In the last 20 World Cups, only three have ended with multiple players tied as top goalscorers in the competition (1962, 1994, and 2010), and only three World Cup has had the top scorer score a double-digit amount of goals (1954, 1958, and 1970)
The first time multiple players finished as top scorers was in 1962 World Cup in Chile. A record 6 players finished as top scorers in that tournament.
USA 1994 had two top goalscorers with 6 goals each.
Oleg Salenko (Russia) – The only player to be a top scorer without his team advancing to the knock-out phase of the tournament.
Four players finished as top scorers with 5 goals each in South Africa 2010
Double-digit goals in a single tournament.
Sweden 1958 – Just Fontaine (France) 13 goals
Switzerland 1954 – Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) 11 goals
Mexico 1970 – Gerd Muller (Germany) – 10 goals
The World Cup and their top scorers
Uruguay 1930 – Guillermo Stabile (Argentina) – 8 goals
Italy 19634 – Oldřich Nejedlý (Czechoslovakia) – 5 goals
France 1938 – Leonidas (Brazil) – 7 goals
Brazil 1950 – Ademir (Brazil) – 8 goals
Switzerland 1954 – Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) – 11 goals
Sweden 1958 – Just Fontaine (France) – 13 goals
Chile 1962 – Darzan Jerkovic (Yugoslavia), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union) Leonel Sanchez (Chile) Garrincha (Brazil) Vava (Brazil) – 4 goals each
England 1966 – Eusebio (Portugal) – 9 goals
Mexico 1970 – Gerd Muller (Germany) – 10 goals
Germany 1974 – Grzegorz Lato (Poland) – 7 goals
Argentina 1978 – Mario Kempes (Argentina) – 6 goals
Spain 1982 – Paolo Rossi (Italy) – 6 goals
Mexico 1986 – Gary Lineker (England) – 6 goals
Italy 1990 – Salvatore Schillaci (Italy) – 6 goals
USA 1994 – Oled Salenko (Russia) – 6 goals, Hristo Stoichkov (Russia) – 6 goals each)
France 1998 – Davor Suker (Croatia) – 6 goals
Japan/Korea 2002 – Ronaldo (Brazil) – 8 goals
Germany 2006 – Miroslav Klose (Germany) – 5 goals
South Africa 2010 – Wesley Sneijder (Netherlands) Diego Forlan (Uruguay) David Silva (Spain) Thomas Muller (Germany) – 5 goals each
Brazil 2014 – James Rodriguez (Colombia) – 6 goals
