Top goals scorers at Qatar 2022

Top goal scorers at Qatar 2022

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FIFA+ looks at the battle to finish as top goal scorer at Qatar 2022.

• Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe lead the race for the adidas Golden Boot

• Julian Alvarez and Olivier Giroud are only one goal behind

• Watch videos on former Golden Boot winners

Lionel Messi | All Goals | FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™

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Qatar 2022 top goal scorers

5 goals

Lionel Messi (Argentina) - 3 assists, 570 minutes played Kylian Mbappe (France) - 2 assists, 477 minutes played

Kylian Mbappé | All Goals | FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™

4 goals

Julian Alvarez (Argentina) - 0 assists, 364 minutes played Olivier Giroud (France) - 0 assists, 383 minutes played

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3 goals

Goncalo Ramos (Portugal) * Alvaro Morata (Spain) * Marcus Rashford (England) * Enner Valencia (Ecuador) * Bukayo Saka (England) * Richarlison (Brazil) * Cody Gakpo (Netherlands) *

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2 goals

Bruno Fernandes (Portugal) * Harry Kane (England) * Niclas Fullkrug (Germany) * Vincent Aboubakar (Cameroon) * Mehdi Taremi (IR Iran) * Neymar (Brazil) * Robert Lewandowski (Poland) * Wout Weghorst (Netherlands) * Rafael Leao (Portugal) * Kai Havertz (Germany) * Giorgian de Arrascaeta (Uruguay) * Ritsu Doan (Japan) * Ferran Torres (Spain) * Mohammed Kudus (Ghana) * Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia) * Salem Al-Dawsari (Saudi Arabia) * Cho Guesung (Korea Republic) * Breel Embolo (Switzerland) * Andrej Kramaric (Croatia) * Youssef En-Nesyri (Morocco) * * Denotes a player whose team have been eliminated.

All Goals | FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™

Watch all goals scored at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™.

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Golden Boot criteria

The Golden Boot will be awarded to the player who scores the most goals at Qatar 2022. If two players are equal, the one with the most assists will win it. If two or more players are still equal, the one who has played the fewest minutes will triumph.

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Golden Boot winners

1930: Guillermo Stabile (8 goals) 1934: Oldrich Nejedly (5) 1938: Leonidas da Silva (7) 1950: Ademir de Menezes (9) 1954: Sandor Kocsis (11) 1958: Just Fontaine, France (13) 1962: Florian Albert, Garrincha, Valentin Ivanov, Drazan Jerkovic, Leonel Sanchez and Vava (4) 1966: Eusebio (9) 1970: Gerd Muller (10) 1974: Grzegorz Lato (7) 1978: Mario Kempes (6) 1982: Paolo Rossi (6) 1986: Gary Lineker (6) 1990: Toto Schillaci (6) 1994: Oleg Salenko and Hristo Stoichkov (6) 1998: Davor Suker (6) 2002: Ronaldo (8) 2006: Miroslav Klose (5) 2010: Thomas Muller (5) 2014: James Rodriguez (6) 2018: Harry Kane (6)