LONDON: Lionel Messi  can now be confirmed as having won the ESM European Golden Shoe standings for the continent’s leading league marksman for a record fifth time writes KEIR RADNEDGE.

Messi finished Barcelona’s Spanish league title-winning campaign with 34 goals, two clear of Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah (32 goals) and four ahead of Tottenham’s Harry Kane.

Serie A contenders Mauro Icardi (Internazionale) and Ciro Immobile finished joint fourth on 29 goals along with Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich).

Benfica’s Jonas also scored 34 goals but Portugal’s status ranks below that of Spain in regulations based on the UEFA ranking of competition value. This means his goals benefit from a multiple of 1.5 rather than 2.0.Goals in the countries ranked on down from 23 stand at face value.

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

Golden Shoe standings  

(Ranking multiplication based on UEFA coefficient status) 

1. Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 34 x 2 = 68

2. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool FC) 32 x 2 = 64

3. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 30 x 2 = 60

4. Mauro Icardi (Internazionale) 29 x 2 = 58
— Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio Roma) 29 x 2 = 58
— Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 29 x 2 = 58
7. Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain) 28 x 2 = 56
8. Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 26 x 2 = 52
9. ‘Jonas’ Gonçalves Oliveira (SL Benfica) 34 x 1,5 = 51
10. Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona) 25 x 2 = 50
11. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund/Arsenal) 23 x 2 = 46
12. Iago Aspas (RC Celta de Vigo) 22 x 2 = 44
Paulo Dybala (Juventus) 22 x 2 = 44
Florian Thauvin (Olympique Marseille) 22 x 2 = 44
15. Bafétimbi Gomis (Galatasaray SK) 29 x 1,5 = 43,5
16. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) 21 x 2 = 42
Christian Stuani (Girona FC) 21 x 2 = 42
18. Bas Dost (Sporting Clube de Portugal) 27 x 1,5 = 40,5
19. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) 20 x 2 = 40
20. Memphis Depay (Olympique Lyonnais) 19 x 2 = 38
Antoine Griezmann (Atlético Madrid) 19 x 2 = 38
‘Neymar’ da Silva (Paris Saint-Germain) 19 x 2 = 38
Fabio Quagliarella (UC Sampdoria) 19 x 2 = 38
24. Mario Balotelli (OGC Nice) 18 x 2 = 36
Mariano Díaz (Olympique Lyonnais) 18 x 2 = 36
Radamel Falcao (AS Monaco) 18 x 2 = 36
Nabil Fekir (Olympique Lyonnais) 18 x 2 = 36
Dries Mertens (SSC Napoli) 18 x 2 = 36
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) 18 x 2 = 36
30. Burak Yilmaz (Trabzonspor AS) 23 x 1,5 = 34,5
31. Maximiliano Gómez González (RC Celta de Vigo) 17 x 2 = 34
Karl Toko Ekambi (Angers SCO) 17 x 2 = 34
33. Munas Dabbur (Red Bull Salzburg) 22 x 1,5 = 33
David Turpel (F91 Dudelange) 33 x 1 = 33
35. Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) 16 x 2 = 32
Edin Dzeko (AS Roma) 16 x 2 = 32
Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) 16 x 2 = 32
Romelu Lukaku (Manchester United) 16 x 2 = 32
Gerard Moreno (RCD Espanyol) 16 x 2 = 32
Alassane Pléa (OGC Nice) 16 x 2 = 32
‘Rodrigo’ Moreno Machado (Valencia CF) 16 x 2 = 32
42. ‘Carlitos’ Carlos Lopez (Wisla Kraków) 21 x 1,5 = 31,5
Alireza Jahanbakhsh (AZ Alkmaar) 21 x 1,5 = 31,5
Moussa Marega (FC Porto) 21 x 1,5 = 31,5
45. Deni Alar (SK Sturm Graz) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Igor Angulo Albóniga (Górnik Zabrze) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Carlos Bacca (Villarreal CF) 15 x 2 = 30
Facundo Ferreyra (FC Shakhtar Donetsk) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Roberto Firmino (Liverpool FC) 15 x 2 = 30
Nils Petersen (SC Freiburg) 15 x 2 = 30
Marcos Paulo Mesquita ‘Rony’ Lopes (AS Monaco) 15 x 2 = 30
Nolan Roux (FC Metz) 15 x 2 = 30
‘Willian José’ da Silva (Real Sociedad) 15 x 2 = 30
54. Alexander Karapetyan (FC Progrès Niederkorn) 29 x 1 = 29
55. Anis Jahovic (Göztepe Izmir) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Bjørn Johnsen (ADO Den Haag) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Aleksandar Prijovic (PAOK Saloniki) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
58. Niclas Füllkrug (Hannover 96) 14 x 2 = 28
Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) 14 x 2 = 28
Giovanni Simeone (AFC Fiorentina) 14 x 2 = 28
Mark Uth (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) 14 x 2 = 28
Kevin Volland (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 14 x 2 = 28
63. Steven Berghuis (Feyenoord Rotterdam) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Mikhail Gordeichuk (FC BATE Borisov) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Albert Prosa (FC Infonet Tallinn) 27 x 1 = 27
Rauno Sappinen (Flora Tallinn) 27 x 1 = 27
Dia Seba (Maccabi Netanya) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Wout Weghorst (AZ Alkmaar) 18 x 1,5 = 27
69. ‘Ángel’ Luis Rodríguez Díaz (Getafe CF) 13 x 2 = 26
Michael Gregoritsch (FC Augsburg) 13 x 2 = 26
Gabriel Fernando de ‘Jesus‘ (Manchester City) 13 x 2 = 26
Moussa Konaté (Amiens SC) 13 x 2 = 26
Andrej Kramaric (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) 13 x 2 = 26
Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) 13 x 2 = 26
Nicolas Pépé (Lille OSC) 13 x 2 = 26
Bertrand Traoré (Olympique Lyonnais) 13 x 2 = 26
Timo Werner (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 13 x 2 = 26
Simone Zaza (Valencia CF) 13 x 2 = 26 .