A-League Golden Boot

Shane Smeltz has won the most Golden Boot awards with two.

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.

Smeltz and Besart Berisha – with 19 goals in 2009–10 and 2011–12 respectively – 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. Smeltz recorded the highest goals-to-games ratio to win the award, scoring 19 goals in 25 games in 2009–10 for a rate of 0.76.

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 games played by the winner that season[upper-alpha 1]
Rate The winner's goals-to-games ratio that 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 Thompson, ArchieArchie Thompson  Australia Melbourne Victory 8 15 0.53 [4]
2005–06dagger Despotovski, BobbyBobby Despotovski  Australia Perth Glory 8 19 0.42 [4]
2005–06dagger Petrie, StewartStewart Petrie  Scotland Central Coast Mariners 8 19 0.42 [4]
2005–06dagger Brosque, AlexAlex Brosque  Australia Queensland Roar 8 21 0.38 [4]
2006–07 Allsopp, DannyDanny Allsopp  Australia Melbourne Victory§ 11 20 0.55 [5]
2007–08 Griffiths, JoelJoel Griffiths  Australia Newcastle Jets§ 12 19 0.63 [6]
2008–09 Smeltz, ShaneShane Smeltz  New Zealand Wellington Phoenix 12 20 0.60 [7]
2009–10 Smeltz, ShaneShane Smeltz (2)  New Zealand Gold Coast United 19 25 0.76 [8]
2010–11 van Dijk, SergioSergio van Dijk  Indonesia Adelaide United 16 28 0.57 [9]
2011–12 Berisha, BesartBesart Berisha  Albania Brisbane Roar§ 19 26 0.73 [10]
2012–13 McBreen, DanielDaniel McBreen  Australia Central Coast Mariners§ 17 25 0.68 [11]
2013–14 Taggart, AdamAdam Taggart  Australia Newcastle Jets 16 25 0.64 [12]
2014–15 Janko, MarcMarc Janko  Austria Sydney FC 16 22 0.73 [13]

Awards won by nationality

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

See also

Notes

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

References

General
Specific
  1. 1 2 "Hyundai A-League Awards". Football Federation Australia. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  2. ↑ Hill, Simon (8 April 2014). "Simon Says: 10 years on from last NSL game, the past and present are starting to share the future". Fox Sports. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "Our History". A-League. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Timms, Aaron. "NSL stalwarts take out A-League's top gongs". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Lynch, Michael. "Triumphant skipper, striker share spoils of Victory medal". The Age. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "Griffiths wins Johnny Warren Medal". ABC. 27 February 2008. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "Smeltz scoops A-League's top awards". Wellington Phoenix. 4 February 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  8. ↑ Gardiner, James & Leeson, Josh (17 February 2010). "Top gun Smeltz aiming to keep up strike rate against Jets". The Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
  9. ↑ "Van Dijk credits team mates for accolade". Football Federation Australia. 7 March 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  10. ↑ Davutovic, David (11 April 2012). "Thomas Broich roars to Warren Medal win". Herald Sun. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  11. ↑ "McGlinchey & McBreen acknowledged". Football Federation Australia. 31 March 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  12. ↑ Gardiner, James (28 April 2014). "Adam Taggart wins 2014 Young Player of the Year, Golden Boot award: photos". The Newcastle Herald. 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.
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