List of Players with most FIFA World Cup Goals – Qatar FIFA World Cup is round the corner and there are many people who have started to look into the record books. It’s fun to stay updated and knowledgeable about the event before it kicks in. The 2022 FIFA World Cup will be held in Qatar from 21st November to 18th December 2022.
Here in this article, we will share the list of players who are top goalscorer in the FIFA World Cup since 1930.

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List of Players With Most FIFA World Cup Goals
The first FIFA World Cup was played in 1930 when French player Lucien Laurent scored the first goal of the world cup. Since then, more than 2000 goals have been scored in 21 editions of the world cup. More than 1250 players have scored goals at the FIFA World Cup. Out of them 97 players have managed to score five or five plus goals at the World Cup. Do you know who has scored the highest number of goals in the FIFA World Cup? Let’s find out.
The following data has been prepared with the help of Wikipedia.
Rank | Player | Team | Goals
scored |
Matches
played |
1 | Miroslav Klose | Germany | 16 | 24 |
2 | Ronaldo | Brazil | 15 | 19 |
3 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | 14 | 13 |
4 | Just Fontaine | France | 13 | 6 |
5 | Pelé | Brazil | 12 | 14 |
6 | Sándor Kocsis | Hungary | 11 | 5 |
Jürgen Klinsmann | West Germany | 17 | ||
8 | Helmut Rahn | West Germany | 10 | 10 |
Gary Lineker | England | 12 | ||
Gabriel Batistuta | Argentina | 12 | ||
Teófilo Cubillas | Peru | 13 | ||
Thomas Müller | Germany | 16 | ||
Grzegorz Lato | Poland | 20 | ||
14 | Eusébio | Portugal | 9 | 6 |
Christian Vieri | Italy | 9 | ||
Vavá | Brazil | 10 | ||
David Villa | Spain | 12 | ||
Paolo Rossi | Italy | 14 | ||
Jairzinho | Brazil | 16 | ||
Roberto Baggio | Italy | 16 | ||
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | West Germany | 19 | ||
Uwe Seeler | West Germany | 21 |
Which player has the most FIFA World Cup goals?
The German striker, Miroslav Klose has scored 16 goals from 24 world cup matches. With 16 goals, Klose is the top goal scorer in world cup history.
Number of Goalscorers
As we said earlier, more than 1250 players have scored a goal in the FIFA World Cup. So let’s see how these players have scored their goals in the world cup. The below table will explain the number of players who scored a specific number of goals at the World cup.
Goals | No. of players |
11+ | 7 |
10 | 6 |
9 | 9 |
8 | 7 |
7 | 8 |
6 | 26 |
5 | 34 |
4 | 50+ |
3 | 90+ |
2 | 200+ |
1 | 750+ |
Total | 1250+ |
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