A-League Youth Golden Boot | |
Awarded For: | The leading goalscorer in a given Y-League season. |
Sponsor: | Nike |
Country: | Australia |
Presenter: | Football Federation Australia |
Year: | 2009 |
Year2: | 2019 |
Holder: | Moudi Najjar |
Most Awards: | Francesco Monterosso (2) |
The A-League Youth Golden Boot, formerly Y-League Golden Boot, is an annual soccer award presented to the leading goalscorer in the Y-League, currently referred to as the Nike Golden Boot for sponsorship purposes.
The Y-League was founded in 2008. The number of teams in the league has ranged from seven to ten during its history, and there are currently ten clubs in the league. The award is given to the top-scorer over the regular season (not including the finals series/grand final).
Francesco Monterosso is the only player to have won the award on multiple occasions.
+Key | Player | Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one) |
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Games | The number of Y-League regular season games played by the winner that season | |
Rate | The winner's goals-to-games ratio that regular season | |
§ | Denotes the club were Y-League premiers in the same season |
Player | Nationality | Club | Goals | Games | Rate | Ref(s) | ||
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2008–09 | Australia | Adelaide United Youth | 13 | 18 | 0.72 | [1] | ||
2009–10 | Australia | Adelaide United Youth | 17 | |||||
2010–11 | Australia | Central Coast Mariners Academy | 12 | |||||
2011–12 | Australia | Sydney FC Youth | 13 | |||||
2012–13 | Australia | Newcastle Jets Youth | 13 | |||||
2013–14 | Australia | Adelaide United Youth | 14 | |||||
2014–15 | Australia | Melbourne City Youth | 9 | |||||
2015–16 | Australia | Melbourne Victory Youth | 10 | |||||
2016–17 | Australia | Melbourne Victory Youth | 6 | |||||
2017–18 | Western Sydney Wanderers Youth | 9 | 7 | 0.78 | [2] | |||
2018–19 | Melbourne City Youth | 7 | 6 | 0.86 | [3] |