Football in Europe doesn’t stop for the end-of-year celebrations and there are players who continue to score goals and collect points in the epilogue of the competition’s first half of the 2025-2026 season the Golden Boot classification, the prestigious award that honors the top goalscorer of all tournaments on the Old Continent with a qualification that is not about the number of points scored, but about the units in relation to the tournament in which they participate.
The Englishman Harry Kane is no longer leading alone, as he was until two weeks ago. Although he scored for Bayern Munich and reached 38 points, Erling Haaland reached him. Both celebrated 17 celebrations for Bayern Munich in the German Bundesliga and the English Premier League respectively.
The only escort are the French Kylian Mbappe, Protagonist of 18 goals in the Spanish League for Real Madrid and thus 36 units. The Serb Darko Lemajić from RFS from Latvia completes the podium with 28th place.
The Golden Boot table It occurs from July to June of the following year, i.e. during the European season. One of the most important individual awards in football, it quantifies the goals scored by each player in the European leagues over the course of the year, with the number of points being awarded more or less depending on the “difficulty” of the goal. That depends on which league they are celebrated in. Two units are awarded for each success in the five main competitions – England’s Premier League, Germany’s Bundesliga, Spain’s Liga, Italy’s Serie A and France’s Ligue 1 – and 1.5 units for each result in the remaining local competitions.
The statistics are always counted within the old continent, For this reason, there are players who, despite scoring dozens of goals in another corner of the world, do not take part in the fight for the award. This is happening again this season Cristiano Ronaldo And Lionel Messi. The Portuguese continues his career with Al Nassr of Saudi Arabia, while the Argentine belongs to Inter Miami of the USA, where he became MLS champions this year and won the Golden Boot for the most goals in the regular season.
Both are the top winners of the award when they were still shining in Europe: The Portuguese has four awards and the Rosario has six awards – all of which he received while working in Barcelona.
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