| A-League Golden Boot | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | The leading goalscorer in a given A-League season. |
| Sponsored by | Nike |
| Country | Australia |
| Presented by | Football Federation Australia |
| First awarded | 2006 |
| Last awarded | 2021 |
| Currently held by | Jamie Maclaren |
| Most awards | Jamie Maclaren 3 |
The A-League Golden Boot is an annual soccer award presented to the leading goalscorer in the A-League. It is currently referred to as the Nike Golden Boot for sponsorship purposes. [1]
The A-League was founded in 2005 to replace the semi-professional National Soccer League. [2] The number of teams in the league has ranged from eight to eleven and there are currently ten clubs in the league. [3] The award is given to the top-scorer over the regular season (not including the finals series). [1] The inaugural award was shared by four players: Alex Brosque, Bobby Despotovski, Stewart Petrie and Archie Thompson.
Jamie Maclaren has won the golden boot on three occasions, more than any other player. Petrie was the first non-Australian winner in the league's inaugural season.
Bobô – with 27 goals in 2017–18 – scored the most goals to win the Golden Boot, while Danny Allsopp scored the fewest to win the award outright, with 11 goals in 2006–07. The all-time record for lowest number of goals scored to be bestowed the award, however, is 8 goals; this was achieved during the 2005–06 season, when the award was shared between four players. This marks one of two seasons in which the award has been shared. Bobô recorded the highest goals-to-games ratio to win the award, scoring 27 goals in 27 games in 2017–18 for a rate of 1.00.
| Player (X) | Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one) |
|---|---|
| Games | The number of A-League regular season games played by the winner that season [upper-alpha 1] |
| Rate | The winner's goals-to-games ratio that regular season |
 | Indicates multiple award winners in the same season |
| § | Denotes the club were A-League premiers in the same season |
| Club | Total |
|---|---|
| Brisbane Roar | 3 |
| Melbourne City | 3 |
| Melbourne Victory | 3 |
| Central Coast Mariners | 2 |
| Newcastle Jets | 2 |
| Sydney FC | 2 |
| Wellington Phoenix | 2 |
| Adelaide United | 1 |
| Gold Coast United | 1 |
| Perth Glory | 1 |
Daniel Lee "Danny" Allsopp is a former Australian football player who played as a striker. He last played for Launceston City. He is a full international for the Australia national football team, and is well known for being Melbourne Victory's second highest, and the A-League's seventh highest all-time goalscorer, behind Archie Thompson, Shane Smeltz, Besart Berisha, Jamie Maclaren, Sergio van Dijk, Mark Bridge and Carlos Hernandez.
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