European Golden Shoe 2020: Who Will Win The Golden Shoe?

The European Golden Shoe or Golden Boot is a trophy that is given every campaign to the best goalscorer in league games from the top division of each European national league. It is a model of a football boot. 

The honor initially called Soulier d'Or which comes from French as Golden Shoe. Since its beginning, in the 1967–68 campaign, the trophy has been given to the top goalscorers.

Somewhere in the range of 1968 and 1991, the trophy was given to the best top goalscorer in any European leagues paying little heed to the quality of the league in which the best scorer played and the number of matches. During this era, Gerd Muller, Eusebio, Fernando Gomes, and Dudu Georgescu won the Golden Boot two different times.

In the wake of a protest from the Cyprus FA, which asserted that a Cypriot footballer with 40 goals must have gotten the trophy L'Equipe gave no trophies for five years till 1996. 

Since that time European Sports Media have issued the Golden Shoe dependent on a points framework that permits footballers in harder leagues to win regardless of whether they score fewer goals than a footballer in a small league.

The framework is dictated by the positioning on the UEFA coefficients which thusly rely upon the results of every league's clubs in European matches over the past five campaigns. In this way, goals netted in the main five leagues as indicated by the UEFA coefficients rundown are increased by a factor of two.

Goals netted in the leagues positioned 6 to 21 are multiplied by a factor of 1.5 and those in leagues below are considered by a factor of 1. Along these lines, goals netted in higher positioned leagues will mean more than those scored in smaller leagues.

Since this change, there have only been two winners who were playing outside of UEFA's top five leagues, Henrik Larsson in 2000–01 Scottish Premier League and Mario Jardel in 1998-99 Primeira Divisao and 2001-02 Primeira Liga.

Despite the fact that the award could be shared among different footballers previously, the Golden Boot 2020 is changed to give the honor to the player with the least minutes played. Therefore, the European Golden Shoe award is given to the footballer who has scored the highest number of goals for their club in the season.

European Golden Shoe 2020: Who Will Win The Golden Shoe?

Here is a glance at the list of odds who are going to win the Golden Boot 2020.

Lewandowski leads the way

Finishing as the top scorer of any major league, whether that be 

, La Liga or Premier League is a massive honor for any footballer. having scored 34 in the Bundesliga and 11 goals in the UEFA club tournament, 

is set for two individual rankings this campaign. with Messi clearing out. 

 or Cristiano Ronaldo have been the best scorer in the UCL for the last 12 years. (the only shared the trophy once with 

in 2014/15 season with 10 goals. 

In the ongoing season, Lewandowski has netted 11 in Europe's top club tournament while Messi and Ronaldo surprisingly have scored only two goals. 

The veteran striker is additionally well positioned to be the greatest scorer in Europe's five major leagues in this campaign. He finished the Bundesliga campaign with 34 goals and is as of now three away from Ciro Immobile at Lazio and Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo. With 28 goals Leipzig's Timo Werner is 4th in the leaderboard.

Let's take a look at the list of top scorers in ongoing UCL and UEL:

1st

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(Bayern Munchen - UEFA Champions League): 11 goals

2nd

:

(Salzburg/Borussia Dortmund - UEFA Champions League): 10 goals

3rd

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(Sporting CP/Manchester United - UEFA Europa League): 6 goals

4th

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(Bayern Munchen - UEFA Champions League): 6 goals

5th

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(Wolves - UEFA Europa League): 6 goals

6th

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(Eintracht Frankfurt - UEFA Europa League): 6 goals

7th

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(Tottenham Hotspur - UEFA Champions League): 6 goals

8th

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(Napoli - UEFA Champions League): 6 goals

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9th

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(Rangers - UEFA Europa League): 6 goals

10th

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(Slovan Bratislava/Sporting CP - UEFA Europa League): 6 goals

11th

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(Istanbul Basaksehir - UEFA Europa League): 6 goals

2018/19

: Lionel Messi (Barcelona - UEFA Champions League): 12 goals

2017/18

: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid - UEFA Champions League): 15 goals

2016/17

: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid - UEFA Champions League): 12 goals

2015/16

: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid - UEFA Champions League): 16 goals

2014/15

: Neymar (Barcelona - UEFA Champions League), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid - UEFA Champions League) Lionel Messi (Barcelona - UEFA Champions League): 10 goals

European Golden Shoe race by best goalscorers across Europe

1-Robert Lewandowski

• Current club

  : Bayern Munich

• Goals/Points

  : 34 goals (68)

Robert Lewandowski has been one of the best goalscorers on the planet over the previous decade and has highly outperformed his number of goals through the last campaign.In 2019-20, the Polish striker seems to have upgraded his scoring skills.

Lewandowski netted his first goal of the campaign in the first round of the DFB-Pokal when Bayern won the match against Energie Cottbus 3-1 on 12 August 2019. He netted two goals in the 2019–20 Bundesliga first game against Hertha Berlin four days after the fact.

With his game to game goals, he set a Bundesliga record for netting goals in the first game of the season for the five successive years. Lewandowski netted a hat-trick at the Veltins Arena against

as Bayern won 3–0 on 24 August 2019. He scored his 200th goal for Bayern Munich in a 3–0 win over Red Star Belgrade in the UCL in September 2019.

Soon thereafter, subsequent to scoring his tenth goal of the season during a 3–2 win against

he turned into the main footballer in Bundesliga ever to accomplish ten goals scored after the initial six games. 

Lewandowski then turned into the main footballer in Bundesliga ever to net a goal in the initial eleven matches outperforming

who set the record of 8 games.

The player netted 4 goals in less than 15 minutes as Bayern Munich won a match against

6–0 in the Champions League group stage, setting another record for the least minutes to score four goals in UCL. He additionally turned out to be just the second striker to score 4 goals in numerous Champions League matches ever. 

Lewandowski equaled the record of 9 away goals in a single campaign in Europe's top club tournament in February 2020. He did as such at Stamford Bridge by netting a goal against

. 

Even if the competition weighting were taken off, Lewandowski's goalscoring for the Bayern Munich would still see him top the ranking.

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2- Ciro Immobile

• Current club

  : Lazio

• Goals/Points

  : 31 goals (62)

Ciro Immobile is one of the top contenders to lift the European Golden Shoe 2020. He has been one of the most predictable goalscorers in Serie An as of late and hit the ground running in the 2019-20 season. 

The striker was the top scorer in Serie A in the 2013-14 and 2017-18 campaigns, yet the European Golden Shoe was out of reach those times, something he would like to compensate this season. 

The player is second-placed with 31 goals having three matches in which to close the gap on the Robert Lewandoski. Notwithstanding, regardless of the way that Lazio just have three league matches to the end, he will make every effort to win the Golden Shoe. Serie A is the best-represented league with five stars in the

European Golden Boot race

.

With three matches remaining he needs 4 more goals in the league to surpass Robert Lewandoski and lift the Golden Boot 2020 award.

3- Cristiano Ronaldo

• Current club

  : Juventus

• Goals/Points

  : 30 goals

Ronaldo is another top contender to win the

European Golden Shoe 2020

. didn't begin the season in his typical electric shape however since the league's resumption last month after the coronavirus-enforced suspension he is there again scoring goals. 

On 31 August 2019, the four-time Golden Shoe winner scored his first goal of the 2019–20 campaign for Juventus in a 4–3 home win against Napoli in Serie A. 

In Juventus' 3–0 win against Bayer Leverkusen in the UCL on 1 October, he scored in the fourteenth successive Champions League campaign alongside with Raul and Messi. The striker additionally broke Iker Casillas' record for most Champions League wins ever. In the same match, he equaled Raul's record of scoring against 33 UCL rivals. 

He netted his first Serie A hat-trick in a 4–0 home win over

.  Ronaldo turned out to be just the second footballer along with Alexis Sanchez to score hat-tricks in Serie A, the Premier League, and La Liga. Cristiano also equaled David Trezeguet's club record by scoring at least one goal in 9 back to back games.

Ronaldo broke another record six days after the fact at the point when he netted in his tenth back to back Serie A match against

.

He netted a penalty in a 2–0 away win against Bologna on 22 June surpassing Rui Costa to turn into the best scoring Portuguese footballer in Serie A ever. After eight days, he netted his 746th goal for club and nation with a goal in a 3–1 away win against Genoa in Serie A, which equaled Ferenc Puskas as the fourth top scorer of all time in football. 

Ronaldo scored his 25th league goal of the campaign from a free kick in a 4–1 home win against Torino on 4 July turning into the first Juventus footballer since Omar Sivori in 1961. The 35-year-old striker scored two goals in a 2–1 home win against

.

With scoring twice, he likewise arrived at 30 league goals for the campaign turning out to be only the third footballer in Juventus' ever to set that record in a single campaign since 1952. 

Additionally, Ronaldo is the oldest player to net in excess of 30 goals in one of the major European leagues since 1948. With three matches remaining he needs 5 more goals in the league to surpass Robert Lewandoski and lift the

European Golden Boot 2020

award.

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4- Timo Werner 

• Current club

  : RB Leipzig

• Goals/Points

  : 28 goals (56)

Timo Werner hit his football career with 21 goals in 2016-17 however neglected to copy that shape in the next seasons. In any case, he improved in the 2019-20 campaign. However, Leipzig are done with their domestic season and Timo Wener lost the chance to lift the European

Golden Boot 2020

.

He left Leipzig with 95 goals to outperform Daniel Frahn turning into the club's record goalscorer ever. Since the presentation of the European Golden Shoe in 1968, Gerd Muller is the only Bundesliga footballer to win the award. He did as such two times in 1970 and 1972.

5- Lionel Messi

• Goals/Points

  : 25 goals (50)

Current club

: Barcelona

Lionel Messi was normally among the competitors for the 2019-20 trophy. He completed the last campaign with 36 goals to make sure about his third back to back Golden Shoe. The current trophy-holder netted his first goal of the campaign with a free kick in a 4–0 home win against

on 6 October which saw him break Ronaldo's record of 419 goals netted in Europe's major leagues. 

The Barcelona star netted his first UEFA Champions League goal of the campaign in a 2–1 away win against

on 23 October turning into the only footballer to score in 15 back to back UCL seasons. He additionally equaled the shared record of the most teams netted against in the tournament with 33.

Six-time Golden Shoe winner netted twice in a 5–1 home win against

in La Liga on 29 October. In this season his 608 goals likewise surpassed Cristiano Ronaldo's record of 606 goals at club level. He scored three goals in a 4–1 home win over Celta Vigo next week. Another shared record along with Ronaldo for 34 hat-tricks in La Liga.

In his 700th game for Barcelona, he netted a goal in a 3–1 home win against

in the UCL group stage. In December he scored 35th hat-trick in Barcelona's 5–2 home win against Mallorca. Next month in 2020 Messi netted four goals in a 5–0 home win over Eibar and scored against Mallorca next week turning into the only footballer in history to score 20 goals or more in 12 back to back seasons. 

He arrived at his 700th goal for Barcelona and Argentina scoring a Panenka-style penalty against

on 30 June. In the last match of the campaign on 20 May, he scored two goals in a 5–0 away win over Alaves and completed as the top–scorer in La Liga with 25 goals. In any case, Barcelona are done with their domestic season passing up the league championship to Real Madrid and Barcelona superstar lost European

Golden Boot 2020

to other top contenders.

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6- Romelu Lukaku

• Current club

  : Inter

• Goals/Points

  : 23 goals (46)

Romelu Lukaku is a veteran goalscorer yet there is a feeling that he needs to prove himself by and by in the wake of poor spell at Manchester United. Be that as it may, he has responded to the situation admirably. He joined 

 with a five-year contract making his debut against Lecce, scoring his team's 3rd goal with his first attempt. 

Lukaku scored in the first match for five of the six clubs he played for. He likewise turned out to be just the third Belgian to score for Inter in Serie A. In the subsequent game, he scored the game dominating goal give Inter a 2-1 triumph away from home against Cagliari. Lukaku equaled Ronaldo's record of nine goals first 11 league games against Bologna on 2 November.

Romelu Lukaku scored twice against struggling 

on Saturday to set the record of 23 goals. With two matches remaining he needs 12 more goals in the league to surpass Robert Lewandoski and lift the Golden Boot 2020 award.

7- Jamie Vardy

• Current club

  : Leicester City

• Goals/Points

  : 23 goals (46)

Leicester City experienced a huge improvement since the appearance of Brendan Rodgers in the 2019/20 season. One of the fundamental beneficiaries by all accounts was Jamie Vardy. The striker revived his previous form in the 2015/16 campaign and displayed great performance in the box. 

He scored a hat-trick in a 9–0 away win over Southampton on 25 October 2019. Vardy netted his 100th and 101st goal in the PL in a 3–0 triumph against Crystal Palace On 4 July 2020. He turned into the only Leicester footballer to score 100 goals. 

Of the 29 footballers to have netted 100 PL goals just Ian Wright made his first game at a more seasoned age than

. However, Leicester City are done with their domestic season and Jamie Vardy lost the chance to lift the

Golden Boot 2020

award.

8- Shon Weissman

Current club

: Wolfsberger

Goals/Points

: 30 goals (45)

Shon Weissman left

to join joined Austrian Football Bundesliga Wolfsberger signing a two-year contract given shirt number 9 in 2019-20 season and turned out to be the top scorer in the Austrian Bundesliga as Erling Haaland gone this campaign.

Weissman netted 4 goals in a 5–0 home triumph in the fourth round of the league against SV Mattersburg on 17 August. Before the game, he had netted in three back to back matches for the Carinthian club. 

Weissman scored Wolfsberger AC's first European goal ever in a 4–0 win against

On 19 September 2019. He completed the 2019–20 campaign with 30 goals which made him the Austrian Bundesliga's top scorer but he lost the chance to lift the Golden Shoe award.

9- Karim Benzema

• Current club

  : Real Madrid

• Goals/Points

  : 21 goals (42)

In this season, Karim Benzema rediscovered his intuition and returned to his great form. On 17 August, he netted Real Madrid's first goal of the season against

. 

Afterward in November, he scored twice against

becoming the second footballer after Messi to score in 15 successive Champions League seasons and furthermore the third Real Madrid striker to net 50 goals in the tournament.His displays were

applauded by Zidane who compared him with Ronaldo. After three days, in the following league game, he netted twice in first-half against

, surpassing Ferenc Puskas as the club's sixth-best goalscorer of all-time in La Liga with 157 goals from 323 matches. Real Madrid are done with their domestic season and Karim Benzema lost the chance to lift the Golden Boot 2020.

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