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 each season of the Pakistan Premier League, 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 with 22 goals when the league was a 22-game season. Arif Mehmood has won the award for the most times, with 5 golden boots, all of them with WAPDA.

Anser Abbas of Pakistan Army is the latest winner, during the 2018–19 season. He scored 15 goals in 26 matches.[1][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.
2004–05 Pakistan Arif Mehmood WAPDA 20 16 1.25 [3]
2005–06 Pakistan Imran Hussain Pakistan Army 21 22 0.95 [4]
2006–07 Pakistan Arif Mehmood WAPDA 18 20 0.90 [5]
2007–08 Pakistan Arif Mehmood WAPDA 21 26 0.81 [6]
2008–09 Pakistan Muhammad Rasool Khan Research Laboratories 22 26 0.85 [7]
2009–10 Pakistan Arif Mehmood WAPDA 20 26 0.77 [8]
2010–11 Pakistan Arif Mehmood WAPDA 21 30 0.70 [9]
2011–12 Pakistan Jadeed Khan Afghan Chaman 22 30 0.73 [10]
2012–13 Pakistan Kaleemullah Khan Khan Research Laboratories 35 30 1.17
2013–14 Pakistan Muhammad bin Yousuf Karachi Port Trust 27 30 0.90 [11]
2014–15 Pakistan Muhammad Rasool K-Electric 22 22 1.00 [12]
2018–19 Pakistan Ansar Abbas Pakistan Army 15 26 0.58 [1][2]

See also

References

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