Six goals is what the top scorer finished with at six successive World Cups from Argentina 1978 to France 1998. Mario Kempes started the sequence by firing Argentina to glory, before Paolo Rossi did the same for Italy in 1982. England’s Gary Lineker and Italy’s Toto Schillaci were the six-goal leading marksmen in 1986 and 1990 respectively, before Russia’s Oleg Salenko and Bulgaria’s Hristo Stoichkov shared the adidas Golden Boot in 1994. Croatia’s Davor Suker outscored the rest in 1998, before Brazil’s Ronaldo ended the run with eight goals in 2002. Rossi and Salenko share the record for scoring six successive of their nations’ World Cup goals. Six straight Portugal goals were registered by Eusebio in 1966, while Enner Valencia got the same total of consecutive Ecuador goals across 2014 and 2022.
Sources: FIFA Official
