LONDON: Paris Saint-Germain striker Edinson Cavani has maintained his lead in the ESM Golden Shoe, the prize for leading league marksman in European football.

He added a goal to his tally in the French league in PSG’s 3-1 home win over Caen before the holiday break.

The Uruguayan has benefited from a change in the computation because France is now among the top five nations according to UEFA’s July rankings. This means his goals benefit from a multiple of 2.0 rather than the 1.5 of last season.

Portugal slipped out of the top five meaning the value of goals in the local league for players from Benfica, Sporting and Porto etc has been 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. Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain) 19 x 2 = 38
2. Mauro Icardi (Internazionale) 17 x 2 = 34
3. Ciro Immobile (SS Lazio Roma) 16 x 2 = 32
4. Radamel Falcao (AS Monaco) 15 x 2 = 30
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 15 x 2 = 30
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) 15 x 2 = 30
Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona) 15 x 2 = 30
Mohamed Salah (Liverpool FC) 15 x 2 = 30
9. Igor Angulo Albóniga (Górnik Zabrze) 19 x 1,5 = 28,5
10. Mikhail Gordeichuk (FC BATE Borisov) 18 x 1,5 = 27
‘Jonas’ Gonçalves Oliveira (SL Benfica) 18 x 1,5 = 27
Albert Prosa (FC Infonet Tallinn) 27 x 1 = 27
Rauno Sappinen (Flora Tallinn) 27 x 1 = 27
14. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) 13 x 2 = 26
Mariano Díaz (Olympique Lyonnais) 13 x 2 = 26
Nabil Fekir (Olympique Lyonnais) 13 x 2 = 26
17. Emiliano Marcondes (FC Nordsjaelland) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
18. Irakli Sikharulidze (FC Locomotive Tblisi) 25 x 1 = 25
19. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) 12 x 2 = 24
Paulo Dybala (Juventus) 12 x 2 = 24
Gerard Gohou (FC Kairat Almaty) 24 x 1 = 24
Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) 12 x 2 = 24
Jakub Swierczok (Zaglebie Lubin) 16 x 1,5 = 24
24. ‘Carlitos’ Carlos Lopez (Wisla Kraków) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
Pawel Savitskiy (FC Neman Grodno) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
26. Iago Aspas (CR Celta de Vigo) 11 x 2 = 22
Alfred Finnbogason (FC Augsburg) 11 x 2 = 22
‘Neymar’ da Silva (Paris Saint-Germain) 11 x 2 = 22
29. Magnus Eriksson (Djurgårdens IF) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Karl Holmberg (IFK Norrköping) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Bafétimbi Gomis (Galatasaray SK) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Adis Jahovic (Göztepe Izmir) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Marco Filipe Lopes ‘Paixão’ (KS Lechia Gdańsk) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Burak Yilmaz (Trabzonspor AS) 14 x 1,5 = 21
35. Mario Balotelli (OGC Nice) 10 x 2 = 20
Rimo Hunt (Levadia Tallinn) 20 x 1 = 20
Romelu Lukaku (Manchester United) 10 x 2 = 20
Seán Maguire (Cork City) 20 x 1 = 20
Dries Mertens (SSC Napoli) 10 x 2 = 20
Fabio Quagliarella (UC Sampdoria) 10 x 2 = 20
Wayne Rooney (Everton FC) 10 x 2 = 20
Luis Suárez (FC Barcelona) 10 x 2 = 20
Simone Zaza (Valencia CF) 10 x 2 = 20
44. Bas Dost (Sporting Clube de Portugal) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Facundo Ferreyra (FC Shakhtar Donetsk) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Pal Alexander Kirkevold (Hobro IK) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
47. Nicklas Bendtner (Rosenborg BK) 19 x 1 = 19
Andri Rúnar Bjarnason (Grindavík) 19 x 1 = 19
Junior Kabananga (FC Astana) 19 x 1 = 19
Dia Seba (Maccabi Netanya) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
51. Vincent Aboubakar (FC Porto) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Ernest Asante (FC Nordsjaelland) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Cédric Bakambu (Villarreal CF) 9 x 2 = 18
Munas Dabbur (Red Bull Salzburg) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Bojan Dubajić (FC Gorodeya) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Harlem Gnohéré (FC Steaua Bucharest) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) 9 x 2 = 18
Christoph Knasmüller (FC Admira Wacker Mödling) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Moussa Marega (FC Porto) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Álvaro Morata (Chelsea FC) 9 x 2 = 18
Anton Saroka (FC Dinamo Minsk) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Darvydas Šernas (Žalgiris Vilnius) 18 x 1 = 18
Christian Stuani (Girona FC) 9 x 2 = 18
Karl Toko Ekambi (Angers SCO) 9 x 2 = 18
Mark Uth (TSG 1899 Hoffenheim) 9 x 2 = 18
Aleksandr Volkov (JK Sillamäe Kalev) 18 x 1 = 18
Kevin Volland (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 9 x 2 = 18