Going into the finals of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe were the favourites to win the Golden Boot award, given to the top goal-scorer of the tournament. Both men had 5 goals each in the tournament before the blockbuster final. However, it went down to the very last kick in the final to decide the winner of the tournament and the Golden Boot winner as well. Lionel Messi scored a brace to help his side survive the Kylian Mbappe hat-trick scare. However, the France forward created history scoring a hat-trick in the final of the World Cup and won the Golden Boot award. It was Messi's final shot at winning the World Cup, a trophy that has eluded his glittering cabinet in his illustrious career.


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Below is the list of FIFA World Cup Golden Boot winners (inputs from Xinhua):


1930 - Guillermo Stabile (Argentina) - 8 goals


1934 - Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia) - 5 goals


1938 - Leonidas (Brazil) - 7 goals


1950 - Ademir (Brazil) - 9 goals


 2022 World Cup top scorer (8 goals)



1954 - Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) - 11 goals


1958 - Just Fontaine (France) - 13 goals


1962 - Florian Albert (Hungary), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union), Garrincha (Brazil), Vava (Brazil), Drazan Jerkovic (Yugoslavia), Leonel Sanchez (Chile) - 4 goals


1966 - Eusebio (Portugal) 9 goals


1970 - Gerd Muller (West Germany) - 10 goals


1974 - Grzegorz Lato (Poland) - 7 goals


1978 - Mario Kempes (Argentina) - 6 goals


1982 - Paolo Rossi (Italy) - 6 goals


1986 - Gary Lineker (England) - 6 goals


1990 - Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) - 6 goals


1994 - Oleg Salenko (Russia), Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgaria) - 6 goals


1998 - Davor Suker (Croatia) - 6 goals


2002 - Ronaldo (Brazil) - 8 goals


2006 - Miroslav Klose (Germany) - 5 goals


2010 - Thomas Muller (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands), David Villa (Spain), Diego Forlan (Uruguay) - 5 goals


2014 - James Rodriguez (Colombia) - 6 goals


2018 - Harry Kane (England) - 6 goals


2022 - Kylian Mbappe (France) - 8 goals (With IANS inputs)