LONDON: Cristiano Ronaldo’s four goals in Real Madrid’s 7-1 thrashing of Celta Vigo in the Spanish league at the weekend not only turned him overnight into La Liga’s leading marksman but fired him to the top of the ESM Golden Shoe rankings.

Ronaldo now has 27 goals, one more than the three second-placed marksmen who include his Spanish league rival, Barcelona’s Luis Suarez.

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 (Denmark) 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) 27 x 2 = 54

2. Gonzalo Higuaín (SSC Napoli) 26 x 2 = 52

— ‘Jonas’ Goncalves (SL Benfica) 26 x 2 = 52

— Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona) 26 x 2 = 52

5. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 23 x 2 = 46
6. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) 22 x 2 = 44
7. Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 21 x 2 = 42
8. Eran Zahavi (Maccabi Tel Aviv) 27 x 1,5 = 40,5
9. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) 19 x 2 = 38
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) 19 x 2 = 38
11. Romelu Lukaku (Everton FC) 18 x 2 = 36
‘Neymar’ da Silva Santos (FC Barcelona) 18 x 2 = 36
Islam Slimani (Sporting Clube de Portugal) 18 x 2 = 36
14. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint-Germain) 23 x 1,5 = 34,5
Nemanja Nikolic (Legia Warszawa) 23 x 1,5 = 34,5
16. Aritz Adúriz (Athletic Club Bilbao) 17 x 2 = 34
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 17 x 2 = 34
Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) 17 x 2 = 34
19. ‘Alex Teixeira‘ Santos (Shakhtar Donetsk) 22 x 1,5 = 33
20. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) 16 x 2 = 32
‘Borja’ González Tomás (SD Eibar) 16 x 2 = 32
22. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético Madrid) 15 x 2 = 30
‘Lucas’ Pérez (Deportivo La Coruña) 15 x 2 = 30
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) 15 x 2 = 30
25. Fernando Cavenaghi (APOEL Nicosia) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
26. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) 14 x 2 = 28
‘Rubén Castro’ Martín (Real Betis Sevilla) 14 x 2 = 28
Javier Hernández (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 14 x 2 = 28
Odion Ighalo (Watford FC) 14 x 2 = 28
Konstantinos Mitroglou (SL Benfica) 14 x 2 = 28
Bruno Daniel Moreira (Paços de Ferreira) 14 x 2 = 28
Tomas Radzinevicius (FK Süduva Marijampole) 28 x 1 = 28
33. Luuk de Jong (PSV Eindhoven) 18 x 1,5 = 27
34. Imanol Agirretxe (Real Sociedad) 13 x 2 = 26
Carlos Bacca (AC Milan) 13 x 2 = 26
‘Léo Bonatini’ Lohner Maia (GD Estoril-Praia) 13 x 2 = 26
Paulo Dybala (Juventus) 13 x 2 = 26
Kévin Gameiro (Sevilla FC) 13 x 2 = 26
Clecildo ‘Rafael Martins’ de Souza (Moreirense FC) 13 x 2 = 26
40. Vincent Janssen (AZ Alkmaar) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
Jonatan Soriano (Red Bull Salzburg) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
42. David Arshakyan (FK Trakai) 25 x 1 = 25
Leigh Griffiths (Celtic FC) 25 x 1 = 25
Richard Towell (Dundalk FC) 25 x 1 = 25
45. ‘Eder’ Citadin (UC Sampdoria/Internazionale) 12 x 2 = 24
Kostas Fortounis (Olympiakos Piraeus) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) 12 x 2 = 24
Mario Gomez (Besiktas JK) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Mauro Icardi (Internazionale Milano) 12 x 2 = 24
Salomon Kalou (Hertha BSC Berlin) 12 x 2 = 24
Dirk Kuyt (Feyenoord) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Alexander Meier (Eintracht Frankfurt) 12 x 2 = 24
Dino Ndlovu (Anorthosis Famagusta) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Ilija Nestorovski (Inter Zapresic) 16 x 1,5 = 24
‘Raffael’ Caetano de Araújo (Borussia Mönchengladbach) 12 x 2 = 24
Ingemar Teever (Levadia Tallinn) 24 x 1 = 24
57. ‘André Alves’ dos Santos (AEK Larnaca) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Dimitar Makriev (Nea Salamis Famagusta) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Deniss Rakels (Cracovia Kraków) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Lukas Spalvis (Aalborg BK) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Nikolai Yanush (Shakhtyor Saligorsk) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5

** The Golden Shoe is administered, computed and formulated by the European Sports Media group whose members comprise: A Bola (Portugal), ElfVoetbal (Netherlands), Fanatik (Turkey), Foot Magazine (Belgium), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany), GoalNews/Sentragoal (Greece), Guerin Sportivo (Italy), Kicker (Germany), Marca (Spain), Nemzeti Sport (Hungary), SoFoot (France), Sport Express (Russia), Telegraaf/Telesport (Netherlands), Tipsbladet (Denmark), World Soccer (England). Affiliated members: Kick Off (South Africa), Titan Sport (China), Netease (China), SportalKorea (South-Korea).

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