FIFA WORLD CUP TOP SCORERS

Here is a post dedicated to FIFA World Cup top scorers by each tournament, then top scorers in the WC history and some other interesting facts.
Let's start with the first ever goal scorer back in 1930 when the first World cup was held.

Frenchman Lucien Lauren is the first ever WC goal scorer. It was in a match versus Mexico.

TOP GOALSCORERS AT EACH FIFA WORLD CUP TOURNAMENT

1930- Guillermo Stabile (Argentina)- 8 goals

1934- Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia)- 5 goals

1938- Leonidas da Silva (Brazil)- 7 goals

1950- Ademir (Brazil)- 9 goals

1954- Sandor Kocsis (Hungary)- 11 goals

1958- Just Fontaine (France)- 13 goals

1962- Dražan Jerković (Yugoslavia), Florian Albert (Hungary), Garrincha and Vava (both Brazil), Leonel Sanchez (Chile), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union)- 4 goals each

1966- Eusebio (Portugal)- 9 goals

1970- Gerd Muller (West Germany)- 10 goals

1974- Grzegorz Lato (Poland)- 7 goals

1978- Mario Kempes (Argentina)- 6 goals

1982- Paolo Rossi (Italia)- 6 goals

1986- Gary Lineker (England)- 6 goals

1990- Salvatore Schillaci (Italy)- 6 goals

1994- Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria), Oleg Salenko (Russia)- 6 goals each

1998- Davor Šuker (Croatia)- 6 goals

2002- Ronaldo (Brazil)- 8 goals

2006- Miroslav Klose (Germany)- 5 goals

2010- Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands), Thomas Muller (Germany), Diego Forlan (Uruguay), David Villa (Spain)- 5 goals each

2014- James Rodriguez (Colombia)- 6 goals

2018- Harry Kane (England)- 6 goals

2022- Kylian Mbappe (France)- 8 goals

OVERALL FIRST FIVE FIFA WORLD CUP TOP SCORERS:

1. Miroslav Klose- 16 goals (2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014)

2. Ronaldo- 15 goals (1994 (didn't play), 1998, 2002 and 2006)

3. Gerd Muller- 14 goals (1970 and 1974)

4. Just Fontaine- 13 goals (1958)

This is also a record for most goals by a player in one tournament

4. Lionel Messi- 13 goals (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022)

Bert Patenaude (USA)- Scorer of the first World cup hat-trick. Versus Paraguay in 1930.

Robert Prosinečki (Yugoslavia / Croatia)- The only footballer that scored for two different nations in World Cup history. He played for former Yugoslavia in the 1990 edition and scored against United Arab Emirates. Robert then represented Croatia in 1998 and 2002. He scored two goals in 1998, one vs Jamaica and other in a match for third place vs Netherlands.