Pakistan Premier League Golden Boot

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The Pakistan Premier League Golden Boot is an annual Pakistani association football award given to the top goalscorer at the end of the Pakistan Premier League season, the top domestic league competition in club football in Pakistan, since its creation in 2004.

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The top-scoring Pakistan Premier League Golden Boot winners are Kaleemullah Khan with 35 goals in a 30-game season, Muhammad Rasool when the league was a 22-game season, with 22 goals each. Arif Mehmood had the second-highest scoring of 20 goals. Mehmood won the award for the most times with 5 golden boots, all of them with WAPDA.

Anser Abbas of Pakistan Army is the latest winner, during the 2018–19 season. He scored 15 goals in 26 matches. [1] [2]

Recipients

As of the December 2018 six players have won the golden boot award. Only two player has won the award more than once with Mehmood winning the award most times with five wins.

List of Golden Boot winners

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

SeasonWinnerClubGoalsGamesRateRef.
2004–05 Flag of Pakistan.svg Arif Mehmood WAPDA 20161.25 [3]
2005–06 Flag of Pakistan.svg Imran Hussain Pakistan Army 21220.95 [4]
2006–07 Flag of Pakistan.svg Arif Mehmood WAPDA 18200.90 [5]
2007–08 Flag of Pakistan.svg Arif Mehmood WAPDA 21260.81 [6]
2008–09 Flag of Pakistan.svg Muhammad Rasool Khan Research Laboratories 22260.85 [7]
2009–10 Flag of Pakistan.svg Arif Mehmood WAPDA 20260.77 [8]
2010–11 Flag of Pakistan.svg Arif Mehmood WAPDA 21300.70
2011–12 Flag of Pakistan.svg Jadeed Khan Afghan Chaman 22300.73
2012–13 Flag of Pakistan.svg Kaleemullah Khan Khan Research Laboratories 35301.17
2013–14 Flag of Pakistan.svg Muhammad Karachi Port Trust 27300.90
2014–15 Flag of Pakistan.svg Muhammad Rasool K-Electric 22221.00 [9]
2018–19 Flag of Pakistan.svg Ansar Abbas Pakistan Army 15260.58 [1] [2]

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