Premier League Golden Boot Race: Top Scorers, Standings

Can anyone stop Erling Haaland in the Golden Boot race?

Erling Haaland is determined to regain his Premier League Golden Boot. / Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA/Getty Images

After back-to-back Erling Haaland wins, Mohamed Salah returned to the top of the Premier League’s scoring charts last season, and the pair had been expected to tussle for Golden Boot honours in 2025–26.

The award has been handed out to the leading scorer(s) of each Premier League season since the competition’s inauguration in 1992.

Some of the sport’s finest sharpshooters have tested their talents on English shores, and one of the contemporary greats, Haaland, has threatened to monopolise this scoring prize since he arrived from Borussia Dortmund in 2022. The Nordic goal-machine broke the Premier League’s single-season scoring record in year one and, after losing out to Salah last year, is performing like a striker determined to reclaim the esteemed individual award.

Here's a look at the 2025–26 Premier League Golden Boot race.

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11. Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa)

Morgan Rogers is in exceptional form. / Richard Sellers/Sportsphoto/Allstar/Getty Images

Games Played: 19
Goals: 7

Morgan Rogers is playing like a man possessed as he seeks to not only be on the plane to the 2026 World Cup, but make Thomas Tuchel’s XI. Based on his current form, there could be no complaints with the Aston Villa ace occupying the No.10 role for England.

Three braces since mid-November have been crucial to Villa’s surprise title push, with Rogers leading the charge courtesy of some astonishing solo performances.

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10. Jean-Philippe Mateta (Crystal Palace)

Barclaysman. / Julian Finney/Getty Images

Games Played: 18
Goals: 7

Jean Philippe-Mateta’s exploits in south London earned him a long-awaited call-up to the French national team at the age of 28.

A proper "Barclaysman" who arrived far too late to be officially labelled one, Mateta enjoyed an excellent scoring season in 2024–25 and notched his second Premier League hat-trick during Crystal Palace’s dramatic 3–3 draw with Bournemouth in October.

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9. Richarlison (Tottenham Hotspur)

Richarlison has been a steady provider. / Sebastian Frej/MB Media/Getty Images

Games Played: 18
Goals: 7

Richarlison is never going to be a 25-goal-a-season striker, but the Tottenham Hotspur forward has been a steady presence in front of goal during the current campaign.

Despite not always being a guaranteed starter, the Brazilian has provided seven goals, with some stunners thrown in for good measure. He’s taking full advantage of Dominic Solanke’s injury absence.

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8. Phil Foden (Manchester City)

Foden is back to his best. / Vince Mignott/MB Media/Getty Images

Games Played: 16
Goals: 7

Manchester City’s mischievous playmaker was close to anonymous during a disappointing 2024–25 campaign for the Cityzens, but Phil Foden has so far been a man on a mission this season.

The England international seems keen to play a major role for Tuchel’s Three Lions in North America next summer, with his run of form over the autumn impossible for the German to overlook. Foden’s scoring goals again, and his catalogue of strikes is mightily impressive.

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7. Nick Woltemade (Newcastle United)

Nick Woltemade has hit the ground running at Newcastle. / Serena Taylor/Newcastle United/Getty Images

Games Played: 16
Goals: 7

Being the man to replace Alexander Isak was always going to come with significant pressure, but Nick Woltemade has brushed it off impressively. He’s made a superb goalscoring start on Tyneside and appears destined to finish his debut campaign with a sizeable haul.

The towering German’s physicality makes him difficult to deny, but he also boasts plenty of technical class. Only 23 years old, Woltemade is another astute Newcastle signing.

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6. Danny Welbeck (Brighton & Hove Albion)

Welbeck for England? / Harry Murphy/Getty Images

Games Played: 18
Goals: 8

The veteran striker had never notched double-digit goals in a Premier League season until hipster German coach Fabian Hürzeler came along.

After scoring ten times in the league for Brighton & Hove Albion last season, Welbeck looks poised to better that tally in 2025–26. There have even been whispers of an England recall, having last featured for his country in 2018.

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5. Hugo Ekitiké (Liverpool)

Hugo Ekitiké has been Liverpool’s brightest attacking threat. / Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA/Getty Images

Games Played: 17
Goals: 8

Liverpool’s blockbuster summer signings have largely underwhelmed to date bar one: Hugo Ekitiké. The Frenchman’s infectious energy, blistering pace and clinical finishing have swiftly endeared him to the Anfield faithful, who are in desperate need of a hero.

Ekitiké’s promise shines as bright as his current ability and the silky speedster appears likely to add plenty to his tally before the season’s conclusion.

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4. Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Leeds United)

Dominic Calvert-Lewin has been crucial for Leeds. / Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA/Getty Images

Games Played: 16
Goals: 8

Question marks over his injury record tempered expectations for Dominic Calvert-Lewin on arrival at Leeds United, but the Englishman has emphatically silenced his doubters since getting up to speed in Yorkshire.

The forward has scored seven goals in his past six Premier League games, finding the net against Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool as a purple patch reinvigorates a career that had been on the decline.

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3. Antoine Semenyo (Bournemouth)

Antoine Semenyo is in fine form this term. / Visionhaus/Getty Images

Games Played: 18
Goals: 9

Antoine Semenyo was simply unstoppable in the opening weeks of the campaign and while the Ghana international has subsequently slowed down, a return to the scoresheet in recent matches has boosted confidence once more.

The powerful and versatile winger is a supreme threat in the final third and looks likely to be representing Manchester City during the second half of the Premier League season.

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2. Igor Thiago (Brentford)

Thiago is thriving after an injury-hit debut season. / Catherine Ivill/AMA/Getty Images)

Games Played: 18
Goals: 11

After an injury-hit debut season, Brentford are finally reaping the rewards of Igor Thiago’s labour.

Signed as an Ivan Toney replacement, Thiago is far from the standout facilitator Toney was in west London, but the Brazilian is an excellent poacher who has a knack for being in the right place at the right time.

The Bees’ opportunistic centre forward is five games without a goal, however, which has seen him lose ground in the Golden Boot race.

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1. Erling Haaland (Man City)

Erling Haaland is unstoppable. / Charlotte Wilson/Offside/Offside/Getty Images

Games Played: 18
Goals: 19

It’s been another freakish start to a Premier League season for Erling Haaland, who looks primed to take home a third Golden Boot.

Man City had been utterly reliant on his unerring ability in front of goal at the start of the term, but recent performances suggest Pep Guardiola’s side are rediscovering an imperious collective groove.

Still, the Norwegian marksman continues to score at a frightening rate as he seeks to power City to Premier League glory.

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Last Five Premier League Golden Boot Winners

Season	Player	Club	Goals
2024–25	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	29
2023–24	Erling Haaland	Man City	27
2022–23	Erling Haaland	Man City	26
2021–22	Son Heung-min & Mohamed Salah	Tottenham & Liverpool	23
2020–21	Harry Kane	Tottenham	23

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Premier League Golden Boot History

Harry Kane has taken home three Golden Boots. / Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

The formative years of Premier League football were dominated by the 4-4-2 and homegrown marksmen, with the first seven Golden Boots won by an Englishman.

However, foreign influence started to be felt towards the end of the 90s, and the abundance of quality brought in from overseas this century means Harry Kane is the only man to don a Three Lions shirt and win the Premier League Golden Boot since 2001.

The competition’s second all-time leading goalscorer has prevailed three times, with only Thierry Henry and Mohamed Salah (four wins) claiming the prize more. The Egyptian added a fourth success during Liverpool’s title triumph last season.

Kane joined Alan Shearer on three wins in 2021, with Shearer being only one of two players to claim the award for two different teams. Robin van Persie is the other, and he did it in back-to-back seasons; first with Arsenal, then Manchester United.

Michael Owen, Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink, Didier Drogba and Haaland have also won the Golden Boot multiple times. Both of Owen’s wins were examples of the award being shared, which has happened five times, most recently between Salah and Son Heung-min in 2021–22.

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