Golden Shoe Award (aka Golden Boot)
This is FIFA's official award for the top goal scorer of each tournament.
Sometimes referred to as the Golden Boot, it's been running since the 1930 World Cup and now features the Silver and Bronze Shoe award for 2nd and 3rd. If players have an equal number of goals then assists and minutes on the pitch are taken into account.
| Year | Award | Player | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Golden Shoe | Miroslav Klose | Germany | 5 |
| Silver Shoe | Hernan Crespo | Argentina | 3 | |
| Bronze Shoe | Ronaldo | Brazil | 3 | |
| 2002 | Golden Shoe | Ronaldo | Brazil | 8 |
| 1998 | Golden Shoe | Davor Suker | Croatia | 6 |
| 1994 | Golden Shoe | Hristo Stoichkov | Bulgaria | 6 |
| 1994 | Golden Shoe | Oleg Salenko | Russia | 6 |
| 1990 | Golden Shoe | Salvatore Schillaci | Italy | 6 |
| 1986 | Golden Shoe | Gary Lineker | England | 6 |
| 1982 | Golden Shoe | Paulo Rossi | Italy | 6 |
| 1978 | Golden Shoe | Mario Kempes | Argentina | 6 |
| 1974 | Golden Shoe | Grzegorz Lato | Poland | 7 |
| 1970 | Golden Shoe | Gerd Muller | West Germany | 10 |
| 1966 | Golden Shoe | Eusebio | Portugal | 9 |
| 1962 | Golden Shoe | Garrincha | Brazil | 4 |
| 1962 | Golden Shoe | Vava | Brazil | 4 |
| 1962 | Golden Shoe | Leonel Sanchez | Chile | 4 |
| 1962 | Golden Shoe | Drazen Jerkovic | Yugoslavia | 4 |
| 1962 | Golden Shoe | Valentin Ivanov | USSR | 4 |
| 1962 | Golden Shoe | Florian Albert | Hungary | 4 |
| 1958 | Golden Shoe | Just Fontaine | France | 13 |
| 1954 | Golden Shoe | Sandor Kocsis | Hungary | 11 |
| 1950 | Golden Shoe | Ademir | Brazil | 9 |
| 1938 | Golden Shoe | Leonidas | Brazil | 7 |
| 1934 | Golden Shoe | Oldrich Nejedly | Czechoslovakia | 4 |
| 1934 | Golden Shoe | Angelo Schiavo | Italy | 4 |
| 1934 | Golden Shoe | Edmund Conen | Germany | 4 |
| 1930 | Golden Shoe | Guillermo Stabile | Argentina | 8 |
For the 1934 World Cup FIFA have 3 joint top scorers on four goals. However, other sources claim that Nejedly of Czechoslovakia was the outright top scorer, with five goals.
