A-League Men Golden Boot

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A-League Men Golden Boot
Awarded forThe leading goalscorer in a given A-League season.
Country Australia
Presented by Australian Professional Leagues
First awarded2006
Last awarded2024
Currently held by Adam Taggart
Most awards Jamie Maclaren 5

The A-League Men Golden Boot is an annual association football award presented to the leading goalscorer in the A-League Men. It was previously referred to as the Nike Golden Boot for sponsorship purposes. [1]

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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 twelve and there are currently twelve 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 five 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, the other being the 2016–17 season, where the award was shared between Jamie Maclaren and Besart Berisha. 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.

In 2024, Adam Taggart became the first ever player in the Australian top flight to win the Golden Boot from a team that finished bottom, scoring 20 goals in 25 games for Perth Glory.

Winners

Archie Thompson was one of four winners of the inaugural A-League Golden Boot in 2006. Archie Thompson-2012.jpg
Archie Thompson was one of four winners of the inaugural A-League Golden Boot in 2006.
Bobo won the 2017-18 A-League Golden Boot, scoring 27 goals in 27 games for a rate of 1.00; he holds the record for the most goals scored in a single season. Bobo'14.JPG
Bobô won the 2017–18 A-League Golden Boot, scoring 27 goals in 27 games for a rate of 1.00; he holds the record for the most goals scored in a single season.
Key
Player (X)Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
GamesThe number of A-League regular season games played by the winner that season [upper-alpha 1]
RateThe 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
A-League Golden Boot winners
SeasonPlayerNationalityClubGoalsGamesRateRef(s)
2005–06 † Archie Thompson Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Melbourne Victory 8150.53 [4]
2005–06 † Bobby Despotovski Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Perth Glory 8190.42 [4]
2005–06 † Stewart Petrie Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland Central Coast Mariners 8190.42 [4]
2005–06 † Alex Brosque Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Queensland Roar 8210.38 [4]
2006–07 Danny Allsopp Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Melbourne Victory §11200.55 [5]
2007–08 Joel Griffiths Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Newcastle Jets 12190.63 [6]
2008–09 Shane Smeltz Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand Wellington Phoenix 12200.60 [7]
2009–10 Shane Smeltz (2)Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand Gold Coast United 19250.76 [8]
2010–11 Sergio van Dijk Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia Adelaide United 16280.57 [9]
2011–12 Besart Berisha Flag of Albania.svg  Albania Brisbane Roar 19260.73 [10]
2012–13 Daniel McBreen Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Central Coast Mariners 17250.68 [11]
2013–14 Adam Taggart Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Newcastle Jets 16250.64 [12]
2014–15 Marc Janko Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Sydney FC 16220.73 [13]
2015–16 Bruno Fornaroli Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay Melbourne City 23270.85 [14]
2016–17 † Besart Berisha (2)Flag of Kosovo.svg  Kosovo Melbourne Victory 19260.73 [15]
2016–17 † Jamie Maclaren Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Brisbane Roar 19260.73 [15]
2017–18 Bobô Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil Sydney FC §27271.00 [16]
2018–19 Roy Krishna Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji Wellington Phoenix 18260.69 [17]
2019–20 Jamie Maclaren (2)Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Melbourne City 22230.96 [18]
2020–21 Jamie Maclaren (3)Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Melbourne City §25241.04 [19]
2021–22 Jamie Maclaren (4)Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Melbourne City §15240.63 [20]
2022–23 Jamie Maclaren (5)Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Melbourne City §24260.92 [21]
2023–24 Adam Taggart (2)Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Perth Glory 20250.80 [22]

Awards won by club

ClubTotal
Melbourne City 5
Brisbane Roar 3
Melbourne Victory 3
Central Coast Mariners 2
Newcastle Jets 2
Perth Glory 2
Sydney FC 2
Wellington Phoenix 2
Adelaide United 1
Gold Coast United 1

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ This does not necessarily match the total number of games in a season.

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