The Golden Boot will be awarded to the player who scores the most goals at Qatar 2022. If two players are equal, the one with the most assists will win it. If two or more players are still equal, the one who has played the fewest minutes will triumph.
Top goalscorers of WC 2022
5 goals
Lionel Messi (Argentina) - 3 assists, 570 minutes played
Kylian Mbappe (France) - 2 assists, 477 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) *
Previous Golden Boot winners
1930: Guillermo Stabile (8 goals)
1934: Oldrich Nejedly (5)
1938: Leonidas da Silva (7)
1950: Ademir de Menezes (8)
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)
Top assisters of WC 2022
Bruno Fernandes (3) *
Antoine Griezmann (3)
Harry Kane (3) *
Lionel Messi (3)
Jordi Alba (2) *
Diogo Dalot (2) *
Ousmane Dembele (2)
Denzel Dumfries (2) *
Joao Felix (2) *
Phil Foden (2) *
Raphael Guerreiro (2) *
Theo Hernandez (2)
Davy Klaassen (2) *
Kylian Mbappe (2)
Mislav Orsic (2)
Ivan Perisic (2)
Christian Pulisic (2) *
Dusan Tadic (2) *
Vinicius Junior (2) *
Andrija Zivkovic (2) *
* Denotes a player whose team have been eliminated.
Three-plus assists in one World Cup (1966-2018)
• 1966: Siegfried Held, Uwe Seeler (4), Antonio Simoes, Jose Torres (3)
• 1970: Pele (5), Tostao (4), Hristo Bonev, Reinhard Libuda, Gerd Muller, Rivellino (3)
• 1974: Robert Gadocha (5), Johan Cruyff, Dragan Dzajic, Uli Hoeness (3)
• 1978: Rob Rensenbrink, Rene van de Kerkhof (3)
• 1982: Pierre Littbarski (5), Zico (4)
• 1986: Diego Maradona (5), Igor Belanov (4), Dominique Rocheteau (4), Stephane Demol (3)
• 1990: Andreas Brehme, Jozef Chovanec, Lubo Moravcik (3)
• 1994: Thomas Hassler (5), Tomas Brolin (4), Gheorghe Hagi (4), Sergi (3)
• 1998: Dennis Bergkamp, Youri Djorkaeff, Tahar El-Khalej, Brian Laudrup, Ronaldo, Juan Sebastian Veron (3)
• 2002: Michael Ballack (4), David Beckham, Francisco De Pedro, Hasan Sas, Ronaldinho, Bernd Schneider, Christian Ziege (3)
• 2006: Francesco Totti (4), Luis Figo, Andrea Pirlo, Juan Roman Riquelme, Bastian Schweinsteiger (3)
• 2010: Kaka, Dirk Kuyt, Thomas Muller, Mesut Ozil, Bastian Schweinsteiger (3)
• 2014: Juan Cuadrado, Toni Kroos (4), Karim Benzema, Andre Schurrle (3)
• 2018: No player got more than two assists.
Source: FIFA