LONDON: Paris Saint-Germain striker Edinson Cavani has maintained his lead in the ESM Golden Shoe, the prize for leading league marksman in European football.

He added a goal to his tally in the French league in PSG’s 4-1 win at Rennes on Saturday.

The Uruguayan has benefited from a change in the computation because France is now among the top five nations according to UEFA’s July rankings. This means his goals benefit from a multiple of 2.0 rather than the 1.5 of last season.

Portugal slipped out of the top five meaning the value of goals in the local league for players from Benfica, Sporting and Porto etc has been downgraded to 1.5. Goals in the countries ranked on down from 23 stand at face value.

As in previous years the Golden Shoe does not consider goals in play-off competitions.

Golden Shoe standings  

(Ranking multiplication based on UEFA coefficient status)

1. Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain) 18 x 2 = 36
2. Mauro Icardi (Internazionale) 17 x 2 = 34
3. Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio Roma) 15 x 2 = 30
— Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 15 x 2 = 30
5. Igor Angulo Albóniga (Górnik Zabrze) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
6. Radamel Falcao (AS Monaco) 14 x 2 = 28
Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 14 x 2 = 28
8. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool FC) 14 x 2 = 28
9. Mikhail Gordeichuk (FC BATE Borisov) 18 x 1,5 = 27
‘Jonas’ Gonçalves Oliveira (SL Benfica) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Albert Prosa (FC Infonet Tallinn) 27 x 1 = 27
Rauno Sappinen (Flora Tallinn) 27 x 1 = 27
13. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) 13 x 2 = 26
Mariano Díaz (Olympique Lyonnais) 13 x 2 = 26
15. Emiliano Marcondes (FC Nordsjaelland) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
16. Irakli Sikharulidze (FC Locomotive Tblisi) 25 x 1 = 25
17. Paulo Dybala (Juventus) 12 x 2 = 24
Nabil Fekir (Olympique Lyonnais) 12 x 2 = 24
Gerard Gohou (FC Kairat Almaty) 24 x 1 = 24
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 12 x 2 = 24
Jakub Swierczok (Zaglebie Lubin) 16 x 1,5 = 24
22. ‘Carlitos’ Carlos Lopez (Wisla Kraków) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Pawel Savitskiy (FC Neman Grodno) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
24. Alfred Finnbogason (FC Augsburg) 11 x 2 = 22
‘Neymar’ da Silva (Paris Saint-Germain) 11 x 2 = 22
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) 11 x 2 = 22
27. Magnus Eriksson (Djurgårdens IF) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Karl Holmberg (IFK Norrköping) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Bafétimbi Gomis (Galatasaray SK) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Marco Filipe Lopes ‘Paixão’ (KS Lechia Gdańsk) 14 x 1,5 = 21
31. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) 10 x 2 = 20
Mario Balotelli (OGC Nice) 10 x 2 = 20
Rimo Hunt (Levadia Tallinn) 20 x 1 = 20
Romelu Lukaku (Manchester United) 10 x 2 = 20
Seán Maguire (Cork City) 20 x 1 = 20
Dries Mertens (SSC Napoli) 10 x 2 = 20
Wayne Rooney (Everton FC) 10 x 2 = 20
Simone Zaza (Valencia CF) 10 x 2 = 20
39. Bas Dost (Sporting Clube de Portugal) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Facundo Ferreyra (FC Shakhtar Donetsk) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Adis Jahovic (Göztepe Izmir) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Pal Alexander Kirkevold (Hobro IK) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Burak Yilmaz (Trabzonspor AS) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
44. Nicklas Bendtner (Rosenborg BK) 19 x 1 = 19
Andri Rúnar Bjarnason (Grindavík) 19 x 1 = 19
Junior Kabananga (FC Astana) 19 x 1 = 19
47. Vincent Aboubakar (FC Porto) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Ernest Asante (FC Nordsjaelland) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Iago Aspas (CR Celta de Vigo) 9 x 2 = 18
Cédric Bakambu (Villarreal CF) 9 x 2 = 18
Munas Dabbur (Red Bull Salzburg) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Bojan Dubajić (FC Gorodeya) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Harlem Gnohéré (FC Steaua Bucharest) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) 9 x 2 = 18
Christoph Knasmüller (FC Admira Wacker Mödling) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Moussa Marega (FC Porto) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Álvaro Morata (Chelsea FC) 9 x 2 = 18
Fabio Quagliarella (UC Sampdoria) 9 x 2 = 18
Anton Saroka (FC Dinamo Minsk) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Dia Seba (Maccabi Netanya) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Darvydas Šernas (Žalgiris Vilnius) 18 x 1 = 18
Christian Stuani (Girona FC) 9 x 2 = 18
Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona) 9 x 2 = 18
Mark Uth (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) 9 x 2 = 18
Aleksandr Volkov (JK Sillamäe Kalev) 18 x 1 = 18
Kevin Volland (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 9 x 2 = 18