MLS Golden Boot

The MLS Golden Boot (currently commercially termed "Audi Golden Boot") has been awarded since the 2005 season to Major League Soccer's regular–season leading scorer. The award replaced the MLS Scoring Champion Award that was awarded since the league's inception in 1996.

1996–2004

Prior to 2005 MLS used a point system that awarded two points for a goal and one point for an assist to give the MLS Scoring Champion Award.

MLS Scoring Champion
Season Player(s) Club(s) Goals (2 points) Assists (1 point) Points
1996 United States Roy Lassiter Tampa Bay Mutiny 27 4 58
1997 United States Preki Kansas City Wizards 12 17 41
1998 Trinidad and Tobago Stern John Columbus Crew 26 5 57
1999 United States Jason Kreis Dallas Burn 18 15 51
2000 Senegal Mamadou Diallo Tampa Bay Mutiny 26 4 56
2001 Honduras Alex Pineda Chacón Miami Fusion 19 9 47
2002 United States Taylor Twellman New England Revolution 23 6 52
2003 United States Preki (2) Kansas City Wizards 12 17 41
2004 Honduras Amado Guevara
United States Pat Noonan 		MetroStars
New England Revolution 		10
11 		10
8 		30

2005–present

Carlos Vela scored a record 34 goals for Los Angeles FC during the 2019 season.
Chris Wondolowski is a two-time winner of the Golden Boot award and the all-time top scorer in MLS history.

Since 2005 Major League Soccer has awarded the MLS Golden Boot to the player who has scored the most goals outright, with ties being broken by assists.[1]

MLS Golden Boot
Season Player Club Goals Games Rate
2005 United States Taylor Twellman (2) New England Revolution 17 25 0.68
2006 United States Jeff Cunningham Real Salt Lake 16 31 0.52
2007 Brazil Luciano Emilio D.C. United 20 29 0.69
2008 United States Landon Donovan Los Angeles Galaxy 20 25 0.80
2009 United States Jeff Cunningham (2) FC Dallas 17 28 0.61
2010 United States Chris Wondolowski San Jose Earthquakes 18 28 0.64
2011 Canada Dwayne De Rosario D.C. United 16 33 0.48
2012 United States Chris Wondolowski (2) San Jose Earthquakes 27 32 0.84
2013 Brazil Camilo Sanvezzo Vancouver Whitecaps FC 22 32 0.69
2014 England Bradley Wright-Phillips New York Red Bulls 27 32 0.84
2015 Italy Sebastian Giovinco Toronto FC 22 33 0.67
2016 England Bradley Wright-Phillips (2) New York Red Bulls 24 34 0.71
2017 Hungary Nemanja Nikolić Chicago Fire 24 33 0.73
2018 Venezuela Josef Martínez Atlanta United FC 31 34 0.91
2019 Mexico Carlos Vela Los Angeles FC 34 31 1.10
2020 Uruguay Diego Rossi Los Angeles FC 14 19 0.74
2021 Argentina Taty Castellanos New York City FC 19 32 0.59
2022 Germany Hany Mukhtar Nashville SC 23 33 0.70
2023 Gabon Denis Bouanga Los Angeles FC 20 31 0.65
2024 Belgium Christian Benteke D.C. United 23 30 0.77

References

  1. ^ "MLS Golden Boot winners | MLSsoccer.com". Archived from the original on January 17, 2016.