The Highest Scoring Boots at the 2022 World Cup

07-Dec-22 11:09

The race for the World Cup Golden Boot is currently led by Kylian Mbappe but eight players, including Lionel Messi, Bukayo Saka and Portugal’s hat-trick hero, Goncalo Ramos, are giving him chase.

But, which boot and which brand is leading the scoring charts?

Collating data from the World Cup and footballbootsdb.com, we have looked at the boots being worn by the top goal scorers and assist providers at this World Cup.

Nike Has No Match at the Top

When Kylian Mbappe is wearing your brand’s boots, goals are expected to follow, and that definitely has happened for Nike.

Of the 147 goals scored at this World Cup, 79 of them have come from a player wearing Nike boots. That is 53.7 percent of all goals scored so far.

The most prolific model so far has been the Nike Zoom Mercurial Superfly 9, with 18 goals. Unsurprisingly, this is the model of boots that Kylian Mbappe wears, as well as Marcus Rashford.

The second highest-scoring boot model is from Nike as well - the Nike Zoom Mercurial Vapor 15. Players wearing that boot have scored 17 goals.

Adidas is the brand with the second-highest number of goals scored with 33. Leading the line for them is Alvaro Morata, who’s sporting the adidas X Speedportal+.

Puma wearing players have found the net 21 times with the top scoring model for the German brand being the Puma Ultra Ultimate with 15 goals. Olivier Giroud and Japanese sensation Ritsu Doan sport that boot.

Puma’s biggest face, Neymar, meanwhile wears the Future Z 1.4 and has scored one goal so far.

New Balance, meanwhile, is represented on the scoresheet by England stars Bukayo Saka (3 goals) and Raheem Sterling (1 goal) as well as American striker, Timothy Weah (1 goal).

Boot Name	Scorers	Goals	Brand
Nike Zoom Mercurial Superfly 9	Kylian Mbappé (5), Marcus Rashford (3), Enner Valencia (3) , Cristiano Ronaldo (1), Ivan Perisic (1), Sergej Milinković-Savić (1), Ricardo Horta (1), Mohammed Salisu (1), Mathew Leckie (1), Haji Wright (1) and 7 more	18	nike
Nike Zoom Mercurial Vapor 15	Robert Lewandowski (2), Gue-sung Cho (2), Bruno Fernandes (2) , Breel Embolo (2), Frenkie de Jong (1), Alphonso Davies (1), Dušan Vlahović (1), Piotr Zielinski (1), Daizen Maeda (1), Ismaïla Sarr (1), Boulaye Dia (1), Lovro Majer (1), Wahbi Khazri (1) and 10 more	17	nike
adidas X Speedportal+	Álvaro Morata (3), Rafael Leão (2), Ferran Torres (2) , João Félix (1), Denzel Dumfries (1), Raphaël Guerreiro (1), Michy Batshuayi (1), Henry Martín (1), Saleh Al-Shehri (1), Zakaria Aboukhlal (1), Jean-Charles Castelletto (1) and 8 more	15	adidas
Puma Ultra Ultimate	Olivier Giroud (3), Ritsu Doan (2), Mohammed Kudus (2) , Aleksandar Mitrović (2), Memphis Depay (1), Christian Pulisic (1), Kalidou Koulibaly (1), Strahinja Pavlovic (1), Osman Bukari (1), Famara Diédhiou (1) and 7 more	15	puma
Nike Mercurial Vapor 14	Richarlison (3), Niclas Füllkrug (2), Giorgian de Arrascaeta (2) , Vincent Aboubakar (2), Vinicius Junior (1), Hakim Ziyech (1), Marko Livaja (1) and 4 more	12	nike
Nike Phantom GT2	Gavi (1), Harry Kane (1), Phil Foden (1) , Jack Grealish (1), Adrien Rabiot (1), Enzo Fernández (1), Hee-chan Hwang (1), Moisés Caicedo (1), Seung-ho Paik (1), Davy Klaassen (1), Remo Freuler (1) and 8 more	11	nike
adidas X Speedportal.1	Julián Álvarez (2), Mehdi Taremi (2), Andrej Kramaric (2) , Dani Olmo (1), Serge Gnabry (1), Takuma Asano (1), Youssef En-Nesyri (1) and 4 more	10	adidas
Nike Phantom GT2 DF	Gonçalo Ramos (3), Kai Havertz (2), Lucas Paquetá (1) , Casemiro (1), Manuel Akanji (1), Mitchell Duke (1) and 3 more	9	nike
New Balance Furon v7	Bukayo Saka (3), Raheem Sterling (1)	4	New Balance
Nike Tiempo Legend 9	Jordan Henderson (1), Luis Chávez (1), André Ayew (1) , Juan Pablo Vargas (1) and 1 more	4	nike
adidas Predator Edge.1 Low	Jude Bellingham (1), Marco Asensio (1), Daley Blind (1)	3	adidas
adidas X Speedportal Messi.1	Lionel Messi (3)	3	adidas
Nike Mercurial Vapor XIII	Salem Al-Dawsari (2), Mohammed Muntari (1)	3	nike
Puma Ultra 1.2	Cody Gakpo (3)	3	puma
adidas Predator Edge+	Pepe (1), Carlos Soler (1)	2	adidas
adidas X Speedflow.1	Alexis Mac Allister (1), Bamba Dieng (1)	2	adidas
Nike Mercurial Superfly 8	Xherdan Shaqiri (1), Keysher Fuller (1)	2	nike
Puma Future Z 1.4	Neymar (1), Romain Saïss (1)	2	puma
adidas Copa Sense.1	Ilkay Gündogan (1)	1	adidas
adidas Copa Sense+	Andreas Christensen (1)	1	adidas
adidas Predator 19.1	Roozbeh Cheshmi (1)	1	adidas
adidas Predator Edge.1	Yeltsin Tejeda (1)	1	adidas
adidas X 19.1	Gareth Bale (1)	1	adidas
Mizuno Morelia II	Ao Tanaka (1)	1	mizuno
Mizuno Morelia Neo III Beta	Young-gwon Kim (1)	1	mizuno
New Balance Tekela v4	Timothy Weah (1)	1	new balance
Nike Mercurial Vapor 14 iD	Craig Goodwin (1)	1	nike
Nike Mercurial Vapor X	Ramin Rezaeian (1)	1	nike
Nike Zoom Mercurial Vapor 15 By You	Abdelhamid Sabiri (1)	1	nike
Puma Ultra 1.4	Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (1)	1	puma

Goal by Nike, Assisted by Nike

Even the top assisters’ boots of choice happen to be Nike ones, more often than not.

From 70 total assists in the tournament so far, 37 assists have come from players wearing Nike boots.

Adidas is again second on the list with 24 assists.

England’s Harry Kane is top assist provider right now with three assists and he’s wearing the Nike Phantom.

The Nike Mercurial model is the one with the most assists, with 21. This is followed by the adidas X with 20 assists.

Methodology

We collected the list of top scorers and assist providers from the official World Cup data
We used footballbootsdb.com to scrape the boot models being worn by the scorers and assist providers

The Highest Scoring Boots at the 2022 World Cup

Nike Has No Match at the Top

Goal by Nike, Assisted by Nike

Methodology

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