A-League Men Golden Boot

This article is about the leading goalscorer award in the Australian premier men's association football league. For the equivalent award in the women's league of the same name, see A-League Women Golden Boot.

The A-League Men Golden Boot is an annual association football award presented to the leading goalscorer in the A-League Men. It is currently referred to as the Nike Golden Boot for sponsorship purposes.^[1]

A-League Men Golden Boot
Awarded for	The leading goalscorer in a given A-League season.
Sponsored by	Nike
Country	Australia
Presented by	Football Federation Australia
First awarded	2006
Last awarded	2023
Currently held by	Jamie Maclaren
Most awards	Jamie Maclaren 5

The A-League was founded in 2005 to replace the semi-professional National Soccer League.^[2] The number of teams in the league has ranged from eight to twelve and there are currently twelve clubs in the league.^[3] The award is given to the top-scorer over the regular season (not including the finals series).^[1] The inaugural award was shared by four players: Alex Brosque, Bobby Despotovski, Stewart Petrie and Archie Thompson.

Jamie Maclaren has won the golden boot on five occasions, more than any other player. Petrie was the first non-Australian winner in the league's inaugural season.

Bobô – with 27 goals in 2017–18 – scored the most goals to win the Golden Boot, while Danny Allsopp scored the fewest to win the award outright, with 11 goals in 2006–07. The all-time record for lowest number of goals scored to be bestowed the award, however, is 8 goals; this was achieved during the 2005–06 season, when the award was shared between four players. This marks one of two seasons in which the award has been shared, the other being the 2016–17 season, where the award was shared between Jamie Maclaren and Besart Berisha. Bobô recorded the highest goals-to-games ratio to win the award, scoring 27 goals in 27 games in 2017–18 for a rate of 1.00.

Winners

 

Archie Thompson was one of four winners of the inaugural A-League Golden Boot in 2006.

 

Bobô won the 2017–18 A-League Golden Boot, scoring 27 goals in 27 games for a rate of 1.00; he holds the record for the most goals scored in a single season.

Key

Player (X)	Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
Games	The number of A-League regular season games played by the winner that season^[A]
Rate	The winner's goals-to-games ratio that regular season
†	Indicates multiple award winners in the same season
§	Denotes the club were A-League premiers in the same season

A-League Golden Boot winners

Season	Player	Nationality	Club	Goals	Games	Rate	Ref(s)
2005–06†	Archie Thompson	Australia	Melbourne Victory	8	15	0.53	^[4]
2005–06†	Bobby Despotovski	Australia	Perth Glory	8	19	0.42	^[4]
2005–06†	Stewart Petrie	Scotland	Central Coast Mariners	8	19	0.42	^[4]
2005–06†	Alex Brosque	Australia	Queensland Roar	8	21	0.38	^[4]
2006–07	Danny Allsopp	Australia	Melbourne Victory^§	11	20	0.55	^[5]
2007–08	Joel Griffiths	Australia	Newcastle Jets	12	19	0.63	^[6]
2008–09	Shane Smeltz	New Zealand	Wellington Phoenix	12	20	0.60	^[7]
2009–10	Shane Smeltz (2)	New Zealand	Gold Coast United	19	25	0.76	^[8]
2010–11	Sergio van Dijk	Indonesia	Adelaide United	16	28	0.57	^[9]
2011–12	Besart Berisha	Albania	Brisbane Roar	19	26	0.73	^[10]
2012–13	Daniel McBreen	Australia	Central Coast Mariners	17	25	0.68	^[11]
2013–14	Adam Taggart	Australia	Newcastle Jets	16	25	0.64	^[12]
2014–15	Marc Janko	Austria	Sydney FC	16	22	0.73	^[13]
2015–16	Bruno Fornaroli	Uruguay	Melbourne City	23	27	0.85	^[14]
2016–17†	Besart Berisha (2)	Kosovo	Melbourne Victory	19	26	0.73	^[15]
2016–17†	Jamie Maclaren	Australia	Brisbane Roar	19	26	0.73	^[15]
2017–18	Bobô	Brazil	Sydney FC^§	27	27	1.00	^[16]
2018–19	Roy Krishna	Fiji	Wellington Phoenix	18	26	0.69	^[17]
2019–20	Jamie Maclaren (2)	Australia	Melbourne City	22	23	0.96	^[18]
2020–21	Jamie Maclaren (3)	Australia	Melbourne City^§	25	24	1.04	^[19]
2021–22	Jamie Maclaren (4)	Australia	Melbourne City^§	15	24	0.63	^[20]
2022–23	Jamie Maclaren (5)	Australia	Melbourne City^§	24	26	0.92	^[21]

Awards won by club

Club	Total
Melbourne City	5
Brisbane Roar	3
Melbourne Victory	3
Central Coast Mariners	2
Newcastle Jets	2
Sydney FC	2
Wellington Phoenix	2
Adelaide United	1
Gold Coast United	1
Perth Glory	1

See also

• A-League all-time records
• W-League Golden Boot

Notes

1. This does not necessarily match the total number of games in a season.

References

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5. Lynch, Michael. "Triumphant skipper, striker share spoils of Victory medal". The Age. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
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12. Gardiner, James (28 April 2014). "Adam Taggart wins 2014 Young Player of the Year, Golden Boot award: photos". The Newcastle Herald. from the original on 29 April 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
13. "Sydney FC confident of tying down Marc Janko to a new A-League deal". The Guardian. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
14. "Mooy, Fornaroli share City A-League gong". The West Australian. 9 April 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
15. . FourFourTwo. 16 April 2017. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
16. Smithies, Tom (30 April 2018). "Dolan Warren Awards: Mierzejewski wins Johnny Warren; Kerr, Polkinghorn split the Dolan". The Daily Telegraph.
17. "Diego Castro wins Alex Tobin Medal". FTBL. 28 April 2019.
18. "Maclaren claims second Golden Boot". 1116 SEN. 20 August 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
19. "Dolan Warren Awards: Maclaren collects A-League Golden Boot". A-League. 23 June 2021.
20. Lewis, Samantha (26 May 2022). "Fiona Worts and Jake Brimmer take out A-Leagues' top gongs at 2021/22 Dolan Warren Awards". ABC News.
21. Monteverde, Marco (1 June 2023). "Adelaide United captain Craig Goodwin secures Johnny Warren Medal after stellar season". news.com.au.

General

• Our history A-League.com.au (A-League). Retrieved 27 October 2014.

External links

• A-League official website