Indian Super League Golden Boot

The Indian Super League Golden Boot is an annual association football award presented to the leading goalscorer in the Indian Super League.

Indian Super League Golden Boot
Coro won the most Golden Boot awards with two.
Awarded forThe leading goalscorer in a given Indian Super League season
CountryIndia
Presented byIndian Super League
First awarded2014
Currently held byDiego Maurício (1st title)
Most awardsCoro (2)

For sponsorship purposes, it was known as the Alto K10 Golden Boot from 2014 to 2015,[1] the Swift Golden Boot from 2016 to 2019 and the Maruti Suzuki Golden Boot in 2020.

The Indian Super League was founded in 2013, eight teams competed in the 2014 inaugural season. It became the joint top-tier of Indian football league system by 2017–18 season and is the top-tier since 2022–23 season. Elano of Chennaiyin won the inaugural award in 2014.[2] Coro won the Golden Boot award twice with Goa, more than any other player. Each of Bartholomew Ogbeche (Kerala Blasters), Roy Krishna (ATK) and Nerijus Valskis (Chennaiyin) scored 15 goals in 2019–20 season. In assist count tie-breaker, both Krishna and Valskis were tied on 6 assists. Having played lesser minutes, Valskis was awarded the Golden Boot.[3]

Winners
Elano won the inaugural Indian Super League Golden Boot in 2014.
Key
Player (X) Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
Games The number of Indian Super League games played by the winner that season[upper-alpha 1]
Rate The winner's goals-to-games ratio that season
† Denotes the club were Indian Super League premiers or champions in the same season
# Indian Super League record
Indian Super League Golden Boot Winners[4]
Season Player Nationality Club Goals Games Rate Assists
2014 Elano  Brazil Chennaiyin 8 11 0.73 1
2015 Stiven Mendoza  Colombia Chennaiyin† 13 16 0.81 3
2016 Marcelinho  Brazil Odisha 10 15 0.67 5
2017–18 Coro  Spain Goa 18# 20 0.9 5
2018–19 Coro (2)  Spain Goa 16 20 0.8 7
2019–20 Nerijus Valskis  Lithuania Chennaiyin 15 20 0.75 6
2020–21 Igor Angulo  Spain Goa 14 21 0.67 0
2021–22 Bartholomew Ogbeche  Nigeria Hyderabad† 18# 20 0.9 1
2022–23 Diego Maurício  Brazil Odisha 12 21 0.57 4

Awards won by nationality
Country Players Total
 Brazil 3 3
 Spain 2 3
 Colombia 1 1
 Lithuania 1 1
 Nigeria 1 1

Awards won by club
Club Total
Chennaiyin 3
Goa 3
Hyderabad 1
Odisha 1

See also

References
  1. "Closing Ceremony of Hero Indian Super League to celebrate Indian Football in style". sports keeda.com. 20 December 2014. Archived from the original on 23 November 2022. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  2. Aprameya (20 December 2014). "ISL 2014: Full list of award winners". oneindia.com. OneIndia. Archived from the original on 27 July 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  3. "ISL final: Valskis wins Golden Boot, Gurpreet takes Golden Glove". sportstar.thehindu.com. The Hindu. 14 March 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  4. "Hero ISL Player - Golden Boot Award in season - Indian Super League".
  1. This does not necessarily match the total number of games in a season.
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