Who are the World Cup golden boot winners?

The FIFA World Cup Golden Boot award is one of the most coveted individual awards in world football. Although since 1930, the top goalscorers were ranked, the award was instituted only in 1982. It was known as the Golden Shoe award back then. In 2010 it was rechristened to 'Golden Boot'.

Some big names have won this award like Ronaldo Nazario, Eusebio, Miroslav Klose to name a few. However, none of the aforementioned names could break the record of most goals in a single edition set by Just Fontaine (13) in 1958. Hungary's Sandor Kocsis comes close with 11 goals to his name in 1954.

In 1994, the tie-breaker rule came into force. If there is more than one player with the same number of goals then the person with more assists gets the award. If the tie could still be not broken then the number of minutes played is taken into account. The player with the least game time wins the award. Let us now take a look at the top goalscorers of each edition in World Cup history.