Have you ever wondered which nation and player won the most number of golden boots awards in the history of the premier league? Think no more as this article is here to enlighten the football fan in you with all facts and details about the English premier league golden boot award. 

The premier league golden boot award is an annual association and the most prestigious football award ever made in the history of English football. The distinguished award is presented to the top goalscorer at the end of the EPL season. The EPL winners may get a chance to play in  other Prominent matches like the Euro cup.

Interesting facts about EPL golden boot

  • Teddy Sheringham a British player head started the tradition by winning the first-ever golden boot award in 1992

  • Arsenal's pride striker Thierry Henry owns four awards which is the highest number of awards in the premier league history owned by a player

  • England owns the most number of players who have won this reputable award.

Read the rest of the article to know more about the history and other winners of the premier league golden boot award 

The chronicle of the EPL golden boots award

The esteemed award was established in the introductory EPL season in 1992/1993. It was widely considered one of the elite individual honors. The separation of the clubs in the first division from the football league paved the way for the formation of the EPL.  Although the reason for the split was to establish a new commercially individualistic league with self negotiation on its broadcast and other sponsorship agreements.  However, EPL did not manage to  acquire any sponsorship in its launching season. 

Until Carling brewery, a Canadian establishment stepped in to sponsor the league with a £12 million deal that lasted for four years. At that time the recently developed league was just called the premier league which led to the golden boot award known as the premier league golden boot award.

Teddy Sheringham, an English national, won the elitist award for the first time while playing for the English league football club called Tottenham Hotspur.

Get to know the sponsors of the Premier League golden boot

The golden boot award gained numerous sponsors in the past years. Most of them are multinational giants that have international recognition. Every new sponsor added their brand name along with the name of the honorary award.

Here you can understand the sponsorship list in chronological order starting from 1994 with carling Golden boot.

  • Carling Golden Boot - 1994 to 2001

  • Barclaycard golden boot - 2002 to 2004

  • Barclays golden boot - 2005 to 2016

  • Cadbury Golden Boot - 2017 to 2020

  • Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Golden Boot - 2021

  • Castrol Golden Boot - 2022 to present

The honorary heroes of the EPL

The exceptional player Thierry Henry achieved the Golden Boot four times being at the top of the list. Following that British Footballer Alan Shearer won the prize thrice while playing for the clubs Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United. The Dutch player Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Alan Shearer, and Van Persie are the only footballers who win the award with two different clubs.

 In the year 2007- 2008 the popular footballer from Portuguese Christiano Ronaldo titled the Award while playing for the club Manchester United. The contemporary holder of the award is Harry Kane from Tottenham Hotspur with his 23-goal count.

Here are the Golden Boot Record holders

  • 1992/93 - Teddy Sheringham 

  • 1993/94 - Andrew Cole 

  • 1994/95 - Alan Shearer 

  • 1995/96 - Alan Shearer 

  • 1996/97 - Alan Shearer 

  • 1997/98 - Dion Dublin / Michael Owen / Chris Sutton

  • 1998/99 - Michael Owen / Dwight Yorke / Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink 

  • 1999/00 - Kevin Phillips 

  • 2000/01 - Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink 

  • 2001/02 - Thierry Henry 

  • 2002/03 - Ruud van Nistelrooy 

  • 2003/04 - Thierry Henry 

  • 2004/05 - Thierry Henry

  • 2005/06 - Thierry Henry 

  • 2006/07 - Didier Drogba 

  • 2007/08 - Cristiano Ronaldo 

  • 2008/09 - Nicolas Anelka 

  • 2009/10 - Didier Drogba 

  • 2010/11 - Carlos Tevez / Dimitar Berbatov

  • 2011/12 - Robin van Persie

  • 2012/13 - Robin van Persie

  • 2013/14 - Luis Suarez 

  • 2014/15 - Sergio Aguero 

  • 2015/16 - Harry Kane 

  • 2016/17 - Harry Kane 

  • 2017/18 - Mohamed Salah 

  • 2018/19 - Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang / Sadio Mane / Mohamed Salah 

  • 2019/20 - Jamie Vardy 

  • 2020/21 - Harry Kane 

Will betting on football influence the match?

The punters  engage in betting on football based on multiple criterias  throughout the season. It is one of the best online betting practices. And this may heat the competition between strikers for winning the golden boot award. 

Betting on football can be found in various nations  in the world. It can be traced mainly in American football and Euro Cups. There are many types football bets exist some of the prominent ones are;

  • Full-Time Result.

  • Football Accumulator.

  • Normal Time Definition.

  • Total Goals, (Under/Over)

  • Correct Score (CS)

  • Half time/Full Time (HT/FT)

  • First Goalscorer (FGS)

  • Last Goalscorer (LGS)