Premier League top scorers 2025/26: Salah and Haaland to battle for Golden Boot

Carlo Garganese

• Updated: 29 Jul 2025 12:35 BST
• 9 min read

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Mohamed Salah and Erling Haaland are set to go head-to-head once again in the 2025/26 Premier League Golden Boot race.

Liverpool forward Salah stormed to victory last season, claiming this award by netting 29 goals and helping the Reds to Premier League title glory, ending Manchester City’s run of success.

Salah has now been the top Premier League scorer on four occasions, meaning he shares the competition record with Arsenal great Thierry Henry.

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Haaland, meanwhile, had triumphed in the previous two campaigns but was ultimately unable to match Henry and Alan Shearer, who are two of the greatest strikers to have ever played in England’s top division, by winning a third consecutive scoring crown.

Man City striker Haaland raced out of the blocks in 2024/25 and still made the podium after netting 22 league goals, but injuries restricted him to 31 top-flight appearances and Salah’s relentless form ultimately proved too hot to handle.

The stakes are high in the battle to be top scorer this season. If Salah prevails, he will become the first-ever EPL player to win the Golden Boot five times.

If Haaland scores the most goals in the 2025/26 season, he will match Shearer and Harry Kane as at three-time winner and confirm his status as the competition’s leading number nine by making it three wins in four years.

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Alexander Isak will also have high hopes of topping the goalscoring charts in England. He scored 23 times last season to ultimately finish above Haaland and take second place. He has topped the 20-goal mark in two straight campaigns for Newcastle United.

Arsenal have brought in Viktor Gyokeres from Sporting CP in a major transfer, with the Golden Shoe contender expected to challenge for the top scorer title in his debut campaign in England. Bukayo Saka and Kai Havertz will also hope to impress for the Gunners.

Chelsea also start the season with some notable candidates after winning the Club World Cup. Cole Palmer consistently performs well in the Premier League scoring standings, while forwards Joao Pedro and Liam Delap have signed for the Blues in significant moves.

Two exciting transfer signings made by Manchester United are Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo, who were both among the Premier League’s top performers last season. The Red Devils are desperate to reinvigorate their attack, with incumbent striker Rasmus Hojlund coming into the campaign under significant pressure to deliver.

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While he is not among the top favourites in the pre-season betting odds, former Golden Boot winner Heung-min Son is another contender this season, as is his Tottenham team-mate Dominic Solanke.

Ollie Watkins, Hugo Ekitike, Chris Wood, Cody Gakpo and Omar Marmoush may be other names to watch out for in what looks set to be a competitive top scorer contest.

2025/26 Premier League top scorers

Pre-season matches are currently under way, with Premier League teams working through their fixture schedules, which are taking place in various corners of the world.

Salah will hope to be in the spotlight when the top-flight campaign does begin. Champions Liverpool are in the opening game of the new season on Friday August 15 when they take on Bournemouth at Anfield.

Other top matches in the first week of the season will see Man Utd host Arsenal on Sunday August 17.

Haaland will hope to make a fast start when Man City will travel to play Wolves, a team he usually fares well against.

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 after every matchday.

For now, we are displaying last season’s standings, which will be updated with the 2025/26 top scorer charts after matchday one of the new campaign.

Premier League Golden Boot: Previous Winners

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

Following his success last season, Liverpool star Mohamed Salah is now level with Henry on four Golden Boot wins.

Two of Salah's top scorer awards were shared, while his triumphs in 2017/18 and 2024/25 (his first and most recent respectively) were outright successes.

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The France and Egypt greats are two of only four players who have scored the most goals in the EPL across three or more seasons.

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.

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.

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It is Liverpool who have had the most Premier League Golden Boot winners as a team with eight, with Salah's triumph in topping the list of 2024/25 top scorers extending their advantage.

Arsenal are two behind on six wins as a team, while Man Utd and Tottenham have had five winners.

Chelsea are on four, with Man City level with them after Haaland gave the club a fourth win by finishing first in the list of 2023/24 Premier League top scorers.

The Premier League began from the 1992/93 season. Prior to that, Ian Wright was the last player to be the 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 2025/26 season began, Robbie Fowler (163), Jermain Defoe (162) and Michael Owen (150) were also in an elite group of 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 Premier League player and he had long been cited as one of the rare contenders who has a chance to rival Shearer’s record total.

But Kane's continued absence from English club football meant it was Salah, with 186 goals, who started this season as the highest scoring current EPL player.

Salah has been rising fast in the rankings over recent years, beginning this campaign sitting in fifth place having started the previous year sitting in 10th overall and surging up the standings by hitting 29 goals last season.

Going into this campaign, Salah had scored at least 18 goals in all eight of the Premier League seasons he had played with Liverpool. He sat just one goal behind Cole when the campaign began, with Kane and Rooney also realistically within reach if he has a similarly strong year in 2025/26.