I-League Golden Boot

The I-League Golden Boot is an annual Indian association football award given to the top goalscorer at the end of the I-League season, the top domestic league competition in club Football in India, since its creation in 2007.

The top-scoring I-League Golden Boot winner is Ranty Martins Soleye with 32 goals in a 26-game season with Odafe Onyeka Okolie holding the record when the league was an 18-game season with 22 goals. Ranti won the award for the most times with five wins however Odafe has won the award most times for a single club, winning thrice while playing for Churchill Brothers.

Álex Sánchez of Gokulam Kerala is the latest winner of the Golden Boot. During the 2023–24 season, he scored 19 goals in 22 matches.

Recipients

As of the April 2024, 13 players have won the golden boot award. Only three player has won the award more than once with Ranti winning the award most times with five wins. Winning the golden boot though might not translate into league success as thrice once in eleven I-League seasons as the team which has the golden boot winner won the league as well and the latest was in 2015-16 when scoring leader Sunil Chhetri and his team, Bengaluru won the league.

List of Golden Boot winners

The following table is a list of winners of the I-League Golden Boot per season, detailing their club, goal tally, actual games played, and their strike rate (goals/games).

Season	Winner	Club	Goals	Games	Rate
2007–08	Odafe Onyeka Okolie	Churchill Brothers	22	18	1.22
2008–09	Odafe Onyeka Okolie	Churchill Brothers	24	22	1.09
2009–10	Odafe Onyeka Okolie	Churchill Brothers	21	24	0.87
2010–11	Ranti Martins	Dempo	28	22	1.27
2011–12	Ranti Martins	Dempo	32	26	1.23
2012–13	Ranti Martins	Prayag United	26	25	1.14
2013–14	Cornell Glen	Shillong Lajong	14	19	0.74
	Sunil Chhetri	Bengaluru		23	0.61
	Darryl Duffy	Salgaocar		24	0.58
2014–15	Ranti Martins	East Bengal	17	20	0.85
2015–16	Ranti Martins	East Bengal	12	13	0.92
2016–17	Aser Pierrick Dipanda	Shillong Lajong	11	17	0.65
2017–18	Aser Pierrick Dipanda	Mohun Bagan	13	18	0.72
2018–19	Pedro Manzi	Chennai City	21	18	1.16
	Willis Plaza	Churchill Brothers		20	1.05
2019–20	Aser Pierrick Dipanda	Minerva Punjab	12	16	0.75
2020–21	Bidyashagar Singh	TRAU	12	15	0.80
2021–22	Marcus Joseph	Mohammedan	15	18	0.83
2022–23	Luka Majcen	Punjab	16	20	0.80
2023–24	Álex Sánchez	Gokulam Kerala	19	22	0.86
2024–25	David Castañeda	Sreenidi Deccan	17	22	0.77

Leading Indian goalscorer

Ever since the beginning of the I-League in 2007, only two Indian players have been the I-League Golden Boot winners with Sunil Chettri winning the award in 2013-14 season and Bidyashagar Singh winning the award in 2020–21 season. The following table lists the top Indian goalscorer in each season and their overall ranking in that season's top scorer table.

Season	Player	Club	Goals	Games	Rate	Overall rank
2007–08	Bhaichung Bhutia	Mohun Bagan	10	16	0.62	5th
2008–09	Sunil Chhetri	East Bengal	9	14	0.64	4th
2009–10	Mohammed Rafi	Mahindra United	14	22	0.68	2nd
2010–11	Jeje Lalpekhlua	Indian Arrows	13	15	0.86	7th
2011–12	Chinadorai Sabeeth	Pailan Arrows	9	26	0.34	11th
2012–13	C. K. Vineeth	Prayag United	7	23	0.30	13th
2013–14	Sunil Chhetri	Bengaluru	14	23	0.61	1st
2014–15	Thongkhosiem Haokip	Pune	7	18	0.39	7th
2015–16	Sunil Chhetri	Bengaluru	5	14	0.36	6th
	Sushil Kumar Singh	Mumbai		16	0.31
2016–17	C. K. Vineeth	Bengaluru	7	15	0.47	5th
	Sunil Chettri	Bengaluru		16	0.44
2017–18	Abhijit Sarkar	Indian Arrows	4	14	0.29	8th
	Subhash Singh	NEROCA		17	0.24
2018–19	Jobby Justin	East Bengal	9	17	0.52	4th
2019–20	Rochharzela	Aizawl	6	15	0.4	11th
2020–21	Bidyashagar Singh	TRAU	12	15	0.8	1st
2021–22	Thahir Zaman	Gokulam Kerala	5	15	0.33	12th
2022–23	Seilenthang Lotjem	Sudeva Delhi	6	21	0.29	11th
	Samuel Kynshi	Real Kashmir
2023–24	Lalrinzuala Lalbiaknia	Aizawl	15	20	0.75	3rd
2024–25	Lalrinzuala Lalbiaknia	Aizawl	12	19	0.63	3rd

See also

• List of Indian football champions

External links

• I-League.org Official website of I-League