Indian Super League Golden Boot Explained

ISL Golden Boot
Awarded For:The leading goalscorer in an Indian Super League season
Country:India
Presenter:Indian Super League,
All India Football Federation
Year:2014
Holder:Dimitrios Diamantakos (1st title)
Most Wins:Coro (2)

The Indian Super League Golden Boot is an annual association football award presented to the leading goalscorer in a season of Indian Super League, the top tier Indian Football System.

For sponsorship purposes, it was known as the Alto K10 Golden Boot from 2014 to 2015,[1] the Swift Golden Boot from 2016 to 2019 and the Maruti Suzuki Golden Boot in 2020.

The Indian Super League was founded in 2013, eight teams competed in the 2014 inaugural season. It became the joint top-tier of Indian football league system by 2017–18 season and is the top-tier since 2022–23 season. Elano of Chennaiyin won the inaugural award in 2014.[2] Coro won the Golden Boot award twice with Goa, more than any other player.

Bartholomew Ogbeche, Roy Krishna and Nerijus Valskis were the top scorers in the 2019–20 season with 15 goals each. In the assist count tiebreaker, both Krishna and Valskis were tied on six assists. Valskis was awarded the Golden Boot for a better goals-to-minutes ratio.[3] Igor Angulo and Roy Krishna were the top scorers in the 2020–21 season with 14 goals each. Angulo won the award for a better goals-to-minutes ratio.[4] Diego Maurício, Cleiton Silva and Dimitri Petratos were the top scorers in the 2022–23 season with 12 goals each. Maurício won the award for a better goals-to-minutes ratio.[5]

Winners

Player
Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
MatchesThe number of Indian Super League matches played by the winner that season
RateThe winner's goals-to-matches ratio that season
Denotes the club were Indian Super League champions or ISL Cup winners in the same season
Indian Super League record
Season!scope="col"
PlayerNationalityClubGoalsMatchesRateAssists
2014Elano BrazilChennaiyin8111
2015Stiven Mendoza ColombiaChennaiyin13163
2016Marcelinho BrazilOdisha10155
2017–18 SpainGoa18205
2018–19 SpainGoa16207
2019–20Nerijus Valskis LithuaniaChennaiyin15206
2020–21Igor Angulo SpainGoa14210
2021–22Bartholomew Ogbeche NigeriaHyderabad18201
2022–23Diego Maurício BrazilOdisha12214
2023–24Dimitrios Diamantakos GreeceKerala Blasters13173

Awards won by nationality

CountryPlayersTotal
33
23
11
11
11
11

Awards won by club

ClubTotal
Chennaiyin3
Goa3
Odisha2
Hyderabad1
Kerala Blasters1

Joint top scorers

SeasonPlayerNationalityClubGoalsMatchesRate
2019–20Bartholomew Ogbeche NigeriaKerala Blasters1516
Roy Krishna FijiATK1521
2020–21Roy Krishna FijiATK Mohun Bagan1423
2022–23Cleiton Silva BrazilEast Bengal1220
Dimitri Petratos AustraliaMohun Bagan SG1223
2023–24Roy Krishna FijiOdisha1325

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Closing Ceremony of Hero Indian Super League to celebrate Indian Football in style . 20 December 2014 . 23 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221123090926/https://www.sportskeeda.com/indian-football/closing-ceremony-hero-indian-super-league-celebrate-indian-football-in-style . 23 November 2022 . sports keeda.com . live .
  2. News: ISL 2014: Full list of award winners. 14 December 2022. oneindia.com. OneIndia. 20 December 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20150727023939/http://www.oneindia.com/sports/isl-2014-full-list-award-winners-elano-blumer-takes-golden-boot-1598802.html. 27 July 2015. Aprameya . live.
  3. Web site: ISL final: Valskis wins Golden Boot, Gurpreet takes Golden Glove . 14 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200316222141/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/isl/isl-2019-20-final-atk-roy-krishna-golden-boot-gurpreet-singh-sandhu-bengaluru-fc-hugo-boumous/article31070220.ece . 16 March 2020 . Sportstar . The Hindu. 30 November 2022.
  4. Web site: ISL 2021: Igor Angulo wins Golden Boot . 13 March 2021 . Sportstar . The Hindu . https://web.archive.org/web/20210414084413/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/isl/isl-news/igor-angulo-wins-golden-boot-award-fc-goa-isl-2021-isl-final-news/article34060692.ece . 14 April 2021.
  5. Web site: ISL 2022-23: Odisha FC’s Diego Mauricio wins golden boot . 18 March 2022 . Sportstar . The Hindu . https://web.archive.org/web/20230325225552/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/isl/isl-2023-golden-boot-winner-diego-mauricio-odisha-fc-cleiton-silva-dimitrios-petratos/article66636365.ece . 25 March 2023.