KEIR RADNEDGE REPORTS: The ESM European Golden Shoe remains one of the likely end-of-season prizes for Robert Lewandowski as a personal consolation after Bayern Munich’s Champions League quarter-final elimination on Tuesday.

The world’s top player has scored 35 Bundesliga goals 10 clear of Juventus’ Cristiano Ronaldo and 11 ahead of Barcelona’s Leo Messi. Lewandowski promises to become only the third player since 2010 to interrupted the duo’s command after Barcelona’s Luis Suarez in 2016 and Lazio’s Ciro Immobile last season.

Early pacemaker Kasper Junker of Norway’s Bodo/Glimt has now slipped down to eighth place.

Junker scored 27 and was a long-time leader of the standings because the Golden Shoe is based on a ranking computed according to UEFA’s end-of-season rankings.

Thus marksmen from among the top five nations benefit from a multiple of 2.0, the next batch (places six to 22 ) a factor of 1.5 and the remainder 1.0.

Scandinavian leagues which traditionally play to a calendar-year schedule always provide the initial leaders before being overtaken in due course by the superstars of western Europe.

Golden Shoe standings

(Ranking multiplication based on UEFA coefficient status)

1. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 35 x 2 = 70

2. Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) 25 x 2 = 50

3. Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 23 x 2 = 46
— André Miguel Silva (Eintracht Frankfurt) 23 x 2 = 46

5. Erling Braut Haaland (Borussia Dortmund) 21 x 2 = 42
— Romelu Lukaku (Internazionale Milano) 21 x 2 = 42
— Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) 21 x 2 = 42
8. Kasper Junker (FK Bodø/Glimt) 27 x 1,5 = 40,5
— Paul Ebere Onuachu (KRC Genk) 27 x 1,5 = 40,5
10. Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) 19 x 2 = 38
‘Gerard’ Moreno Balagueró (Villarreal CF) 19 x 2 = 38
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 19 x 2 = 38
Mohamed Salah (Liverpool FC) 19 x 2 = 38
Luis Alberto Suárez (Atlético Madrid) 19 x 2 = 38
15. Amahl Pellegrino (Kristiansund BK) 25 x 1,5 = 37,5
16. Giorgos Giakoumakis (VVV-Venlo) 24 x 1,5 = 36
Luis Muriel Fruto (Atalanta Bergamo) 18 x 2 = 36
Wout Weghorst (VfL Wolfsburg) 18 x 2 = 36
19. Wissam Ben Yedder (AS Monaco) 17 x 2 = 34
20. Memphis Depay (Olympique Lyonnais) 16 x 2 = 32
Bruno Miguel Borges Fernandes (Manchester United) 16 x 2 = 32
Simeon ‘Simy’ Nwankwo (FC Crotone) 16 x 2 = 32
23. Thomas Henry (Oud-Heverlee Leuven) 21 x 1,5 = 31,5
24. Patson Daka (Red Bull Salzburg) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Youssef En-Nesyri (Sevilla FC) 15 x 2 = 30
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (AC Milan) 15 x 2 = 30
Lorenzo Insigne (SSC Napoli Calcio) 15 x 2 = 30
Milan Makarić (FK Radnik Surdulica) 20 x 1,5 = 30
Lautaro Martínez (Internazionale Milano) 15 x 2 = 30
Dusan Vlahovic (ACF Fiorentina) 15 x 2 = 30
31. Youssef El-Arabi (Olympiakos Piraeus) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Gianni Bruno (SV Zulte Waregem) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Ramón Nazareno Miérez (NK Osijek) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
Philip Zinckernagel (FK Bodø/Glimt) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
35. Patrick Bamford (Leeds United) 14 x 2 = 28
Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton FC) 14 x 2 = 28
Boulaye Dia (Stade de Reims) 14 x 2 = 28
Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio Roma) 14 x 2 = 28
Sasa Kalajdzic (VfB Stuttgart) 14 x 2 = 28
Andrej Kramaric (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) 14 x 2 = 28
Heung-Min Son (Tottenham Hotspur) 14 x 2 = 28
Kevin Volland (AS Monaco) 14 x 2 = 28
43. Aaron Boupendza (Hatayspor Kulübü) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Christoffer Nyman (IFK Norrköping) 18 x 1,5 = 27
45. Alexander Isak (Real Sociedad de Fútbol) 13 x 2 = 26
Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal) 13 x 2 = 26
‘João Pedro’ Galvão (Cagliari Calcio) 13 x 2 = 26
Duván Zapata (Atalanta Bergamo) 13 x 2 = 26
49. Takumo Asano (FK Partizan Beograd) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
Steven Berghuis (Feyenoord Rotterdam) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
Donyell Malen (PSV Eindhoven) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
Yuma Suzuki (Sint-Truiden VV) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
53. Ludovic Ajorque (Racing Strasbourg Alsace) 12 x 2 = 24
Iago Aspas Juncal (RC Celta de Vigo) 12 x 2 = 24
Andrea Belotti (Torino FC) 12 x 2 = 24
Veton Berisha (Viking FK Stavanger) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Odsonne Édouard (Celtic FC) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Pedro António Pereira Gonçalves ‘Pote’ (Sporting CP) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Amine Gouiri (OGC Nice) 12 x 2 = 24
Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) 12 x 2 = 24
Raphael Holzhauser (K Beerschot AC) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Bioty Moise Kean (Paris Saint-Germain) 12 x 2 = 24
Gaëtan Laborde (Montpellier Hérault SC) 12 x 2 = 24
Rafael ‘Rafa Mir’ Vicente (SD Huesca) 12 x 2 = 24
Haris Seferovic (SL Benfica) 16 x 1,5 = 24
Lars Stindl (Borussia Mönchengladbach) 12 x 2 = 24
Karl Toko Ekambi (Olympique Lyonnais) 12 x 2 = 24
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) 12 x 2 = 24
Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa FC) 12 x 2 = 24
70. Rauno Sappinen (FC Flora Tallinn) 23 x 1 = 23
71. Vincent Aboubakar (Besiktas JK) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Sardar Azmoun (FC Zenit Sint-Petersburg) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Mushaga Bakenga (Odds BK) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Mame Biram Diouf (Hatayspor Kulübü) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Teun Koopmeiners (AZ Alkmaar) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Kristijan Lovrić (HNK Gorica) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Nenad Lukic (FK TSC Backa Topola) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Cyle Larin (Besiktas JK) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Arthur Mendonça Cabral (FC Basel) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Jean-Pierre Nsame (BSC Young Boys) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Astrit Seljmani (Varbergs BoIS) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Ike Ugbo (Cercle Brugge KSV) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Roman Yaremchuk (KAA Gent) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5

** 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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