Kylian Mbappe<\/a>, also on eight goals, in the standings.<\/p>\nAs things stand, Messi would claim the individual award by virtue of creating more goals than Mbappe. This is because assists are used as the tie-breaker when players are level on goals, but with two games remaining at this summer\u2019s World Cup, there are plenty of twists potentially in store.<\/p>\n
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Kylian Mbappe won the World Cup 2018 Golden Boot award<\/p>\n
AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Therefore, Mbappe must register at least one goal contribution in Saturday\u2019s bronze final against England to put pressure on Messi ahead of the World Cup 2026 final between Argentina and Spain on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Other contenders are England captain Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham, both on six goals. Though with two assists between them, one will likely have to score a hat-trick to win the award.<\/p>\n
Ousmane Dembele and Mikel Oyarzabal are further back with five goals each, but would require a minor miracle in their respective fixtures to have any chance of winning the Golden Boot.<\/p>\n
Here are the latest Golden Boot standings for the World Cup 2026…<\/p>\n
World Cup 2026 top scorers<\/p>\n
Position<\/p>\n
Player<\/p>\n
Nation<\/p>\n
Goals<\/p>\n
Assists<\/p>\n
1<\/p>\n
Kylian Mbappe<\/p>\n
France<\/p>\n
9<\/p>\n
3<\/p>\n
2<\/p>\n
Lionel Messi<\/p>\n
Argentina<\/p>\n
8<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
3<\/p>\n
Erling Haaland<\/p>\n
Norway<\/p>\n
7<\/p>\n
0<\/p>\n
= 4<\/p>\n
Jude Bellingham<\/p>\n
England<\/p>\n
6<\/p>\n
1<\/p>\n
= 4<\/p>\n
Harry Kane<\/p>\n
England<\/p>\n
6<\/p>\n
1<\/p>\n
=6<\/p>\n
Ousmane Dembele<\/p>\n
France<\/p>\n
5<\/p>\n
2<\/p>\n
=6<\/p>\n
Mikel Oyarzabal<\/p>\n
Spain<\/p>\n
5<\/p>\n
1<\/p>\n
Table correct as of July 18, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All the top forwards in the world have shown up over the past five weeks in North America,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[232204,49,2717,2713,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-699076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-golden-boot","tag-headlines","tag-kylian-mbappe","tag-lionel-messi","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}