List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers

Quality:

FIFA World Cup top goalscorers - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers” in English Wikipedia has 83.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 144 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers”, its content was written by 151 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 365 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 177 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1390 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #129 in December 2022
• Global: #280 in December 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #33 in December 2022
• Global: #65 in December 2022

There are 14 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 国际足联世界杯射手榜		85.3851
2	Persian (fa) برترین گلزنان جام جهانی فوتبال		83.5314
3	English (en) List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers		83.5017
4	Indonesian (id) Daftar pencetak gol terbanyak Piala Dunia FIFA		82.8369
5	Serbian (sr) Најбољи стрелци Светског првенства у фудбалу		63.8152
6	Arabic (ar) صدارة هدافي كأس العالم		54.5916
7	Russian (ru) Список бомбардиров чемпионатов мира по футболу		54.5089
8	Korean (ko) FIFA 월드컵 최다 득점자		45.6956
9	Uzbek (uz) FIFA Jahon chempionatining eng yaxshi toʻpurarlari		45.3834
10	Kazakh (kk) Футболдан әлем чемпионатының сұрмергендері		37.2521

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers		7 278 166
2	Portuguese (pt) Lista de artilheiros da Copa do Mundo FIFA		1 637 401
3	Russian (ru) Список бомбардиров чемпионатов мира по футболу		685 271
4	Arabic (ar) صدارة هدافي كأس العالم		666 500
5	Persian (fa) برترین گلزنان جام جهانی فوتبال		166 473
6	Indonesian (id) Daftar pencetak gol terbanyak Piala Dunia FIFA		85 298
7	Serbian (sr) Најбољи стрелци Светског првенства у фудбалу		51 079
8	Chinese (zh) 国际足联世界杯射手榜		45 660
9	Bulgarian (bg) Голмайстори на световните първенства		26 641
10	Ukrainian (uk) Найкращі бомбардири чемпіонату світу з футболу		19 069

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers		50 143
2	Portuguese (pt) Lista de artilheiros da Copa do Mundo FIFA		14 130
3	Arabic (ar) صدارة هدافي كأس العالم		9 754
4	Russian (ru) Список бомбардиров чемпионатов мира по футболу		4 751
5	Persian (fa) برترین گلزنان جام جهانی فوتبال		1 842
6	Chinese (zh) 国际足联世界杯射手榜		1 096
7	Korean (ko) FIFA 월드컵 최다 득점자		335
8	Ukrainian (uk) Найкращі бомбардири чемпіонату світу з футболу		264
9	Uzbek (uz) FIFA Jahon chempionatining eng yaxshi toʻpurarlari		164
10	Serbian (sr) Најбољи стрелци Светског првенства у фудбалу		160

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers		151
2	Portuguese (pt) Lista de artilheiros da Copa do Mundo FIFA		67
3	Russian (ru) Список бомбардиров чемпионатов мира по футболу		44
4	Arabic (ar) صدارة هدافي كأس العالم		30
5	Persian (fa) برترین گلزنان جام جهانی فوتبال		21
6	Chinese (zh) 国际足联世界杯射手榜		11
7	Serbian (sr) Најбољи стрелци Светског првенства у фудбалу		10
8	Indonesian (id) Daftar pencetak gol terbanyak Piala Dunia FIFA		6
9	Ukrainian (uk) Найкращі бомбардири чемпіонату світу з футболу		5
10	Uzbek (uz) FIFA Jahon chempionatining eng yaxshi toʻpurarlari		5

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers		1
2	Arabic (ar) صدارة هدافي كأس العالم		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Голмайстори на световните първенства		0
4	Persian (fa) برترین گلزنان جام جهانی فوتبال		0
5	Indonesian (id) Daftar pencetak gol terbanyak Piala Dunia FIFA		0
6	Kazakh (kk) Футболдан әлем чемпионатының сұрмергендері		0
7	Korean (ko) FIFA 월드컵 최다 득점자		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Lista de artilheiros da Copa do Mundo FIFA		0
9	Russian (ru) Список бомбардиров чемпионатов мира по футболу		0
10	Serbian (sr) Најбољи стрелци Светског првенства у фудбалу		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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