I-League Golden Boot

The I-League Golden Boot is an annual Indian association football award given to the top goalscorer at the end of the I-League season, the top domestic league competition in club Football in India, since its creation in 2007.

The top-scoring I-League Golden Boot winner is Ranty Martins Soleye with 32 goals in a 26-game season with Odafe Onyeka Okolie holding the record when the league was an 18-game season with 22 goals. Ranti won the award for the most times with five wins however Odafe has won the award most times for a single club, winning thrice while playing for Churchill Brothers.

Aser Pierrick Dipanda of Mohun Bagan is the latest winner of the Golden Boot, his consecutive second. During the 2017–18 season, he scored 13 goals in 18 matches.

Recipients

As of the March 2018 six players have won the golden boot award. Only three player has won the award more than once with Ranti winning the award most times with five wins. Winning the golden boot though might not translate into league success as thrice once in eleven I-League seasons as the team which has the golden boot winner won the league as well and the latest was in 2015-16 when scoring leader Sunil Chhetri and his team, Bengaluru won the league.

List of Golden Boot winners

The following table is a list of winners of the I-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
2007–08	Template:Flagicon Odafe Onyeka Okolie	Churchill Brothers	22	18	1.22
2008–09	Template:Flagicon Odafe Onyeka Okolie	Churchill Brothers	24	22	1.09
2009–10	Template:Flagicon Odafe Onyeka Okolie	Churchill Brothers	21	24	0.87
2010–11	Template:Flagicon Ranti Martins	Dempo	28	22	1.27
2011–12	Template:Flagicon Ranti Martins	Dempo	32	26	1.23
2012–13	Template:Flagicon Ranti Martins	Prayag United	26	25	1.14
2013–14	Template:Flagicon Cornell Glen	Shillong Lajong	14	19	0.74
	Template:Flagicon Sunil Chhetri	Bengaluru FC		23	0.61
	Template:Flagicon Darryl Duffy	Salgaocar		24	0.58
2014–15	Template:Flagicon Ranti Martins	East Bengal	17	20	0.85
2015–16	Template:Flagicon Ranti Martins	East Bengal	12	13	0.92
2016–17	Template:Flagicon Aser Pierrick Dipanda	Shillong Lajong	11	17	0.65
2017–18	Template:Flagicon Aser Pierrick Dipanda	Mohun Bagan	13	18	0.72
2018–19	Template:Flagicon Pedro Manzi	Chennai City	18	21	1.16

Leading Indian goalscorer

Ever sense the beginning of the I-League in 2007, only one Indian player had been the I-League Golden Boot winner with Sunil Chettri winning the award in 2013-14 season. The following table lists the top Indian goalscorer in each season and their overall ranking in that season's top scorer table.

Season	Player	Club	Goals	Games	Rate	Overall rank
2007–08	Template:Flagicon Baichung Bhutia	Mohun Bagan	10	16	0.62	5th
2008–09	Template:Flagicon Sunil Chhetri	East Bengal	9	14	0.64	4th
2009–10	Template:Flagicon Mohammed Rafi	Mahindra United	15	22	0.68	2nd
2010–11	Template:Flagicon Jeje Lalpekhlua	Indian Arrows	13	15	0.86	7th
2011–12	Template:Flagicon Chinadorai Sabeeth	Pailan Arrows	9	26	0.34	11th
2012–13	Template:Flagicon C.K. Vineeth	Prayag United	7	23	0.30	13th
2013–14	Template:Flagicon Sunil Chhetri	Bengaluru FC	14	23	0.61	1st
2014–15	Template:Flagicon Thongkhosiem Haokip	Pune	7	18	0.39	7th
2015–16	Template:Flagicon Sunil Chhetri	Bengaluru FC	5	14	0.36	6th
	Template:Flagicon Sushil Kumar Singh	Mumbai		16	0.31
2016–17	Template:Flagicon C.K. Vineeth	Bengaluru FC	7	15	0.47	5th
	Template:Flagicon Sunil Chettri	Bengaluru FC		16	0.44
2017–18	Template:Flagicon Abhijit Sarkar	Indian Arrows	4	14	0.29	8th
	Template:Flagicon Subhash Singh	NEROCA		17	0.24

See also

• List of Indian football champions

External links

• I-League.org Official website of I-League