FIFA World Cup · Completed

2022Qatar

2022-11-20 → 2022-12-18·Champion: Argentina

2026 2022

32
Teams: 8
Groups: 64
Matches: 8
Venues: 172
Goals

Top scorers, individual awards and tournament records.

Top scorers

Kylian Mbappé FRA8 goals
Lionel Messi ARG7 goals
Julián Álvarez ARG4 goals
Olivier Giroud FRA4 goals
Marcus Rashford ENG3 goals
Richarlison BRA3 goals
Cody Gakpo NED3 goals
Gonçalo Ramos POR3 goals
Álvaro Morata ESP3 goals

Awards

Golden Ball
Lionel Messi (Argentina)
Golden Boot
Kylian Mbappé (France)
Golden Glove
Emiliano Martínez (Argentina)
Best Young Player
Enzo Fernández (Argentina)

Records

ChampionsArgentina (3rd title)
Runners-upFrance
Third placeCroatia
Fourth placeMorocco
Total goals172 in 64 matches
Top scorerKylian Mbappé — 8 goals

The Golden Boot race that went to the final

Qatar 2022's scoring race was effectively a two-man duel that lasted until the last kick of the tournament. Kylian Mbappé took the Golden Boot with 8 goals — three of them in the final itself, the first hat-trick in a World Cup final since Geoff Hurst in 1966 — finishing one ahead of Lionel Messi on 7. Messi had the deeper consolation: the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player, which he became the first man to win twice (after 2014). Behind them, Julián Álvarez and Olivier Giroud shared 4 goals apiece — Giroud's haul made him France's all-time record scorer along the way.

The other honours went Argentina's way with the trophy: Emiliano Martínez took the Golden Glove after his decisive shoot-out saves against the Netherlands and France, and 21-year-old Enzo Fernández was named Best Young Player.

The records behind the numbers

The edition's headline statistic is 172 goals in 64 matches (2.69 per game) — at the time the highest-scoring World Cup ever, edging the 171 of 1998 and 2014. The number is more striking given how the tournament started: the early group rounds were cagey, and the goals arrived in a rush from the second matchday onward.

How to read this page: the scorer list ranks the tournament's top marksmen with their goal tallies, the awards panel records the four official individual honours, and the records panel captures the edition's final placings and statistical landmarks. For the match-by-match detail behind any of these numbers — who scored against whom, and when — the Results section holds all 64 scorelines, and the Bracket traces the knockout path each finalist took.