The English football league i.e. Premier League consists of many awards & golden boot is one of those award. The golden boot of premier league is given to the player who scores highest number of goals in a season. This is considered as the most popular award of the tournament after the league title. The winner of it also receives 1,000 pounds to donate it for any charity. We have made a list of all winners of Golden boot of this competition just for you. Have a look!
The former Arsenal & Barcelona star forward Thierry Henry is the most successful player this award. Henry won golden shoe of this competition four times. Teddy Sheringham was the first winner of this trophy who won it in the season of 1992-93. He was playing for Tottenham Hotspur at that time & after scoring 22 goals in 41 games, he was awarded with this trophy. Given below is the list of all winners.
Player | Club | Goals | Matches | Season |
Teddy Sheringham | Tottenham Hotspur | 22 | 41 | 1992-93 |
Andrew Cole | Newcastle United | 34 | 40 | 1993-94 |
Alan Shearer | Blackburn Rovers | 34 | 42 | 1994-95 |
Alan Shearer | Blackburn Rovers | 31 | 35 | 1995-96 |
Alan Shearer | Newcastle United | 25 | 31 | 1996-97 |
Chris Sutton | Blackburn Rovers | 18 | 35 | 1997-98 |
Dion Dublin | Coventry City | 18 | 36 | 1997-98 |
Michael Owen | Liverpool | 18 | 36 | 1997-98 |
Michael Owen | Liverpool | 18 | 30 | 1998-99 |
Dwight Yorke | Manchester United | 18 | 33 | 1998-99 |
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink | Leeds United | 18 | 36 | 1998-99 |
Kevin Phillips | Sunderland | 30 | 35 | 1999-20 |
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink | Chelsea | 23 | 33 | 2000-01 |
Thierry Henry | Arsenal | 24 | 34 | 2001-02 |
Ruud van Nistelrooy | Manchester United | 25 | 37 | 2002-03 |
Thierry Henry | Arsenal | 30 | 32 | 2003-04 |
Thierry Henry | Arsenal | 25 | 32 | 2004-05 |
Thierry Henry | Arsenal | 27 | 36 | 2005-06 |
Didier Drogba | Chelsea | 20 | 34 | 2006-07 |
Cristiano Ronaldo | Manchester United | 31 | 36 | 2007-08 |
Nicolas Anelka | Chelsea | 19 | 32 | 2008-09 |
Didier Drogba | Chelsea | 29 | 32 | 2009-10 |
Carlos Tevez | Manchester City | 20 | 31 | 2010-11 |
Dimitar Berbatov | Manchester United | 20 | 32 | 2010-11 |
Robin van Persie | Arsenal | 30 | 38 | 2011-12 |
Robin van Persie | Manchester United | 26 | 38 | 2012-13 |
From season 1994 to 2001 it was called as Carling Golden boot & from 2001 to 2004 the boot got new name called Barclaycard Golden Boot. Then in 2013, it got another new name i.e. Barclays Golden Boot. Home team players of England have won this award maximum number of times [10] followed by Netherlands & France players 5 times each. Among club, the Red Devils won it 5 times with Arsenal 5 times also. Alan Shearer & Robin van Persie won Golden Boot award consecutively with two different awards. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink & Dwight Yorke were the first players out of England winners of this trophy. After Thierry Henry, Alan Shearer won this award three times consecutively. Andrew Cole scored 34 goals in a single season which highest in all seasons so far. The former Manchester United & current Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo holds record of highest goal ratio of 0.91 in which he scored 31 goals in 34 games. He set up this record in 2007-2008 season of Premier League.
The Golden Boot is also called as Golden Shoe which is awarded to the player who scores maximum number of goals in FIFA World Cup tournament. The award was introduced in the first World cup of 1930 which was organized in 1930. Uruguay was the host of first FIFA World Cup. But have you ever wondered how many players are awarded with this award? To get answer of this question, read this article & you will get your answer.
It was invented in 1930 Uruguay World Cup which was the first World tournament. That tournament was won by Home team & Argentina was the Runners-up. Uruguay defeated Argentina in the finals by 4-2 & Guillermo was awarded with Golden Boot for the first time. He scored total of 5 Goals. Earlier it was given to the player who scores highest number of goals. But after in some world cup more players start scoring highest goals & the award was given to more than a player. It was the world Cup of 1962 which was organized in Chile, when 6 players were awarded with Golden Boot. So the governing body FIFA decided to change the rule. They decided that, if more than one player scores same number of goals then the player with maximum assists will be awarded with this award. If still this happens again, then the player played minimum number of games will be declared winner of Golden Boot.
Golden Boot Winner | Goals | Solver Boot Winner | Goals | FIFA World Cup |
Guillermo Stabile | 8 | Pedro Cea | 5 | Uruguay 1930 |
Oldrich Nejedly | 5 | Edmund Conen, Angelo Schiavio | 4 | Italy 1934 |
Leonidas da Silva | 7 | Gyorgy Sarosi, Gyula Zsengeller, Silvio Piola | 5 | France 1938 |
Ademir | 8 | Oscar Miguez | 5 | Brazil 1950 |
Sandor Kocsis | 11 | Josef Hugi, Max Marlock, Erich Probst | 6 | Switzerland 1954 |
Just Fontaine | 13 | Pele, Helmut Rahn | 6 | Sweden 1958 |
Florian Albert, Valentin Ivanov, Garrincha, Vava, Drazan Jerkovic, Leonel Sanchez | 4 | Amarildo, Lajos Tichy, Milan Galic, Adolf Scherer | 3 | Chile 1962 |
Eusebio | 9 | Helmut Haller | 6 | England 1966 |
Gerd Muller | 10 | Jairzinho | 7 | Mexico 1970 |
Grzegorz Lato | 7 | Andrzej Szarmach, Johan Neeskens | 5 | West Germany 1974 |
Mario Kempes | 6 | Teofilo Cubillas, Rob Rensenbrink | 5 | Argentina 1978 |
Paolo Rossi | 6 | Karl Heinz Rummenigge | 5 | Spain 1982 |
Gary Lineker | 6 | Emilio Butragueno, Careca, Diego Maradona | 5 | Mexico 1986 |
Salvatore Schillaci | 6 | Tomas Skuhravy | 5 | Italy 1990 |
Oleg Salenko, Hristo Stoichkov | 6 | Jurgen Klinsmann, Kennet Andresson, Roberto Baggio, Romario | 5 | United States 1994 |
Davor Suker | 6 | Gabriel Batistuta, Christian Vieri | 5 | France 1998 |
Ronaldo | 8 | Miroslav Klose, Rivaldo | 5 | South Korea / Japan 2002 |
Miroslav Klose | 5 | Hernan Crespo | 3 | Germany 2006 |
Thomas Muller | 5 | David Villa | 5 | South Africa |
James Rodriguez | 6 | Thomas Muller | 5 | World Cup 2014 Brazil |