European Golden Shoe

European Golden Shoe

The European Golden Shoe, formerly known as the "European Golden Boot", is an association football award presented each season to the leading goalscorer in league matches from the top division of every European national league.

From its inception in the 1967–68 season the award, originally called "Soulier d'Or", which translates from French as "Golden Shoe" or "Boot", was given by "France Football" magazine to the top goalscorer in all European leagues that season. No allowance was made for the relative strengths of those leagues.

Between 1991 and 1996, no award was made. This followed a protest from the Cyprus FA, which claimed that a Cypriot player with 40 goals should have received the award, whereas "France Football" listed the top scorers for Cyprus for 1990–91 with only 19 goals.

The award was revived for the 1996–97 season, when European Sports Magazines (ESM), of which "France Football" is a member, decided on a points system weighted according to the relative strength of each of Europe's leagues. The weightings are determined by the league's ranking on the UEFA coefficients, which in turn depend on the results of each league's clubs in European competition over the previous five seasons. Thus goals scored in Serie A, the top Italian football league, will count for more than those scored in the weaker League of Wales, its Welsh equivalent.

As of the 2007–08 season, the current holder of the Golden Shoe is Cristiano Ronaldo of Manchester United, whose 31 goals in the English Premier League gave him 62 points.

Winners from 1968 to 1991

Between 1968 and 1991, the European Golden Boot, as it was then known, was given to the highest goalscorer in any European league. This was regardless of the toughness of the league in which the top scorer played and the number of games in which the player had taken part. During this period Eusébio, Gerd Müller, Dudu Georgescu and Fernando Gomes each won the Golden Boot twice.cite web |url=http://www.soccerphile.com/soccerphile/news/golden-boot.html |title=Golden Boot: The Quotients Decide It All |publisher=soccerphile.com |accessdate=2008-02-20 ]

Wins by country (Official Winners)

References

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External links

* [http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=552524.html 2006-07 Final Standings from Uefa.com]
* [http://www.eusm.eu/item/goldenshoe.htm 2007-08 Current Standings]
* [http://europeancups.altervista.org/rankings/country%20ranking%202007.htm UEFA Coefficients list]


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