The
European Golden Shoe, formerly known as the
European Golden Boot, is an
association football award presented each season to the leading goalscorer in
league matches from the top
division of every European national league. From its inception in the 1967–68 season the award, originally called
Soulier d'Or, which translates from
French as
Golden Shoe or
Boot, was given by
L'Équipe magazine to the top goalscorer in all European leagues that season.
Following a protest from the Cyprus FA where a player allegedly scored 40 goals, L'Équipe decided to make the competition unofficial until 1996; however, co-sponsors
Adidas continued to present the award. The top scorer for the 1990–91 season,
Darko Pančev, did not receive his award until 2006. It was reinstated in 1996 with different regulations. Since then,
European Sports Magazines have awarded the Golden Shoe based on a points system that allows players in tougher leagues to win even if they score fewer goals than a player in a weaker league. With this modification goals are ranked differently between the leagues.
1968 to 1991
Between 1968 and 1991, the European Golden Boot, as it was then known, was given to the highest goalscorer in any European league. This was regardless of the toughness of the league in which the top scorer played and the number of games in which the player had taken part. During this period
Eusébio,
Gerd Müller,
Dudu Georgescu and
Fernando Gomes each won the Golden Boot twice.
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Eusébio
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Benfica
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Portuguese Liga
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CSKA Sofia
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Bulgarian A PFG
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|1969–70
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Bayern Munich
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German Bundesliga
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|1970–71
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Marseille
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French Ligue 1
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|1971–72
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Bayern Munich
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German Bundesliga
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|1972–73
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Eusébio
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Benfica
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Portuguese Liga
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|1973–74
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Sporting CP
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Portuguese Liga
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|1974–75
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Dinamo Bucharest
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Romanian Divizia A
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|1975–76
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Omonia Nicosia
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Cypriot First Division
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|1976–77
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Dinamo Bucharest
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Romanian Divizia A
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|1977–78
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Rapid Vienna
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Austrian Bundesliga
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|1978–79
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AZ Alkmaar
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Dutch Eredivisie
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|1979–80
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Lierse
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Belgian League
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|1980–81
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Botev Plovdiv
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Bulgarian A PFG
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|1981–82
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Ajax
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Dutch Eredivisie
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|1982–83
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Porto
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Portuguese Liga
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|1983–84
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Liverpool
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English First Division
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|1984–85
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Porto
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Portuguese Liga
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|1985–86
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Ajax
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Dutch Eredivisie
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Rodion Cămătaru
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Dinamo Bucharest
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Romanian Divizia A
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Toni Polster
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Austria Wien
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Austrian Bundesliga
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|1987–88
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Galatasaray
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Turkcell Super League
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|1988–89
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Dinamo Bucharest
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Romanian Divizia A
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|bgcolor=#cedff2|1989–90Hugo Sanchez and Hristo Stoichkov were joint winners.
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Real Madrid
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Spanish La Liga
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CSKA Sofia
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Bulgarian A PFG
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Crvena Zvezda
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Yugoslav First League
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1991 to 1996
Originally, no allowance was made for the relative strengths of the leagues in which the players competed. Following a protest from the
Cyprus FA, which claimed that a Cypriot player with 40 goals should have received the award (though the official top scorers for the season are both listed with 19 goals),
L'Équipe issued no awards between 1991 and 1996; however, sponsors
Adidas continued to present an award. For the 1996–97 season, when
European Sports Magazines (ESM), of which
L'Équipe is a member, decided on a points system weighted according to the relative strength of each of Europe's leagues.
The winners in the interim were:
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Rangers
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Scottish Premier Division
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Rangers
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Scottish Premier Division
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|1993–94
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Porthmadog
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League of Wales
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Homenetmen
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Armenian Premier League
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|1995–96
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Margveti
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Georgian Umaglesi Liga
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1996 to present
Since the 1996–97 season,
European Sports Magazines have awarded the Golden Shoe based on a points system that allows players in tougher leagues to win even if they score fewer goals than a player in a weaker league.
The weightings are determined by the league's ranking on the
UEFA coefficients, which in turn depend on the results of each league's clubs in
European competition over the previous five seasons. Goals scored in the top five leagues according to the UEFA coefficients list are multiplied by a factor of two, and goals scored in the leagues ranked six to 21 are multiplied by 1.5. Thus goals scored in
Serie A, the top
Italian football league, will count for more than those scored in the weaker
Welsh Premier League, its
Welsh equivalent.
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Ronaldo
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Barcelona
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Spanish La Liga
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|1997–98
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Vitesse Arnhem
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Dutch Eredivisie
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|1998–99
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Porto
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Portuguese Liga
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|1999–2000
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Sunderland
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English Premier League
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|2000–01
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Celtic
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Scottish Premier League
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Sporting CP
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Portuguese Liga
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|align=center|{{cite web
|url=http://www.eusm.eu/item/goldenshoe_winners.htm |title=Golden Shoe award winners |publisher=European Sports Magazines |accessdate=7 March 2008 }}
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|2002–03
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Deportivo La Coruña
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Spanish La Liga
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|2003–04
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Arsenal
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English Premier League
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|rowspan=2|2004–05Thierry Henry and Diego Forlan were joint winners
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Arsenal
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English Premier League
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Villarreal
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Spanish La Liga
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|2005–06
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Fiorentina
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Italian Serie A
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2006–07
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Roma
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Italian Serie A
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2007–08
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Manchester United
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English Premier League
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2008–09
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Atlético Madrid
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Spanish La Liga
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2009–10
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Barcelona
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Spanish La Liga
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