This article is about the leading goalscorer award in the Australian premier men's association football league. For the equivalent award in the women's league of the same name, seeA-League Women Golden Boot.
Award
A-League Men Golden Boot
Awarded for
The leading goalscorer in a given A-League season.
TheA-League Men Golden Boot is an annualassociation football award presented to the leading goalscorer in theA-League Men. It was previously referred to as theNike Golden Boot for sponsorship purposes.[1]
The A-League was founded in 2005 to replace the semi-professionalNational Soccer League.[2] The number of teams in the league has ranged from eight to twelve and there are currently twelve 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 andArchie Thompson.
Jamie Maclaren has won the golden boot on five occasions, more than any other player. Petrie was the first non-Australian winner in the league's inaugural season.
Bobô – with 27 goals in2017–18 – scored the most goals to win the Golden Boot, whileDanny Allsopp scored the fewest to win the award outright, with 11 goals in2006–07. The all-time record for lowest number of goals scored to be bestowed the award, however, is 8 goals; this was achieved during the2005–06 season, when the award was shared among four players. This marks one of two seasons in which the award has been shared, the other being the2016–17 season, where the award was shared between Jamie Maclaren andBesart Berisha. Bobô recorded the highest goals-to-games ratio to win the award, scoring 27 goals in 27 games in2017–18 for a rate of 1.00.
In 2024,Adam Taggart became the first ever player in the Australian top flight to win the Golden Boot from a team that finished bottom, scoring 20 goals in 25 games forPerth Glory.
In 2025,Archie Goodwin became the youngest ever A-League golden boot winner, at 20 years and 178 days, eclipsing Adam Taggart from the 2013/14 season.[4]
Archie Thompson was one of four winners of the inaugural A-League Golden Boot in 2006.Bobô won the2017–18 A-League Golden Boot, scoring 27 goals in 27 games for a rate of 1.00; he holds the record for the most goals scored in a single season.
Key
Player(X)
Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
Games
The number ofA-League regular season games played by the winner that season[A]
Rate
The winner's goals-to-games ratio that regular season
