Winning the World Cup is the pinnacle of some footballers' careers - something they all dream of doing. But should they fail to do so, taking home the Golden Boot is still an award worth celebrating and some of the best in the world are battling for it this year.
Six
Harry Kane, England
Four
Denis Cheryshev, Russia
Antoine Griezmann, France
Romelu Lukaku, Belgium
Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal
Three
Edinson Cavani, Uruguay
Diego Costa, Spain
Artem Dzyuba, Russia
Eden Hazard, Belgium
Kylian Mbappe, France
Yerry Mina, Colombia
Two
Sergio Aguero, Argentina
Philippe Coutinho, Brazil
Andreas Granqvist, Sweden
Son Heungmin, South Korea
Takashi Inui, Japan
Mile Jedinak, Australia
Wahbi Khazri, Tunisia
Mario Mandzukic, Croatia
Luka Modric, Croatia
Ahmed Musa, Nigeria
Neymar, Brazil
Ivan Perisic, Croatia
Mohamed Salah, Egypt
John Stones, England
Luis Suarez, Uruguay
One
Francisco Alarcon, Spain
Salem Aldawsari, Saudi Arabia
Salman Alfaraj, Saudi Arabia
Dele Alli, England
Karim Ansarifard, Iran
Iago Aspas, Spain
Ludwig Augustinsson, Sweden
Renato Augusto, Brazil
Milan Badelj, Croatia
Felipe Baloy, Panama
Michy Batshuayi, Belgium
Jan Bednarek, Poland
Fakhreddine Ben Youssef, Tunisia
Khalid Boutaib, Morocco
Dylan Bronn, Tunisia
Andre Carrillo, Peru
Nacer Chadlu, Belgium
Juan Cuadrado, Colombia
Kevin De Bruyne, Belgium
Angel Di Maria, Argentina
Josip Drmic, Switzerland
Blerim Dzemaili, Switzerland
Youssef En Nesyri, Morocco
Christian Eriksen, Denmark
Mario Fernandes, Russia
Radamel Falcao, Colombia
Marouane Fellaini, Belgium
Nacho Fernandez, Spain
Roberto Firmino, Brazil
Alfred Finnbogason, Iceland
Emil Forsberg, Sweden
Iury Gazinsky, Russia
Jose Gimenez, Uruguay
Aleksandr Golovin, Russia
Paolo Guerrero, Peru
Genki Haraguchi, Japan
Javier Hernandez, Mexico
Keisuke Honda, Japan
Isco, Spain
Adnan Januzaj, Belgium
Mathias Jorgensen, Denmark
Shinji Kagawa, Japan
Aleksandar Kolarov, Serbia
Andrej Kramaric, Croatia
Toni Kroos, Germany
Grzegorz Krychowiak, Poland
Jesse Lingard, England
Hirving Lozano, Mexico
Harry Maguire, England
Sadio Mane, Senegal
Gabriel Mercado, Argentina
Dries Mertens, Belgium
Lionel Messi, Argentina
Thomas Meunier, Belgium
Aleksandar Mitrovic, Serbia
Victor Moses, Nigera
Mbaye Niang, Senegal
Yuya Osako, Japan
Paulinho, Brazil
Pepe, Portugal
Paul Pogba, France
Benjamin Pavard, France
Yussuf Yurary Poulsen, Denmark
Ricardo Quaresma, Portugal
Juan Quintero, Colombia
Ivan Rakitic, Croatia
Ante Rebic, Croatia
Marco Reus, Germany
Marcos Rojo, Argentina
Ferjani Sassi, Tunisia
Xherdan Shaqiri, Switzerland
Gylfi Sigurdsson, Iceland
Thiago Silva, Brazil
Ola Toivonen, Sweden
Samuel Umtiti, France
Raphael Varane, France
Carlos Vela, Mexico
Jan Vertonghen, Belgium
Domagoj Vida, Croatia
Moussa Wague, Senegal
Kendall Waston, Costa Rica
Granit Xhaka, Switzerland
Kim Younggwon, South Korea
Steven Zuber, Switzerland