Premier League Golden Boot winners: every season since 1992

The Premier League Golden Boot has gone to the league's top scorer at the end of every season since 1992-93, and after 34 campaigns its roll of honour reads like a history of the competition's great strikers. This guide lists every winner up to the 2025-26 season, with club and league goals, including the five seasons in which the award was shared. It also covers the records around the prize: Thierry Henry and Mohamed Salah with four Golden Boots each, Erling Haaland's 36 goals in 2022-23, the 34 that Andrew Cole and Alan Shearer scored when a season had 42 games, and the 18 goals that were enough twice in the late 1990s. Haaland is the current holder, after scoring 27 goals for Manchester City in 2025-26.

How the Golden Boot works and what happens in a tie

At the end of every season the Premier League presents the Golden Boot to the player, or players, with the most league goals in that campaign. Only Premier League goals count, so goals scored in domestic cups and European competitions are left out. The league does not use assists or minutes played to separate players who finish level: if two or more end the season as joint top scorers, the award is shared and each of them receives one.

That has happened five times. Three players shared it in 1997-98 and in 1998-99, two in 2010-11 and three more in 2018-19, and in 2021-22 Son Heung-min scored twice on the final day, in Tottenham's 5-0 win at Norwich City, to draw level with Salah on 23 goals and become the first Asian player to win the award. Salah also won the Playmaker award for the most assists that season, but that made no difference: the Golden Boot was shared. One more detail matters when comparing totals: the Premier League began with 22 clubs, so teams played 42 league matches in each of the first three seasons, 1992-93, 1993-94 and 1994-95. From 1995-96 the division was reduced to 20 clubs and 38 matches.

Golden Boot winners from 1992-93 to 2009-10

The 1990s: Sheringham, Cole and Shearer

Teddy Sheringham won the first Golden Boot with 22 goals: one for Nottingham Forest and 21 for Tottenham Hotspur, the club he joined during that same season. Andrew Cole raised the bar to 34 for Newcastle United in 1993-94, and Alan Shearer matched that figure a year later on his way to three awards in a row, the first two with Blackburn Rovers and the third with Newcastle. In 1997-98 and 1998-99 came the lowest winning totals in the award's history.

• 1992-93: Teddy Sheringham (Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur), 22
• 1993-94: Andrew 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: Dion Dublin (Coventry City), Michael Owen (Liverpool) and Chris Sutton (Blackburn Rovers), 18 each
• 1998-99: Michael Owen (Liverpool), Dwight Yorke (Manchester United) and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (Leeds United), 18 each
• 1999-00: Kevin Phillips (Sunderland), 30

From 2000-01 to 2009-10: the Henry years

Thierry Henry won four Golden Boots in five seasons with Arsenal, three of them in a row between 2003-04 and 2005-06; he and Shearer are the only players to have won it three years running. Chelsea supplied three different winners in the decade: Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Didier Drogba, on two occasions, and Nicolas Anelka. Cristiano Ronaldo's 31 goals for Manchester United in 2007-08 equalled the best total of the 38-game era up to that point, the one Shearer had set in 1995-96.

• 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

Golden Boot winners from 2010-11 to 2025-26

From 2010-11 to 2019-20: shared awards and Salah's 32

Carlos Tevez and Dimitar Berbatov opened the decade by sharing the award on 20 goals, the first tie since 1998-99. Robin van Persie then won it in consecutive seasons with Arsenal and Manchester United, becoming one of three players, along with Shearer and Hasselbaink, to have won Golden Boots with two different clubs. Luis Suárez reached 31 in 2013-14, Harry Kane won back-to-back awards with Tottenham, and in 2017-18 Salah scored 32, a new record for a 38-game season.

• 2010-11: Carlos Tevez (Manchester City) and Dimitar Berbatov (Manchester United), 20 each
• 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), Sadio Mané (Liverpool) and Mohamed Salah (Liverpool), 22 each
• 2019-20: Jamie Vardy (Leicester City), 23

From 2020-21 to 2025-26: Haaland's record

Kane won his third Golden Boot in 2020-21. The following season Salah and Son shared it on 23 goals, and then Erling Haaland arrived at Manchester City: he scored 36 in 35 appearances in 2022-23, the highest total in any Premier League season. Haaland won again with 27 in 2023-24, Salah collected his fourth with 29 in 2024-25 and Haaland took it back with 27 in 2025-26, his third in four seasons.

• 2020-21: Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), 23
• 2021-22: Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) and Son Heung-min (Tottenham Hotspur), 23 each
• 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 Golden Boots won by a player

• Four: Thierry Henry (2001-02, 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06) and Mohamed Salah (2017-18, 2018-19, 2021-22 and 2024-25)
• Three: Alan Shearer (1994-95, 1995-96 and 1996-97), Harry Kane (2015-16, 2016-17 and 2020-21) and Erling Haaland (2022-23, 2023-24 and 2025-26)
• Two: Michael Owen (1997-98 and 1998-99), Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (1998-99 and 2000-01), Didier Drogba (2006-07 and 2009-10) and Robin van Persie (2011-12 and 2012-13)

In total, 26 different players have won the Golden Boot and nine of them have won it more than once. Haaland is one short of the record, so a fourth award in 2026-27 would bring him level with Henry and Salah. By club, Liverpool players have won it eight times, counting shared awards: Owen twice, Suárez once, Mané once and Salah four times. Arsenal are next with six, four of them won by Henry, followed by Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur with five each, with Sheringham's 1992-93 award counted for Tottenham; then come Chelsea with four, Blackburn Rovers with three and Newcastle United with two, while Coventry City, Leeds United, Leicester City and Sunderland have one each.

Record goals in a season: 42-game and 38-game campaigns

In the three 42-game seasons, the benchmark was 34 goals. Andrew Cole reached it for Newcastle United in 1993-94 in 40 appearances, and Alan Shearer matched it for Blackburn Rovers in 1994-95, playing all 42 matches. That 1993-94 season also produced the highest total that did not win the award: Shearer scored 31 and finished three goals behind Cole.

Once the league moved to 38 games, 31 goals looked like a ceiling for a long time. Shearer reached that figure in 1995-96, and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2007-08 and Luis Suárez in 2013-14 equalled it. Salah raised the 38-game record to 32 in 2017-18, and Haaland smashed it in 2022-23 with 36 goals, which also beat Cole and Shearer's 34, so his total is the record for any Premier League season. Harry Kane scored 30 that year and still finished six goals behind; the Premier League itself noted that his tally would have won the Golden Boot in all but four of the previous 38-match seasons.

The lowest totals to win the Golden Boot

The fewest goals ever needed to win the Golden Boot is 18, in 1997-98 and 1998-99, and both times the award was split three ways: first Dion Dublin, Michael Owen and Chris Sutton, then Owen, Dwight Yorke and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. That makes Owen the only multiple winner who never won it outright. The lowest total to win it alone is Nicolas Anelka's 19 for Chelsea in 2008-09, followed by Didier Drogba's 20 in 2006-07, the same figure Tevez and Berbatov shared in 2010-11. At the other end of the scale, the winner reached 30 goals or more in ten seasons.

Who won the Golden Boot in 2024-25 and 2025-26

Mohamed Salah won the 2024-25 Golden Boot with 29 goals for Liverpool, six more than Newcastle United's Alexander Isak, who finished on 23. It was his fourth, equalling Henry's record, and he also won the Playmaker award with 18 assists. Those 47 goal involvements matched the Premier League record for a single season, set by Cole in 1993-94 and equalled by Shearer in 1994-95, and Salah did it in a 38-game campaign in which he played every league match.

In 2025-26 Erling Haaland won it back with 27 goals for Manchester City, five more than Brentford's Igor Thiago, who scored 22. That made three Golden Boots in four seasons, as many as Shearer and Kane have in total, and earlier in that campaign, in December 2025, he had become the fastest player to reach 100 Premier League goals, needing 111 matches to beat Shearer's record of 124.

The all-time Premier League top scorers as of September 2026

The Golden Boot rewards a single season; the all-time scoring list rewards consistency. As of September 2026, Alan Shearer still leads it with 260 Premier League goals, followed by Harry Kane with 213, all of them for Tottenham, Wayne Rooney with 208 and Mohamed Salah with 193, the total he finished on when he left Liverpool at the end of 2025-26. Thierry Henry, the other four-time Golden Boot winner, is eighth on 175. Of the top four, Salah has the most Golden Boots with four, Shearer and Kane won three each and Rooney never won one, proof that topping the chart in one season and scoring year after year are different achievements.

Simulate the 2026-27 Premier League match by match

The 2026-27 season began on 21 August 2026 and its final round is scheduled for 30 May 2027, so there is a long way to go before the next Golden Boot is handed out. On Fut Simulator Pro, the Premier League simulator lets you play the rest of the season from the real table and the real fixture list, and see how the final table could look.

If you would rather focus on a single game, such as one of Manchester City's fixtures, the AI match simulator plays out any match in a tactical view or in a physics arena, and arena matches can be exported as a vertical video. You can also put together your starting eleven with the line-up builder and compare your results with the supercomputer's season projections for the Premier League.

"In 34 seasons, 18 goals have been enough to win the Golden Boot, and 31 once were not."

• Premier League simulator: play the rest of the 2026-27 season from the real table and the real fixture list
• AI match simulator for any fixture, in a tactical view or a physics arena
• Vertical video export of arena matches
• Line-up builder to pick your starting eleven
• Supercomputer page with season projections for the Premier League
• Championship, League One and League Two simulators for the EFL

"Haaland began 2026-27 one Golden Boot short of the record, and most of the season is still to be played."