I-League Golden Boot

The I-League Golden Boot is an annual Indian association football award given to the top goalscorer at the end of the I-League season, the top domestic league competition in club Football in India, since its creation in 2007.

The top-scoring I-League Golden Boot winner is Ranty Martins Soleye with 32 goals in a 26-game season with Odafe Onyeka Okolie holding the record when the league was an 18-game season with 22 goals. Ranti won the award for the most times with five wins however Odafe has won the award most times for a single club, winning thrice while playing for Churchill Brothers.

Aser Pierrick Dipanda of Mohun Bagan is the latest winner of the Golden Boot, his consecutive second. During the 2017–18 season, he scored 13 goals in 18 matches.

Recipients

As of the March 2018 six players have won the golden boot award. Only three player has won the award more than once with Ranti winning the award most times with five wins. Winning the golden boot though might not translate into league success as thrice once in eleven I-League seasons as the team which has the golden boot winner won the league as well and the latest was in 2015-16 when scoring leader Sunil Chhetri and his team, Bengaluru won the league.

List of Golden Boot winners

The following table is a list of winners of the I-League Golden Boot per season, detailing their club, goal tally, actual games played, and their strike rate (goals/games).

Season Winner Club Goals Games Rate
2007–08 Nigeria Odafe Onyeka Okolie Churchill Brothers 22 18 1.22
2008–09 Nigeria Odafe Onyeka Okolie Churchill Brothers 24 22 1.09
2009–10 Nigeria Odafe Onyeka Okolie Churchill Brothers 21 24 0.87
2010–11 Nigeria Ranti Martins Dempo 28 22 1.27
2011–12 Nigeria Ranti Martins Dempo 32 26 1.23
2012–13 Nigeria Ranti Martins Prayag United 26 25 1.14
2013–14 Trinidad and Tobago Cornell Glen Shillong Lajong 14 19 0.74
India Sunil Chhetri Bengaluru FC 23 0.61
Scotland Darryl Duffy Salgaocar 24 0.58
2014–15 Nigeria Ranti Martins East Bengal 17 20 0.85
2015–16 Nigeria Ranti Martins East Bengal 12 13 0.92
2016–17 Cameroon Aser Pierrick Dipanda Shillong Lajong 11 17 0.65
2017–18 Cameroon Aser Pierrick Dipanda Mohun Bagan 13 18 0.72
2018–19 Spain Pedro Manzi Chennai City 21 18 1.16
Trinidad and Tobago Willis Plaza Churchill Brothers 20 1.05
2019–20 Cameroon Aser Pierrick Dipanda Minerva Punjab 12 16 0.75
2020–21 India Bidyashagar Singh TRAU 12 15 0.8
2021–22 Trinidad and Tobago Marcus Joseph Mohammedan 15 18 0.83

Leading Indian goalscorer

Ever since the beginning of the I-League in 2007, only two Indian players have been the I-League Golden Boot winners with Sunil Chettri winning the award in 2013-14 season and Bidyashagar Singh winning the award in 2020–21 season. The following table lists the top Indian goalscorer in each season and their overall ranking in that season's top scorer table.

Season Player Club Goals Games Rate Overall rank
2007–08 India Bhaichung Bhutia Mohun Bagan 10 16 0.62 5th
2008–09 India Sunil Chhetri East Bengal 9 14 0.64 4th
2009–10 India Mohammed Rafi Mahindra United 14 22 0.68 2nd
2010–11 India Jeje Lalpekhlua Indian Arrows 13 15 0.86 7th
2011–12 India Chinadorai Sabeeth Pailan Arrows 9 26 0.34 11th
2012–13 India C. K. Vineeth Prayag United 7 23 0.30 13th
2013–14 India Sunil Chhetri Bengaluru FC 14 23 0.61 1st
2014–15 India Thongkhosiem Haokip Pune 7 18 0.39 7th
2015–16 India Sunil Chhetri Bengaluru FC 5 14 0.36 6th
India Sushil Kumar Singh Mumbai 16 0.31
2016–17 India C. K. Vineeth Bengaluru FC 7 15 0.47 5th
India Sunil Chettri Bengaluru FC 16 0.44
2017–18 India Abhijit Sarkar Indian Arrows 4 14 0.29 8th
India Subhash Singh NEROCA 17 0.24
2018–19 India Jobby Justin East Bengal 9 17 0.52 4th
2019–20 India Rochharzela Aizawl 6 15 0.4 11th
2020–21 India Bidyashagar Singh TRAU 12 15 0.8 1st
2021–22 India Thahir Zaman Gokulam Kerala 5 15 0.33 12th

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