Golden shoe race in 2019

The content of the article

1) What is the golden shoe in Football

2) How to count a point for golden shoe

3) 2018-2019 Candidate of golden shoe

1) What is the golden shoe in Football

The European Golden shoe or golden boot is an award presented to each year leading goal scorer in European top league. It depends on the whole season players goal record.   

2) How to count a point for golden shoe

In starting time golden shoe award just only depend on goal score in whole season without consider league value or reputation but after Cyprus FA opposed the idea of this method because weaker league players often won golden boot easily and tougher league player has not won an award that’s why they stand against this award and award initially was not given during 1991 to 1996. But, then European Media shoe started golden shoe award base on a point system and that allows to tougher league players to win the award. League rank count depends on UEFA and considers last 5 year records.

Top 5 league goal scored multiple by coefficient 2, rank number 6 to 20 league goal scored multiple by coefficient 1.5 and rank 21 to more league goal scored multiple by coefficient 1.

Barcelona and Argentina talisman Lionel Messi has won record five times this award in his career and maybe won more golden shoe in the upcoming year. He won in 2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2016–17, 2017–18 years. After Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo won this award four times in his career and one time he shared this award with Luis Suarez.

3) 2018-2019 Candidate of golden shoe

The current position of golden shoe award in 2018-2019     *last update on 02-04-2019

Rank	Player	Club	Goal	Factor	Points
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	31	2.0	62.0
2	Kylian Mbappe	PSG	27	2.0	54.0
3	Fabio Quagliarella	Sampdoria	21	2.0	42.0
4	Cristiano Ronaldo	Juventus	19	2.0	38.0
	Krzysztof Piątek	AC Milan
	Duván Zapata	Atalanta
	Robert Lewandowski	Bayern Munich
	Sergio Agüero	Man City
9	Luis Suárez	Barcelona	18	2.0	36.0
10	Robert Skov	Copenhage	23	1.5	34.5