The Golden Boot Award in FIFA World Cup Football

The Golden Boot Award in FIFA World Cup Football

First Golden Boot Winner-Paolo Rossi

   The Golden Boot Award is given for the top scorer of a certain FIFA World Cup tournament and it is start to given from the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain. Currently, this award is commercially named as "Adidas Golden Boot". But, previously this Golden Boot was known as the "Adidas Golden Shoe" from 1982 to 2006 World Cup. From 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, this top scorer’s award is named as “Adidas Golden Boot”.

   This award was first introduced along with the “Golden Ball Award (best player in the certain World Cup)” in 1982 World Cup, and Italian Paolo Rossi got this award for the first time (Italian Paolo Rossi got the Golden Ball and Golden Boot award in the 1982 FIFA World Cup). This award is given by FIFA at the conclusion of each World Cup tournament. Those who finish as runners-up in the tournament receive the Silver Ball and Bronze Ball awards as the second and third most outstanding players in the tournament respectively.

   If there is more than one player with the same amount of goals, since 1994 the tie-breaker goes to the player who has contributed the most assists - with the FIFA Technical Study Group deciding whether an assist is to be counted as such. If there is still more than one player, the tie-breaker since 2006 goes to the player who has played the least amount of time.

 

   Here we write a list of FIFA Golden Boot winners according to the respective World Cups:-


FIFA World Cup in 1982, Spain:

Adidas Golden Boot: Paolo Rossi (Italy–6 Goals)

Adidas Silver Boot: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (West Germany–5 Goals)

Adidas Bronze Boot: Zico (Brazil-4 Goals)

FIFA World Cup in 1986, Mexico:

Adidas Golden Boot: Gary Lineker (England–6 Goals)

Adidas Silver Boot: Emilio Butragueno (Spain–5 Goals)
                    Careca (Brazil–5 Goals)
                    Diego Maradona (Argentina-5 Goals)

Adidas Bronze Boot: None

FIFA World Cup in 1990, Italy:

Adidas Golden Boot: Salvatore Schillaci (Italy–6 Goals)

Adidas Silver Boot: Tomas Skuhravy (Czechoslovakia–5 Goals)

Adidas Bronze Boot: Roger Milla (Cameroon-4 Goals)

Miroslav Klose-Highest goal scorer

FIFA World Cup in 1994, United States:

Adidas Golden Boot: Oleg Salenko (Russia–6 Goals)
                    Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria–6 Goals)

Adidas Silver Boot: None

Adidas Bronze Boot: Kennet Andersson(Sweden-5 Goals)
                    Romario (Brazil–5 Goals) 

FIFA World Cup in 1998, France:

Adidas Golden Boot: Davor Suker (Croatia–6 Goals)

Adidas Silver Boot: Gabriel Batistuta(Argentina–5 Goals)
                    Christian Vieri (Italy–5 Goals)

Adidas Bronze Boot: None

FIFA World Cup in 2002, South-Korea and Japan:

Adidas Golden Boot: Ronaldo (Brazil–8 Goals)

Adidas Silver Boot: Miroslav Klose (Germany–5 Goals)
                    Rivaldo (Brazil–5 Goals)

Adidas Bronze Boot: None

FIFA World Cup in 2006, Germany:

Adidas Golden Boot: Miroslav Klose (Germany–5 Goals)

Adidas Silver Boot: Hernan Crespo (Argentina–3 Goals)

Adidas Bronze Boot: Ronaldo (Brazil–3 Goals)

FIFA World Cup in 2010, South-Africa:

Adidas Golden Boot: Thomas Muller (Germany–5 Goals)

Adidas Silver Boot: David Villa (Spain–5 Goals)

Adidas Bronze Boot: Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands–5 Goals)

FIFA World Cup in 2014, Brazil:

Adidas Golden Boot: James Rodriguez (Columbia–6 Goals)

Adidas Silver Boot: Thomas Muller (Germany–5 Goals)

James Rodriguez

Adidas Bronze Boot: Neymar (Brazil–4 Goals)

   Before 1982 FIFA World Cup football, the “Golden Boot Award” did not given to the top-scores in World Cup tournament. Here we write a list of the top scorers (no award was given) of a certain World Cup Football tournament:-

World Cup in 1930, Uruguay: Guillermo Stabile (Argentina–8 Goals)

World Cup in 1934, Italy: Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia–5 Goals)

World Cup in 1938, France: Leonidas (Brazil–7 Goals)

World Cup in 1950 Brazil: Ademir (Brazil–8 Goals)

World Cup in 1954, Switzerland: Sandor Kocsis (Hungary–11 Goals)

World Cup in 1958, Sweden: Just Fontaine (France–13 Goals)

Just Fontaine

World Cup in 1962, Chile: Florian Albert (Hungary), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union), Garrincha (Brazil), Vava (Brazil), Leonel Sanchez (Chile), Drazan Jerkovic (Yugoslavia) – everybody scored 4 Goals each.

World Cup in 1966, England: Eusebio (Portugal–9 Goals)

World Cup in 1970, Mexico: Gerd Muller (West-Germany–10 Goals)

World Cup in 1974, West-Germany: Grzegorz Lato (Poland–7 Goals)

World Cup in 1978, Argentina: Mario Kempes (Argentina–6 Goals)

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