A-League Golden Boot

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A-League Golden Boot
Shane Smeltz, wearing a tracksuit top, looking at the camera
Shane Smeltz has won the most Golden Boots (2)
Awarded for The leading goalscorer in a given A-League season.
Sponsor Nike
Country Australia
Presented by Football Federation Australia
First awarded 2006
Last awarded 2016
Currently held by Bruno Fornaroli
Most awards Shane Smeltz (2)
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The A-League Golden Boot is an annual association football award presented to the leading goalscorer in the A-League. It is currently referred to as the Nike Golden Boot for sponsorship purposes.[1]

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 eleven and there are currently ten 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.

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

Bruno Fornaroli – with 23 goals in 2015–16 – 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 the only time the award has been shared. Fornaroli recorded the highest goals-to-games ratio to win the award, scoring 23 goals in 27 games in 2015–16 for a rate of 0.85.

Winners

Archie Thompson was one of four winners of the inaugural A-League Golden Boot in 2006.
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[upper-alpha 1]
Rate The winner's goals-to-games ratio that regular season
dagger Indicates multiple award winners in the same season
§ Denotes the club were A-League champions in the same season
A-League Golden Boot winners
Season Player Nationality Club Goals Games Rate Ref(s)
2005–06dagger Archie Thompson  Australia Melbourne Victory 8 15 0.53 [4]
2005–06dagger Bobby Despotovski  Australia Perth Glory 8 19 0.42 [4]
2005–06dagger Stewart Petrie  Scotland Central Coast Mariners 8 19 0.42 [4]
2005–06dagger 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]

Awards won by nationality

Country Total
 Australia 7
 New Zealand 2
 Scotland 1
 Indonesia 1
 Albania 1
 Austria 1
 Uruguay 1

Awards won by club

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

See also

Notes

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

References

General
  • Our history A-League.com.au (A-League). Retrieved 27 October 2014.
Specific
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External links

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