The Premier League Golden Boot, often stylized as the EPL Golden Boot, is an annual award presented to the leading goalscorer in the league at the end of every season. One exciting aspect of the award is the £1,000 price tag given along with the Golden Boot trophy to the winner.
Following the formation of the Premier League in 1992, top scorers have presented the trophy since 1993. From Teddy Sheringham, who received the inaugural award in 1993, to most prominent names like Thierry Henry and Alan Shearer, the trophy has been won by some of the most brilliant players in the league’s history.
Who are the Premier League Golden Boot winners? We’ve dug deep to bring you the complete list of players who have won the trophy since 1993 to date.
Who is the most Golden Boot winner in Premier League? Thierry Henry leads the EPL Golden Boot all-time winners chart with four awards.
Who has won the Golden Boot 3 times? Alan Shearer and Harry Kane have won the EPL Golden Boot 3 times.
Premier League Golden Boot winners list 2021 < 1993
2021/22 Son Heung-min and Mohamed Salah – 23 Goals
2020–21 Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur, England) – 23 Goals
2019–20 Jamie Vardy (Leicester City, England) – 23 Goals
*2018–19 Mohamed Salah (Liverpool, Egypt) – 22 Goals
*2018–19 Sadio Mané (Liverpool, Senegal) – 22 Goals
*2018–19 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal FC, Gabon) – 22 Goals
2017–18 Mohamed Salah (Liverpool, Egypt) – 32 Goals
2016–17 Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur, England) – 29 Goals
2015–16 Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur, England) – 29 Goals
2014–15 Sergio Agüero (Manchester City, Argentina) – 26 Goals
2013–14 Luis Suárez (Liverpool, Uruguay) – 31 Goals
2012–13 Robin van Persie (Manchester United, Netherlands) – 26 Goals
2011–12 Robin van Persie (Arsenal FC, Netherlands) – 30 Goals
2010–11 Dimitar Berbatov (Manchester United, Bulgaria) – 20 Goals
2010–11 Carlos Tevez (Manchester City, Argentina) – 20 Goals
2009–10 Didier Drogba (Chelsea, Ivory Coast) – 29 Goals
2008–09 Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea, France) – 19 Goals
2007–08 Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United, Portugal) – 31 Goals
2006–07 Didier Drogba (Chelsea, Ivory Coast) – 20 Goals
2005–06 Thierry Henry (Arsenal, France) – 27 Goals
2004–05 Thierry Henry (Arsenal, France) – 25 Goals
2003–04 Thierry Henry (Arsenal, France) – 30 Goals
2002–03 Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United, Netherlands) – 25 Goals
2001–02 Thierry Henry (Arsenal, France) – 24 Goals
2000–01 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (Chelsea, Netherlands) – 23 Goals
1999–2000 Kevin Phillips (Sunderland, England) – 30 Goals
*1998–99 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (Leeds United) – 18 Goals
*1998–99 Dwight Yorke (Manchester United, Trinidad and Tobago) – 18 Goals
*1998–99 Michael Owen (Liverpool, England) – 18 Goals
*1997–98 Michael Owen (Liverpool, England) – 18 Goals
*1997–98 Dion Dublin (Coventry City, England) – 18 Goals
*1997–98 Chris Sutton (Blackburn Rovers, England) – 18 Goals
1996–97 Alan Shearer (Newcastle United, England) – 25 Goals
1995–96 Alan Shearer (Blackburn Rovers, England)
1994–95 Alan Shearer (Blackburn Rovers, England) – 34 Goals
1993–94 Andy Cole (Newcastle United, England) – 34
1992–93 Teddy Sheringham (Tottenham Hotspur, England) – 22 Goals
Most EPL Golden Boot winners
The EPL Golden Boot has been awarded to some of the most notable names in the league’s history, from French forward Thierry Henry to English football legend Alan Shearer. Who are the players with the most awards? Who’s won it most consecutively?
Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur has won three Golden Boot awards in the modern era.
1. Thierry Henry
Awards: 4
Arsenal and France legend Thierry Henry is the player with the most Premier League Golden Boot awards, which stood at four. The French international won all four awards during his time at London based club Arsenal.
And one out of the four award-winning seasons was accompanied by one Premier League title with Arsenal. He is the best player to have won the most awards with three consecutive awards.
Henry won his first award in the 2001–02 season with 24 goals. His goals contributions helped Arsenal win the 2001–02 English Premier League title.
The following season, the Frenchman was overshadowed by a more dominant performance from Ruud van Nistelrooy, who finished the season with 25 goals to help Manchester United to the title.
The Frenchman returned to his best form in the 2003–04 season when Arsenal went unbeaten throughout the season and won the league title. He scored 30 goals.
Henry’s goal-scoring form helped Arsenal claim the ‘Invincible’ status of the modern Premier League era. The Frenchman went on to win three consecutive awards in 2003–04, 2004–05 and 2005–06.
2. Alan Shearer
Awards: 3
Along with Alan Shearer, Andy Cole were the first players to score up to thirty goals in a Premier League season.
Cole achieved the record in 1993–94, and Alan Shearer equalled the record the following season, which helped Blackburn Rovers to the league title.
The English footballer was high firing with Blackburn Rovers in the 1994–95 season. Shearer went on to win three consecutive Golden Boot awards, thus becoming the first player to win the award consecutively.
Shearer was an exceptional player in the English Premier League and could be ranked as one of the league’s greatest ever goal scorers.
Alan Shearer is the English Premier League all-time highest goal scorer with 260 goals. And as the highest goalscorer in three consecutive seasons, Shearer netted 90 goals in total.
He played for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, and Newcastle United in the Premier League. At Southampton, he scored 23 goals in 118 league appearances.
While at Blackburn, where he won the league title following season, his 34 goals tally in the 1994–95 season, he scored a total of 112 goals in 138 league appearances for the club.
During his adventure with Newcastle United, he emerged Premier League Golden Boot winner twice. With the magpies, he scored 148 goals in 303 league appearances.
Alan Shearer currently leads the EPL Golden Boot all-time winners list with 260 goals, a tally yet to be equalled by any other player.
3. Harry Kane
Awards: 3
Tottenham Hotspur forward and captain Harry Kane is the first player in the current EPL era to be awarded three Golden Boots.
Kane received his first award in Tottenham Hotspur shirt in the 2015–16 season, when he scored 25 goals.
The English forward won consecutive awards following his record-smashing 29 goals.
Kane returned to the summit after scoring 23 goals in the 2020–21 season six years later. Harry Kane is currently one of the best strikers in the English Premier League.
Harry joined Tottenham Hotspur as a youth player in 2009. Although he was sent out on loan on several occasions, he’s made a meaningful impact at Spurs more than others who began in the youth ranks.
Kane has won three English Premier League Golden Boots as a Tottenham Hotspur player. His performance took Spurs to fourth and Chelsea on the winner’s chart by clubs.
4. Michael Owen
Awards: 2
Michael Owen was the sixth Englishman to win the award and the second to win the Golden Boot consecutively after Alan Shearer.
Owen received his first award in the 1997–98 season when he scored 18 goals representing Merseyside based Liverpool FC. He made two consecutive wins the following season with the same 18 goals with the Reds.
5. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Awards: 2
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was the first player from The Netherlands to emerge top scorer of the Premier League. He was also the first European or non-English footballer to be awarded the trophy.
Hasselbaink scored 18 goals in the 1998–99 season to emerge as the league’s top scorer. Switching to Chelsea in the 2000–01 season, Hasselbaink 23 goals to finish the season as top scorer for the second time.
6. Didier Drogba
Awards: 2
Chelsea and Ivory Coast legend Didier Drogba became the first African to win the Premier League Golden Boot in the 2006–07 season when he scored 20 goals.
The prolific Ivorian netted 20 times in 36 outings with the Blues. And three years later, he returned to the submit after a splendid season where he scored a personal goal record of 29 to emerge as top scorer in the 2009–10 campaign.
His goals contributions helped Chelsea claim the Premier League title in the same season. Drogba is one of the most celebrated Chelsea players in the modern era of the English Premier League.
The Ivorian international spent eight seasons will Chelsea, winning the top scorer award twice.
7. Robin van Persie
Awards: 2
Former Arsenal and Manchester United star Robin van Persie was the second Dutch footballer to emerge top scorer in the EPL twice after Hasselbaink.
Earlier, Ruud van Nistelrooy became the second player from The Netherlands to win the Golden Boot during the 2002–03 season at Manchester United, scoring 25 goals to help the Red Devils lift the title.
Robin van Persie won his first award in the 2011–12 season with Arsenal, scoring 30 goals in 38 league outings.
Van Persie moved to Manchester United the following season and emerged top scorer for the second consecutive season after scoring 26 goals which helped Man United to the title.
To date, Robin van Persie is one of the most celebrated foreigners in the league’s history.
8. Mohamed Salah
Awards: 2
Egyptian Superstar Mohamed Salah became the first Egyptian to win the Premier League Golden Boot and second African to emerge top scorer after Didier Drogba of Ivory Coast.
The Liverpool FC hitman was with Chelsea before transferring to AS Roma in the Italian Serie A. However, he returned to the Premier League following a blistering form in the Italian top flight.
Salah rose to the top scorer’s chart in the 2017–18 season with Liverpool FC after scoring a personal record or 32 goals in 36 league outings with the Reds.
The following season, Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Senegalese Sadio Mané and Mohamed Salah of Egypt made history as the three Africans to emerge Premier League top Golden Boot winners with 22 goals respectively.
Salah made it two awards while Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Sadio Mané won their first-ever award.
9. Luis Suárez
Awards: 1
Uruguayan forward Luis Suárez scored a record 31 goals to finish the 2013–14 season as top scorer repeating Liverpool FC. Luis Suarez is the only Uruguayan professional footballer and the second South American to win the award.
10. Cristiano Ronaldo
Awards: 1
Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo won the award during his most valuable years in the Premier League.
He became the first Portuguese footballer to win the award following his record-smashing 31 goals in the 2007–08 season with Man United. Manchester United also won the EPL title the same season.
Other well-known players who have won the award are Sergio Agüero, Jamie Vardy, Andy Cole, Dimitar Berbatov, Nikolas Anelka, etc.
Premier League Golden Boot is awarded to recognize the player’s total goals contributions.
History of the Premier League
The EPL is the top tier professional football league in England contested by 20 clubs. Founded in February 1992, it is currently the most popular football league globally.
Some of the top Premier League clubs are Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal, Manchester City, etc.
