The Premier League Golden Boot is an annual football award bestowed to the leading goalscorer in the Premier League.
Since the inception of the Premier League in 1992, 26 different players have won the Premier League Golden Boot across 34 seasons. Erling Haaland is the current holder: he top-scored in 2025-26 with 27 goals for Manchester City.
Teddy Sheringham won the inaugural Premier League Golden Boot in 1993. Playing for Tottenham Hotspur, the former England forward netted 22 goals in 41 games to bag the prestigious award.
Later in 1994, Newcastle United’s Andy Cole won the Premier League Golden Boot after he scored 34 goals in 40 games that season.
Alan Shearer then became the first player to win the award in three consecutive seasons. He claimed the Premier League Golden Boot in 1994-95, 1995-96 and 1996-97 seasons.
In 1999, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Dwight Yorke were the first non-English and non-European winners, respectively, when they shared the award with Michael Owen.
Legendary Arsenal striker Thierry Henry held the record for the most Premier League Golden Boots on his own for the best part of two decades, winning it four times in 2001-02, 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06. He now shares it with Mohamed Salah, who drew level on four in 2024-25.
Thierry Henry also became the second player after Alan Shearer to win the award in three successive seasons.
Meanwhile, Manchester City’s Erling Haaland scripted history as he scored the most goals to win the Premier League Golden Boot.
In the 2022-23 season, Erling Haaland won the award after he scored 36 goals in just 35 matches. Haaland bagged it again in 2023-24 with 27 goals in 31 games, and a third time in 2025-26, once more on 27 — finishing ahead of Brentford’s Igor Thiago on 22 and Bournemouth’s Antoine Semenyo on 17. That is three Golden Boots in four seasons, and it leaves him one short of Henry and Salah.
In between those Haaland seasons came Salah’s fourth. The Liverpool forward scored 29 goals in 2024-25, finishing clear of Newcastle’s Alexander Isak on 23 and Haaland on 22, and in doing so equalled Henry’s record. Salah had won it outright in 2017-18 and shared it in 2018-19 and 2021-22, so 2024-25 was his first outright Golden Boot in seven years.
Former Chelsea forward Nicolas Anelka netted the fewest goals to bag the Golden Boot outright with 19 goals in 2008-09.
However, the all-time record for lowest number of goals scored to be presented the award is 18 goals, which was achieved during the 1997-98 and 1998-99 seasons.
Chris Sutton, Dion Dublin and Michael Owen shared the award with 18 goals in 1998, while the same thing was repeated by Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dwight Yorke and Michael Owen in 1999.
Every season’s winner, club and goal tally is in the table below. For the title itself rather than the top scorer, see our Premier League winners list.
Premier League Golden Boot winners list
|
Season |
Player |
Club |
Goals |
|
1992-93 |
Teddy Sheringham |
Tottenham Hotspur |
22 |
|
1993-94 |
Andy Cole |
Newcastle United |
34 |
|
1994-95 |
Alan Shearer |
Blackburn Rovers |
34 |
|
1995-96 |
Alan Shearer |
Blackburn Rovers |
31 |
|
1996-97 |
Alan Shearer |
Newcastle United |
25 |
|
1997-98 |
Chris Sutton |
Blackburn Rovers |
18 |
|
Dion Dublin |
Coventry City |
18 |
|
|
Michael Owen |
Liverpool |
18 |
|
|
1998-99 |
Michael Owen |
Liverpool |
18 |
|
Dwight Yorke |
Manchester United |
18 |
|
|
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink |
Leeds United |
18 |
|
|
1999-2000 |
Kevin Phillips |
Sunderland |
30 |
|
2000-01 |
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink |
Chelsea |
23 |
|
2001-02 |
Thierry Henry |
Arsenal |
24 |
|
2002-03 |
Ruud van Nistelrooy |
Manchester United |
25 |
|
2003-04 |
Thierry Henry |
Arsenal |
30 |
|
2004-05 |
Thierry Henry |
Arsenal |
25 |
|
2005-06 |
Thierry Henry |
Arsenal |
27 |
|
2006-07 |
Didier Drogba |
Chelsea |
20 |
|
2007-08 |
Cristiano Ronaldo |
Manchester United |
31 |
|
2008-09 |
Nicolas Anelka |
Chelsea |
19 |
|
2009-10 |
Didier Drogba |
Chelsea |
29 |
|
2010-11 |
Carlos Tevez |
Manchester City |
20 |
|
Dimitar Berbatov |
Manchester United |
20 |
|
|
2011-12 |
Robin van Persie |
Arsenal |
30 |
|
2012-13 |
Robin van Persie |
Manchester United |
26 |
|
2013-14 |
Luis Suárez |
Liverpool |
31 |
|
2014-15 |
Sergio Agüero |
Manchester City |
26 |
|
2015-16 |
Harry Kane |
Tottenham Hotspur |
25 |
|
2016-17 |
Harry Kane |
Tottenham Hotspur |
29 |
|
2017-18 |
Mohamed Salah |
Liverpool |
32 |
|
2018-19 |
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang |
Arsenal |
22 |
|
Sadio Mané |
Liverpool |
22 |
|
|
Mohamed Salah |
Liverpool |
22 |
|
|
2019-20 |
Jamie Vardy |
Leicester City |
23 |
|
2020-21 |
Harry Kane |
Tottenham Hotspur |
23 |
|
2021-22 |
Mohamed Salah |
Liverpool |
23 |
|
Son Heung-min |
Tottenham Hotspur |
23 |
|
|
2022-23 |
Erling Haaland |
Manchester City |
36 |
|
2023-24 |
Erling Haaland |
Manchester City |
27 |
|
2024-25 |
Mohamed Salah |
Liverpool |
29 |
|
2025-26 |
Erling Haaland |
Manchester City |
27 |
Most Premier League Golden Boot won by a player
|
Awards |
Player |
Seasons |
|
4 |
Thierry Henry |
2001–02, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06 |
|
4 |
Mohamed Salah |
2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22, 2024–25 |
|
3 |
Erling Haaland |
2022–23, 2023–24, 2025–26 |
|
3 |
Harry Kane |
2015–16, 2016–17, 2020–21 |
|
3 |
Alan Shearer |
1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97 |
|
2 |
Didier Drogba |
2006–07, 2009–10 |
|
2 |
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink |
1998–99, 2000–01 |
|
2 |
Michael Owen |
1997–98, 1998–99 |
|
2 |
Robin van Persie |
2011–12, 2012–13 |
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