Premier League top scorers 2023/24: The latest Golden Boot standings

Erling Haaland is the man to beat among the Premier League top scorers for the 2023/24 season.

Manchester City striker Haaland made a stunning start to EPL life last season, scoring a record-breaking 36 top-flight goals to claim the Golden Boot in his first campaign.

His goals helped to secure a historic treble for Man City and Pep Guardiola.

Man City go into the new season as favourites to win a sixth EPL title in the space of seven seasons, and similarly Haaland is the hot favourite to win the Golden Boot again.

Liverpool star Mohamed Salah is the last Premier League attacker to have won the Golden Boot in back-to-back seasons, and he may be the biggest hope to stop Haaland achieving the same feat.

Salah and Liverpool were short of their best last season, but he still managed to score 19 times in the Premier League and net 30 goals in all competitions.

The Egypt forward has scored at least 19 goals in all six of the Premier League seasons he has played with Liverpool. The Reds' fellow forward Darwin Nunez is another strong candidate, according to the latest betting odds. Nunez only scored nine goals last year but proved capable of getting into good goalscoring positions.

Harry Kane is the big unknown going into the 2023/24 season, amid his ongoing transfer saga. If he does remain in the Premier League, the striker will be a key rival to Haaland, having impressively scored 30 goals as part of a poor Tottenham team last season that missed out on qualification for European football.

Marcus Rashford was the top Man Utd goalscorer in the Premier League last season, scoring 17 times and he will be hoping to reach the 20-mark for the first time.

Former Golden Boot winner Son Heung-min, Newcastle duo Alexander Isak and Callum Wilson, Arsenal forward Gabriel Jesus and Aston Villa's Ollie Watkins are also candidates.

And after Christopher Nkunku made his transfer to Chelsea, he will hope to fare better than the Blues' forwards last season. Kai Havertz was the Blues' top EPL scorer with only seven goals. The Germany forward has now joined Arsenal.

2023/24 Premier League top scorers

The Premier League top scorers will be displayed on this page once the season begins. Updates will take place after every matchday, with the first match taking place on August 11 when Burnley take on Manchester City.

Premier League Golden Boot: Previous Winners

There are only four players who have scored the most goals in the EPL on three or more occasions.

Alan Shearer won the Golden Boot three times, once with Newcastle and twice with Blackburn Rovers, while Harry Kane’s win in 2020/21 was also his third.

Mohamed Salah's success in the 2021/22 season meant he joined that list of three-time winners.

Thierry Henry holds the record, though, having been named the top scorer in the Premier League on four occasions for Arsenal.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez are two of the biggest names to have won the award, scoring 31 goals in 2007/08 and 2013/14 respectively.

Liverpool have had the most Premier League Golden Boot winners with seven.

Arsenal are just behind on six, while Man Utd and Tottenham have had five winners, with Chelsea on four. Haaland gave Man City a third win.

The Premier League began from the 1992/93 season.

Prior to that, Ian Wright was the last highest goalscorer in England when it was the old First Division. Gary Lineker and Alan Smith were also winners in the 1990s before the league was rebranded.

Recent Golden Boot Winners

Most goals in a Premier League season

Erling Haaland has the record for the most goals in a single Premier League season, having scored 36 times in just 35 matches during the 2022/23 campaign.

Previously, the record for most goals in an EPL campaign was shared by Alan Shearer (1994/95) and Andy Cole (1993/94). Both players scored an astonishing 34 goals, though the season schedule was longer then – Shearer did it in 42 matches and Cole in 40.

Mohamed Salah came close to that record in 2017/18, scoring 32 times in 36 outings, producing what had been the best Premier League goalscoring season in this century until Haaland's spectacular arrival.

The Golden Boot winner with the best goals per game ratio in a season is also Haaland after his exploits last season (1.03 goals per game). Previously it was Kane after England’s captain netted 29 times in just 30 games to win the 2016/17 title, averaging 0.97 GPG.

Who are the Premier League top scorers of all time?

Alan Shearer is the highest goalscorer in Premier League history, having ended his career in 2006 with a magnificent 260 goals to his name in England’s top division.

Tottenham star Harry Kane (213) and Man Utd legend Wayne Rooney (208) are the only other players who have scored more than 200 EPL goals.

Andy Cole (187), Sergio Aguero (184), Frank Lampard (177) and Thierry Henry (175) are former Premier League players who sit near the top of the all-time list.

Before 2023/24 began, Robbie Fowler (163), Jermain Defoe (162) and Michael Owen (150) rounded out the 10 players in EPL history who have scored 150 goals or more.

Kane is the highest-scoring active player and he has long been cited as one of the rare contenders who has a chance to rival Shearer’s record total.

Mohamed Salah is also rising fast in the rankings. He was 14th overall on 139 goals when the season began.