What are the latest Premier League Golden Boot standings?

Erling Haaland came into the 2024/25 season hoping to join the greatest Premier League top scorers.

Manchester City forward Haaland is seeking a third consecutive triumph in the Premier League Golden Boot race this season.

That is a feat which has only previously been achieved by Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry, who are two of the greatest strikers to have ever played in England’s top division.

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Haaland will look to become the top Premier League scorer again after winning the Golden Boot by a healthy five-goal margin last season, with Chelsea attacking midfielder Cole Palmer surprisingly emerging as his closest challenger.

Man City star Haaland netted 27 times and fired two hat-tricks, including a four-goal haul in a victory against Wolves towards the end of the season. His exploits helped Pep Guardiola’s team to win a historic fourth straight Premier League title.

Despite those heroics, the Norway international’s goal total was well short of the 2022/23 tally he produced. That season saw him make a stunning start to EPL life, scoring a record-breaking 36 top-flight goals to claim the Golden Boot in his debut campaign, one which also saw City and Guardiola win a famous treble.

Haaland’s two straight successes in the goalscoring charts in England made him the first player since Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah in 2019 to win back-to-back crowns.

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Haaland has made an emphatic start in his bid to score the most goals in the 2024/25 season, firing two hat-tricks before the end of August. He started the year as a strong favourite, coming in fresh after not playing at Euro 2024, but Palmer and Newcastle forward Alexander Isak are podium finishers from the last campaign who hope to challenge him again.

Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins and Haaland’s Man City team-mate Phil Foden are also looking to follow up their strong scoring seasons, while Dominic Solanke impressed for Bournemouth and has now joined Tottenham.

Former Golden Boot winners Salah and Son Heung-min will also be eager to be crowned winners in the Premier League scoring standings once more, while Darwin Nunez was also in the running according to pre-season betting odds.

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Manchester United hope Rasmus Hojlund can kick on in his second year at Old Trafford and challenge to score the most goals this season, while Bukayo Saka and Kai Havertz are among a number of possible Arsenal contenders.

Jean-Philippe Mateta enjoyed a brilliant end to last season for Crystal Palace and there are also some new transfer signings who have arrived at England’s biggest clubs for the new campaign in deals which could shake up the Golden Boot race.

Man Utd hope Joshua Zirkzee can make an immediate impact, West Ham have signed Niclas Fullkrug from Borussia Dortmund and Evanilson joined Bournemouth to replace Solanke.

The Premier League top scorers will be displayed on this page throughout the season. We will take an in-depth look at the latest standings for the players with the most EPL goals, with updates from every matchday.

2024/25 Premier League top scorers

Erling Haaland is first in the list of Premier League top scorers for the 2024/25 season, although Mohamed Salah looks set to be among his closest challengers at the top once again.

Manchester City forward Haaland has nine EPL goals from just four matches, meaning he already has a healthy lead in the Premier League Golden Boot race.

We are only a few weeks into the new season, but there is already a familiar face sitting clear at the top of the Golden Boot rankings in Man City striker Haaland.

Defending champion Haaland and last year’s runner-up Cole Palmer returned to Premier League action in the same game as Man City travelled to play Chelsea on the opening weekend.

It was Haaland who made a fast start to his Golden Boot bid with an early goal and Man City went on to win the match 2-0 at Stamford Bridge.

Haaland would have fancied his chances of adding to his goal tally in MD2 as Man City played at home to promoted Ipswich Town and he did that in fine style, scoring the first EPL hat-trick of the new season in ruthless fashion and storming to the top of the standings, with City winning 4-1.

If that was not enough to make the chasing pack already demoralised in the first month of the season, rampant Haaland then made it two hat-tricks in as many weeks, with his latest treble helping Man City to a 3-1 win over West Ham in London.

After adding two more goals as Man City came from behind to beat Brentford on MD4, Haaland is already a commanding favourite to score the most goals in the 2024/25 season.

Salah has also made a strong start in his bid to be the top scorer this season. Liverpool travelled to play rivals Man Utd at Old Trafford on MD3 and the Egypt international is known to have a great record at that venue.

The forward impressed against rivals United once again, netting once to continue his fine start to the season and setting up the other two goals for team-mate Luis Diaz as Liverpool cruised to a 3-0 win.

Salah also netted in each of the Reds’ first two EPL matches under new boss Arne Slot, so now has three goals. But Salah and Diaz were frustrated as Liverpool fell to a shock home defeat against Nottingham Forest in their fourth match.

It has been a tough start once again for Man Utd attackers. They beat Fulham 1-0 in the first match of the season at Old Trafford, but after Rasmus Hojlund suffered an injury in pre-season, it was new signing Joshua Zirkzee who stepped up by scoring a debut goal with a deft finish three minutes before the end of the match, having come on as a second-half substitute.

But Zirkzee has not netted since and Marcus Rashford has found the target just once this season, albeit with an impressive strike in the win at Southampton.

Bukayo Saka and Kai Havertz wasted little time to get up and running, both scoring as Arsenal defeated Wolves 2-0 on MD1 to start their campaign.

Havertz made it two goals for the season as 10-man Arsenal drew 1-1 with Brighton in MD3.

Danny Welbeck scored in both of Brighton’s first two matches and former Golden Boot winner Son Heung-min is also prominent in the early goalscoring charts in England after the Tottenham star struck twice in an emphatic 4-0 win over Everton.

Elsewhere in the Premier League Golden Boot race, Noni Madueke scored the second Premier League hat-trick of the season on MD2, doing so just one day after Haaland’s Ipswich treble. His three goals helped Chelsea storm to a 6-2 away win over Wolves. Palmer set up all of Madueke’s goals and scored with a fine strike himself to get up and running for the campaign.

Bryan Mbeumo may be an unlikely candidate to be named the top Premier League scorer, but he netted an impressive double for Brentford as they beat Southampton and will be relied upon by the Bees after Ivan Toney left the club. Team-mate Yoane Wissa is also up to three goals, having netted against Man City.

Ollie Watkins had a slow start to the season, but he got up and running on MD4 with a double as Aston Villa came from two goals down to defeat Everton 3-2. But it was his fellow forward Jhon Duran who stole the show with a wondergoal to win it for Unai Emery’s men.

But it already looks like a gargantuan task for anyone to catch Haaland, which is an astonishing state of affairs so early in the campaign.

Premier League Golden Boot: Previous Winners

Thierry Henry holds the record for the most Premier League Golden Boot wins, having been named the top scorer in the competition on four occasions for Arsenal.

The France great is one of only four players who have scored the most goals in the EPL across three or more seasons.

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Alan Shearer won the Golden Boot three times, once with Newcastle and twice with Blackburn Rovers, while Harry Kane’s win in 2020/21 was also his third, all of them coming with Tottenham.

Mohamed Salah’s success for Liverpool in the 2021/22 season meant he joined that list of three-time winners.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez are two of the biggest names to have won the award, scoring 31 goals in 2007/08 and 2013/14 respectively.

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It is Liverpool who have had the most Premier League Golden Boot winners as a team with seven.

Arsenal are just behind on six, while Man Utd and Tottenham have had five winners.

Chelsea are on four, with Man City now level with them after Haaland gave the club a fourth win by finishing first in the list of 2023/24 Premier League top scorers.

The Premier League began from the 1992/93 season. Prior to that, Ian Wright was the last highest goalscorer in England when it was the old First Division. Gary Lineker and Alan Smith were also winners in the 1990s before the league was rebranded.

Most goals in a Premier League season

Erling Haaland has the record for the most goals in a single Premier League season, having scored 36 times in just 35 matches during the 2022/23 campaign.

Previously, the record for most goals in an EPL campaign was shared by Alan Shearer (1994/95) and Andy Cole (1993/94).

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Both players scored an astonishing 34 goals, though the season schedule was longer then – Shearer did it in 42 matches and Cole reached the total from 40 games.

Mohamed Salah came close to that record in 2017/18, scoring 32 times in 36 outings, producing what had been the best Premier League goalscoring season in this century until Haaland’s spectacular arrival.

The Golden Boot winner with the best goals per game ratio in a season is also Haaland after his exploits in his record-setting season (1.03 goals per game).

Prior to that it was Kane after the England captain netted 29 times in just 30 games to win the 2016/17 scoring title, averaging 0.97 GPG.

Who are the Premier League top scorers of all time?

Alan Shearer is the highest goalscorer in Premier League history, having ended his career in 2006 with a magnificent 260 goals to his name in England’s top division.

Former Tottenham star Harry Kane (213) and Man Utd legend Wayne Rooney (208) are the only other players who have scored more than 200 EPL goals.

Andy Cole (187), Sergio Aguero (184), Frank Lampard (177) and Thierry Henry (175) are former Premier League players who sit near the top of the all-time list.

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Before the 2024/25 season began, Robbie Fowler (163), Jermain Defoe (162), Mohamed Salah (157) and Michael Owen (150) rounded out the 11 players in EPL history who had scored 150 goals or more.

Prior to his transfer from Spurs to Bayern Munich in 2023, Kane was the highest-scoring active player and he had long been cited as one of the rare contenders who has a chance to rival Shearer’s record total.

His departure means Salah is the highest remaining active Premier League player. He has been rising fast in the rankings, moving up to 10th overall with his 18 goals last season, having started the campaign in 14th place.

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Going into this campaign, Salah had scored at least 18 goals in all seven of the Premier League seasons he had played with Liverpool, with Lampard, Henry, Fowler and Defoe now all realistically in his sights if he has a strong year in 2024/25.