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MLS Golden Boot

American soccer award

The MLS Golden Boot (currently commercially termed "MLS Golden Boot presented by Audi") has been awarded since the 2005 season to Major League Soccer's regular–season leading scorer. The award replaced the MLS Scoring Champion Award that was awarded since the league's inception in 1996.

1996–2004

Prior to 2005 MLS used a point system that awarded two points for a goal and one point for an assist to give the MLS Scoring Champion Award.

Season	Player	Club	Goals (2 points)	Assists (1 point)	Points
1996	USA Roy Lassiter	Tampa Bay Mutiny	27	4	58
1997	USA Preki	Kansas City Wizards	12	17	41
1998	TRI Stern John	Columbus Crew	26	5	57
1999	USA Jason Kreis	Dallas Burn	18	15	51
2000	SEN Mamadou Diallo	Tampa Bay Mutiny	26	4	56
2001	HON Alex Pineda Chacón	Miami Fusion	19	9	47
2002	USA Taylor Twellman	New England Revolution	23	6	52
2003	USA Preki (2)	Kansas City Wizards	12	17	41
2004	HON Amado Guevara	MetroStars	10	10	30
USA Pat Noonan	New England Revolution	11	8

2005–present

Since 2005 Major League Soccer has awarded the MLS Golden Boot to the player who has scored the most goals outright, with ties being broken by assists.

Season	Player	Club	Goals	Games	Rate
2005	United States Taylor Twellman (2)	New England Revolution	17	25	0.68
2006	USA Jeff Cunningham	Real Salt Lake	16	31	0.52
2007	BRA Luciano Emilio	D.C. United	20	29	0.69
2008	USA Landon Donovan	Los Angeles Galaxy	20	25	0.80
2009	USA Jeff Cunningham (2)	FC Dallas	17	28	0.61
2010	USA Chris Wondolowski	San Jose Earthquakes	18	28	0.64
2011	CAN Dwayne De Rosario	D.C. United	16	33	0.48
2012	USA Chris Wondolowski (2)	San Jose Earthquakes	27	32	0.84
2013	BRA Camilo Sanvezzo	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	22	32	0.69
2014	ENG Bradley Wright-Phillips	New York Red Bulls	27	32	0.84
2015	ITA Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC	22	33	0.67
2016	ENG Bradley Wright-Phillips (2)	New York Red Bulls	24	34	0.71
2017	HUN Nemanja Nikolić	Chicago Fire	24	33	0.73
2018	VEN Josef Martínez	Atlanta United FC	31	34	0.91
2019	MEX Carlos Vela	Los Angeles FC	34	31	1.10
2020	URU Diego Rossi	Los Angeles FC	14	19	0.74
2021	ARG Taty Castellanos	New York City FC	19	32	0.59
2022	GER Hany Mukhtar	Nashville SC	23	33	0.70
2023	GAB Denis Bouanga	Los Angeles FC	20	31	0.65
2024	BEL Christian Benteke	D.C. United	23	30	0.77
2025	ARG Lionel Messi	Inter Miami CF	29	28	1.04

References

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