World Cup 2026 Golden Boot standings: Harry Kane rivals Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland

Messi leads the way with five goals, after following up his hat-trick against Algeria with both goals Argentina’s 2-0 win over Austria.

His first of the game broke the all-time finals goal record as Messi surpassed Miroslav Klose’s tally of 16. The Argentine went on to score his 18th tournament goal in stoppage time.

Then is was over to Mbappe, who scored a double against Senegal last week and added two more against Iraq.

Mere hours later, Haaland completed the reverse by adding to his brace Iraq last week with another against Senegal.

England’s Harry Kane will have the chance to close the gap on Tuesday when the Three Lions take on Ghana. Kane scored twice against Croatia last week.

Elsewhere in the running is Germany’s Deniz Undav, who has three goals and two assists to his name, and Canada’s Jonathan David who scored a hat-trick against Qatar.

World Cup 2026 Golden Boot standings

Position	Player	Nation	Goals	Assists
1	Lionel Messi	Argentina	5	0
=2	Kylian Mbappe	France	4	0
=2	Erling Haaland	Norway	4	0
=4	Deniz Undav	Germany	3	2
=4	Jonathan David	Canada	3	0
=6	Crysencio Summerville	Netherlands	2	1
=6	Mikel Oyarzabal	Spain	2	1
=6	Maximiliano Araujo	Uruguay	2	1
=6	Ayase Ueda	Japan	2	1
=6	Vinicius Jr	Brazil	2	1
=6	Cody Gakpo	Netherlands	2	1
=6	Harry Kane	England	2	0
=6	Kai Havertz	Germany	2	0
=6	Yasin Ayari	Sweden	2	0
=6	Elijah Just	New Zealand	2	0
=6	Cyle Larin	Canada	2	0
=6	Johan Manzambi	Switzerland	2	0
=6	Brian Brobbey	Netherlands	2	0
=6	Matheus Cunha	Brazil	2	0
=6	Ismael Saibari	Morocco	2	0
=6	Daichi Kamada	Japan	2	0
=6	Ismaila Sarr	Senegal	2	0
=6	Folarin Balogun	USA	2	0