A-League Golden Boot
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.
Awards won by nationality
Awards won by club
See also
Notes
- ↑ 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
- 1 2 "Hyundai A-League Awards". Football Federation Australia. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Our History". A-League. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 Timms, Aaron. "NSL stalwarts take out A-League's top gongs". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ↑ Lynch, Michael. "Triumphant skipper, striker share spoils of Victory medal". The Age. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ↑ "Griffiths wins Johnny Warren Medal". ABC. 27 February 2008. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ↑ "Smeltz scoops A-League's top awards". Wellington Phoenix. 4 February 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Van Dijk credits team mates for accolade". Football Federation Australia. 7 March 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ↑ Davutovic, David (11 April 2012). "Thomas Broich roars to Warren Medal win". Herald Sun. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ↑ "McGlinchey & McBreen acknowledged". Football Federation Australia. 31 March 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Sydney FC confident of tying down Marc Janko to a new A-League deal". The Guardian. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- ↑ "Mooy, Fornaroli share City A-League gong". The West Australian. 9 April 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
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