1930 : (Uruguay) : Guillermo Stabile (Argentina):8 Goals 1934 : (Italy): Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia): 5 Goals

1938 : (France) : Leonidas (Brazil): 7 Goals 1950 : (Brazil) : Ademir (Brazil) :8 Goals

1954 : (Switzerland) : Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) : 11 Goals 1958 : (Sweden) : Just Fontaine (France) : 13 Goals

1962 :  (Chile) : Vava and Garrincha (Brazil) : 4 Goals each Florian Albert, Valentin Ivanov, Drazan Jerkovic and Leonel Sanchez : 4 Goals each

1966 : (England) : Eusebio (Portugal) : 9 Goals 1970 : (Mexico) : Gerd Muller (West Germany) : 10 Goals

1974 : (West Germany) : Grzegorz Lato (Poland): 7 Goals 1978 : (Argentina) : Mario Kempes (Argentina): 6 Goals

1982 : (Spain) : Paolo Rossi (Italy): 6 Goals 1986 : (Mexico) : Gary Lineker (England) : 6 Goals

1990 : (Italy) : Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) :  6 goals 1994 : (USA) : Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria) & Oleg Salenko (Russia): 6 goals

1998 : (France) : Davor Suker (Croatia) :  6 Goals 2002 :  (South Korea/Japan) : Ronaldo (Brazil) : 8 Goals