WORLD CUP STATISTICS : RANKING OF THE GOAL SCORERS (1930-2014)
Posted on Feb 8, 2018 | IFFHS News Category
Pictures : 1 – Miroslav Klose leads the World Cup All Time Goalscorer ranking, he won the World Cup 2014 with Germany in Brazil. 2 -Ronaldo, the Brazilian star, was one of the five players in the World to win in the same time the World Cup and the Top Scorer Ranking (2002). 3-The French striker Just Fontaine scored 13 goals in one World Cup 1958, a record which will be difficult to beat !
STATISTICS
Topping the FIFA World Cup finals scoring chart is a great honour for each striker, but winning the World Cup is the MUST . From 1930 to 2014, only 5 players were also TOP SCORER and WORLD CUP WINNER : Garrincha and Vava (Brazil) in 1962, Mario Kempes (Argentina) in 1978, Paolo Rossi (Italy) in 1982 and Ronaldo (Brazil) in 2002. The French striker Just Fontaine hold the record of goals (13) in one World Cup and the German Miroslav Klose has scored the most goals in the World Cup (16 from 2002 to 2014).
WORLD CUP TOP SCORERS
| Year | Place | Top Goal Scorer | Country | Goals |
| 1930 | Uruguay | Guillermo STABILE | Argentina | 8 |
| 1934 | Italy | Oldrich NEJEDLY | Czsechoslovakia | 5 |
| 1938 | France | LEONIDAS | Brazil | 7 |
| 1950 | Brazil | ADEMIR | Brazil | 9 |
| 1954 | Switzerland | Sandor KOCSIS | Hungary | 11 |
| 1958 | Sweden | Just FONTAINE | France | 13 |
| 1962 | Chile | GARRINCHA | Brazil | 4 |
| VAVA | Brazil | 4 | ||
| Leonel SANCHEZ | Chile | 4 | ||
| Florian ALBERT | Hungary | 4 | ||
| Valentin IVANOV | Soviet Union | 4 | ||
| Drazen JERKOVIC | Yugoslavia | 4 | ||
| 1966 | England | EUSEBIO | Portugal | 9 |
| 1970 | Mexico | Gerd MULLER | Germany | 10 |
| 1974 | Germany | Grzegorz LATO | Poland | 7 |
| 1978 | Argentina | Mario KEMPES | Argentina | 6 |
| 1982 | Spain | Paolo ROSSI | Italy | 6 |
| 1986 | Mexico | Gary LINEKER | England | 6 |
| 1990 | Italy | Salvatore SCHILLACI | Italy | 6 |
| 1994 | USA | Oleg SALENKO | Russia | 6 |
| Hristo STOICHKOV | Bulgaria | 6 | ||
| 1998 | France | Davor SUKER | Croatia | 6 |
| 2002 | Korea/Japan | RONALDO | Brazil | 8 |
| 2006 | Germany | Miroslav KLOSE | Germany | 5 |
| 2010 | South Africa | Thomas MULLER | Germany | 5 |
| Diego FORLAN | Uruguay | 5 | ||
| Wesley SNEIJDER | Netherlands | 5 | ||
| David VILLA | Spain | 5 | ||
| 2014 | Brazil | James RODRIGUEZ | Colombia | 6 |
WORLD CUP ALL TIME GOALSCORERS : TOP 100
Player / Country Goals / Period
Miroslav KLOSE (Germany) 16 2002-2014
RONALDO Luis Nazário de Lima (Brazil) 15 1998-2006
Gerhard MÜLLER (Germany) 14 1970-1974
Just FONTAINE (France) 13 1958
PELÉ – Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Brazil) 12 1958-1970
Sándor KOCSIS Péter (Hungary) 11 1954
Jürgen KLINSMANN (Germany) 11 1990-1998
Helmut RAHN (Germany) 10 1954-1958
Teófilo CUBILLAS Arizaga (Peru) 10 1970-1982
Grzegorz Boleslaw LATO (Poland) 10 1974-1982
Gary Winston LINEKER (England) 10 1986-1990
Gabriel Omar BATISTUTA (Argentina) 10 1994-2002
Thomas MÜLLER (Germany) 10 2010-2014
ADEMIR Marques de Menezes (Brazil) 9 1950
VAVÁ – Edvaldo Izidio Neto (Brazil) 9 1958-1962
EUSEBIO da Silva Ferreira (Portugal) 9 1966
Uwe SEELER (Germany) 9 1958-1970
JAIRZINHO – Jair Ventura Filho (Brazil) 9 1966-1974
Paolo ROSSI (Italy) 9 1978-1982
Karl Heinz RUMMENIGGE (Germany) 9 1978-1986
Roberto BAGGIO (Italy) 9 1990-1998
Christian VIERI (Italy) 9 1998-2002
David VILLA (Spain) 9 2006-2014
Guillermo STÁBILE (Argentina) 8 1930
LEÔNIDAS da Silva (Brazil) 8 1934-1938
Oscar Omar MÍGUEZ (Uruguay) 8 1950-1954
Diego Armando MARADONA (Argentina) 8 1982-1994
Rudolf VÖLLER (Germany) 8 1986-1994
RIVALDO Victor Borba Ferreira(Brazil) 8 1998-2002
Oldrich NEJEDLÝ (Czechoslovakia) 7 1934-1938
Hans SCHÄFER (Germany) 7 1954-1962
Lajos TICHY (Hungary) 7 1958-1962
Johannes Nicolaus REP (Netherlands) 7 1974-1978
Andrzej SZARMACH (Poland) 7 1974-1982
CARECA – Antônio de Oliveira Filho (Brazil) 7 1986-1990
György SÁROSI (Hungary) 6 1934-1938
Josef HÜGI (Switzerland) 6 1954
Erich PROBST (Austria) 6 1954
Maximilian MORLOCK (Germany) 6 1954
Helmut HALLER (Germany) 6 1962-1970
Roberto RIVELINO (Brazil) 6 1970-1978
Robert Pieter RENSENBRINK (Netherlands) 6 1974-1978
Mario Alberto KEMPES (Argentina) 6 1974-1982
Zbigniew Kazimierz BONIEK (Poland) 6 1978-1986
Salvatore SCHILLACI (Italy) 6 1990
Oleg SALENKO (Russia) 6 1994
Christo STOICHKOV (Bulgaria) 6 1994
Lothar Herbert MATTHÄUS (Germany) 6 1982-1998
BEBETO – José Roberto Gama de Oliveira (Brazil) 6 1990-1998
Dennis BERGKAMP (Netherlands) 6 1994-1998
Davor ŠUKER (Croatia) 6 1998-2002
Thierry HENRY (France) 6 2002-2006
Diego Martín FORLÁN Corazo (Uruguay) 6 2002-2010
ASAMOAH Gyan (Ghana) 6 2006-2014
Arjen ROBBEN (Netherlands) 6 2006-2014
Robin VAN PERSIE (Netherlands) 6 2006-2014
Wesley SNEIJDER (Netherlands) 6 2010-2014
James RODRIGUEZ (Colombia) 6 2014
José Pedro CEA (Uruguay) 5 1930
Silvio PIOLA (Italy) 5 1938
Gyula ZSENGELLÉR (Hungary) 5 1938
Juan Alberto SCHIAFFINO (Uruguay) 5 1950-1954
Peter Jones McPARLAND (North Ireland) 5 1958
GARRINCHA – Manuel Francisco dos Santos (Brazil) 5 1958-1966
Geoffrey Charles HURST (England) 5 1966-1970
Franz BECKENBAUER (Germany) 5 1966-1974
Johannes Jacobus NEESKENS (Netherlands) 5 1974-1978
Johann KRANKL (Austria) 5 1978-1982
ZICO – Arthur Antunes Coimbra (Brazil) 5 1978-1986
Michel PLATINI (France) 5 1978-1986
Alessandro ALTOBELLI (Italy) 5 1982-1986
Emilio BUTRAGUENO Santos (Spain) 5 1986-1990
Tomáš SKUHRAVÝ (Czechoslovakia) 5 1990
Roger MILLA – Albert Robert Miller (Cameroon) 5 1982-1994
ROMARIO da Sousa Faria Filho (Brazil) 5 1990-1994
Kennet ANDERSSON (Sweden) 5 1994
Marc Robert WILMOTS (Belgium) 5 1994-2002
Fernando Ruiz HIERRO (Spain) 5 1994-2002
Fernando MORIENTES (Spain) 5 1998-2002
Henrik LARSSON (Sweden) 5 1994-2006
RAÚL González Blanco (Spain) 5 1998-2006
Zinedine ZIDANE (France) 5 1998-2006
Jon Dahl TOMASSON (Denmark) 5 2002-2010
Landon DONOVAN (United States) 5 2002-2010
Lukas PODOLSKI (Germany) 5 2006-2010
Tim CAHILL (Australia) 5 2006-2014
Gonzalo Gerardo HIGUAIN (Argentina) 5 2010-2014
Lionel MESSI (Argentina) 5 2010-2014
Luis Alberto SUÁREZ (Uruguay) 5 2010-2014
Bertram Albert PATENAUDE (United States) 4 1930
Edmund CONEN (Germany) 4 1934
Angelo SCHIAVIO (Italy) 4 1934
Andre ABEGGLEN (Switzerland) 4 1934-1938
Ernest Otton WILLIMOWSKI (Poland) 4 1938
Luigi COLAUSSI (Italy) 4 1938
Estanislao BASORA Brunet (Spain) 4 1950
CHICO – Francisco Aramburú (Brazil) 4 1950
Alcide Edgardo GHIGGIA (Uruguay) 4 1950
ZARRA – Telmo Zarraonaindia Montoya (Spain) 4 1950
Carlos BORGES (Uruguay) 4 1954
Robert BALLAMAN (Switzerland) 4 1954
Ottmar WALTER (Germany) 4 1954
Ferenc PUSKÁS Bíró (Hungary) 4 1954
Nándor HIDEGKUTI (Hungary) 4 1954-1958
Raymond KOPA Kopaszewski (France) 4 1954-1958
Zdenék ZIKÁN (Czechoslovakia) 4 1958
Kurt HAMRIN (Sweden) 4 1958
Agne SIMONSSON (Sweden) 4 1958
Valentin Kozmich IVANOV (Soviet Union) 4 1962
Dražan JERKOVIC (Yugoslavia) 4 1962
Flórián ALBERT (Hungary) 4 1962-1966
Leonel SÁNCHEZ Lineros (Chile) 4 1962-1966
Igor Leonidovich CHISLENKO (Soviet Union) 4 1962-1966
Ferenc BENE (Hungary) 4 1966
Valery Siemienowich PORKUJAN (Soviet Union) 4 1966
Robert CHARLTON (England) 4 1962-1970
Anatolij Fiodorowicz BYSZOWIEC (Soviet Union) 4 1970
Ralf EDSTRÖM (Sweden) 4 1974-1978
Kazimierz DEYNA (Poland) 4 1974-1978
René Orlando HOUSEMAN (Argentina) 4 1974-1978
Leopolo Jacinto LUQUÉ (Argentina) 4 1978
Joseph JORDAN (Scotland) 4 1974-1982
Paul BREITNER (Germany) 4 1974-1982
Ricardo Daniel BERTONI (Argentina) 4 1978-1982
Dominique ROCHETEAU (France) 4 1978-1986
SOCRATES Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Veira
de Oliveira (Brazil) 4 1982-1986
Jorge Alberto Francisco VALDANO (Argentina) 4 1982-1986
Igor Ivanowich BELANOV (Soviet Union) 4 1986
Preben ELKJAER-LARSEN (Denamrk) 4 1986
Jan CEULEMANS (Belgium) 4 1982-1990
MICHEL – Miguel González Maria del Campo (Spain) 4 1986-1990
Andreas BREHME (Germany) 4 1986-1990
Claudio Paul CANIGGIA (Argentina) 4 1990-1994
Thomas BROLIN (Sweden) 4 1990-1994
Martin DAHLIN (Sweden) 4 1994
Florin Valeriu RADUCIOIU (Romania) 4 1994
José Marcelo SALAS Melinao (Chile) 4 1998
Luis Arturo HERNÁNDEZ Carreón (Mexico) 4 1998-2002
Oliver BIERHOFF (Germany) 4 1998-2002
Michael James OWEN (England) 4 1998-2002
Hernán CRESPO (Argentina) 4 2002-2006
Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes PAULETA (Portugal) 4 2002-2006
Fernando TORRES (Spain) 4 2006-2014
Clint DEMPSEY (United States) 4 2006-2014
Róbert VITTEK (Slovakia) 4 2010
NEYMAR da Silva Santos Júnior (Brazil) 4 2014