The Pakistan Premier League Golden Boot is an annual
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...
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association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
award given to the top goalscorer at the end of the
Pakistan Premier League
The Pakistan Premier League (PPL; ur, پاکستان پریمیئر لیگ) is a Pakistani professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the Pakistan football league system, it is the country's primary football compe ...
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
Muhammad Rasool (born May 23, 1985) is a Pakistani former footballer who played as a forward.
Rasool won the league with K-Electric in 2014–15 season. Rasool finished season twice as the top scorer, first with Khan Research Laboratories in ...
when the league was a 22-game season, with 22 goals each.
Arif Mehmood
Arif Mehmood (born June 21, 1983) is a Pakistani former footballer who played as a striker. He has been the top-scorer in the Pakistan Premier League five times, leading the charts in 2004–05, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2009–10 and 2010–11 ...
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
The Pakistan Water & Power Development Authority (WAPDA; ur, ) is a government-owned public utility maintaining power and water in Pakistan, although it does not manage thermal power. WAPDA includes Tarbela and Mangla dams among its resources. ...
.
Anser Abbas of
Pakistan Army
The Pakistan Army (, ) is the Army, land service branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The roots of its modern existence trace back to the British Indian Army that ceased to exist following the partition of India, Partition of British India, wh ...
is the latest winner, during the
2018–19 season. He scored 15 goals in 26 matches.
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).
See also
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List of Pakistan football champions
The Pakistan football champions are the winners of the highest league in Pakistani football, which is currently the Pakistan Premier League.
Pakistan’s first football tournament began on May 28, 1948 as the National Football Championship, a knoc ...
References
External links
Official website of Pakistan Premier League
{{Pakistan Premier League top scorers
Pakistan Premier League
Pakistani football trophies and awards