Premier League top scorers 2024/25: Haaland aiming for Golden Boot history

Carlo Garganese

• Updated: 27 Jun 2024 10:50 BST
• 6 min read

Erling Haaland will go into the 2024/25 season hoping to join the greatest Premier League top scorers.

Manchester City forward Haaland is seeking a third consecutive triumph in the Premier League Golden Boot race this season.

That is a feat which has only previously been achieved by Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry, who are two of the greatest strikers to have ever played in England’s top division.

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Haaland will look to become the top Premier League scorer again after winning the Golden Boot by a healthy five-goal margin last season, with Chelsea attacking midfielder Cole Palmer surprisingly emerging as his closest challenger.

Man City star Haaland netted 27 times and fired two hat-tricks, including a four-goal haul in a victory against Wolves in May. His exploits throughout the season helped Pep Guardiola’s team to win a historic fourth straight Premier League title.

Despite those heroics, the Norway international’s goal total was well short of the 2022/23 tally he produced. That season saw him make a stunning start to EPL life, scoring a record-breaking 36 top-flight goals to claim the Golden Boot in his first campaign, one which also saw City and Guardiola win a famous treble.

Haaland's two straight successes in the goalscoring charts in England made him the first player since Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah in 2019 to win back-to-back crowns.

But will Haaland score the most goals in the 2024/25 season and claim a third straight crown? He will start as a strong favourite, but Palmer and Newcastle forward Alexander Isak were podium finishers from the last campaign who will hope to challenge him again.

Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins, Bournemouth frontman Dominic Solanke and Haaland’s Man City team-mate Phil Foden will also look to follow up their strong scoring seasons.

Former Golden Boot winners Salah and Son Heung-min will also be eager to be crowned winners in the Premier League scoring standings once again.

Manchester United hope Rasmus Hojlund can kick on in his second year at Old Trafford and challenge to score the most goals this season, while Bukayo Saka is among a number of possible Arsenal contenders.

There is also still plenty of time for new transfer signings to arrive at the biggest clubs before the new campaign begins, deals which could shake up the Golden Boot race even before it starts.

2024/25 Premier League top scorers

The Premier League top scorers will be displayed on this page throughout the season. We will take an in-depth look at the latest standings for the players with the most EPL goals, with updates from every matchday.

A new season of Premier League football will begin on the weekend of August 17/18, after many of the competition's best players have played for their international teams at Euro 2024.

Premier League Golden Boot: Previous Winners

Thierry Henry holds the record for the most Premier League Golden Boot wins, having been named the top scorer in the competition on four occasions for Arsenal.

The France great is one of 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, all of them coming with Tottenham.

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

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.

It is Liverpool who have had the most Premier League Golden Boot winners as a team with seven.

Arsenal are just behind on six, while Man Utd and Tottenham have had five winners.

Chelsea are on four, with Man City now level with them after Haaland gave the club a fourth win in 2023/24.

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.

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 reached the total from 40 games.

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 in his record-setting season (1.03 goals per game).

Prior to that it was Kane after the England captain netted 29 times in just 30 games to win the 2016/17 scoring 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.

Former 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 the 2024/25 season began, Robbie Fowler (163), Jermain Defoe (162), Mohamed Salah (157) and Michael Owen (150) rounded out the 11 players in EPL history who had scored 150 goals or more.

Prior to his transfer from Spurs to Bayern Munich in 2023, Kane was the highest-scoring active player and he had long been cited as one of the rare contenders who has a chance to rival Shearer’s record total.

His departure means Salah is the highest remaining active Premier League player. He has been rising fast in the rankings, moving up to 10th overall with his 18 goals last season, having started the campaign in 14th place.

Going into this campaign, Salah had scored at least 18 goals in all seven of the Premier League seasons he had played with Liverpool, with Lampard, Henry, Fowler and Defoe now all realistically in his sights if he has a strong year in 2024/25.