The A-League Men Golden Boot is an annual

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award presented to the leading goalscorer in the

A-League Men A-League Men (known as the Isuzu UTE A-League for sponsorship reasons) is the highest-level professional men's soccer league in Australia and New Zealand. At the top of the Australian league system, it is the country's premier men's competiti ...

. It is currently referred to as the Nike Golden Boot for sponsorship purposes. The A-League was founded in 2005 to replace the semi-professional

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. The number of teams in the league has ranged from eight to twelve and there are currently twelve clubs in the league. The award is given to the top-scorer over the regular season (not including the finals series). The inaugural award was shared by four players:

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, Bobby Despotovski,

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and Archie Thompson. Jamie Maclaren has won the golden boot on five occasions, more than any other player. Petrie was the first non-Australian winner in the league's inaugural season. Bobô – with 27 goals in 2017–18 – scored the most goals to win the Golden Boot, while

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scored the fewest to win the award outright, with 11 goals in 2006–07. The all-time record for lowest number of goals scored to be bestowed the award, however, is 8 goals; this was achieved during the 2005–06 season, when the award was shared between four players. This marks one of two seasons in which the award has been shared, the other being the 2016–17 season, where the award was shared between Jamie Maclaren and Besart Berisha. Bobô recorded the highest goals-to-games ratio to win the award, scoring 27 goals in 27 games in 2017–18 for a rate of 1.00.

Winners

Awards won by club

Notes

References

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Our history
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External links

A-League official website
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Winners

Awards won by club

See also

Notes

References

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