KEIR RADNEDGE REPORTS: Harry Kane is up on terms with Mo Salah at the top of the ESM Golden Shoe rankings for European football’s leading league marksman.

England’s captain struck twice in Bayern Munich’s 3-0 weekend defeat of Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga while Liverpool were involved in FA Cup action. Kane – last season’s winner – and Salah now both have 21 goals, one more than Atalanta’s Mateo Retegui.

Eighth-placed Victor Gyökeres of Sporting Lisbon has scored more goals than any of them – 22 – but it handicapped by the computation of the rankings.

Marksmen from the Big Five (England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) benefit from a points multiplier of two. Players in leagues between places six and 22 of the UEFA national ranking 2022 receive a 1.5 coefficient.

As in former years the ranking does not include play-offs or cup matches in the official ranking.

Latest rankings

1. Harry Kane (FC Bayern München) 21 x 2 = 42
— Mohamed Salah (Liverpool FC) 21 x 2 = 42
3. Mateo Retegui (Atalanta Bergamo) 20 x 2 = 40
4. Erling Braut Haaland (Manchester City) 19 x 2 = 38
— Robert Lewandowski (FC Barcelona) 19 x 2 = 38
6. Alexander Isak (Newcastle United FC) 17 x 2 = 34
— Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest) 17 x 2 = 34
8. Viktor Gyökeres (Sporting Clube de Portugal) 22 x 1,5 = 33
9. Ousmane Dembélé (Paris Saint-Germain) 16 x 2 = 32
Kylian Mbappé (Real Madrid) 16 x 2 = 32
11. Moise Kean (AFC Fiorentina) 15 x 2 = 30
Omar Marmoush (SG Eintracht Frankfurt/Manchester City) 15 x 2 = 30
13. Bryan Mbeumo (Brentford FC) 14 x 2 = 28
Cole Palmer (Chelsea FC) 14 x 2 = 28
Patrik Schick (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 14 x 2 = 28
Alex Tamm (Nõmme Kalju FC) 28 x 1 = 28
17. Krzysztof Piątek (Istanbul Başakşehir FK) 18 x 1,5 = 27
18. Mason Greenwood (Olympique Marseille) 13 x 2 = 26
Tim Kleindienst (Borussia Mönchengladbach) 13 x 2 = 26
Raphael Dias Belloli ‘Raphinha’ (FC Barcelona) 13 x 2 = 26
Marcus Thuram (Internazionale Milano) 13 x 2 = 26
22. Guy Melamed (Hapoel Haifa/Maccabi Haifa) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
Sem Steijn (FC Twente) 17 x 1,5 = 25,5
24. Reginaldo Ramires (FK Auda/Riga FC) 25 x 1 = 25
25. Mika Biereth (SK Sturm Graz/AS Monaco) 11 x 1,5 + 4 x 2 = 24,5
26. Ante Budimir (CA Osasuna) 12 x 2 = 24
Jonathan Burkhardt (FSV Mainz 05) 12 x 2 = 24
Jonathan David (Lille OSC) 12 x 2 = 24
Hugo Ekitiké (SG Eintracht Frankfurt) 12 x 2 = 24
30. Thierno Barry (FC Basel/Villarreal CF) 5 x 1,5 + 8 x 2 = 23,5
31. Bjørn Maars Johnsen (Torpedo Kutaisi) 23 x 1 = 23
Páll Klettskarð (KÍ Klaksvík) 23 x 1 = 23
33. Manfred Ugalde (FC Spartak Moscow) 15 x 1,5 = 22,5
34. Bradley Barcola (Paris Saint-Germain) 11 x 2 = 22
Matheus Santos Carneiro Da Cunha (Wolverhampton Wanderers) 11 x 2 = 22
Justin Kluivert (AFC Bournemouth) 11 x 2 = 22
Alioune Ndoye (Valmiera FC) 22 x 1 = 22
Oihan Sancet Tirapu (Athletic Club de Bilbao) 11 x 2 = 22
Yoane Wissa (Brentford FC) 11 x 2 = 22
40. Benoný Breki Andrésson (KR Reykjavik) 21 x 1 = 21
Toluwalase Emmanuel Arokodare (KRC Genk) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Kasper Dolberg (RSC Anderlecht) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Kristian Eriksen (Molde FK) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Jefté Betancor Sánchez (MGS Panserraikos) 14 x 1,5 = 21
Cherif Ndiaye (FK Crvena Zvezda) 14 x 1,5 = 21
46. Liviu Antal (FK Zalgiris Vilnius) 20 x 1 = 20
‘Ayoze’ Pérez Gutiérrez (Villarreal CF) 10 x 2 = 20
Ademola Lookman (Atalanta Bergamo) 10 x 2 = 20
Jean-Philippe Mateta (Crystal Palace FC) 10 x 2 = 20
Jamal Musiala (FC Bayern München) 10 x 2 = 20
Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa FC) 10 x 2 = 20
52. Simon Banza (Trabzonspor Külübü) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Dean David (Maccabi Haifa) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Youssef En-Nesyri (Fenerbahçe SK) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Franjo Ivanovic (HNK Rijeka/Union St. Gilloise) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Ayoub El Kaabi (Olympiakos Piraeus) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Dereck Kutesa (Servette FC) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
‘Loren’ Lorenzo Jesús Morón García (Aris Thessaloniki FC) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
Samuel ‘Samu’ Omorodion Aghehowa (FC Porto) 13 x 1,5 = 19,5
60. Tayrell Wouter (FC Dila Gori) 19 x 1 = 19
61. Ludovic Ajorque (Stade Brestois 29) 9 x 2 = 18
Adriano Bertaccini (Sint-Truiden VV) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Valentín Mariano José ‘Taty’ Castellanos Giménez (SS Lazio Roma) 9 x 2 = 18
Liam Delap (Ipswich Town FC) 9 x 2 = 18
Edin Dzeko (Fenerbahçe SK) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Magnus Wolff Eikrem (Molde FK) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Emanuel Emegha (Racing Strasbourg Alsace) 9 x 2 = 18
Evann Guessand (OGC Nice) 9 x 2 = 18
Serhui Guirassy (Borussia Dortmund) 9 x 2 = 18
Kai Havertz (Arsenal) 9 x 2 = 18
Kasper Høgh (FK Bodø/Glimt) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Davis Ikaunieks (FA Šiauliai) 18 x 1 = 18
Jesús Imaz Ballesté (Jagiellonia Białystok) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Mikael Ishak (KSS Lech Poznan) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Nicolás Jackson (Chelsea FC) 9 x 2 = 18
Raúl Alonso Jiménez Rodríguez (Fulham FC) 9 x 2 = 18
Arnaud Kalimuendo (Stade Rennais) 9 x 2 = 18
Benjamin Källman (KS Cracovia) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Enrique ‘Kike’ García Martínez (Deportivo Alavés) 9 x 2 = 18
Marko Livaja (HNK Hajduk Split) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Lorenzo Lucca (Udinese Calcio) 9 x 2 = 18
Romelu Lukaku (SSC Napoli Calcio) 9 x 2 = 18
Dodi Lukébakio (Sevilla FC) 9 x 2 = 18
Lautaro Javier Martínez (Internazionale Milano) 9 x 2 = 18
Victor Osimhen (Galatasaray SK) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Troy Parrott (AZ Alkmaar) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Marko Regža (Riga FC) 18 x 1 = 18
Dia Saba (Maccabi Haifa) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Lars-Jørgen Salvesen (Viking FK Stavanger) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Benjamin Sesko (RasenBallsport Leipzig) 9 x 2 = 18
Mame Baba Thiam (Eyüspor Külübü) 12 x 1,5 = 18
Hamed Junior Traoré (AJ Auxerre) 9 x 2 = 18
Florian Wirtz (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) 9 x 2 = 18
Igor Zlatanovic (Maccabi Netanya) 12 x 1,5 = 18

** 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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