (Argentina) | 8


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