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Top scorers at each FIFA World Cup

FILE PHOTO: Harry Kane was the top scorer of the previous 2018 World Cup edition

Doha, Qatar | Xinhua | Following is the list of FIFA World Cup Golden Boot winners:

1930 – Guillermo Stabile (Argentina) – 8 goals

1934 – Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia) – 5 goals

1938 – Leonidas (Brazil) – 7 goals

1950 – Ademir (Brazil) – 9 goals

1954 – Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) – 11 goals

1958 – Just Fontaine (France) – 13 goals

1962 – Florian Albert (Hungary), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union), Garrincha (Brazil), Vava (Brazil), Drazan Jerkovic (Yugoslavia), Leonel Sanchez (Chile) – 4 goals

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 (Italy) – 6 goals

1986 – Gary Lineker (England) – 6 goals

1990 – Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) – 6 goals

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

1998 – Davor Suker (Croatia) – 6 goals

2002 – Ronaldo (Brazil) – 8 goals

2006 – Miroslav Klose (Germany) – 5 goals

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

2014 – James Rodriguez (Colombia) – 6 goals

2018 – Harry Kane (England) – 6 goals

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