Ranking every Premier League Golden Boot-winning season
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Coveted by attacking players for over three decades, the Premier League Golden Boot award has been presented to the highest goal scorer in the English top flight at the end of each campaign since 1992-93, but no one has won it as emphatically as Manchester City’s Erling Haaland.
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Haaland’s 36-goal haul this season is the highest total ever reached in the Premier League, surpassing the previous record of 34 set by Alan Shearer and Andy Cole in the mid-1990s when teams played 42 games instead of 38. The lowest Golden Boot-winning goal tally is 18, the total in each of the two consecutive seasons that the award was shared between three players (1997-98, 1998-99.)
Thierry Henry has claimed more Golden Boot awards than any other player, with the Arsenal legend winning four times in the space of five seasons (2001-02, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06.)
Shearer, the Premier League’s all-time top scorer with 260 goals, is the only other player to have won three consecutive Golden Boots (1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97). Shearer, Harry Kane and Mohamed Salah are the players to have won three times overall — though two of Salah’s awards were shared (2018-19, 2021-22.)
As for clubs, Liverpool players have won the Golden Boot on more occasions (seven) than any other Premier League side with Michael Owen, Luis Suarez, Salah and Sadio Mane all sharing the spoils between them.
In all, there have been 26 different players to win the Golden Boot in the 31 years of the Premier League’s existence. Here’s how each of those campaigns rank, from least impressive to the best.
Note: The first three Golden Boots (1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95) were awarded for 42-game seasons. The Premier League was then reduced from 22 teams to 20 from 1995-96 onwards. All Golden Boots thereafter were awarded for 38-game seasons.
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