LONDON: Brazilian Ellinton Antonio Costa Morais has the brief honour of leading the table in the season’s first computation for the ESM Golden Shoe.

The 28-year-old from Bauru, known as Liliu, has scored 31 goals for Nõmme Kalju of Estonia in a ranking predictably dominated at this stage by the calendar year domestic tournaments.

It is necessary to go down to joint eighth place before finding challengers from the major autumn-spring leagues in leading French league marksmen Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) and Nantes’ Emiliano Sala who have both scored 12 goals and thus tally 24 points apiece.

The Golden Shoe is based on a ranking computed according to UEFA’s July rankings. Thus marksmen from among the top five nations  benefit from a multiple of 2.0, the next batch 1.5 and the remainder 1.0.

Last year France replaced Portugal in the top five meaning the value of goals in Ligue 1 rose to 2.0 while the valuation for for players from Benfica, Sporting and Porto etc was 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. Ellenton ‘Liliu’ (Nõmme Kalju FC) 31 x 1 = 31
2. Zakaria Beglarishvili (FC Flora Tallinn) 30 x 1 = 30
— ‘Paulinho’ de Oliveira (BK Häcken) 20 x 1,5 = 30
4. Patrick Hoban (FC Dundalk) 29 x 1 = 29
5. Roman Debelko (FC Levadia Tallinn) 27 x 1 = 27
— Linus Hallenius (GIF Sundsvall) 18 x 1,5 = 27
7. Nikolai Komlichenko (FK Mladá Boleslav) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
8. Mbaye Diagne (Kasimpasa SK) 16 x 1,5 = 24
— Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) 12 x 2 = 24
— Emiliano Sala (FC Nantes) 12 x 2 = 24
11. Liviu Antal (FK Zalgiris Vilnius) 23 x 1 = 23
12. Robert Skov (FC København) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
13. Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 11 x 2 = 22
‘Neymar’ da Silva (Paris Saint-Germain) 11 x 2 = 22
Nicolas Pépé (Lille OSC) 11 x 2 = 22
Krzysztof Piatek (Genoa CFC) 11 x 2 = 22
Cristhian Stuani (Girona FC) 11 x 2 = 22
Florian Thauvin (Olympique Marseille) 11 x 2 = 22
Budu Zivzivadze (FC Dinamo Tblisi) 22 x 1 = 22
20. Luuk de Jong (PSV Eindhoven) 14 x 1,5 = 21
João Klauss (HJK Helsinki) 21 x 1 = 21
Tristan Koskor (JK Tammeka Tartu) 21 x 1 = 21
Aluísio ‘Júnior Moraes’ (FC Shakhtar Donetsk) 14 x 1,5 = 21
24. Paco Alcácer (Borussia Dortmund) 10 x 2 = 20
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) 10 x 2 = 20
Iago Aspas Juncal (RC Celta de Vigo) 10 x 2 = 20
Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain) 10 x 2 = 20
Giorgi Gabedava (FC Chikhura Sachkhere) 20 x 1 = 20
Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio Roma) 10 x 2 = 20
Adrian Justinussen (HB Tórshavn) 20 x 1 = 20
Mykola Kovtalyuk (FC Dila Gori) 20 x 1 = 20
Luka Jovic (SG Eintracht Frankfurt) 10 x 2 = 20
Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) 10 x 2 = 20
Mohamed Salah (Liverpool FC) 10 x 2 = 20
Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona) 10 x 2 = 20
36. Nikola Djurdjic (Hammarby IF) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Romain Gall (GIF Sundsvall/Malmö FF) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Markus Rosenberg (Malmö FF) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Kamil Wildzek (Brøndby IF) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5