World Cup 2026: Kylian Mbappe becomes the first player to win the Golden Boot twice

Kylian Mbappe became the first player to win the World Cup Golden Boot twice after winning the top goalscorer award at the 2026 tournament.

This French forward has scored 10 goals in eight matches, surpassing Lionel Messi A high quality race.

Took eight hits to finish Top scorer in Qatar 2022Mbappe has won the Golden Boot in consecutive World Cups.

The 27-year-old is the first man to reach double figures for West Germany since Gerd Muller’s World Cup goals in 1970.

only Just Fontaine, who scored 13 for France in 1958And in 1954 Hungary’s Sandor Kocsis scored more individual goals in a single tournament, with 11.

Mbappe is also the all-time top scorer at the Men’s World Cup with 22 goals – one ahead of Messi.

He scored twice in Saturday’s bronze medal match against Argentina, though could not stop France’s collapse. 6-4 loss against England And the fourth ending.

Mbappe also scored twice against Senegal and Iraq in the group stage, as well as against Sweden in the last 32.

He followed up with strikes against Paraguay in the last 16 – a 70th-minute winner from the penalty spot – and against Morocco in the quarter-finals.

Messi could have surpassed the Real Madrid forward by scoring a hat-trick in the World Cup final on Sunday.

However, the 39-year-old could not find the net in New Jersey as his Argentina side were beaten 1-0 by Spain and finished the competition with eight goals in as many matches.

England’s Jude Bellingham and Norway’s Erling Haaland scored seven times, while France forward Ousmane Dembele and England captain Harry Kane followed with six.