
Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe were the front-runners for the Adidas Golden Boot Award, but Mbappe eventually won it with nine goals at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, beating out Messi, who scored seven.
Qatar 2022 Top Scorers:
8 Goals
Kylian Mbappe (France) – 2 assists, 477 minutes played
7 Goals
Lionel Messi (Argentina) – 3 assists, 570 minutes played
4 Goals
Julian Alvarez (Argentina) – 0 assists, 364 minutes played
Olivier Giroud (France) – 0 assists, 383 minutes played
3 goals
Goncalo Ramos (Portugal)
Alvaro Morata (Spain)
Marcus Rashford (England)
Enner Valencia (Ecuador)
Bukayo Saka (England)
Richarlison (Brazil)
Cody Gakpo (Netherlands)
2 goals
Bruno Fernandes (Portugal)
Harry Kane (England)
Niclas Fullkrug (Germany)
Vincent Aboubakar (Cameroon)
Mehdi Taremi (IR Iran)
Neymar (Brazil)
Robert Lewandowski (Poland)
Wout Weghorst (Netherlands)
Rafael Leao (Portugal)
Kai Havertz (Germany)
Giorgian de Arrascaeta (Uruguay)
Ritsu Doan (Japan)
Ferran Torres (Spain)
Mohammed Kudus (Ghana)
Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia)
Salem Al-Dawsari (Saudi Arabia)
Cho Guesung (Korea Republic)
Breel Embolo (Switzerland)
Andrej Kramaric (Croatia)
Youssef En-Nesyri (Morocco)
The Criteria For The Golden Boot:
At Qatar 2022, Kylian Mbappe won the Golden Boot for his incredible eight goals.
Golden Boot winners
1930: Guillermo Stabile (8 goals)
1934: Oldrich Nejedly (5)
1938: Leonidas da Silva (7)
1950: Ademir de Menezes (9)
1954: Sandor Kocsis (11)
1958: Just Fontaine, France (13)
1962: Florian Albert, Garrincha, Valentin Ivanov, Drazan Jerkovic, Leonel Sanchez and Vava (4)
1966: Eusebio (9)
1970: Gerd Muller (10)
1974: Grzegorz Lato (7)
1978: Mario Kempes (6)
1982: Paolo Rossi (6)
1986: Gary Lineker (6)
1990: Toto Schillaci (6)
1994: Oleg Salenko and Hristo Stoichkov (6)
1998: Davor Suker (6)
2002: Ronaldo (8)
2006: Miroslav Klose (5)
2010: Thomas Muller (5)
2014: James Rodriguez (6)
2018: Harry Kane (6)