The Interesting Records Throughout World Cup History

Meanwhile, the record for the player who won the most times was Pele. The Brazilian legend won three times in 1958, 1962, and 1970.

Lionel Messi also has a record at the World Cup. He is the player who most often gets man of the match in one tournament, namely at the 2014 World Cup four times.

List of World Cup champions - top scorers - best players

1930 - Uruguay - Guillermo Stabile (8 goals) - Jose Nasazzi

1934 - Italy - Oldrich Nejedly (5 goals) - Giuseppe Meazza

1938 - Italy - Leonidas (7 goals) - Leonidas

1950 - Uruguay - Ademir (9 goals) - Zizinho

1954 - West Germany - Sandor Kocsis (11 goals) - Ferenc Puskas 1958 - Brazil - Just Fontaine (13 goals) - Didi

1962 - Brazil - Garrincha, Vava, Leonel Sanchez, Florian Albert, Valentin Ivanov, Drazan Jerkovic (4 goals) - Garrincha

1966- England - Eusebio (9 goals) - Bobby Charlton

1970 - Brazil - Gerd Mueller (10 goals) - Pele

1974 - West Germany - Grzegorz Lato (7 goals) - Johan Cruyff

1978 - Argentina - Mario Kempes (6 goals) - Mario Kempes

1982 - Italy - Paolo Rossi (6 goals) - Paolo Rossi

1986 - Argentina - Gary Lineker (6 goals) - Diego Maradona

1990 - West Germany - Salvatore Schillaci (6 goals) - Salvatore Schillaci

1994 - Brazil - Hristo Stoickov, Oleg Salenko (6 goals) - Romario

1998 - France - Davor Suker (6 goals) - Ronaldo

2002 - Brazil - Ronaldo (8 goals) - Oliver Kahn

2006 - Italy - Miroslav Klose (5 goals) - Zinedine Zidane

2010 - Spain - Thomas Mueller, Wesley Sneijder, David Villa, Diego Forlan - (5 goals) - Diego Forlan

2014 - Germany - James Rodriguez (6 goals) - Lionel Messi

2018 - France - Harry Kane (6 goals) - Luka Modric