Men's FIFA World Cup top goalscorers
Miroslav Klose celebrating his record-breaking 16th World Cup goal
A total of over 2,700 goals have been scored in games at the Men's 22 final tournaments of the
FIFA World Cup , not counting penalties scored during
shoot-outs .
[1] Since the first goal scored by
French player
Lucien Laurent at the
1930 FIFA World Cup ,
[2] almost 1,300 footballers have scored goals at the World Cup tournaments, of whom 101 have scored five or more.
Numbers of goalscorers
[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 at all the games played at the World Cup than Stábile did throughout the 1930 tournament. The first was
Hungary 's
Sándor Kocsis with eleven
in 1954 . At the
next tournament , France's
Just Fontaine improved on this record with 13 goals in only six games.
Gerd Müller scored 10 for
West Germany
in 1970 and broke the overall record when he scored his 14th goal in a tournament match at a World Cup during West Germany's win in the
1974 final . His record stood for more than three decades until
Ronaldo 's 15 goals between
1998 and
2006 for
Brazil . Germany's
Miroslav Klose went on to score a record 16 goals across four consecutive tournaments between
2002 and
2014 .
Of all the players who have played in the World Cup tournaments, only six have achieved an average of two goals or more per game played: Kocsis, Fontaine, Stábile,
Russia 's
Oleg Salenko ,
Switzerland 's
Josef Hügi , and
Poland 's
Ernst Wilimowski — the last of these scored four in his
single World Cup game 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 ,
Ghana ,
Australia , and the
United States .
Fontaine holds the record for the most goals scored in a single tournament, with 13 goals in 1958. The players that came closest were Kocsis in 1954, Müller in 1970 and
Portugal 's
Eusébio
in 1966 , with 11, 10 and 9, respectively. The lowest scoring top scorer was
in 1962 , when six players tied at only four goals each. Across the 22 tournaments of the World Cup, 31 footballers have been credited with the most tournament goals, and no one has achieved this feat twice. Ten of them scored at least seven goals in a tournament, while Brazil's
Jairzinho and Argentine's
Lionel Messi were the only footballers to score at least seven goals without being the top goalscorer of the tournament in 1970 and 2022, respectively. These 31 top goalscorers played for 20 nations, the most (five) for Brazil. Another five came from other South American countries, with the remaining 21 coming from Europe.
In 2006,
Ronaldo was the first to score 8 goals in knockout matches (excluding 3rd place playoff) at the World Cup in his 3 tournaments for
Brazil , tied in 2022 by
Kylian Mbappé .
[6] Mbappé became the first player to score 4 goals in World Cup finals with his hat-trick in 2022.
Overall top goalscorers
Ronaldo ranks second among players with the most goals, scoring 15, including two in the
2002 FIFA World Cup Final .
Among players still active at international level,
Lionel Messi has the most goals at FIFA World Cups, with 13 goals to his name, including two in the
2022 FIFA World Cup Final .
Gary Lineker is the top goalscorer for England with ten
Grzegorz Lato (left) during the
1974 World Cup became the top goalscorer of Poland with ten
Teófilo Cubillas is the top goalscorer for Peru with ten
Eusébio holds the record for most goals in the history of the World Cup for Portugal
Cristiano Ronaldo with 8 goals is the only male player to score in five World Cup tournaments group stages
Asamoah Gyan with six goals for Ghana, 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 the 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
Just Fontaine ♦
France
13
6
2.17
1958
list
[13]
Lionel Messi ♦#
Argentina
26
0.50
2006, (2010), 2014, 2018, 2022†
list
[14]
[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
[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
[14]
[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
[14]
[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]
[14]
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
[14]
[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)
[79]
67
Pedro Cea
Uruguay
5
4
1.25
1930†
list
[80]
Silvio Piola
Italy
4
1.25
1938†
[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
[14]
[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
[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
[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
[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
[14]
[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 8 goals for Brazil at the 1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cups.
Ademir scored a record 9 goals for Brazil at the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
Sándor Kocsis was the first player to have scored 10 or more goals in an edition. He scored a record 11 goals in just 5 matches.
Just Fontaine scored a record 13 goals at the 1958 FIFA World Cup.
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
16 July 1930
Carlos Vidal
Chile
3 –0
Mexico
3–0
[117]
17 July 1930
Ivan Bek
Yugoslavia
1 –0
Bolivia
4–0
[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
[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
[121]
13 July 1950
Ademir
Brazil
1 –0
Spain
6–1
1950, Brazil
Final round
[28]
9
5 –0
27 June 1954
Sándor Kocsis
Hungary
4 –2
Brazil
4–2
1954, Switzerland
Quarter-final
[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
[123]
12
5 –2
13
6 –3
3 July 1974
Gerd Müller
West Germany
1 –0
Poland
1–0
1974, West Germany
Second round
[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
[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
[125]
16
8 July 2014
2 –0
Brazil
7–1
2014, Brazil
Semi-final
Top goalscorers for each tournament
Guillermo Stábile scored a record 8 goals for Argentina at the 1930 FIFA 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.
Goalscorers at multiple tournaments
Cristiano Ronaldo is the only player to have scored in five different World Cups. Four players,
Uwe Seeler ,
Pelé ,
Miroslav Klose and
Lionel Messi , have scored in four tournaments each, while another 35 have scored in three each.
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
Bold indicates winning final
Parentheses indicates no goals scored
See also
Notes
^ 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]
^ 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]
^ 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]
^ 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]
^ 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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