48-goal Ronaldo home and dry yet again in race for the Golden Shoe
LONDON: The European league season has yet to end but the winner of the ESM Golden Shoe is already certain to be Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Real Madrid superstar took his total of league goals for the season to 48 with his hat-trick against Getafe on Saturday and thus ended another prolific Spanish season five goals clear of Lionel Messi, his only top-scoring contender.
Ronaldo has thus won for the second successive season and the fourth time in all.
Only goals in domestic regular season league competition count for the Golden Shoe.
Players’ goals totals are multiplied by a 1-2-3 ranking of the countries according to the UEFA Ranking of last July 1. That means the goals from numbers one (Spain) to five (Portugal) are doubled, goals from places six (France) to 22 (Croatia) are multiplied by 1.5.
Goals in league tournament playoffs do not count.
Golden Shoe standings
(Ranking multiplication based on UEFA coefficient status)
1. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 48 x 2 = 96
2. Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 43 x 2 = 86
3. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) 26 x 2 = 52
4. Jonatan Soriano (Red Bull Salzburg) 31 x 1,5 = 46,5
5. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético Madrid) 22 x 2 = 44
‘Neymar’ da Silva (FC Barcelona) 22 x 2 = 44
7. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 21 x 2 = 42
Jackson Martinez (FC Porto) 21 x 2 = 42
Luca Toni (Hellas Verona) 21 x 2 = 42
10. Alexandre Lacazette (Olympique Lyon) 27 x 1,5 = 40,5
Eran Zahavi (Maccabi Tel Aviv) 27 x 1,5 = 40,5
12. Carlos Bacca (Sevilla FC) 20 x 2 = 40
Diego Costa (Chelsea) 20 x 2 = 40
Mauro Icardi (Internazionale) 20 x 2 = 40
‘Jonas’ Gonçalves Oliveira (SL Benfica) 20 x 2 = 40
Carlos Tevez (Juventus) 20 x 2 = 40
17. Rodrigo José ‘Lima’ dos Santos (SL Benfica) 19 x 2 = 38
Alexander Meier (Eintracht Frankfurt) 19 x 2 = 38
19. Aritz Aduriz (Athletic de Bilbao) 18 x 2 = 36
Charlie Austin (Queens Park Rangers) 18 x 2 = 36
Evgeni Kabaev (Sillamäe Kalev) 36 x 1 = 36
22. Andrej Kramaric (HNK Rijeka/Leicester City) 21 x 1,5 + 2 x 2 = 35,5
23. Robert Beric (SK Rapid Wien) 23 x 1,5 = 34,5
24. Alberto Bueno (Rayo Vallecano) 17 x 2 = 34
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 17 x 2 = 34
‘Marco Matías’ da Silva Lopes (CD Nacional) 17 x 2 = 34
Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) 17 x 2 = 34
28. Memphis Depay (PSV) 22 x 1,5 = 33
José ‘Fernandão’ Viana de Santana (Bursaspor) 22 x 1,5 = 33
30. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) 16 x 2 = 32
Bas Dost (VfL Wolfsburg) 16 x 2 = 32
Gonzalo Higuaín (SSC Napoli) 16 x 2 = 32
Jérémy Menez (AC Milan) 16 x 2 = 32
Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) 16 x 2 = 32
Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona) 16 x 2 = 32
Igor Subbotin (Levadia Tallinn) 32 x 1 = 32
37. Shkelzen Gashi (FC Basel) 21 x 1,5 = 31,5
André-Pierre Gignac (Olympique Marseille) 21 x 1,5 = 31,5
Ángelo Henríquez (NK Dinamo Zagreb) 21 x 1,5 = 31,5
40. Joe Gormley (Cliftonville FC) 31 x 1 = 31
Pero Pejic (FK Kukësi) 31 x 1 = 31
42. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) 15 x 2 = 30
Manolo Gabbiadini (UC Sampdoria/SSC Napoli) 15 x 2 = 30
Luuk de Jong (PSV) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Fabrice Kouadio ‘Manucho’ (FC Infonet) 30 x 1 = 30
46. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint-Germain) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
David Lafata (AH Sparta Praha) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Marcel Sabitzer (Red Bull Salzburg) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Milan Skoda (Slavia Praha) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
50. Saido Berahino (West Bromwich Albion) 14 x 2 = 28
Domenico Berardi (US Sassuolo) 14 x 2 = 28
‘Sergio García’ de la Fuente (RCD Espanyol) 14 x 2 = 28
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) 14 x 2 = 28
Vladislavs Gutkovskis (Skonto Riga) 28 x 1 = 28
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) 14 x 2 = 28
‘Jonathas’ Cristian de Jesus (Elche CF) 14 x 2 = 28
Antonio Di Natale (Udinese Calcio) 14 x 2 = 28
Chris Venables (Aberystwyth Town) 28 x 1 = 28
59. Demba Ba (Besiktas JK) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Paul Heatley (Crusaders FC) 27 x 1 = 27
Grégory Tadé (CFR Cluj) 18 x 1,5 = 27
