Wednesday, 10 October 2012
| Year | Top Scorer(s) | Country | Matches Played | Goals Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Guillermo Stabile | Argentina | 4 | 8 |
| 1934 | Angelo Schiavio | Italy | 4 | 4 |
| Oldrich Nejedly | Czechoslovakia | 4 | 4 | |
| Edmund Conen | Germany | 4 | 4 | |
| 1938 | Leonidas da Silva | Brazil | 4 | 8 |
| 1950 | Marques Ademir | Brazil | 6 | 7 |
| 1954 | Sandor Kocsis | Hungary | 5 | 11 |
| 1958 | Just Fontaine | France | 6 | 13 |
| 1962 | Drazen Jerkovic | Yugoslavia | 6 | 5 |
| 1966 | Ferreira Eusebio | Portugal | 6 | 9 |
| 1970 | Gerd Muller | West Germany | 6 | 10 |
| 1974 | Grzegorz Lato | Poland | 7 | 9 |
| 1978 | Mario Kempes | Argentina | 7 | 6 |
| 1982 | Paolo Rossi | Italy | 7 | 6 |
| 1986 | Gary Lineker | England | 5 | 6 |
| 1990 | Salvatore Schillaci | Italy | 7 | 6 |
| 1994 | Oleg Salenko | Russia | 3 | 6 |
| Hristo Stoitchkov | Bulgaria | 7 | 6 | |
| 1998 | Davor Suker | Croatia | 7 | 6 |
| 2002 | Ronaldo | Brazil | 7 | 8 |
| 2006 | Miroslav Klose | Germany | 7 | 5 |
| 2010 | Thomas Müller | Germany | 6 | 5 |
