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We\u2019re less than two months away from the start of the 2026 World Cup. It promises to be a spectacular tournament, but who will be its top goalscorer?<\/strong><\/p>\n We won\u2019t be looking at one single betting company for this list \u2013 we\u2019ll be analysing a range of odds and offers. We\u2019ve sourced all our betting odds data for this piece using Oddschecker.<\/p>\n Also, please note that odds are, as always, subject to change. All data in this list is correct at the time of writing.<\/p>\n Lamine Yamal is the best young player in the world at the moment. He is already a superstar, but he can truly etch his name into the annals of history at the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n The 18-year-old grows with each passing game. Having scored 16 goals and notched up 12 assists in La Liga for Barcelona this year, one would expect him to deliver at this summer\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, Yamal remains only an outside favourite to be this year\u2019s top goalscorer. Most bookies have him rated at around 14\/1 or 12\/1 \u2013 Betfair are offering odds as long as 20\/1 as things stand.<\/p>\n Is Lionel Messi the greatest player of all time? Whatever your opinion might be, he still poses an almighty threat to any team at the World Cup \u2013 even at the age of 38. <\/p>\n With 13 goals at the World Cup to his name, only three players have scored more than he has at the tournament \u2013 those being Gerd Muller, Ronaldo and Miroslav Klose.<\/p>\n We\u2019re expecting him to build on this tally, but can he win the Golden Boot? The bookies seem to think he\u2019s capable of it, with Coral giving away odds as short as 10\/1.<\/p>\n Norway have a few star players, but none of them can hold a candle to Erling Haaland\u2019s monolithic presence on the football pitch. Arguably the best striker in the world, it\u2019s highly likely that he\u2019ll end up with a sizeable goals tally \u2013 even if Norway don\u2019t make it very far in the tournament.<\/p>\n Haaland has scored 25 goals in the Premier League this season, alongside eight goals in the Champions League. Can he replicate his excellent form at the World Cup?<\/p>\n Most bookmakers have Haaland at 14\/1 or 12\/1 to finish as top goalscorer at the World Cup \u2013 the shortest odds available are with BetVictor, who have him at 10\/1.<\/p>\n Haaland might be the best striker in the world as things stand, but England\u2019s Harry Kane can certainly give the Manchester City ace a serious run for his money.<\/p>\n England are likely to enjoy a deep run at the World Cup this year \u2013 as such, it stands to reason that Kane will have plenty of opportunities to work on his goals tally. <\/p>\n Most bookies have Kane at around 7\/1 or 6\/1 to be the World Cup\u2019s top scorer, but some betting providers are offering odds as short as 5\/1. <\/p>\n Forget Kylian Mbappe\u2019s off-the-field struggles at Real Madrid \u2013 he\u2019ll relish the opportunity to be let off his leash at the World Cup. You can certainly expect the Frenchman to dominate the scoring charts \u2013 at least, according to the bookmakers. <\/p>\n He is generally rated around 6\/1 to be the top goalscorer at the World Cup. The bookies are expecting it to be close between him and Kane, but Mbappe generally has ever-so-slightly shorter odds than the Bayern Munich star.<\/p>\n The 2025\/26 season has not been Mbappe\u2019s best, as he is set for a rare trophyless season for Los Blancos \u2013 therefore, he\u2019ll want to make up for lost time at the World Cup.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019re less than two months away from the start of the 2026 World Cup. It…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Lamine Yamal<\/h2>\n
Lionel Messi<\/h2>\n
Erling Haaland<\/h2>\n
Harry Kane<\/h2>\n
Kylian Mbappe<\/h2>\n