Context:

As the 2024/25 Premier League season progresses, the race for the Golden Boot intensifies, with Mohamed Salah leading due to Erling Haaland's ankle injury sidelining him for much of the season. Salah, having scored 28 goals, helped Liverpool clinch their 20th English title with a decisive victory over Tottenham. Alexander Isak of Newcastle United has overtaken Haaland for second place in the rankings after Haaland failed to score in a draw against Southampton. The competition is not only a testament to individual brilliance but also reflects the performance dynamics of their respective clubs. Historical records show Erling Haaland previously set a new benchmark with 36 goals in a single season, surpassing legends like Andrew Cole and Alan Shearer, and securing consecutive Golden Boots in 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons despite injury challenges.

Dive Deeper:

• Mohamed Salah is leading the 2024/25 Premier League Golden Boot race with 28 goals, instrumental in Liverpool's triumph in securing their 20th English title after a commanding win against Tottenham.

• Erling Haaland, although dominant last season, is now challenged by an ankle injury that limits his participation, allowing Salah to gain a significant edge in the top scorer standings.

• Alexander Isak of Newcastle United has capitalized on Haaland's absence, moving into second place, highlighting the competitive nature of this season's goal-scoring battle.

• Erling Haaland's previous achievements include a record-breaking 36 goals in the 2022/23 season, which shattered the long-standing records of Andrew Cole and Alan Shearer, solidifying his status as a prolific scorer.

• The Premier League's Golden Boot history features notable players like Thierry Henry, who won the title four times, and Harry Kane with three, demonstrating the consistency required to excel at the highest level.

• The Premier League season's structure and media coverage include extensive streaming options across various regions, ensuring global accessibility to live matches and updates.

• Kyle Bonn, a seasoned soccer journalist, provides comprehensive coverage of the Premier League, utilizing his expertise in soccer tactics and analytics to enhance the understanding of the game for fans worldwide.

• The 2024/25 Premier League campaign has reached a pivotal stage of the season, and the race to finish as the competition's leading goal-scorer is also hotting up.

• Last season saw Erling Haaland yet again dominate charts despite a mid-season injury. Cole Palmer, meanwhile, stunned the world as he surged to a second-place finish after a four-goal haul against Everton late in the season.

• Haaland had long topped the charts, reaching 100 in all competitions for City by scoring against Arsenal, but his team's struggles opened the door to his closest challenger, Mohamed Salah, who is now clear at the top of the standings. Salah moved on to 28 for the season when Liverpool sealed their 20th English title with a 5-1 rout of Tottenham.

• An ankle injury that will rule Haaland out of the majority of the season run-in means Salah has probably got the prize sewn up. Newcastle United frontman Alexander Isak has now gone past Haaland into second place, and the latter could not find the net as Manchester City were held to a draw by Southampton.

• The Sporting News will be updating the table below during every matchday of the 2024/25 Premier League season through to the final matches on May 25, 2024.

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• Premier League top scorers table 2024/25

  Updated after Bournemouth vs. Aston Villa on Saturday, May 10

• Rank	Player	Club	Goals (PKs)	Assists	Matches	Mins
  1.	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	28 (9)	18	35	3107
  2.	Alexander Isak	Newcastle	23 (4)	6	32	2590
  3.	Erling Haaland	Man City	21 (2)	3	29	2573
  4.	Chris Wood	N. Forest	19 (3)	3	32	2616
  5.	Bryan Mbeumo	Brentford	18 (5)	7	36	3235
  =	Yoane Wissa	Brentford	18 (0)	3	33	2747
  7.	Ollie Watkins	Aston Villa	16 (2)	7	36	2434
  =	Matheus Cunha	Wolves	15 (0)	6	31	2487
  =	Cole Palmer	Chelsea	15 (4)	8	34	2925
  10.	Jean-Philippe Mateta	Crystal Palace	14 (2)	2	34	2523

  Assists serve as the first tiebreaker for the Premier League top scorer, followed by a lower minutes-per-goal value.

• Premier League Golden Boot winners

  Below are the top scorers in each season of the Premier League era (since 1992-93).

• Andrew Cole and Alan Shearer saw their record for most goals in a Premier League season shattered by Erling Haaland in 2022/23.

• Thierry Henry finished atop the Premier League scoring chart in four different seasons, more than any player all-time. Shearer and Harry Kane follow with three scoring titles each.

• MORE: Premier League all-time top scorers

• Year	Player	Team	Goals
  2023/24	Erling Haaland	Manchester City	27
  2022/23	Erling Haaland	Manchester City	36
  2021/22	Son Heung-min	Tottenham Hotspur	23
  	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	23
  2020/21	Harry Kane	Tottenham Hotspur	23
  2019/20	Jamie Vardy	Leicester City	23
  2018/19	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Arsenal	22
  	Sadio Mane	Liverpool	22
  	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	22
  2017/18	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	32
  2016/17	Harry Kane	Tottenham Hotspur	29
  2015/16	Harry Kane	Tottenham Hotspur	25
  2014/15	Sergio Aguero	Manchester City	26
  2013/14	Luis Suarez	Liverpool	31
  2012/13	Robin Van Persie	Arsenal	26
  2011/12	Robin Van Persie	Arsenal	30
  2010/11	Dimitar Berbatov	Manchester United	20
  	Carlos Tevez	Manchester City	20
  2009/10	Didier Drogba	Chelsea	29
  2008/09	Nicolas Anelka	Chelsea	19
  2007/08	Cristiano Ronaldo	Manchester United	31
  2006/07	Didier Drogba	Chelsea	20
  2005/06	Thierry Henry	Arsenal	27
  2004/05	Thierry Henry	Arsenal	25
  2003/04	Thierry Henry	Arsenal	30
  2002/03	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Manchester United	25
  2001/02	Thierry Henry	Arsenal	24
  2000/01	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	Chelsea	23
  1999/00	Kevin Phillips	Sunderland	30
  1998/99	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	Leeds United	18
  	Michael Owen	Liverpool	18
  	Dwight Yorke	Manchester United	18
  1997/98	Dion Dublin	Coventry City	18
  	Michael Owen	Liverpool	18
  	Chris Sutton	Blackburn Rovers	18
  1996/97	Alan Shearer	Newcastle United	25
  1995/96	Alan Shearer	Blackburn Rovers	31
  1994/95	Alan Shearer	Blackburn Rovers	34
  1993/94	Andy Cole	Newcastle United	34
  1992/93	Teddy Sheringham	N. Forest / Tottenham	22

  Premier League Golden Boot table 2023/24

  Erling Haaland secured his second consecutive Premier League Golden Boot in 2023/24 with 27 goals, despite a mid-season injury. He led Manchester City to another title, finishing five goals ahead of Chelsea’s Cole Palmer, who surged with a record-breaking hat-trick.

• Alexander Isak of Newcastle placed third with 21 goals. Haaland scored against all 22 league opponents and capped City's title with a double against Tottenham.

• Rank	Player	Club	Goals (PKs)	Assists	Matches	Mins
  1.	Erling Haaland	Man City	27 (7)	5	31	2556
  2.	Cole Palmer	Chelsea	22 (9)	11	34	2624
  3	Alexander Isak	Newcastle	21 (5)	2	30	2266
  4.	Ollie Watkins	Aston Villa	19 (0)	13	37	3221
  =	Dominic Solanke	Bournemouth	19 (2)	3	38	3331
  =	Phil Foden	Man City	19 (0)	8	35	2865
  7.	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	18 (5)	10	32	2535
  8.	Son Heung-min	Tottenham	17 (2)	10	35	2946
  9.	Jarrod Bowen	West Ham	16 (0)	6	34	3020
  =	Bukayo Saka	Arsenal	16 (6)	9	35	2933
  =	Jean-Philippe Mateta	Crystal Palace	16 (2)	5	35	2283

  MORE: Premier League's all-time top scorers

• Premier League Golden Boot table 2022/23

  Manchester City star Erling Haaland won the 2022/23 Premier League Golden Boot with a new Premier League single-season record of 36 goals.

• The City striker had built an insurmountable lead over Harry Kane (30 goals), who previously won the Golden Boot three times. Brentford's Ivan Toney was the other to hit the 20-goal mark, while the previous season's joint-top scorer Mohamed Salah slowly rose up the ranks to fourth.

• Final 2022/23 Premier League top scorer table

  Rank	Player	Club	Goals (PKs)	Assists	Matches	Mins
  1.	Erling Haaland	Man City	36 (7)	8	35	2,776
  2.	Harry Kane	Tottenham	30 (5)	3	38	3,406
  3.	Ivan Toney	Brentford	20 (6)	4	33	2,953
  4.	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	19 (2)	12	38	3,294
  5.	Callum Wilson	Newcastle	18 (3)	5	31	1,885
  6.	Marcus Rashford	Man United	17 (0)	5	35	2,888
  7.	Martin Odegaard	Arsenal	15 (0)	7	37	3,143
  	Ollie Watkins	Aston Villa	15 (1)	6	37	3,134
  	Gabriel Martinelli	Arsenal	15 (0)	5	36	2,805
  10.	Bukayo Saka	Arsenal	14 (2)	11	38	3,191
  	Aleksandar Mitrovic	Fulham	14 (4)	1	24	2,011
  12.	Rodrigo	Leeds United	13 (1)	1	31	1,943
  	Harvey Barnes	Leicester City	13 (0)	1	34	2,718

  There were 1,084 total goals scored in the Premier League in 2022/23, including 45 own goals.

• Premier League Golden Boot table 2021/22

  It came down to the final day of the 2021/22 season between Tottenham's Son Heung-min and Liverpool's Mohamed Salah.

• Son's two goals at Norwich City on the final day allowed him to momentarily move ahead of Salah in the scoring table. But the Liverpool star came off the bench and netted late to catch Son, as the two stars shared the Golden Boot on 23 goals.

• Final 2021/22 Premier League top scorer table

  Full Premier League goalscoring leaders & statistics from 2021/22 season.

• Rank	Player	Club	Goals (PKs)	Assists	Matches	Mins
  1.	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	23 (5)	13	35	2,761
  	Son Heung-min	Tottenham	23 (0)	7	35	3,019
  3.	Cristiano Ronaldo	Man United	18 (3)	3	30	2,458
  4.	Harry Kane	Tottenham	17 (4)	9	37	3,232
  5.	Sadio Mane	Liverpool	16 (0)	2	34	2,824
  6.	Kevin De Bruyne	Man City	15 (0)	8	30	2,205
  	Diogo Jota	Liverpool	15 (0)	4	35	2,372
  	Jamie Vardy	Leicester City	15 (0)	2	25	1,805
  9.	Wilfried Zaha	Crystal Palace	14 (5)	1	33	2,761
  10.	Raheem Sterling	Man City	13 (2)	5	30	2,127
  11.	Jarrod Bowen	West Ham	12 (0)	10	36	2,987
  	James Maddison	Leicester City	12 (0)	8	35	2,466
  	Ivan Toney	Brentford	12 (5)	5	33	2,908

  There were 1,071 goals scored in the 2021/22 Premier League season, including 34 own goals.

• Premier League 2024/25 TV channels, live streams

  Region	TV	Streaming
  Australia	—	Optus Sport
  Canada	—	Fubo Canada
  India	Star Sports	Disney+, Hotstar, JioTV
  UK	Sky Sports, TNT Sports	NOW TV, Sky Go, Amazon Prime, Discovery Plus
  USA	USA Network, Telemundo, Universo	Fubo, Peacock

  UK: Matches are carried across Sky Sports and TNT Sports' streaming and TV platforms, with select matches on Amazon Prime. TNT Sports can be streamed via Discovery Plus.

• USA: Select matches are televised on USA Network (English) and Telemundo or Universo (Spanish), and all three channels can be streamed on Fubo. The rest of the matches are streamed on NBC platform Peacock for subscribers.

• Canada: Every Premier League game this season is live streamed exclusively via Fubo in Canada.

• Australia: Fans in Australia can stream every match live and on demand on Optus Sport.

• India: Star Sports network has the rights to show Premier League matches in India. As well as an English broadcast on Star Sports Select, select matches will be available via regional feeds on Star Sports 3 (in Bengali, English, Kannada, Malayalam), Star Sports 1 (Bangla) and Star Sports 1 (Tamil).