WHO WILL FINISH GOLDEN BOOT WINNER AT THE END OF THE SEASON ?

Here is the current situation in the 5 big league, the chart of the best scoring strikers in every league :

England :

1. Darren BENT (Charlton) 7 goals / 7 played
- Ruud VAN NISTELROOY (Manchester United) 7 / 7
3. Yakubu AYEGBENI (Middlesbrough) 4 / 7
- Marlon HAREWOOD (West Ham United) 4 / 7
5. Thierry HENRY (Arsenal) 3 / 3
- Didier DROGBA (Chelsea) 3 / 8
- Wayne ROONEY (Manchester United) 3 / 7
- Jermain DEFOE (Tottenham) 3 / 8

Italy :

1. Luca TONI (Fiorentina) 6 goals / 6 played
- Emiliano BONAZZOLI (Sampdoria Gênes) 6 / 6
3. Enrico CHIESA (Sienne) 5 / 6
4. Francesco TAVANO (Empoli) 4 / 6
- David TREZEGUET (Juventus Turin) 4 / 5
- Andreï SHEVCHENKO (Milan AC) 4 / 6
7. Shabani NONDA (AS Roma) 3 / 6
- Leite ADRIANO (Inter Milan) 3 / 6

Spain :

1. Samuel ETO'O (FC Barcelone) 6 goals / 6 played
- David VILLA (Valence CF) 6 / 6
3. Fernando BAIANO (Celta Vigo) 5 / 6
- RONALDO (Real Madrid) 5 / 6
5 Iván RIKI (Getafe) 4 / 6
6. Jose FERNANDO TORRES (Atletico Madrid) 3 / 6
- Mateja KEZMAN (Atletico Madrid) 3 / 5
- Herrera DIEGO TRISTAN (Deportivo La Corogne) 3 / 6
- Gonzalez Blanco RAUL (Real Madrid) 3 / 6

Germany :

1. Halil ALTINTOP (FC Kaiserslautern) 7 goals / 8 played
- Miroslav KLOSE (Werder Brême) 7 / 7
3. Roy MAKAAY (Bayern Munich) 6 / 7
- Rafael VAN DER VAART (Hambourg SV) 6 / 8
- Ivan KLASNIC (Werder Brême) 6 / 8
6. Dimitar BERBATOV (Bayer Leverkusen) 5 / 8
- Ebi SMOLAREK (Borussia Dortmund) 5 / 8
8. Sergueï BARBAREZ (Hambourg SV) 4 / 8
- Soren LARSEN (Schalke 04) 4 / 8
- Jon Dahl TOMASSON (VfB Stuttgart) 4 / 8

France :

1. Pedro Miguel PAULETA (Paris-SG) 7 goals / 10 played
2. Vinicius DE MELO (Le Mans) 4 / 10
- John CAREW (Lyon) 4 / 8
- Eli KROUPI (Nancy) 4 / 6
- Kim KALLSTROM (Rennes) 4 / 10
- Frédéric PIQUIONNE (Saint-Etienne) 4 / 10
8. Peguy LUYINDULA (Auxerre) 3 / 9
- Marouane CHAMAKH (Bordeaux) 3 / 9
- Daniel COUSIN (Lens) 3 / 7
- FRED (Lyon) 3 / 5
- Sylvain WILTORD (Lyon) 3 / 9

Toni or Trezeguet

I'd say Adriano

Adriano he is the strongest and fastest player

Adriano is a good contender but i have to RVN

Adriano gonna win the awarrd i think.

Netherlands not in this thing right? else Arveladze 10 goals 7games

The Uefa rating gives the Eredivise 0.5 points per goal, while the other top leagues get 1 point per goal. Otherwise Kezman would've won it seasons before and last season it would be Kuyt.

I think ruud vn will win it this season.......
He's shown great form for us so far!

its quite obvious tt Toni is going to get it...he's scored 16 goals to date...and there's no signs of him stopping...and why nobody put Lampard as an option? He's scored 11 goals to date..1 more than the most popular choice Ruud van nistelrooy!

I'd say Eto'o or Luca Toni. Both are on fire at the moment ...

Samuel Eto'o, I think.

Obvously Luca Toni will win the Golden BOot




Lampard is in excellent form as well with 11 goals so far. But I dont think Luca Toni is going to stop scoring.
Forentina are going to have to win alot of games to keep up with Juventus for the title and that means Toni
will score alot of goals.

i think that Eto'o or Henry should win it

Henry for me deserves the golden boot.

Has to be Halil Altintop! Scoring so many goals in such a shit team is deffinately an achievment. Lets also not forget that Nihat Kaveci was JOINT top goal scorer with Eto'o before he got injured, Barcelona were top Real Sociadad were mid table(last season), another big achievement which was ignored by top clubs in europe.

KLOSE!!!

16 goals in the 13games he played!

van nistelrooy just scored again last night

halil altintop scored another hattrick

Eto'o or Toni...

i think eto'o had two goals his last game...so if u wanna make this a contest on who scores every night i think eto'o will win

LoL ok. Can someone update me who has the most goals so far. Can you give me in a table.. Can you tell me the top 10?

He got another brace today.

That's 17 goals in 17 games for Sammy. If he keeps it up, I'm sure he can win the Golden Boot by the end of the season. His closest rivals are Toni who has 16 goals in 16 games, and Klose who has 16 goals in 17 games.

why the hell is darren bent up on there he will never win it David Villa is WAYY better than him and reyes is better aswell

Why Bent over Reyes? Maybe because he has 9 goals at the halfway mark of the season and Reyes just notched his first in the Premiership today. The Golden boot is about numbers, not necessarily the skill of the players.

bent is shit and overrated he aint better than reyes or David villa

well, Bent is in a "shitter" team than Reyes and if Reyes has only score 1 while Bent has 9, what does that tell you??

I cant say much bout David Villa because i dont ever think ive seen him play

its between Ruud and Eto'o and for me Ruud edges simply cos his season will not be interupted by representing his national team unlike Eto'o. Ruud looks like scoring every time he sets foot on a pitch, not that Eto'o doesn't, but still Ruud edges it.

If not for injury Thierry Henry with out a shadow of a doubt but it has to be Samuel Eto'o for me.
18 in 18 la liga games 23 alrerady for the season - yeh he may miss a few games with ANC - but after losing out on the "pachcici" last season he has a burning desire to be the best this year.

Curly Prince look at Barça games and you'll see that there is no shadow of a doubt that when Eto'o is on the field he will score.

Well at the moment it has to be Eto'o but i still think Thierry Henry has a chance of closing the gap. Eto'o away on international duty, Henry needs to use this to his advantage, infact all strikers who want to win the award should use the next few games to catch up with Eto'o.

As it stands so far....

England :

1. Ruud Van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 16/22
2. Thierry Henry (Arsenal) 13/16
- Lampard (Chelsea) 13/22
3. Yakubu (Middlesborough) 12/21
4. Darren Bent (Charlton) 11/20
5. Harewood (West Ham united) 10/23


Italy :

1. Luca Toni (Fiorentina) 21/21
2. David Trezeguet (Juventus) 15/18
3. Adriano (Inter Milan) 12/18
- Guilardino (AC Milan) 12/19
4. Shevchenko (AC Milan) 11/15
- Totti (AS Roma) 11/18
5. Suazo (Caligary) 10/20

Spain :

1. Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona) 18/19
2. VILLA (Valencia) 13/19
3. Ronaldinho (Barcelona) 11/18
4. Tristan (Deportivo La Corogne) 10/20
5. Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 9/13

Germany :

1. Klose (Werder Brême) 16/14
2. Altintop (kaiserslautern) 13/17
3. SMOLAREK (Borussia Dortmund) 11/17
4- Klimowicz (Wolfsberg) 9/16
5-Roy MAKAAY (Bayern Munich) 8/16


France :

1. Pauleta (Paris-SG) 14/22
2.Luyindula (Auxerre) 9/20
3. Wiltord (Lyon) 8/22
- Cousin (Lens) 8 20
4. Pieroni (Auxerre) 7/20
5. Grax (Troyes) 6/21

Klose looks really nice : 16 goals in 14 games

It's gonna be either Eto'o or Luca Toni (if not some crazi Asian players would score like 40+ goals in their league)

Ruud has scored 18 goals in 23 games ..he'll win it at the end of season..

A month since the last updates...Eto'o seems to be on a minor drought (just 3 games), Trezeguet and Van Nistelrooy both seem to be going strong. Henry also has also found it difficult to close the gap on Van Nistelrooy. Shevchenko seems to be slowly climbing whislt Ronaldo has not scored since his return from injury. I reckon its between Trezeguet and Van Nistelrooy at the moment. The African Nations Cup has worked against Eto'o in the race for the Golden Boot whilse Ronaldo and Henry have both suffered from Injuries this season, Ronaldo missing 8 games and Henry missing 6 games.

1. Ruud Van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 19/25
2. Thierry Henry (Arsenal) 15/21
3 Lampard (Chelsea) 14/26
4. Darren Bent (Charlton) 13/26
5. Yakubu (Middlesborough) 12/24
-. Harewood (West Ham united) 12/26


Italy :

1. Luca Toni (Fiorentina) 22/27
2. David Trezeguet (Juventus) 18/23
- Guilardino (AC Milan) 15/24
- Shevchenko (AC Milan) 15/20
- Totti (AS Roma) 15/23
4. Lucarelli (Livorno) 14/26
5. Suarzo (Livorno) 13/26

Spain :

1. Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona) 18/22
2. Villa (Valencia) 15/24
3. Ronaldinho (Barcelona) 13/21
4. Tristan (Deportivo La Corogne) 11/25
5. Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 10/17
- Torres (Athletico Madrid) 10/24

Germany :

1. Klose (Werder Brême) 17/15
2. Altintop (kaiserslautern) 13/23
3. Ballack (Bayern Munich) 12/17
3. SMOLAREK (Borussia Dortmund) 12/20
4. Klimowicz (Wolfsberg) 11/19
- Roy MAKAAY (Bayern Munich) 11/21


France :

1. Pauleta (Paris-SG) 16/26
2. Cousin (Lens) 11/24
3. Diallo (FC Nantes) 10/27
2. Luyindula (Auxerre) 9/25
3. Wiltord (Lyon) 9/25
4. Pieroni (Auxerre) 9/25

The race for the Golden Boot is hotting up:

1. Luca Toni (Fiorentina) 23/28, 0.821GPG
2. Thierry Henry (Arsenal) 19/23, 0.826GPG
3. Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona) 19/24, 0.791GPG
4. Ruud Van Nistelrooy (Manchester United) 19/27, 0.703GPG
5. David Trezeguet (Juventus) 18/24, 0.75GPG
6. Klose (Werder Brême) 17/17, 1GPG
7. Shevchenko (AC Milan) 16/22, 0.727GPG
8. Pauleta (Paris-SG) 16/28, 0.571GPG
9. Darren Bent (Charlton) 16/28, 0.571GPG
10. Villa (Valencia) 15/26, 0.576GPG
11. Guilardino (AC Milan) 15/26, 0.576GPG

10 of the top 11 players are fighting it out for their first European Golden Boot. The only previous winner of the award, Thierry Henry is out to win a would be record, third consecutive Golden Boot.

this year is for toni

One month since the last update.
Look like it's going to be between Toni, Eto'o and Henry, with RvN being on the bench at the moment.

1. TONI Luca (Fiorentina) 26/31
2. ETO'O Samuel (FC Barcelone) 22/28
3. HENRY Thierry (Arsenal) 21/25
4. VAN NISTELROOY Ruud (Manchester United) 21/30
5 KLOSE Miroslav (Werder Brême) 20/20
6. TREZEGUET David (Juventus Turin) 20/28
7. PAULETA Pedro Miguel (Paris-SG) 20/32
8. SHEVCHENKO Andreï (Milan AC) 19/24
9. VILLA David (Valence CF) 18/30
10. ALTINTOP Halil (FC Kaiserslautern) 16/28
11. BENT Darren (Charlton) 16/31
12. RONALDINHO GAUCHO (FC Barcelone) 15/26
13. BERBATOV Dimitar (Bayer Leverkusen) 15/28

As long as Toni keeps taking the penalties for the Viola, he'll win it. He has a healthy lead as it is.

Why do you guys keep ignoring the Dutch competition?

1. Luca Toni Fiorentina (Ita) 27
2. Samuel Eto’o Barcelona (Spa) 23
3. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Ajax/SC Heerenveen (Ned) 30
4. Ruud van Nistelrooy Man. United (Eng) 21
4. Thierry Henry Arsenal (Eng) 21
6. Tarmo Neemelo FC TVMK (Est) 41
7. Pauleta Paris SG (Fra) 20
7. Miroslav Klose Werder Bremen (Dui) 20
7. David Trezeguet Juventus (Ita) 20
10. Kris Boyd Kilmarnock/Rangers (Sch) 26

We have nothing against the Dutch division, but it doesn't count for 1 pt, but just 0.5, like the Turkish league, so Huntelaar would only be counted as 15 goals for example.

Except if the Dutch league had a monstrous striker that would score 50 goals a season, but it's not the case, so basically however strong Huntelaar is, he's not in the Golden Boot race.

Hm.. the dutch counts as 1,5 if I'm not mistaken. That would give Huntelaar a third spot at this moment. I think that would also be fair, because it's a bit odd to rank Latvia's competition just like ours

Indeed. The dutch league get's 1,5 points per goal while the other other leagues get 2 points a goal. But at this moment Huntelaar is third with 45 points and Eto'o is second with 46 points. And Huntelaar has been second place for quite a while. So nothing is decided so far. Except that Toni will win the golden boot of course.

huntelaar wil score 40+ goals this season and win the golden boot.

UEFA.com just posted the latest rankings, with the values for each league.

Here it is :

1. Luca TONI (Fiorentina / ITA) : 28 goals/56 pts
2. Klaas-Jan HUNTELAAR (Heerenveen and Ajax / NED) : 33 goals/49.5 pts
3. Samuel ETO'O (Barcelona / ESP) : 24 goals/48 pts
4. Thierry HENRY (Arsenal / ENG) : 22 goals/44 pts
5. Ruud VAN NISTELROOY (Manchester United / ENG) : 21 goals/42 pts
6. Tarmo NEEMELO (FC TVMK Tallinn / EST) : 41 goals/41 pts
7. Kris BOYD (Kilmarnock and Rangers / SCO) : 27 goals/40.5 pts
8. Pedro Miguel PAULETA (Paris-Saint-Germain / FRA) : 20 goals/40 pts
8. David TREZEGUET (Juventus/ ITA) : 20 goals/40 pts
8. Miroslav KLOSE (Werder Bremen / GER) 20 goals/40 pts
11. Andriy SHEVCHENKO (AC Milan / ITA) : 19 goals/38 pts
12. David VILLA (Valencia / ESP) : 18 goals/36 pts

who is Tarmo NEEMELO??? and what league is that?

He plays in Estonia.

Dumbest thing about the golden boot is that some some leagues have more matches because they have more teams.. It's easier to get more goals in more games. It's impossible to rank them equal

The Winner will be Luca Toni or Kris Boyd!

Well we are reaching the closing stages of the season. Luca Toni looks at the moment comfortable at the top but there is a chance for Henry and especially Eto'o with his 4 games in hand, you never know what could happen.

Heres the top 10:
Toni - 28/36, 2 games to go
Henry - 24/30, 2 games to go
Eto'o - 24/31, 4 games to go
Villa - 23/34, 3 games to go
Trezeguet - 22/30, 2 games to go
Van Nistelrooy - 21/34, 1 game to go
Suazo - 21/35, 2 games to go
Klose - 20/23, 3 games to go
Pauleta - 20/?, 2 games to go
Lucarelli - 19/34, 2 games to go
Shevchenko - 19/27, 2 games to go
Bent - 18/35, 1 game to go