FIFA World Cup goalscorers
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This article lists every country's goalscorers in FIFA World Cup finals matches.The scorers of many goals in FIFA World Cup history are disputed. For details, consult FIFA World Cup goals with disputed scorers. For the 2006 tournament, the official FIFA match reports are taken as truth. In earlier tournaments, FIFA match reports are known to be inaccurate, so Cris Freddi's book Complete Book of the World Cup 2006 is used as the most accurate known reference.
For a list of goalscorers with at least five FIFA World Cup goals, see FIFA World Cup records#List of overall top goalscorers.
Algeria
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Angola
- 1 goal
Argentina
- 10 goals
- Gabriel Batistuta
- Batistuta is the only player to score a hat-trick in two World Cups, against Greece in 1994 and against Jamaica in 1998.
- 8 goals
- Diego Maradona
- Guillermo Stábile
- Stábile was top scorer in 1930, scoring eight goals.
- 6 goals
- Mario Kempes
- Kempes was top scorer in 1978, scoring six goals.
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Osvaldo Ardiles
- Ludovico Avio
- Roberto Ayala
- Rubén Ayala
- Carlos Babington
- Abel Balbo
- Ernesto Belis
- Miguel Ángel Brindisi
- José Luis Brown
- Esteban Cambiasso
- Ramón Díaz
- Mario Evaristo
- Héctor Facundo
- Alberto Galateo
- Ramón Heredia
- Claudio López
- Norberto Menéndez
- Lionel Messi
- Pedro Monzón
- Ermindo Onega
- Pedro Pasculli
- Mauricio Pineda
- Oscar Ruggeri
- José Sanfilippo
- Javier Saviola
- Alejandro Scopelli
- Alberto Tarantini
- Carlos Tévez
- Pedro Troglio
- Francisco Varallo
- Javier Zanetti
- Own goals
- Roberto Perfumo (for Italy)
- Antonio Roma (for Spain)
Australia
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Own goals
- Colin Curran (for East Germany)
Austria
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Josef Bican
- Andreas Herzog
- Reinhold Hintermaier
- Karl Koller
- Erich Obermayer
- Andreas Ogris
- Bruno Pezzey
- Toni Polster
- Gerhard Rodax
- Toni Schall
- Karl Sesta
- Matthias Sindelar
- Ivica Vastić
- Karl Zischek
Belgium
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Lei Clijsters
- Ludo Coeck
- Henri Coppens
- Alexandre Czerniatynski
- Michel de Wolf
- Stéphane Demol
- Georges Grün
- Henri Isemborghs
- Luc Nilis
- Wesley Sonck
- Peter van der Heyden
- Franky Vercauteren
- Patrick Vervoort
- Daniel Veyt
- Johan Walem
Bolivia
- 1 goal
Brazil
- 15 goals
- Ronaldo
- Ronaldo is the FIFA World Cup's all-time record goal-scorer, though some sources dispute his claim to the second goal against Costa Rica in 2002.
- Ronaldo was top scorer in 2002, scoring eight goals. He is the only non-European top scorer in a World Cup since 1978.
- 12 goals
- 9 goals
- Jairzinho
- Jairzinho is the only player to score in every game played at a World Cup, including the final, in 1970.
- Vavá
- Vavá was joint top scorer in 1962, scoring four goals.
- 8 goals
- Ademir
- Ademir was top scorer in 1950, scoring eight goals.
- Leônidas
- Leônidas was top scorer in 1938, scoring seven goals.
- Rivaldo
- 7 goals
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Alfredo
- Branco
- Carlos Alberto
- Clodoaldo
- Djalma Santos
- Edinho
- Edmílson
- Fred
- Friaça
- Gérson
- Gilberto
- Juninho
- Júnior
- Júnior
- Kaká
- Maneca
- Márcio
- Nílton
- Oscar
- Raí
- Reinaldo
- Rildo
- Roberto
- Roberto Carlos
- Valdomiro
- Zé Roberto
- Zito
Bulgaria
- 6 goals
- Hristo Stoichkov
- Stoichkov was joint top scorer in 1994, scoring six goals.
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Georgi Asparuhov
- Daniel Borimirov
- Dinko Dermendzhiev
- Plamen Getov
- Todor Kolev
- Emil Kostadinov
- Asparuh Nikodimov
- Georgi Sokolov
- Dobromir Zhechev
- Own goals
- Ivan Davidov (for Hungary)
- Ivan Vutsov (for Portugal)
Cameroon
- 5 goals
- Roger Milla
- Milla is the oldest player to score in a World Cup. He first set the record scoring against Romania in 1990 then extended the record with four further goals in that tournament. He extended the record considerably further when scoring against Russia in 1994. He is also the oldest player to participate in a World Cup and the leading African goalscorer in the tournament's history.
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Canada
Competed in 1986, but failed to score a goal.
Chile
- 4 goals
- Marcelo Salas
- Leonel Sánchez
- Sánchez was joint top scorer in 1962, scoring four goals.
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Sergio Ahumada
- Guillermo Arellano
- Juan Carlos Letelier
- Gustavo Moscoso
- Miguel Ángel Neira
- Andrés Prieto
- George Robledo
- José Luis Sierra
- Guillermo Subiabre
China PR
Competed in 2002, but failed to score a goal.
Colombia
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Germán Aceros
- Marcos Coll
- Hernán Gaviria
- Marino Klinger
- John Harold Lozano
- Léider Preciado
- Antonio Rada
- Freddy Rincón
- Carlos Valderrama
- Francisco Zuluaga
- Own goals
- Andrés Escobar (for USA)
Congo DR
Competed as
Costa Rica
- 3 goals
- 1 goal
Côte d'Ivoire
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Croatia
- 6 goals
- Davor Šuker
- Šuker was top scorer in 1998, scoring six goals.
- 2 goals
- Robert Prosinečki
- Prosinečki also scored a goal for Yugoslavia (SFR). He is the only player to score World Cup goals for two countries.
- 1 goal
Cuba
- 3 goals
- 1 goal
Czech Republic
See - 2 goals
- 1 goal
Czechoslovakia
1930-1994. - 7 goals
- Oldřich Nejedlý
- Nejedlý was top scorer in 1934, scoring five goals..
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Jiří Feureisl
- Ivan Hašek
- Josef Kadraba
- Vlastimil Kopecký
- Josef Košťálek
- Luboš Kubík
- Milan Luhový
- Václav Mašek
- Josef Masopust
- Jiří Sobotka
- Jozef Štibrányi
- František Svoboda
- Josef Zeman
- Own goals
- Jozef Barmoš (for England)
Denmark
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- John Eriksen
- Thomas Helveg
- Martin Jørgensen
- Søren Lerby
- Peter Møller
- Allan Nielsen
- Marc Rieper
- Dennis Rommedahl
- Ebbe Sand
East Germany
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Ecuador
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Egypt
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
El Salvador
- 1 goal
England
- 10 goals
- Gary Lineker
- Lineker was top scorer in 1986 with six goals. He is also the leading home nations World Cup goalscorer.
- 5 goals
- Geoff Hurst
- Hurst is the only player to score three goals in a final, in 1966.
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- Ivor Broadis
- Tom Finney
- Ron Flowers
- Trevor Francis
- Steven Gerrard
- Derek Kevan
- Martin Peters
- Bryan Robson
- Alan Shearer
- 1 goal
- Darren Anderton
- Peter Beardsley
- Sol Campbell
- Allan Clarke
- Joe Cole
- Peter Crouch
- Rio Ferdinand
- Jimmy Greaves
- Johnny Haynes
- Emile Heskey
- Gerry Hitchens
- Wilf Mannion
- Paul Mariner
- Stan Mortensen
- Jimmy Mullen
- Alan Mullery
- Paul Scholes
- Dennis Wilshaw
- Mark Wright
- Own goals
- Jimmy Dickinson (for Belgium)
France
- 13 goals
- Just Fontaine
- Fontaine was top scorer in 1958, scoring thirteen goals, a record for one tournament.
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- André Maschinot
- Jean-Pierre Papin
- Emmanuel Petit
- Petit scored the last World Cup goal of the 20th century, against Brazil in the 1998 Final.
- Didier Six
- Yannick Stopyra
- Lilian Thuram
- Patrick Vieira
- Jean Vincent
- Maryan Wisnieski
- 1 goal
- Manuel Amoros
- Marc Berdoll
- Laurent Blanc
- Blanc scored the first World Cup golden goal, in 1998.
- Maxime Bossis
- Alain Couriol
- Héctor de Bourgoing
- Youri Djorkaeff
- Yvon Douis
- Christophe Dugarry
- Luis Fernández
- Jean-Marc Ferreri
- René Girard
- Gérard Hausser
- Oscar Heisserer
- Bernard Lacombe
- Marcel Langiller
- Lucien Laurent
- Laurent scored the first World Cup goal, against Mexico in 1930.
- Bixente Lizarazu
- Christian López
- Franck Ribéry
- Gérard Soler
- Jean Tigana
- Marius Trésor
- David Trézéguet
- Émile Veinante
- Georges Verriest
Germany
Competed as West Germany during 1954-1990; FIFA statistics regard the unified German team as a continuation of West Germany, while - 14 goals
- Gerd Müller
- Müller was top scorer in 1970, scoring ten goals.
- 11 goals
- 10 goals
- Miroslav Klose
- Klose was top scorer in 2006, scoring five goals.
- Helmut Rahn
- 9 goals
- 8 goals
- 7 goals
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- Klaus Allofs
- Klaus Fischer
- Heinz Flohe
- Karl Hohmann
- Ernst Lehner
- Dieter Müller
- Oliver Neuville
- Bastian Schweinsteiger
- 1 goal
- Rüdiger Abramczik
- Uwe Bein
- Marco Bode
- Rainer Bonhof
- Albert Brülls
- Hans Cieslarczyk
- Bernhard Cullmann
- Lothar Emmerich
- Torsten Frings
- Josef Gauchel
- Jürgen Grabowski
- Wilhelm Hahnemann
- Sigfried Held
- Richard Herrmann
- Uli Hoeneß
- Bernd Hölzenbein
- Horst Hrubesch
- Carsten Jancker
- Bernhard Klodt
- Stanislaus Kobierski
- Philipp Lahm
- Reinhard Libuda
- Thomas Linke
- Andreas Möller
- Hansi Müller
- Rudolf Noack
- Alfred Pfaff
- Uwe Reinders
- Karl-Heinz Riedle
- Bernd Schneider
- Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
- Otto Siffling
- Horst Szymaniak
- Wolfgang Weber
- Own goals
- Berti Vogts (for Austria)
Ghana
- 1 goal
Greece
Competed in 1994, but failed to score a goal.
Haiti
- 2 goals
Honduras
- 1 goal
Hungary
- 11 goals
- Sándor Kocsis
- Kocsis was top scorer in 1954, scoring eleven goals.
- 7 goals
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- Flórián Albert
- Albert was joint top scorer in 1962, scoring four goals.
- Ferenc Bene
- Nándor Hidegkuti
- Ferenc Puskás
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- József Bencsics
- József Bozsik
- Károly Csapó
- Lajos Détári
- Márton Esterházy
- János Farkas
- Vilmos Kohut
- Karoly Sándor
- Ernő Solymosi
- Lázár Szentes
- Pál Teleki
- András Tóth
- József Tóth (1954)
- József Tóth (1982)
- József Varga
- Jenő Vincze
- Sándor Zombori
Indonesia
Competed as
Iran
- 1 goal
- Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh
- Iraj Danaeifard
- Hamid Reza Estili
- Yahya Golmohammadi
- Mehdi Mahdavikia
- Hassan Rowshan
- Own goals
- Andranik Eskandarian (for Scotland)
Iraq
- 1 goal
Israel
- 1 goal
Italy
- 9 goals
- Roberto Baggio
- Paolo Rossi
- Rossi was top scorer in 1982, scoring six goals.
- Christian Vieri
- 6 goals
- Toto Schillaci
- Schillaci was top scorer in 1990, scoring six goals.
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- Gino Colaussi
- Angelo Schiavio
- Schiavio was recognized by FIFA as joint top scorer in 1934, scoring four goals. However, some sources (including the one used here) consider Czechoslovakia's Oldřich Nejedlý as the outright top scorer, scoring five goals.
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- Dino Baggio
- Roberto Bettega
- Roberto Boninsegna
- Giacomo Bulgarelli
- Riccardo Carapellese
- Alessandro Del Piero
- Giovanni Ferrari
- Marco Materazzi
- Egisto Pandolfini
- Marco Tardelli
- Luca Toni
- 1 goal
- Pietro Anastasi
- Paolo Barison
- Romeo Benetti
- Giampiero Boniperti
- Tarcisio Burgnich
- Antonio Cabrini
- Fabio Capello
- Franco Causio
- Bruno Conti
- Luigi Di Biagio
- Angelo Domenghini
- Pietro Ferraris
- Amleto Frignani
- Carlo Galli
- Giuseppe Giannini
- Alberto Gilardino
- Francesco Graziani
- Fabio Grosso
- Enrique Guaita
- Vincenzo Iaquinta
- Filippo Inzaghi
- Benito Lorenzi
- Daniele Massaro
- Sandro Mazzola
- Bruno Mora
- Ermes Muccinelli
- Fulvio Nesti
- Andrea Pirlo
- Aldo Serena
- Francesco Totti
- Renato Zaccarelli
- Gianluca Zambrotta
- Own goals
- Cristian Zaccardo (for USA)
Jamaica
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Japan
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Korea DPR (North Korea)
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Korea Republic (South Korea)
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Choi Soon-Ho
- Ha Seok-Ju
- Huh Jung-Moo
- Hwangbo Kwan
- Kim Jong-Boo
- Lee Chun-Soo
- Lee Eul-Yong
- Park Chang-Seon
- Seo Jung-Won
- Seol Ki-Hyeon
- Song Chong-Gug
- Own goals
- Cho Kwang-Rae (for Italy)
Kuwait
- 1 goal
Mexico
- 4 goals
- 2 goals
- Cuauhtémoc Blanco
- Jared Borgetti
- Omar Bravo
- Alberto García Aspe
- Luis García
- Ricardo Peláez
- Fernando Quirarte
- Manuel Rosas
- Javier Valdivia
- 1 goal
- Tomás Balcázar
- Juan Ignacio Basaguren
- Jaime Belmonte
- Marcelino Bernal
- Enrique Borja
- Juan Carreño
- Horacio Casarín
- Alfredo del Aguila
- Isidoro Díaz
- Luis Flores
- Francisco Fonseca
- Javier Fragoso
- Roberto Gayón
- José Luis González
- Héctor Hernández
- José Luis Lamadrid
- Rafael Márquez
- Sinha
- Manuel Negrete
- Héctor Ortíz
- Gustavo Peña
- Víctor Rangel
- Hugo Sánchez
- Raúl Servín
- Gerardo Torrado
- Arturo Vázquez Ayala
- Own goals
- Raúl Cárdenas (for France)
- Javier Guzmán (for Italy)
- Duilio Davino (for South Korea)
Morocco
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Own goals
- Youssef Chippo (for Norway)
Netherlands
- 7 goals
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Edgar Davids
- Theo de Jong
- Ruud Gullit
- Wim Kieft
- Ronald Koeman
- Ruud Krol
- Dick Nanninga
- Marc Overmars
- Martijn van den Elsen
- Arjen Robben
- Bryan Roy
- Kick Smit
- Gaston Taument
- René van de Kerkhof
- Willy van de Kerkhof
- Pierre van Hooijdonk
- Ruud van Nistelrooy
- Robin van Persie
- Leen Vente
- Aron Winter
- Boudewijn Zenden
- Own goals
- Ernie Brandts (for Italy)
- Ruud Krol (for Bulgaria)
New Zealand
- 1 goal
Nigeria
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Mutiu Adepoju
- Julius Aghahowa
- Tijjani Babangida
- Finidi George
- Victor Ikpeba
- Garba Lawal
- Sunday Oliseh
- Wilson Oruma
- Samson Siasia
- Rashidi Yekini
Northern Ireland
- 5 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Norway
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Paraguay
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Francisco Arce
- Celso Ayala
- Miguel Ángel Benítez
- Jorge Campos
- José Cardozo
- Atilio López
- César López
- Cayetano Ré
- Roque Santa Cruz
- Luis Vargas Peña
- Own goals
- Carlos Gamarra (for England)
Peru
- 10 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Roberto Challe
- Héctor Chumpitaz
- César Cueto
- Rubén Toribio Díaz
- Guillermo La Rosa
- Luis Souza Ferreira
- José Velásquez
Poland
- 10 goals
- Grzegorz Lato
- Lato was top scorer in 1974, scoring seven goals.
- 7 goals
- 6 goals
- 4 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Andrzej Buncol
- Włodzimierz Ciołek
- Jerzy Gorgoń
- Paweł Kryszałowicz
- Janusz Kupcewicz
- Stefan Majewski
- Emmanuel Olisadebe
- Fryderyk Scherfke
- Marcin Żewłakow
Portugal
- 9 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Own goals
- Jorge Costa (for USA)
- Petit (for Germany)
Republic of Ireland
- 3 goals
- 1 goal
Romania
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Iuliu Baratky
- Silviu Bindea
- Emerich Dembrovschi
- Adalbert Desu
- Adrian Ilie
- Nicolae Kovács
- Alexandru Neagu
- Constantin Stanciu
Russia
See - 6 goals
- Oleg Salenko
- Salenko was joint top scorer in 1994, scoring six goals. Five of them came in one match against Cameroon, a World Cup record.
- 1 goal
Saudi Arabia
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Scotland
- 4 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Steve Archibald
- Sammy Baird
- Craig Burley
- Bobby Collins
- John Collins
- Mo Johnston
- Peter Lorimer
- Stuart McCall
- Jackie Mudie
- Jimmy Murray
- David Narey
- John Robertson
- Graeme Souness
- Gordon Strachan
- Own goals
- Tom Boyd (for Brazil)
Senegal
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Serbia
Competed as Yugoslavia (FR) in 1998 and Serbia and Montenegro in 2006. See Yugoslavia (SFR) for 1930-1990. - 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Saša Ilić
- Siniša Mihajlović
- Predrag Mijatović
- Dragan Stojković
- Stojković also scored two goals for Yugoslavia (SFR).
- Nikola Žigić
- Own goals
- Siniša Mihajlović (for Germany)
Slovakia
Slovakia will compete for the first time in 2010. Many Slovakian footballers scored for Czechoslovakia before 1990.
Slovenia
- 1 goal
South Africa
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Own goals
- Pierre Issa (for France)
Spain
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Adelardo Rodríguez
- Xabi Alonso
- Amancio Amaro
- Juan Manuel Asensi
- Txiki Beguiristáin
- Dani
- Eloy
- Josep Fusté
- Goikoetxea
- Górriz
- Josep Guardiola
- José Iraragorri
- Juanito
- Juanito
- López Ufarte
- Gaizka Mendieta
- Joaquín Peiró
- Luis Regueiro
- Manuel Sanchís
- Enrique Saura
- Juan Antonio Señor
- Juan Carlos Valerón
- Jesús María Zamora
- Own goals
- Carles Puyol (for Paraguay)
Sweden
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Niclas Alexandersson
- Marcus Allbäck
- Gösta Dunker
- Johnny Ekström
- Ove Grahn
- Gunnar Gren
- Tore Keller
- Knut Kroon
- Roger Ljung
- Fredrik Ljungberg
- Bror Mellberg
- Håkan Mild
- Thomas Sjöberg
- Lennart Skoglund
- Glenn Strömberg
- Anders Svensson
- Conny Torstensson
- Tom Turesson
Switzerland
- 6 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Charles Antenen
- René Bader
- Tranquillo Barnetta
- Alfred Bickel
- Stéphane Chapuisat
- Willy Jäggi
- Adrian Knup
- René-Pierre Quentin
- Heinz Schneiter
- Philippe Senderos
- Alain Sutter
- Eugen Walaschek
- Rolf Wüthrich
- Own goals
- Ernst Lörtscher (for Germany)
Togo
- 1 goal
Trinidad and Tobago
Competed in 2006, but failed to score a goal. - Own goals
- Brent Sancho (for Paraguay)
Tunisia
- 1 goal
- Raouf Bouzaiene
- Mokhtar Dhouib
- Néjib Ghommidh
- Radhi Jaïdi
- Ziad Jaziri
- Ali Kaabi
- Jawhar Mnari
- Skander Souayah
Turkey
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Bülent Korkmaz
- Emre Belözoğlu
- Erol Keskin
- Hakan Şükür
- Hakan Şükür scored the fastest goal in FIFA World Cup history after 11 seconds against South Korea in 2002.
- Mustafa Ertan
Ukraine
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
United Arab Emirates
- 1 goal
Uruguay
- 8 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Antonio Alzamendi
- Javier Ambrois
- Pablo Bengoechea
- Ángel Cabrera
- Julio César Cortés
- Víctor Espárrago
- Daniel Fonseca
- Diego Forlán
- Enzo Francescoli
- Ildo Maneiro
- Richard Morales
- Juan Mújica
- Ricardo Pavoni
- Julio Pérez
- Álvaro Recoba
- Pedro Rocha
- Darío Rodríguez
- Héctor Scarone
- Ernesto Vidal
- Own goals
- Luis Cruz (for Austria)
United States
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Jim Brown
- Paul Caligiuri
- Clint Dempsey
- Aldo Donelli
- Tom Florie
- Joe Gaetjens
- Joe Maca
- Clint Mathis
- Bart McGhee
- Bruce Murray
- John O'Brien
- Gino Pariani
- Earnie Stewart
- Frank Wallace
- Eric Wynalda
- Own goals
- Jeff Agoos (for Portugal)
Soviet Union
1930-1990. See Russia for 1994-present. - 5 goals
- Valentin Ivanov
- Ivanov was joint top scorer in 1962, scoring four goals.
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
- Sergei Aleinikov
- Kakhi Asatiani
- Andriy Bal
- Sergei Baltacha
- Anatoliy Banishevskiy
- Aleksandr Chivadze
- Igor Dobrovolski
- Yuri Gavrilov
- Anatoli Ilyin
- Vitaly Khmelnitsky
- Aleksei Mamykin
- Khoren Oganesian
- Oleg Protasov
- Vasiliy Rats
- Sergey Rodionov
- Ramaz Shengelia
- Nikita Simonyan
- Pavel Yakovenko
- Ivan Yaremchuk
- Andrei Zygmantovich
Wales
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Yugoslavia
1930-1938 as Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1950-1990 as Yugoslavia (FPR/SFR). See Serbia (Yugoslavia (FR), Serbia and Montenegro) for 1994-present. - 4 goals
- Dražan Jerković
- Jerković was joint top scorer in 1962, scoring four goals.
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- Željko Čajkovski
- Davor Jozić
- Stanislav Karasi
- Darko Pančev
- Aleksandar Petaković
- Dragan Stojković
- Stojković also scored a goal for Yugoslavia (FR).
- Ivica Šurjak
- Kosta Tomašević
- Đorđe Vujadinović
- 1 goal
- Stjepan Bobek
- Vladislav Bogićević
- Dragan Džajić
- Ivan Gudelj
- Josip Katalinski
- Blagoje Marjanović
- Vojislav Melić
- Miloš Milutinović
- Rajko Mitić
- Branko Oblak
- Tihomir Ognjanov
- Radivoje Ognjanović
- Ilija Petković
- Vladimir Petrović
- Robert Prosinečki
- Prosinečki also scored two goals for Croatia. He is the only player to score World Cup goals for two countries.
- Petar Radaković
- Zdravko Rajkov
- Josip Skoblar
- Safet Sušić
- Aleksandar Tirnanić
- Branko Zebec
- Own goals
- Ivan Horvat (for Germany)
- Nenad Stojković (for Spain)
Goalscoring statistics and records
- Ronaldo became the World Cup's all-time leading goalscorer on 27 June 2006, scoring his 15th against Ghana in Round 2, surpassing Gerd Müller, who has scored 14 goals.
- The 1954 World Cup had the highest goal-scoring rate of 5.38 per match. 1990 had the lowest, just 2.21 goals per match. 1998 had the highest goal total of 171.
- The adidas Golden Shoe is awarded to the top goalscorer of each World Cup. The most recent winner was Germany's Miroslav Klose, who scored five goals in 2006. Klose also scored five in 2002, but was eclipsed by Ronaldo's eight, the highest total since Gerd Müller's ten in 1970.
- The 1000th goal in FIFA World Cup finals history was scored by Rob Rensenbrink for Netherlands in 1978 against Scotland; the 2000th by Marcus Allbäck for Sweden against England in 2006. There have been 2,063 goals scored to date (not including penalty shoot-outs). See FIFA World Cup milestone goals.
- Germany have the most players in double figures with four; Gerd Müller (14 goals), Jürgen Klinsmann (11), Miroslav Klose (10) and Helmut Rahn (10).
- Four players have scored a goal in two Finals; Brazil's Pelé and Vavá, West Germany's Paul Breitner and France's Zinedine Zidane. The record for goals in World Cup Finals is three, shared by Pelé, Vavá, Zidane, and England's Geoff Hurst, who scored a hat-trick in the Final of 1966.
- Four players have scored two hat-tricks: Sándor Kocsis (Hungary, 1954), Just Fontaine (France, 1958), Gerd Müller (West Germany, 1970), and Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina, 1994 and 1998). Batistuta is the only player to score hat-tricks in two World Cups. See FIFA World Cup hat-tricks for a complete list of players who have scored hat-tricks in the FIFA World Cup.
- Only three players scored in every match while playing the maximum possible amount of matches: Alcides Ghiggia for Uruguay in 1950, Just Fontaine for France in 1958, and Jairzinho for Brazil in 1970. Ghiggia only played in four matches, as two teams from Uruguay's group withdrew from the competition, and the tournament also did not have a final match (instead there was a final group stage). Fontaine played in six matches, but France did not reach the final and played in the third-place playoff instead. Jairzinho played in six matches, including Brazil's final victory over Italy.
- There exists much debate as to the greatest goal in World Cup history. Most 'lists' tend to opt for either Diego Maradona's second for Argentina against England in 1986, or Carlos Alberto Torres' for Brazil against Italy in the 1970 Final.
- To date there are only two British Players who have scored in 3 World Cups, these being Joe Jordan (West Germany 1974, Argentina 1978, and Spain 1982) and David Beckham (France 1998, Japan & South Korea 2002, and Germany 2006).
See also
- FIFA Confederations Cup goalscorers
- UEFA European Football Championship goalscorers
- FIFA World Cup goals with disputed scorers
- FIFA Women's World Cup goalscorers
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