LONDON: Mohamed Salah is the leading Premier League pursuer of Lionel Messi in the rankings for the ESM Golden Shoe which crowns European football’s leading league marksman.
Salah’s 16 goals thus far places him in joint third place, three goals behind the Barcelona superstar with Paris Saint-Germain’s Kylian Mbappe in second place between them.
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. Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 19 x 2 = 38
2. Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) 18 x 2 = 36
3. Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain) 16 x 2 = 32
— Fabio Quagliarella (UC Sampdoria) 16 x 2 = 32
— Mohamed Salah (Liverpool FC) 16 x 2 = 32
6. Ellenton ‘Liliu’ (Nõmme Kalju FC) 31 x 1 = 31
7. Zakaria Beglarishvili (FC Flora Tallinn) 30 x 1 = 30
Mbaye Diagne (Kasimpasa SK) 20 x 1,5 = 30
‘Paulinho’ de Oliveira (BK Häcken) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Nicolas Pépé (Lille OSC) 15 x 2 = 30
Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) 15 x 2 = 30
Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona) 15 x 2 = 30
Duván Zapata (Atalanta Bergamo) 15 x 2 = 30
14. Patrick Hoban (FC Dundalk) 29 x 1 = 29
15. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) 14 x 2 = 28
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 14 x 2 = 28
17. Roman Debelko (FC Levadia Tallinn) 27 x 1 = 27
Linus Hallenius (GIF Sundsvall) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Nikolai Komlichenko (FK Mladá Boleslav) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Robert Skov (FC København) 18 x 1,5 = 27
21. Luka Jovic (SG Eintracht Frankfurt) 13 x 2 = 26
‘Neymar’ da Silva (Paris Saint-Germain) 13 x 2 = 26
Krzysztof Piatek (Genoa CFC/AC Milan) 13 x 2 = 26
24. Paco Alcácer (Borussia Dortmund) 12 x 2 = 24
Wahbi Khazri (AS Saint-Étienne) 12 x 2 = 24
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 12 x 2 = 24
Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund) 12 x 2 = 24
Emiliano Sala (FC Nantes/Cardiff City) 12 x 2 = 24
Mbwane Ally Samatta (KRC Genk) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Cristhian Stuani (Girona FC) 12 x 2 = 24
31. Liviu Antal (FK Zalgiris Vilnius) 23 x 1 = 23
32. Luuk de Jong (PSV Eindhoven) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
33. Sébastien Haller (SG Eintracht Frankfurt) 11 x 2 = 22
Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio Roma) 11 x 2 = 22
Arkadiusz Milik (SSC Napoli) 11 x 2 = 22
Florian Thauvin (Olympique Marseille) 11 x 2 = 22
Timo Werner (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 11 x 2 = 22
Budu Zivzivadze (FC Dinamo Tblisi) 22 x 1 = 22
39. 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
42. Sergio ‘Kun’ Agüero (Manchester City) 10 x 2 = 20
Iago Aspas Juncal (RC Celta de Vigo) 10 x 2 = 20
Giorgi Gabedava (FC Chikhura Sachkhere) 20 x 1 = 20
Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) 10 x 2 = 20
Eden Hazard (Chelsea FC) 10 x 2 = 20
Adrian Justinussen (HB Tórshavn) 20 x 1 = 20
Mykola Kovtalyuk (FC Dila Gori) 20 x 1 = 20
Alassane Pléa (Borussia Mönchengladbach) 10 x 2 = 20
Yussuf Poulsen (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 10 x 2 = 20
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) 10 x 2 = 20
Callum Wilson (AFC Bournemouth) 10 x 2 = 20
Wissam Ben Yedder (Sevilla FC) 10 x 2 = 20
54. Nany Landry Dimata (RSC Anderlecht) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Nikola Djurdjic (Hammarby IF) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Romain Gall (GIF Sundsvall/Malmö FF) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Hamdi Harbaoui (SV Zulte Waregem) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Guillaume Hoarau (BSC Young Boys) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Efthymios Koulouris (Atromitos FC) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Ionut Mitrita (Universitatea Craiova 1948) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Markus Rosenberg (Malmö FF) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Francisco ‘Fran’ Sol (Willem II/Dynamo Kiev) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
George Tucudean (CFR Cluj 1907) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Kamil Wilczek (Brøndby IF) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
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* 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), Gazzetta dello Sport (Italy), 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).
