WC2026 Golden Boot leaderboard

Tournament-wide top 20 scorers, aggregated from per-match fixture player stats across the 48 qualified nations. Ranked by goals with DENSE_RANK (players tied on goals share a rank), then ordered by the FIFA tiebreaker (goals, then assists, then fewest minutes). Explicit lifecycle state: pre_tournament (empty leaders[], null updated_at) before June 11, in_progress during, finished after. Response object keys: tournament_state, leaders[] (rank, name, country, team_id, team_name, player_id, goals, assists, minutes), updated_at. country is the national team's full name (not an ISO code); player_id is null until the upstream player is bridged. Daily refresh, 1-hour Redis cache.