1958 World Cup: combined goal & assist table

17: Just Fontaine (Fra) : 13 goals+4 assists

9: Raymond Kopa (Fra) : 3+6

7: Pelé (Bra) : 6+1 

7: Vavá (Bra) : 5+2

7: Kurt Hamrin (Swe) : 4+3

6: Helmut Rahn (BRD) : 6+0

6: Hans Schäfer (BRD) : 2+4

5: Peter McParland (Nir) : 5+0

5: Vaclav Hovorka (Cze) : 2+3

5: José Parodi (Par) : 2+3

4: Agne Simonsson (Swe) : 4+0

4: Zdeněk Zikán (Cze) : 4+0

4: Todor Veselinović (Yug) : 3+1

4: Oreste Corbatta (Arg) : 3+1

4: Lajos Tichy (Hun) : 3+1

4: Didi (Bra) : 1+3

4: Lennart "Nacka" Skoglund (Swe) : 1+3

4: Nils Liedholm (Swe) : 2+2

4: Roger Piantoni (Fra) : 2+2

3: Altafini ("Mazzola") : 2+1

3: Uwe Seeler (BRD) : 2+1

3: Jorge Romero (Par) : 2+1

3: Djalma Santos (Bra) : 1+2

3: Garrincha (Bra) : 0+3

German top 50 all-time players

 

According to Guerin Sportivo.

1. Franz Beckenbauer
2. Gerd Müller
3. Fritz Walter
4. Lothar Matthäus
5. Philipp Lahm
6. Miroslav Klose
7. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
8. Sepp Maier
9. Manuel Neuer
10. Thomas Müller
11. Wolfgang Overath
12. Uwe Seeler
13. Günter Netzer
14. Helmut Rahn
15. Bastian Schweinsteiger
16. Paul Breitner
17. Andreas Brehme
18. Mario Götze
19. Jupp Heynckes
20. Hans Schäfer
21. Horst Eckel
22. Jürgen Klinsmann
23. Toni Kroos
24. Mattias Sammer
25. Fritz Szepan
26. Bernd Schuster
27. Thomas Hässler
28. Helmut Haller
29. Uli Hoeness
30. Max Morlock
31. Oliver Kahn
32. Berti Vogts
33. Rainer Bonhof
34. Oliver Bierhoff
35. Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck
36. Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
37. Paul Janes
38. Rudi Völler
39. Toni Schumacher
40. Jürgen Grabowski
41. Klaus Augenthaler
42. Manfred Kaltz
43. Andreas Möller
44. Mesut Özil
45. Mats Hummels
46. Jürgen Kohler
47. Karl-Heinz Riedle
48. Karlheinz Förster
49. Sami Khedira
50. Hans-Peter Briegel

Germany all-time Best XI

 

According to Guerin Sportivo (1994).

Sepp Maier
---
Paul Breitner
Karlheinz Förster
Franz Beckenbauer
Berti Vogts
---
Lothar Matthäus
Fritz Walter
Wolfgang Overath
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Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Helmut Rahn
Gerd Müller

Memory Lane: European topscorers in the 1954 World Cup.

Including Qualifiers.

   12: Maxl Morlock (BRD)
   11: Sándor Kocsis (Hungary), Erich Probst (Austria)
   6: Nat Lofthouse (England), Josef Hügi (Switzerland)
   5: Hans Schäfer, Ottmar Walter & Helmut Rahn (BRD), Henri Coppens & Léopold Anoul (Belgium), Burhan Sargun (Turkey)
   4: Ferenc Puskás & Nándor Hidegkuti (Hungary), ­Theodor Wagner & Ernst Stojaspal (Austria), Robert Ballaman (Switzerland), Nils-Åke "Kajan" Sandell (Sweden), Suat Mamat (Turkey)
   3: Fritz Walter (BRD), Zoltán Czibor (Hungary), Amleto Frignani & Giampiero Boniperti (Italy), Ivor Broadis & Dennis Wilshaw (England), Jean Vincent & Just Fontaine (France), Ernst Ocwirk (Austria), Kalevi Lehtovirta (Finland), John Charles (Wales)
   2: Roger Piantoni, Raymond Kopa, Léon Glovacki, Pierre Flamion, Joseph Ujlaki & Jean Desgranges (France), Mihály Lantos & Péter Palotás (Hungary), Miloš Milutinović & Branko Zebec (Yugoslavia), Harald Hassall & Jimmy Mullen (England), Robert Körner (Austria), Mathieu Bollen (Belgium), Lefter Küçükandonyadis (Turkey), Egisto Pandolfini (Italy), Charlie Fleming & Allan Brown (Scotland), Reg Ryan & Arthur Fitzsimmons (Ireland), František Vlk (Czechoslovakia), Olavi Lahtinen (Finland), Peter McParland (Northern Ireland), Ivor Allchurch (Wales), József Pecsovszky/Iosif Petschovschi (Romania), Ivan Kolev (Bulgaria)

Memory Lane: European topscorers in the 1958 World Cup.

Including Qualifiers.

   12: Just Fontaine (France)
   8: Tommy Taylor (England)
   7: Thadée Cisowski (France)
   6: Helmut Rahn (West Germany), Jackie Mudie (Scotland)
   5: Roger Piantoni (France), Nikita Simonyan (USSR), Lajos Tichy (Hungary), Peter McParland (Northern Ireland)
   4: Kurt Hamrin & Agne Simonsson (Sweden), Jean Vincent (France), Anatoli Ilyin (USSR), Zdeněk Zikán (Czechoslovakia), Ferenc Machos (Hungary), Ladislao Kubala (Spain), Paul Vandenbergh (Belgium)
   3: Raymond Kopa & Maryan Wisnieski (France), Hans Schäfer (West Germany), John Atyeo (England), Muhamed Mujić, Aleksandar Petaković & Todor Veselinović (Yugoslavia), Eduard Streltsov (USSR), Tadeusz Kraus (Czechoslovakia), Gerhard Hanappi (Austria), Noud van Melis & Abe Lenstra (Holland), Dermot Curtis (Ireland), Hristo Iliev (Bulgaria), Edward Jankowski (Poland)
   2: Nils Liedholm (Sweden), Joseph Ujlaki (France), Igor Netto, Anatoli Isaiev, Valentin Ivanov & Alexandr Ivanov (USSR), József Bozsik, Nándor Hidegkuti, Károly Sándor & Lajos Csordás (Hungary), Milan Dvořák & Václav Hovorka (Czechoslovakia), Des Palmer & Ivor Allchurch (Wales), Jimmy McIlroy & Derek Kevan (Northern Ireland), Uwe Seeler (West Germany), Duncan Edwards (England), Theodor Wagner, Karl Koller & Hans Busek (Austria), Miloš Milutinović (Yugoslavia), Maurice Willems, Ricard Orlans, Victor Mees & Henri Coppens (Belgium), Cor van der Gijp (Holland), Guido Gratton (Italy), Manuel Vasques (Portugal), Luis Suárez & Estanislao Basora (Spain), Ove Bech Nielsen (Denmark), Gerhard Cieślik (Poland), Thordar Thordarsson (Iceland), Georgi Dimitrov (Bulgaria), Harald Hennum (Norway), Günther Wirth (East Germany), Josef Hügi & Roger Vonlanthen (Switzerland), Alexandru Ere (Romania).

World Cup: all time top scorers.

Active players in bold text.

     14 goals:
Ronaldo (Brazil), Miroslav Klose & Gerd Müller (Germany)
     13 goals:
Just Fontaine (France)
     12 goals:
Pelé (Brazil)
     11 goals:
Jürgen Klinsmann (Germany), Sándor Kocsis (Hungary)
     10 goals:
Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina), Gary Lineker (England), Helmut Rahn (Germany), Teófilo Cubillas (Peru), Grzegorz Lato (Poland)
     9 goals:
Ademir, Jairzinho & Vavá (Brazil), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge & Uwe Seeler (Germany), Roberto Baggio, Paolo Rossi & Christian Vieri (Italy), Eusébio (Portugal)
     8 goals: 
Diego Maradona & Guillermo Stábile (Argentina), Leônidas & Rivaldo (Brazil), Rudi Völler (Germany), David Villa (Spain), Oscar Míguez  (Uruguay)
     7 goals:
Careca (Brazil), Oldřich Nejedlý (Czechoslovakia), Hans Schäfer (Germany),  Lajos Tichy (Hungary), Johnny Rep (Holland), Andrzej Szarmach (Poland)
     6 goals:
Mario Kempes (Argentina), Erich Probst (Austria), Bebeto & Rivelino (Brazil), Hristo Stoichkov  (Bulgaria), Davor Šuker (Croatia), Thierry Henry (France), Helmut Haller, Lothar Matthäus & Max Morlock (Germany), György Sárosi & Gyula Zsengellér (Hungary), Salvatore Schillaci (Italy), Dennis Bergkamp & Rob Rensenbrink (Holland), Zbigniew Boniek (Poland),  Oleg Salenko (Russia), Josef Hügi (Switzerland), Diego Forlán (Uruguay)
     5 goals:
Hans Krankl (Austria), Marc Wilmots (Belgium), Garrincha, Romário & Zico (Brazil), Roger Milla (Cameroon), Tomáš Skuhravý (Czechoslovakia), Jon Dahl Tomasson (Denmark),  Geoff Hurst (England),  Michel Platini & Zinédine Zidane (France), Franz Beckenbauer, Thomas Müller & Lukas Podolski (Germany), Alessandro Altobelli & Silvio Piola (Italy), Johan Neeskens & Wesley Sneijder (Holland), Peter McParland (Northern Ireland), Valentin Ivanov (Soviet Union), Estanislao Basora, Emilio Butragueño, Raúl González, Fernando Hierro & Fernando Morientes (Spain), Kennet Andersson & Henrik Larsson (Sweden), Landon Donovan (USA), Pedro Cea & Juan Alberto Schiaffino (Uruguay), Dražan Jerković (Yugoslavia).