Who won the golden boot 2022

IMAGE: Best Young Player winner Argentina's Enzo Fernandez, Golden Ball winner Argentina's Lionel Messi, Golden Glove winner Argentina's Emiliano Martinez and Golden Boot winner France's Kylian Mbappe pose with their respective trophies. Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters One of the top honours awarded at the 2022 FIFA World Cup was the Golden Boot which is presented to the top scorer at the tournament. France striker Kylian Mbappe topped the count with eight goals, one more than Argentina's Lionel Messi, after bagging a hat-trick in the final which the defending champions lost to the South Americans on penalties. The number of assists is used as a tiebreaker to separate players who are level on goals scored. If they are tied on both counts, the winner is decided by who played the fewest minutes. WORLD CUP TOP GOAL SCORER 2022: FINAL GOLDEN BOOT STANDINGS* PLAYER GOALS ASSISTS GAMES MINUTES Golden Boot Kylian Mbappe 2 (France) 598 8 7 Silver Boot Lionel Messi 3 (Argentina) 571 7 7 Bronze Boot Olivier Giroud 4 0 (France) 424 6 * Argentina's Julian Alvarez also scored four goals but finished behind Giroud on the tiebreaker rule KYLIAN MBAPPE * The 23-year-old scored against Australia in his side's opening Group D match and bagged a second-half double against Denmark as France booked their knockout spot. * France's talisman failed to find the net as Tunisia recorded a famous upset in their final group match. * He added two more goals to his tally in a 3-1 win against Poland in t...

The fight to be the top scorer of the Qatar 2022 World Cup ended with Kylian Mbappe winning the Golden Boot. Before the final, Lionel Messi was in first position with five goals and six games played, followed by Kylian Mbappe with the same number of goals. But a scintillating hattrick by the Frenchman took him to the top with a tally of 8 goals. Kylian Mbappe – France: 8 goals Lionel Messi – Argentina: 7 goals Olivier Giroud – France: 4 goals Julian Alvarez – Argentina: 4 goals Marcus Rashford – England: 3 goals Golden Boot winners – A look at the storied history 1930: Guillermo Stabile (8 goals) 1934: Oldrich Nejedly (5) 1938: Leonidas da Silva (7) 1950: Ademir de Menezes (9) 1954: Sandor Kocsis (11) 1958: Just Fontaine, France (13) 1962: Florian Albert, Garrincha, Valentin Ivanov, Drazan Jerkovic, Leonel Sanchez and Vava (4) 1966: Eusebio (9) 1970: Gerd Muller (10) 1974: Grzegorz Lato (7) 1978: Mario Kempes (6) 1982: Paolo Rossi (6) 1986: Gary Lineker (6) 1990: Toto Schillaci (6) 1994: Oleg Salenko and Hristo Stoichkov (6) 1998: Davor Suker (6) 2002: Ronaldo (8) 2006: Miroslav Klose (5) 2010: Thomas Muller (5) 2014: James Rodriguez (6) 2018: Harry Kane (6) Messi was named the best player of the World Cup in Qatar. Smiling, the Argentina great received the Golden Ball award in a post-match ceremony. His teammate Emiliano Martinez received the Golden Glove award as the best goalkeeper in the tournament while Argentine midfielder Enzo Fernandez, 21, was named the best young...

Argentina made it through to the World Cup final for the second time in three tournaments after tasted international glory recently in the 2019 Copa América (and the haven’t won international soccer’s top prize since 1986, when a certain Diego Maradona ran amok in Mexico. So to the Qatar final against France... What happened: Full screen Argentina's Lionel Messi celebrates scoring their third goal. HANNAH MCKAY REUTERS Who are the 2022 World Cup top scorers? The Champions League, the Copa América, LaLiga, Ligue 1, the Ballon d’Or, not much that Lionel Messi hasn’t won in his career that he could’ve won, especially when you add the 2022 World Cup to his name. And what about a World Cup Golden Boot to go with it? PSG teammate, France’s Kylian Mbappé and Messi came into the final on five goals each, and both decided to fight it out for top scorer right to the very end. And, as you can see, it’s the prince that outscored the king, netting a hat-trick (helped by two penalties) to the brace of the Argentine. Full screen World Cup 2022 top scorers AS English If you love sporting data, SofaScore.com is the place for you. World Cup 2022: top scorers Lionel Messi (Argentina) – 8 Kylian Mbappe (France) – 7 Olivier Giroud (France) – 4 Julian Alvarez (Argentina) – 4 Bukayo Saka (England) – 3 Richarlison (Brazil) – 3 Enner Valencia (Ecuador) – 3 Cody Gakpo (Netherlands) – 3 Marcus Rashford (England) – 3 Alvaro Morata (Spain) – 3 Gonçalo Ramos (Portugal) - 3

He netted seven goals in seven games and became the first player to score in each round of the same World Cup since the last-16 round was introduced in 1986. He is also the first player to win the Golden Ball award twice since it was introduced in 1982 after also winning the honour in 2014. Mbappe was top scorer with eight goals, including a hat-trick in the final. It was the first treble in a World Cup final since Sir Geoff Hurst's in 1966, when England beat West Germany. • 'Now hard to argue against Messi being football's greatest' • 'Breathless, staggering and magnificent' - was final one of best ever? • World Football in Qatar podcast: Argentina rejoices as Messi matches Maradona • Messi's World Cup trophy lift provides iconic image • World Cup Daily podcast: Argentina champions after 'best game ever' Mbappe, 23, scored twice in normal time and once in extra time as 2018 champions France lost the showpiece at Lusail Stadium. The Paris St-Germain forward also created history when he became the first player to score four goals in a World Cup finals, having also netted in France's 2018 victory over Croatia. Mbappe, who took his total tally of World Cup goals to 12, became the youngest player to reach double figures in the competition. He joined Brazil's Vava and Pele, West Germany's Paul Breitner and France's Zinedine Zidane as the only players to score in multiple World Cup finals. Messi, who captained Argentina in what is expected to be his last tournament, netted his 9...