The Golden Boot race for the competition's top scorer provided a fascinating sub-plot to the 2022 FIFA World Cup.Lionel Me si, now 35, battled Kylian Mbappe for top scoring honours in Qatar in what was a thrilling side note to a sensational tournament.In the end, it came down to the final. Mbappe's stunning hat-trick saw him claim the top scorer award with eight goals, although it was not enough to give France the title.Me si's two in the final took him to seven overall, but Argentina did Allen Robinson Jersey enough as they won via a penalty shootout after a 3-3 draw following extra time.MORE: The Golden Boot battle is always eagerly anticipated at the World Cup, with a curious record of no player having won it more than once in men's football.TournamentGolden Boot winnerCountryGoalsUruguay 1930Guillermo StabileArgentina8Italy 1934Oldrich NejedlyCzechoslovakia5France 1938LeonidasBrazil7Brazil 1950AdemirBrazil8Switzerland 1954SandorKocsisHungary11Sweden 1958Just FontaineFrance13Chile 1962Garrincha,Vava,Leonel Sanchez,Florian Mike Ditka Jersey Albert,Drazan Jerkovic, Valentin IvanovBrazil, Brazil, Chile, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Soviet Union4England 1966EusebioPortugal9Mexico 1970GerdMullerWest Germany10West Germany 1974GrzegorzLatoPoland7Argentina 1978Mario KempesArgentina6Spain 1982Paolo Ro siItaly6Mexico 1986Gary LinekerEngland6Italy 1990Salvatore SchillachiItaly6USA 1994Oleg Salenko, Hristo StoichkovRu sia, Bulgaria6France 1998Davor SukerCroatia6South Korea/Japan 2002RonaldoBrazil8Germany 2006Miroslav KloseGermany5South Africa 2010Thomas MullerGermany5Brazil 2014James RodriguezColombia6Ru sia 2018Harry KaneEngland6Qatar 2022Kylian MbappeFrance8 Scoring more than 10 goals at a single tournament has proved a feat too far for any player since 1970, with the average dropping to six per tournament since the turn of the century.RankNameCountryTournamentGoals scored in single tournamentOverall World Cup goals1Just FontaineFranceSweden 195813132Sandor KocsisHungarySwitzerland 195411113Gerd MullerWest GermanyMexico 197010144EusebioPortugalEngland 1966995Guillermo StabileArgentinaUruguay 1930885AdemirBrazilBrazil 1950885RonaldoBrazilJapan/South Korea 20028155Kylian MbappeFranceQatar 20228129LeonidasBrazilFrance 1938789Grzegorz LatoPolandWest Germany 19747109Lionel Me siArgentinaQatar 2022713 The World Cup top scorers list is dominated by European and South American Chicago Bears Golf Sporting Goods hot-shots, with no player from outside those two continents featuring in the top 10.List of top scorers at World CupRankNameCountryGoalsGamesTournament appearancesGoals per game1Miroslav KloseGermany16242002, 2006, 2010, 20140.672RonaldoBrazil15191994*, 1998, 2002, 20060.793Gerd MullerWest Germany14131970, 19741.084Just FontaineFrance13619582.174Lionel Me siArgentina13262006, 2010,2014, 2018, 20220.506PeleBrazil12141958, 1962, 1966, 19700.856Kylian MbappeFrance12142018, 20220.858Sandor KocsisHungary11519542.208Jurgen KlinsmannWest Germany/Germany11171990, 1994, 19980.6510Helmut RahnWest Germany10101954, 19581.0010Gary LinekerEngland10121986, 19900.8310Gabriel BatistutaArgentina10121994, 1998, 20020.8310Teofilo CubillasPeru10131970, 1978, 1982**0.7710Thomas MullerGermany10162010, 2014, 2018**0.6310Grzegorz LatoPoland10201974, 1978, 19820.50* Named in World Cup squad but did not make an appearance**Featured in World Cup but did Chicago Bears Sleepwear Underwear not score a goalLIVE SCORES: The 1994 World Cup Golden Boot race continued the pattern of consecutive tournaments where the award was won by six goals, with Ru sian star Oleg Salenko and Bulgarian icon Hristo Stoichkov sharing the award in the USA.However, the tournament does still hold the record of featuring the most Jimmy Graham Jersey goals scored by a single player in one game.Salenko netted five goals in Ru sia's 6-1 Group B win over Cameroon, in their final group-stage match, but it was not enough to secure a place in the knockout stages. The only man to score 5 times in a single match turns 52 today Happy birthday, Oleg Salenko FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup)