Soccer
Winners of the European Golden Boot
Each year the European Golden Boot is awarded to the top goalscorer across all European leagues in a season. In 2019 Barcelona’s Lionel Messi claimed his sixth European Golden Boot title which is the most of any other player.
Fast Facts:
- The European Golden Boot is also known as The European Golden Shoe.
- Since 1996, winners of the Golden Boot were awarded by European Sports Media.
- The European Golden Boot is presented every year to the leading goalscorer in league matches from the top division of all European national league teams.
- There are nine players that have won the European Golden Boot twice.
- Between 1991-92 and 1995-96 there was no Golden Shoe ceremony.
Winners of the European Golden Boot
| Season | Player | Club | League |
| 2018–19 | Lionel Messi (6) | Barcelona | Spain La Liga |
| 2017–18 | Lionel Messi (5) | Barcelona | Spain La Liga |
| 2016–17 | Lionel Messi (4) | Barcelona | Spain La Liga |
| 2015–16 | Luis Suárez (2) | Barcelona | Spain La Liga |
| 2014–15 | Cristiano Ronaldo (4) | Real Madrid | Spain La Liga |
| 2013–14 | Luis Suárez | Liverpool | England Premier League |
| 2013–14 | Cristiano Ronaldo (3) | Real Madrid | Spain La Liga |
| 2012–13 | Lionel Messi (3) | Barcelona | Spain La Liga |
| 2011–12 | Lionel Messi (2) | Barcelona | Spain La Liga |
| 2010–11 | Cristiano Ronaldo (2) | Real Madrid | Spain La Liga |
| 2009–10 | Lionel Messi | Barcelona | Spain La Liga |
| 2008–09 | Diego Forlán (2) | Atlético Madrid | Spain La Liga |
| 2007–08 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Manchester United | England Premier League |
| 2006–07 | Francesco Totti | Roma | Serie A |
| 2005–06 | Luca Toni | Fiorentina | Serie A |
| Diego Forlán | Villarreal | Spain La Liga | |
| 2004–05 | Thierry Henry (2) | Arsenal | England Premier League |
| 2003–04 | Thierry Henry | Arsenal | England Premier League |
| 2002–03 | Roy Makaay | Deportivo La Coruña | Spain La Liga |
| 2001–02 | Mário Jardel (2) | Sporting CP | Primeira Liga |
| 2000–01 | Henrik Larsson | Celtic | Scotland Premier League |
| 1999–2000 | Kevin Phillips | Sunderland | England Premier League |
| 1998–99 | Mário Jardel | Porto | Primeira Liga |
| 1997–98 | Nikos Machlas | Vitesse Arnhem | Eredivisie |
| 1996–97 | Ronaldo | Barcelona | Spain La Liga |
| 1995–96 | Zviad Endeladze | Margveti | Georgia Umaglesi Liga |
| 1994–95 | Arsen Avetisyan | Homenetmen | Armenia Premier League |
| 1993–94 | David Taylor | Porthmadog | Wales League of Wales |
| 1992–93 | Ally McCoist (2) | Rangers | Scotland Premier Division |
| 1991–92 | Ally McCoist | Rangers | Scotland Premier Division |
| 1990–91 | Darko Pančev | Red Star Belgrade | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia First League |
| Hristo Stoichkov | CSKA Sofia | A PFG | |
| 1989–90 | Hugo Sánchez | Real Madrid | Spain La Liga |
| 1988–89 | Dorin Mateuț | Dinamo București | Liga I |
| 1987–88 | Tanju Çolak | Galatasaray | Turkey Süper Lig |
| 1986–87 | Toni Polster[a] | FK Austria Wien | Austria Bundesliga |
| 1985–86 | Marco van Basten | Ajax | Eredivisie |
| 1984–85 | Fernando Gomes (2) | Porto | Primeira Liga |
| 1983–84 | Ian Rush | Liverpool | England First Division |
| 1982–83 | Fernando Gomes | Porto | Primeira Liga |
| 1981–82 | Wim Kieft | Ajax | Eredivisie |
| 1980–81 | Georgi Slavkov | Botev Plovdiv | Parva Liga |
| 1979–80 | Erwin Vandenbergh | Lierse | Belgium First Division |
| 1978–79 | Kees Kist | AZ | Eredivisie |
| 1977–78 | Hans Krankl | Rapid Wien | Austria Bundesliga |
| 1976–77 | Dudu Georgescu (2) | Dinamo București | Liga I |
| 1975–76 | Sotiris Kaiafas | Omonia Nicosia | Cyprus First Division |
| 1974–75 | Dudu Georgescu | Dinamo București | Liga I |
| 1973–74 | Héctor Yazalde | Sporting CP | Primeira Liga |
| 1972–73 | Eusébio (2) | Benfica | Primeira Liga |
| 1971–72 | Gerd Müller (2) | Bayern Munich | Germany Bundesliga |
| 1970–71 | Josip Skoblar | Marseille | France Ligue 1 |
| 1969–70 | Gerd Müller | Bayern Munich | Germany Bundesliga |
| 1968–69 | Petar Zhekov | CSKA Sofia | Bulgaria Parva Liga |
| 1967–68 | Eusébio | Benfica | Primeira Liga |