KEIR RADNEDGE REPORTS: Ciro Immobile remains unstoppable at the head of the current rankings for the ESM European Golden Shoe.

But the Lazio striker is now just two goals clear of Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski who pulled one back in the German champions’ 5-0 weekend win over Schalke.

No player from Serie A has won the Golden Shoe since Roma’s Francesco Totti with 26 goals in 2006-07.

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 mu ltiple of 2.0, the next batch (places six to 22) a factor of 1.5 and the remainder 1.0.

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

Last season’s winner was Lionel Messi who collected the prize as the continent’s leading league marksman for a record-extending sixth time.

Messi finished Barcelona’s Spanish league title-winning campaign with 36 goals, three clear of Paris Saint-Germain’s Kylian Mbappe (33) and a massive 10 clear of Sampdoria’s Fabio Quagliarella (26).

Golden Shoe standings

(Ranking multiplication based on UEFA coefficient status)

1. Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio Roma) 23 x 2 = 46

2. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 21 x 2 = 42

3. Timo Werner (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 20 x 2 = 40

4. Erling Braut Haaland (Red Bull Salzburg/Borussia Dortmund) 16 x 1,5 + 5 x 2 = 34
— Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) 17 x 2 = 34
— Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) 17 x 2 = 34
7. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) 16 x 2 = 32
8. Erik Sorga (Flora Tallinn) 31 x 1 = 31
9. Ilia Shkurin (FC Zvezda-BGU Minsk) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
10. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) 14 x 2 = 28
— Danny Ings (Southampton FC) 14 x 2 = 28
— Romelu Lukaku (FC Internazionale Milano) 14 x 2 = 28
— Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 14 x 2 = 28
— Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) 14 x 2 = 28
— Wissam Ben Yedder (AS Monaco) 14 x 2 = 28
16. Tammy Abraham (Chelsea FC) 13 x 2 = 26
Josip Iličić (Atalanta Bergamo) 13 x 2 = 26
Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) 13 x 2 = 26
‘Neymar’ da Silva Santos Júnior (Paris Saint-Germain) 13 x 2 = 26
‘João Pedro’ Galvão (Cagliari Calcio) 13 x 2 = 26
21. Ivan Tričkovski (AEK Larnaca) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
Shon Weissman (Wolfsberger AC) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
Kamil Wilczek (Bröndby IF) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
24. Klaemint Olsen (NSÍ Runavik) 25 x 1 = 25
25. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) 12 x 2 = 24
Moussa Dembélé (Olympique Lyonnais) 12 x 2 = 24
Odsonne Édouard (Celtic FC) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Luis Muriel Fruto (Atalanta Bergamo) 12 x 2 = 24
Jean-Pierre Nsame (BSC Young Boys) 16 x 1,5 = 24
30. Mohamed Buya Turay (Djurgärdens IF) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Dieumerci Mbokani (Royal Antwerp FC) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Aluísio ‘Júnior Moraes’ (FC Shakhtar Donetsk) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Alexander Sørloth (Trabzonspor AŞ) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
34. Habib Diallo (FC Metz) 11 x 2 = 22
Rouwen Hennings (Fortuna Düsseldorf) 11 x 2 = 22
Raúl Alonso Jiménez (Wolverhampton Wanderers) 11 x 2 = 22
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 11 x 2 = 22
Tomislav Kis (FK Zalgiris Vilnius) 22 x 1 = 22
Sadio Mané (Liverpool FC) 11 x 2 = 22
Lautaro Martínez (FC Internazionale Milano) 11 x 2 = 22
Teemu Pukki (Norwich City) 11 x 2 = 22
Mohamad Salah (Liverpool FC) 11 x 2 = 22
Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund) 11 x 2 = 22
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) 11 x 2 = 22
Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona) 11 x 2 = 22
46. Youssef El Arabi (Olympiakos Piraeus FC) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Torgeir Børven (Odds BK) 21 x 1 = 21
Papiss Demba Cissé (Alanyaspor) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Patson Daka (Red Bull Salzburg) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Stanislav Dragun (FC BATE Borisov) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Vitaly Kvashuk (FC Gomel) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Mirko Maric (NK Osijek) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Rubén Rayos Serna ‘Rayo’ (Anorthosis Famagusta) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Robin Söder (IFK Göteborg) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Muamer Tankovic (Hammarby IF) 14 x 1,5 = 21
55. Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton FC) 10 x 2 = 20
Levani Kutalia (FC Dinamo Tblisi) 20 x 1 = 20
Florian Niederlechner (FC Augsburg) 10 x 2 = 20
Victor Osimhen (Lille OSC) 10 x 2 = 20
Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund) 10 x 2 = 20
Chris Wood (Burnley FC) 10 x 2 = 20

** 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).

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