LONDON: Ciro Immobile has the opportunity to extend his lead in the race for the ESM European Golden Shoe after main pursuer Robert Lewandowski of Bayern Munich was ruled out of action for a month by injury.

Immobile has scored 27 goals in Italy’s Serie A for Lazio. This is two more than Lewandowski and Erling Braut Haaland of Borussia Dortmund However Haaland has fewer points-per-goal because 16 of his goals were scored for Red Bull Salzburg.

Haaland is thus joint third in the rankings.

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 including Austria (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 for a record-extending sixth time.

Golden Shoe standings

(Ranking multiplication based on UEFA coefficient status)

1. Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio Roma) 27 x 2 = 54

2. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 25 x 2 = 50

3. Erling Braut Haaland (Red Bull Salzburg/Borussia Dortmund) 16 x 1,5 + 9 x 2 = 42
— Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) 21 x 2 = 42
— Timo Werner (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 21 x 2 = 42
6. Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) 18 x 2 = 36
Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 18 x 2 = 36
8. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) 17 x 2 = 34
Romelu Lukaku (FC Internazionale Milano) 17 x 2 = 34
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) 17 x 2 = 34
Wissam Ben Yedder (AS Monaco) 17 x 2 = 34
12. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) 16 x 2 = 32
Moussa Dembélé (Olympique Lyonnais) 16 x 2 = 32
‘João Pedro’ Galvão (Cagliari Calcio) 16 x 2 = 32
15. Odsonne Édouard (Celtic FC) 21 x 1,5 = 31,5
16. Erik Sorga (Flora Tallinn) 31 x 1 = 31
17. Josip Iličić (Atalanta Bergamo) 15 x 2 = 30
Danny Ings (Southampton FC) 15 x 2 = 30
Mohamed Salah (Liverpool FC) 15 x 2 = 30
Ivan Tričkovski (AEK Larnaca) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Shon Weissman (Wolfsberger AC) 20 x 1,5 = 30
22. Ilia Shkurin (FC Zvezda-BGU Minsk) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Alexander Sørloth (Trabzonspor AŞ) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
24. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) 14 x 2 = 28
Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund) 14 x 2 = 28
26. Jonathan David (KAA Gent) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Dieumerci Mbokani (Royal Antwerp FC) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Jean-Pierre Nsame (BSC Young Boys) 18 x 1,5 = 27
29. Tammy Abraham (Chelsea FC) 13 x 2 = 26
Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) 13 x 2 = 26
Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton FC) 13 x 2 = 26
Raúl Alonso Jiménez (Wolverhampton Wanderers) 13 x 2 = 26
Sadio Mané (Liverpool FC) 13 x 2 = 26
Luis Muriel Fruto (Atalanta Bergamo) 13 x 2 = 26
‘Neymar’ da Silva Santos Júnior (Paris Saint-Germain) 13 x 2 = 26
Victor Osimhen (Lille OSC) 13 x 2 = 26
37. Youssef El Arabi (Olympiakos Piraeus FC) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
Kamil Wilczek (Bröndby IF) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
39. Klaemint Olsen (NSÍ Runavik) 25 x 1 = 25
40. Papiss Demba Cissé (Alanyaspor) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Patson Daka (Red Bull Salzburg) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Habib Diallo (FC Metz) 12 x 2 = 24
Edin Dzeko (AS Roma) 12 x 2 = 24
Mauro Icardi (Paris Saint-Germain) 12 x 2 = 24
Mirko Maric (NK Osijek) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Robin Quaison (1. FSV Mainz 05) 12 x 2 = 24
‘Carlos Vinícius’ Alves Morais (SL Benfica) 16 x 1,5 = 24
48. Mohamed Buya Turay (Djurgärdens IF) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Cyriel Dessers (Heracles Almelo) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Christoph Monschein (FK Austria Wien) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Aluísio ‘Júnior Moraes’ (FC Shakhtar Donetsk) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
52. Darío Benedetto (Olympique Marseille) 11 x 2 = 22
Francesco Caputo (US Sassuolo Calcio) 11 x 2 = 22
Serge Gnabry (FC Bayern München) 11 x 2 = 22
Rouwen Hennings (Fortuna Düsseldorf) 11 x 2 = 22
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 11 x 2 = 22
Tomislav Kis (FK Zalgiris Vilnius) 22 x 1 = 22
Lautaro Martínez (FC Internazionale Milano) 11 x 2 = 22
Florian Niederlechner (FC Augsburg) 11 x 2 = 22
‘Lucas Pérez’ Martínez (Deportivo Alavés) 11 x 2 = 22
Teemu Pukki (Norwich City) 11 x 2 = 22
Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund) 11 x 2 = 22
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) 11 x 2 = 22
Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona) 11 x 2 = 22
Wout Weghorst (VfL Wolfsburg) 11 x 2 = 22
Duván Zapata (Atalanta Bergamo) 11 x 2 = 22

** 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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