Pakistan Premier League Golden Boot
The Pakistan Premier League Golden Boot is an annual Pakistani association football award given to the top goalscorer at the end of the Pakistan Premier League season, the top domestic league competition in club football in Pakistan, since its creation in 2004.
The top-scoring Pakistan Premier League Golden Boot winners are Kaleemullah Khan with 35 goals in a 30-game season, Muhammad Rasool when the league was a 22-game season, with 22 goals each. Arif Mehmood had the second-highest scoring of 20 goals. Mehmood won the award for the most times with 5 golden boots, all of them with WAPDA.[1]
Anser Abbas of Pakistan Army is the latest winner, during the 2018–19 season. He scored 15 goals in 26 matches.[2]
Recipients
As of the December 2018 six players have won the golden boot award. Only two player has won the award more than once with Mehmood winning the award most times with five wins.
List of Golden Boot winners
The following table is a list of winners of the Pakistan Premier 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 | Ref. |
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2004–05 | Arif Mehmood | WAPDA | 20 | 16 | 1.25 | [3] |
2005–06 | Imran Hussain | Pakistan Army | 21 | 22 | 0.95 | [4] |
2006–07 | Arif Mehmood | WAPDA | 18 | 20 | 0.90 | [5] |
2007–08 | Arif Mehmood | WAPDA | 21 | 26 | 0.81 | [6] |
2008–09 | Muhammad Rasool | Khan Research Laboratories | 22 | 26 | 0.85 | [7] |
2009–10 | Arif Mehmood | WAPDA | 20 | 26 | 0.77 | [8] |
2010–11 | Arif Mehmood | WAPDA | 21 | 30 | 0.70 | [9] |
2011–12 | Jadeed Khan | Afghan Chaman | 22 | 30 | 0.73 | [10] |
2012–13 | Kaleemullah Khan | Khan Research Laboratories | 35 | 30 | 1.17 | [11] |
2013–14 | Muhammad | Karachi Port Trust | 27 | 30 | 0.90 | [12] |
2014–15 | Muhammad Rasool | K-Electric | 22 | 22 | 1.00 | [13] |
2018–19 | Ansar Abbas | Pakistan Army | 15 | 26 | 0.58 | [14] |
See also
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