Premier League Golden Boot
Thierry Henry has won the most Golden Boot awards.
Description	The leading goalscorer in a given Premier League season.
Sponsored by	Cadbury
Country	England
Presented by	Premier League
First awarded	1993
Currently held by	Erling Haaland (1st time)
Most awards	Thierry Henry (4)

The Premier League Golden Boot is a yearly football award that is given to footballers who score the most goals in a Premier league season. The winners are also given £1000 for each goal they have scored in the season.^[1]

The first person to win the Premier League Golden Boot was Teddy Sheringham during the 1992-93 season. Arsenal F.C.'s Thierry Henry has won the award 4 times and currently holds the record for the most Golden Boots wins in the history of Premier League.^[2] Only two players have won the award for 3 consecutive (back-to-back) years, namely Thierry Henry and Alan Shearer. Most recently (2020-21), the award was won by Harry Kane; who won it for the third time.^[3][4]

The first international players to win the Premier League Golden Boot were Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Dwight Yorke during the 1998-99 season.^[5]

Key

Player (X)	Name of the player and number of golden boots he has won (if more than one)
Games	The number of Premier league matches played by the winner in that season[A]
Rate	Goals scored per game by the player (total no. of goals divided by total no. of games i.e. Average)
†	Indicates (meaning- to show/denote) that more than one player has won the award
	Indicates that the player also won the European Golden Shoe in the same season
§	Indicates that the player's team won the Premier league that season

Premier League Golden Boot winners

Season	Player	Nationality	Club	Goals	Games[B]	Rate	Ref(s)
1992–93	Teddy Sheringham	England	Tottenham Hotspur[C]	22	41	0.54	[8]
1993–94	Andy Cole	England	Newcastle United	34	40	0.85	[8]
1994–95	Alan Shearer	England	Blackburn Rovers§	34	42	0.81	[8][9]
1995–96	Alan Shearer (2)	England	Blackburn Rovers	31	35	0.89	[8][9]
1996–97	Alan Shearer (3)	England	Newcastle United	25	31	0.81	[8][9]
1997–98†	Chris Sutton	England	Blackburn Rovers	18	35	0.51	[8]
1997–98†	Dion Dublin	England	Coventry City	18	36	0.50	[8][10]
1997–98†	Michael Owen	England	Liverpool	18	36	0.50	[8]
1998–99†	Michael Owen (2)	England	Liverpool	18	30	0.60	[8]
1998–99†	Dwight Yorke	Trinidad and Tobago	Manchester United§	18	33	0.55	[11]
1998–99†	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	Netherlands	Leeds United	18	36	0.50	[8]
1999–2000	Kevin Phillips	England	Sunderland	30	36	0.83	[12][13]
2000–01	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (2)	Netherlands	Chelsea	23	35	0.66	[14]
2001–02	Thierry Henry	France	Arsenal§	24	33	0.73	[11]
2002–03	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Netherlands	Manchester United§	25	34	0.74	[15]
2003–04	Thierry Henry (2)	France	Arsenal§	30	37	0.81	[16][11]
2004–05	Thierry Henry (3)	France	Arsenal	25	32	0.78	[16]
2005–06	Thierry Henry (4)	France	Arsenal	27	32	0.84	[8]
2006–07	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	Chelsea	20	36	0.56	[17]
2007–08	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	Manchester United§	31	34	0.91[D]	[19][20]
2008–09	Nicolas Anelka	France	Chelsea	19	36	0.53	[21]
2009–10	Didier Drogba (2)	Ivory Coast	Chelsea§	29	32	0.91[D]	[22]
2010–11†	Carlos Tevez	Argentina	Manchester City	20	31	0.65	[23]
2010–11†	Dimitar Berbatov	Bulgaria	Manchester United§	20	32	0.63	[23]
2011–12	Robin van Persie	Netherlands	Arsenal	30	38[E]	0.79	[25]
2012–13	Robin van Persie (2)	Netherlands	Manchester United§	26	38	0.68	[26]
2013–14	Luis Suárez	Uruguay	Liverpool	31	33	0.94	[27]
2014–15	Sergio Agüero	Argentina	Manchester City	26	33	0.79	[28]
2015–16	Harry Kane	England	Tottenham Hotspur	25	38	0.65	[29]
2016–17	Harry Kane (2)	England	Tottenham Hotspur	29	30	0.97	[30]
2017–18	Mohamed Salah	Egypt	Liverpool	32	36	0.89	[31]
2018–19†	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Gabon	Arsenal	22	36	0.61	[32]
2018–19†	Sadio Mané	Senegal	Liverpool	22	36	0.61	[32]
2018–19†	Mohamed Salah (2)	Egypt	Liverpool	22	38	0.58	[32]
2019-20	Jamie Vardy	England	Leicester City	23	35	0.66	[33]
2020-21	Harry Kane (3)	England	Tottenham Hotspur	23	35	0.66	[3]

Country	Total
England	14
Netherlands	5
France	5
Argentina	2
Egypt	2
Ivory Coast	2
Bulgaria	1
Gabon	1
Portugal	1
Senegal	1
Trinidad and Tobago	1
Uruguay	1

The award was sponsored by Carling for the time between 1994 and 2001. In 2001, Barclaycard took over the sponsorship rights and continued to own them until 2005 after which, Barclays bought the sponsorship rights of both the award and Premier league. Currently, the award is being sponsored by Cadbury.^[1]