Here's how the race for the 2024/25 Golden Boot looks

As the 2024-2025 season gets underway in all leagues around the world, the race for the Golden Boot is beginning to take shape. The great football strikers are competing head to head for the award that recognises the top scorer of the season and which currently belongs to Harry Kane, who last season took home the prize after scoring 36 goals, and therefore 72 points, in his first year at Bayern Munich.

So far this season, the English striker has not managed to sneak into the ranking of the top 10 scorers of 24/25, a list that is full of several new names. At FCBN we show it to you:

Top 10 scorers of the 2024/25 season

The top spot is occupied by Alex Tamm, an Estonian striker who plays for Nomme Kalju in his home country and has 24 goals in 2,305 minutes (24 points). Behind the Baltic striker is Erling Haaland, Manchester City's star of the modern game, who has 10 goals in 450 minutes (20 points). The trio is completed by the Faroese Pall Klettskard of Ki Klaksvík of the Faroe Islands, adding 19 goals in 1,849 minutes (19 points).

Below these three scorers are Reginaldo Ramires (Riga FC, 18 goals, 18 pts.); Marko Regza (Riga CF, 17 goals, 17 pts.); Magnus Eikrem (Molde FK, 11 goals, 16.5 pts.);Alioune Ndoye (Valmiera FC, 16 goals, 16 pts.);Viktor Jónsson (IA Akranes, 16 goals, 16 pts);Bjorn Johnsen (Torpedo Kutaisi, 16 goals, 16 pts.); and Promise David (Union Saint-Gilloise, 15 goals, 15 pts.).

How does the Golden Boot scoring system work?

The reason behind so many 'unknown' scorers for many is that, in addition to goals, the ESM (European Sports Media) uses a points system to calculate the qualifying ratio according to guidelines that depend, above all, on quantifying the value of goals through the complexity of the competition. That is, the value of goals would be distributed in the following way according to the country where it is played.

In this sense, in the Premier League, LaLiga EASports, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 goals are quantified with two points, while in the Austrian, Belgian, Bulgarian, Czech, Portuguese, Croatian, Scottish, Greek, Dutch, Israeli, Polish, Serbian, Russian, Norwegian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Swiss leagues goals are valued with 1.5 points.

Finally, in the rest of European football competitions (Denmark, Slovakia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Estonia, Latvia, etc.), goals are scored at one per goal.

The big absences from the current classification

Due to this scoring system, big names have not yet managed to break into the top 10 of top scorers. Robert Lewandowski, FC Barcelona's top scorer, has scored 6 goals in 502 minutes for a total of 12 points. Meanwhile, Kylian Mbappé, Real Madrid's offensive reference, has scored 4 goals in 530 minutes so far this season, with a total of 8 points.

Meanwhile, Harry Kane, current winner of the award, has 10 points for having celebrated 5 goals in 346 minutes with Bayern Munich. Finally, Marcus Thuram, Inter Milan's top scorer, has scored 4 goals in 409 minutes in Serie A, recording 8 points in the standings.

The latest winners of the Golden Boot

As for the latest winners of this individual trophy and taking into account the ESM criteria, only a total of six players have been worthy of this recognition in the last ten seasons:

Top Golden Boot winners

The Golden Boot, an award that has been given uninterruptedly since 1968, has a more than extensive list of achievements, which is why at FCBN we show you the list of players who have accumulated the most Boots in their showcases, with Lionel Messi being the biggest winner with a total of 6.