LONDON: Erling Haaland’s remarkable start to his new career in the English Premier League with Manchester City has seen claim, remarkably, second place in the season’s first ranking for the ESM European Golden Shoe.

Usually, at this stage in the year, it is the leading marksmen from the Nordic nations – who play a calendar-aligned season – who dominate the early overall scoring charts.

But Haaland is second only to Amahl Pellegrino, the 32-year-old forward of Norway’s Bodo/Glimt, who has scored 25 goals. Haaland is just behind because he – like all other players in Big Five – benefit from a multiplier of two.

Players in leagues between places six and 22 of the UEFA national ranking 2022 receive a 1.5 coëfficiënt. As in former years the ranbking does not include play-offs or cup matches in the official ranking.

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1. Amahl Pellegrino (FK Bodö/Glimt) 25 x 1,5 = 37,5
2. Erling Braut Haaland (Manchester City) 18 x 2 = 36
3. Bobur Abdikholikov (FK Energetik-BGU Minsk) 26 x 1 = 26
Robert Lewandowski (FC Barcelona) 13 x 2 = 26
5. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 12 x 2 = 24
Raimonds Krollis (Valmiera FC) 24 x 1 = 24
Kylian Mbappé (Paris Saint-Germain) 12 x 2 = 24
Christopher Nkunku (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 12 x 2 = 24
Hugo Vetlesen (FK Bodö/Glimt) 16 x 1,5 = 24
10. David Datro Fofana (FK Molde) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Tobias Heintz (Sarpsborg 08) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Casper Tengstedt (Rosenborg BK) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
13. Alexander Jeremejeff (BK Häcken) 22 x 1 = 22
‘Neymar’ da Silva Santos Júnior (Paris Saint-Germain) 11 x 2 = 22
15. Zakaria Beglarishvili (FCI Levadia Tallinn) 21 x 1 = 21
Quincy Promes (FC Spartak Moscow) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Ole Christian Saeter (Rosenborg BK) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Vladimir Sychevoi (FC Orenburg) 14 x 1,5 = 21
19. Marcus Antonsson (IFK Värnamo) 20 x 1 = 21
Niclas Füllkrug (SV Werder Bremen) 10 x 2 = 20
Vladimir Khvaschinksy (FK Minsk) 20 x 1 = 20
Terem Moffi (FC Lorient) 10 x 2 = 20
Marcus Thuram (Borussia Mönchengladbach) 10 x 2 = 20
Ivan Toney (Brentford FC) 10 x 2 = 20
Sölvi Vatnhamar (Víkingur Gøta) 20 x 1 = 20
26. Eric Kitolano (Tromsö IL) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Ebere Paul Onuachu (KRC Genk) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Enner Valencia (Fenerbahçe SK) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
29. ‘Flamarion’ Jovinho Filho (Dinamo Batumi) 19 x 1 = 19
30. Jonathan David (Lille OSC) 9 x 2 = 18
Runar Espejord (FC Bodö/Glimt) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Pedro Miguel Eugénio (FK Astana) 18 x 1 = 18
Vincenzo Grifo (SC Freiburg) 9 x 2 = 18
Aidan Keena (Sligo Rovers) 18 x 1 = 18
Páll Klettskard (KÍ Klaksvík) 18 x 1 = 18
Alexandre Lacazette (Olympique Lyonnais) 9 x 2 = 18
‘Malcom’ Filipe Silva de Oliveira (FC Zenit St. Petersburg) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham FC) 9 x 2 = 18
Jamal Musiala (FC Bayern München) 9 x 2 = 18
Mohamed Ofkir (Sandefjord Fotball) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Victor Osimhen (SSC Napoli) 9 x 2 = 18
Markus Pink (SK Austria Klagenfurt) 12 x 1,5 = 18
‘Rodrigo’ Moreno (Leeds United) 9 x 2 = 18
44. Jóannes Bjartalid (KÍ Klaksvík) 17 x 1 = 17
Renan Abner do Carmo de Oliveira (Zalgiris Vilnius) 17 x 1 = 17
Nökkvi Thórisson (KA Akureyri) 17 x 1 = 17
47. Milan Bojovic (FK Mladost Lucani) 11 x 1,5 = 16,5
Ola Brynhildsen (Molde FK) 11 x 1,5 = 16,5
Antonio-Mirko Çolak (Rangers FC) 11 x 1,5 = 16,5
Artem Dovbyk (SK Dnipro-1) 11 x 1,5 = 16,5
Mario González Gutiérrez (Oud-Heverlee Leuven) 11 x 1,5 = 16,5
Johan Hove (Strömsgodset IF) 11 x 1,5 = 16,5
‘Ricardo Jorge’ Pires Gomes (FK Partizan Belgrade) 11 x 1,5 = 16,5
Marko Livaja (HNK Hajduk Split) 11 x 1,5 = 16,5
Bojan Miovski (Aberdeen FC) 11 x 1,5 = 16,5
Jakub Reznícek (FC Zbrojovka Brno) 11 x 1,5 = 16,5

* 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), 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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