Barcelona’s Messi has won the ESM European Golden Shoe on a record five occasions and is this season’s current leader with 25 goals. However Mbappe, the French teenager who exploded on the World Cup in such style in Russia last year, is chasing hard.
Last weekend Messi went goalless in Barcelona’s victory over Real Madrid in El Clasico but Mbappe struck both second-half for French champions Paris Saint-Germain as they struck back from 1-0 down to win 2-1 away to Caen. Those goals lifted Mbappe on to 24 goals for the season, one adrift of the Argentinian.
He totals 37 goals in 48 Ligue 1 appearances since arriving from Monaco for £160m in the summer of 2017.
Ronaldo has scored 19 times for Juventus in Italy’s Serie A this term but has been goalless in their last two wins over Bologna and Napoli.
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) 25 x 2 = 50
2. Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) 24 x 2 = 48
3. Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) 19 x 2 = 38
Fabio Quagliarella (UC Sampdoria) 19 x 2 = 38
5. Sergio ‘Kun’ Agüero (Manchester City) 18 x 2 = 36
Krzysztof Piatek (Genoa CFC/AC Milan) 18 x 2 = 36
7. Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain) 17 x 2 = 34
Mohamed Salah (Liverpool FC) 17 x 2 = 34
9. Robert Skov (FC København) 22 x 1,5 = 33
10. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) 16 x 2 = 32
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 16 x 2 = 32
Nicolas Pépé (Lille OSC) 16 x 2 = 32
Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona) 16 x 2 = 32
Duván Zapata (Atalanta Bergamo) 16 x 2 = 32
15. Mbaye Diagne (Kasimpasa SK/Galatasaray SK) 21 x 1,5 = 31,5
16. Ellenton ‘Liliu’ (Nõmme Kalju FC) 31 x 1 = 31
17. Zakaria Beglarishvili (FC Flora Tallinn) 30 x 1 = 30
Luuk de Jong (PSV Eindhoven) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Luka Jovic (SG Eintracht Frankfurt) 15 x 2 = 30
Nikolai Komlichenko (FK Mladá Boleslav) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 15 x 2 = 30
‘Paulinho’ de Oliveira (BK Häcken) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Mbwane Ally Samatta (KRC Genk) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Cristhian Stuani (Girona FC) 15 x 2 = 30
25. Patrick Hoban (FC Dundalk) 29 x 1 = 29
26. Sadio Mané (Liverpool FC) 14 x 2 = 28
Arkadiusz Milik (SSC Napoli) 14 x 2 = 28
28. Roman Debelko (FC Levadia Tallinn) 27 x 1 = 27
Linus Hallenius (GIF Sundsvall) 18 x 1,5 = 27
30. Paco Alcácer (Borussia Dortmund) 13 x 2 = 26
‘Neymar’ da Silva (Paris Saint-Germain) 13 x 2 = 26
Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund) 13 x 2 = 26
Florian Thauvin (Olympique Marseille) 13 x 2 = 26
34. Andreas Skov Olsen (FC Nordsjaelland) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
35. Francesco Caputo (Empoli FC) 12 x 2 = 24
‘Charles’ Dias de Oliveira (SD Eibar) 12 x 2 = 24
Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) 12 x 2 = 24
Sébastien Haller (SG Eintracht Frankfurt) 12 x 2 = 24
Hamdi Harbaoui (SV Zulte Waregem) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Eden Hazard (Chelsea FC) 12 x 2 = 24
Wahbi Khazri (AS Saint-Étienne) 12 x 2 = 24
Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio Roma) 12 x 2 = 24
Efthymios Koulouris (Atromitos FC) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) 12 x 2 = 24
Romelu Lukaku (Manchester United) 12 x 2 = 24
Yussuf Poulsen (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 12 x 2 = 24
Emiliano Sala (FC Nantes/Cardiff City) 12 x 2 = 24
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) 12 x 2 = 24
Dusan Tadic (AFC Ajax) 16 x 1,5 = 24
George Tucudean (CFR Cluj 1907) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Wissam Ben Yedder (Sevilla FC) 12 x 2 = 24
52. Liviu Antal (FK Zalgiris Vilnius) 23 x 1 = 23
53. Igor Angulo Albóniga (Górnik Zabrze) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Aluísio ‘Júnior Moraes’ (FC Shakhtar Donetsk) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Haris Seferovic (SL Benfica) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
56. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) 11 x 2 = 22
Radamel Falcao (AS Monaco) 11 x 2 = 22
Borja Iglesias Quintás (RCD Espanyol) 11 x 2 = 22
Raúl Jiménez Rodríguez (Wolverhampton Wanderers) 11 x 2 = 22
Jaime Mata Arnaiz (Getafe CF) 11 x 2 = 22
Paul Pogba (Manchester United) 11 x 2 = 22
Gylfi Sigurdsson (Everton FC) 11 x 2 = 22
Heung-Min Son (Tottenham Hotspur) 11 x 2 = 22
Timo Werner (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 11 x 2 = 22
Budu Zivzivadze (FC Dinamo Tblisi) 22 x 1 = 22
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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).
