| Year | Player(s) | Country | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Guillermo Stabile | Argentina | 8 |
| 1934 | Angelo Schiavio | Italy | 4 |
| Oldrich Nejedly | Czechoslovakia | ||
| Edmund Conen | Germany | ||
| 1938 | Da Silva Leonidas | Brazil | 8 |
| 1950 | Marques Ademir | Brazil | 7 |
| 1954 | Sandor Kocsis | Hungary | 11 |
| 1958 | Just Fontaine | France | 13 |
| 1962 | Drazen Jerkovic | Yugoslavia | 5 |
| 1966 | Ferreira Eusebio | Portugal | 9 |
| 1970 | Gerd Muller | West Germany | 10 |
| 1974 | Grzegorz Lato | Poland | 7 |
| 1978 | Mario Kempes | Argentina | 6 |
| 1982 | Paolo Rossi | Italy | 6 |
| 1986 | Gary Lineker | England | 6 |
| 1990 | Salvatore Schillaci | Italy | 6 |
| 1994 | Salenko | Russia | 6 |
| Hristo Stoichkov | Bulgaria | ||
| 1998 | Davor Suker | Croatia | 6 |