Premier League Golden Boot

The Premier League Golden Boot is an annual association football award presented to the leading goalscorer in the Premier League. For sponsorship purposes, it was called the Carling Golden Boot from 1994 to 2001, the Barclaycard Golden Boot from 2001 to 2004, and the Barclays Golden Boot from 2005 to 2016; as of 2017, it is referred to as the Cadbury Golden Boot.[1][2] In addition to the trophy, winners of the Golden Boot are usually given £1,000 for every goal they scored throughout the season to donate to a charity of their choice,[3][4] although Robin van Persie was given £30,000 after scoring 26 goals in the 2012–13 season.[5][6]

Premier League Golden Boot
Thierry Henry has won the most Golden Boot awards with four.
Awarded forThe leading goalscorer in a given Premier League season.
Sponsored byCadbury
CountryEngland
Presented byPremier League
First awarded1993
Currently held byJamie Vardy
Most awardsThierry Henry (4)

The Premier League was founded in 1992, when the clubs of the First Division left the Football League and established a new commercially independent league that negotiated its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements.[2] The newly formed league had no sponsor for its inaugural season until Carling agreed to a four-year £12 million deal that started the following season,[7] and it was simply known as the Premier League in its first year.[2] As a result, the award was called the "Premier League Golden Boot" when Teddy Sheringham received the inaugural award in 1993.[8] Originally consisting of 22 teams, the league contracted to 20 teams after the 1994–95 season; this reduced the number of games played from 42 to 38.[2]

Thierry Henry has won the Golden Boot on four occasions, more than any other player. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Dwight Yorke were the first non-English and non-European winners, respectively, when they shared the award with Michael Owen in 1999.[9] Alan Shearer is the only player other than Henry to win the award in three consecutive seasons.[10] Phillips, Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suárez won the European Golden Shoe in the same season as the Premier League Golden Boot,[10][11] with Henry achieving this on two occasions (2004 and 2005).[12] Shearer, Hasselbaink and Van Persie are the only players to win the Golden Boot with two clubs.[13]

Andy Cole and Shearer – with 34 goals in 1993–94 and 1994–95, respectively – scored the most goals to win the Golden Boot when the Premier League was a 42-game season,[14] Mohamed Salah with 32 goals in 2017–18 holds the record for the current 38-game season,[15] while Nicolas Anelka scored the fewest to clinch the award outright, with 19 goals in 2008–09.[8] The all-time record for lowest number of goals scored to be bestowed the award, however, is 18 goals; this was achieved during the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons, when the award was shared between three players both times.[16] The latter season marked the last time the Golden Boot was shared until 2010–11,[17] when Dimitar Berbatov and Carlos Tevez both scored 20 goals that season to tie for the award.[18] Harry Kane recorded the highest goals-to-games ratio to win the award, scoring 29 goals in 30 games in 2016–17 for a rate of 0.97.[19] The current Premier League Golden Boot is held by Jamie Vardy with 23 goals, who is also the oldest player to win the award.[20]

Winners
Teddy Sheringham won the inaugural Premier League Golden Boot in 1993.
Cristiano Ronaldo, the 2008 winner, is one of four players to win the European Golden Shoe alongside the Golden Boot.
Dwight Yorke, the 1999 co-recipient, was the first non-European Golden Boot winner.
Key
Player (X) Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
Games The number of Premier League games played by the winner that season[upper-alpha 1]
Rate The winner's goals-to-games ratio that season
Indicates multiple award winners in the same season
Indicates player also won the European Golden Shoe in the same season
§ Denotes the club were Premier League champions in the same season
Premier League Golden Boot winners
Season Player Nationality Club Goals Games[upper-alpha 2] Rate Ref(s)
1992–93 Teddy Sheringham  England Tottenham Hotspur[upper-alpha 3] 22 41 0.54 [8]
1993–94 Andy Cole  England Newcastle United 34 40 0.85 [8]
1994–95 Alan Shearer  England Blackburn Rovers§ 34 42 0.81 [8][23]
1995–96 Alan Shearer (2)  England Blackburn Rovers 31 35 0.89 [8][23]
1996–97 Alan Shearer (3)  England Newcastle United 25 31 0.81 [8][23]
1997–98 Chris Sutton  England Blackburn Rovers 18 35 0.51 [8]
1997–98 Dion Dublin  England Coventry City 18 36 0.50 [8][24]
1997–98 Michael Owen  England Liverpool 18 36 0.50 [8]
1998–99 Michael Owen (2)  England Liverpool 18 30 0.60 [8]
1998–99 Dwight Yorke  Trinidad and Tobago Manchester United§ 18 33 0.55 [25]
1998–99 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink  Netherlands Leeds United 18 36 0.50 [8]
1999–2000 Kevin Phillips  England Sunderland 30 36 0.83 [10][26]
2000–01 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (2)  Netherlands Chelsea 23 35 0.66 [27]
2001–02 Thierry Henry  France Arsenal§ 24 33 0.73 [25]
2002–03 Ruud van Nistelrooy  Netherlands Manchester United§ 25 34 0.74 [28]
2003–04 Thierry Henry (2)  France Arsenal§ 30 37 0.81 [12][25]
2004–05 Thierry Henry (3)  France Arsenal 25 32 0.78 [12]
2005–06 Thierry Henry (4)  France Arsenal 27 32 0.84 [8]
2006–07 Didier Drogba  Ivory Coast Chelsea 20 36 0.56 [29]
2007–08 Cristiano Ronaldo  Portugal Manchester United§ 31 34 0.91[upper-alpha 4] [3][11]
2008–09 Nicolas Anelka  France Chelsea 19 36 0.53 [31]
2009–10 Didier Drogba (2)  Ivory Coast Chelsea§ 29 32 0.91[upper-alpha 4] [32]
2010–11 Carlos Tevez  Argentina Manchester City 20 31 0.65 [33]
2010–11 Dimitar Berbatov  Bulgaria Manchester United§ 20 32 0.63 [33]
2011–12 Robin van Persie  Netherlands Arsenal 30 38[upper-alpha 5] 0.79 [35]
2012–13 Robin van Persie (2)  Netherlands Manchester United§ 26 38 0.68 [5]
2013–14 Luis Suárez  Uruguay Liverpool 31 33 0.94 [36]
2014–15 Sergio Agüero  Argentina Manchester City 26 33 0.79 [37]
2015–16 Harry Kane  England Tottenham Hotspur 25 38 0.65 [38]
2016–17 Harry Kane (2)  England Tottenham Hotspur 29 30 0.97 [19]
2017–18 Mohamed Salah  Egypt Liverpool 32 36 0.89 [39]
2018–19 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang  Gabon Arsenal 22 36 0.61 [40]
2018–19 Sadio Mané  Senegal Liverpool 22 36 0.61 [40]
2018–19 Mohamed Salah (2)  Egypt Liverpool 22 38 0.58 [40]
2019–20 Jamie Vardy  England Leicester City 23 35 0.65 [20]

Awards won by nationality
Country Players Total
 England 9 13
 Netherlands 3 5
 France 2 5
 Argentina 2 2
 Egypt 1 2
 Ivory Coast 1 2
 Bulgaria 1 1
 Gabon 1 1
 Portugal 1 1
 Senegal 1 1
 Trinidad and Tobago 1 1
 Uruguay 1 1

Awards won by club
Alan Shearer (left) and Robin van Persie (right) won consecutive Golden Boot awards with two clubs.
Club Total
Arsenal 6
Liverpool 6
Manchester United 5
Chelsea 4
Blackburn Rovers 3
Tottenham Hotspur 3
Manchester City 2
Newcastle United 2
Coventry City 1
Leeds United 1
Leicester City 1
Sunderland 1

See also

Notes
  1. This does not necessarily match the total number of games in a season.
  2. From the 1995–96 season onwards, the Premier League was reduced from 22 teams to 20,[21] thus reducing the number of games in a league season from 42 to 38.
  3. Teddy Sheringham scored his first goal of the 1992–93 season as a Nottingham Forest player,[22] while the rest of his goals were scored for Tottenham Hotspur following his transfer in August 1992.
  4. When rounding to three significant figures, Ronaldo's goal ratio in the 2007–08 season was 0.912, while Drogba's 2009–10 ratio was 0.906.[30]
  5. Arsenal's official website incorrectly lists Van Persie as having played 37 games in the 2011–12 season. He played all 38 games, as confirmed by the Premier League.[34]

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