Mbappe wins World Cup Golden Boot

World Cup history has been made as France Captain Kylian Mbappe has become the first player ever to win a World Cup Golden Boot award twice.

He has done in extraordinary fashion, matching a goal tally of 10 goals which was last equalled by Gerd Muller in 1970 and was the highest-scoring return for 56 years until this summer’s tournament.

Argentina’s Lionel Messi was his closest rival but ended the competition on eight goals after failing to score against England in the semi-final or against Spain in the final.

Mbappe became the first ever Real Madrid player to win the Golden Boot while with the club. Others to have played for the club and won the award include Ronaldo Nazario for Brazil in 2002 and James Rodríguez for Colombia in 2014, both joining Los Blancos later that summer.

Only two men have ever scored more goals in a single tournament. One is a compatriot, Just Fontaine, who retains the record of 13 goals scored in the 1958 World Cup. The other is former Barcelona striker Sander Kocsis who scored 11 in 1954.

Mbappe’s goals at the 2026 World Cup Mbappe opened his account with a brace in a 3-1 win over Senegal, the second of which was a rocket from distance and made him France’s all-time leading goalscorer, overtaking Olivier Giroud.

He followed it up with another brace against Iraq, in a game in Philadelphia hit by thunderstorms, scoring with a shot worth 0.04 xG for the second game in a row as he hit one from distance.

The first game for Mbappe without a goal in the tournament came against a weakened Norway side for the final group stage game, but he still claimed two assists as he set up Ousmane Dembele for both of France’s first two goals.