Premier League 2024-25 Golden Boot: Favourites, standings and most-clinical strikers

The 2024-25 Premier League Golden Boot race is really heating up.
Erling Haaland is a back-to-back Golden Boot winner but finds himself behind Mohamed Salah heading into spring. The Norwegian will be looking to become the third player to win the Premier League Golden Boot in three successive seasons.
Alan Shearer was the first to do so, finishing as top scorer in 1994-95, 1995-96 and 1996-97. Thierry Henry joined him, bagging the Golden Boot in 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06. Haaland scored a record-breaking 36 in his debut Premier League campaign, before netting 27 last season. He’s currently on 16 goals, trailing Salah by two. Alexander Isak, Bryan Mbeumo, Chris Wood and Cole Palmer are also close behind.
Premier League most goals 2024-25
Here’s how the 2024-25 Premier League Golden Boot race is shaping up.
Player | Goals | Minutes played | Expected Goals |
Mohamed Salah | 21 | 2,034 | 18.23 |
Erling Haaland | 19 | 2,126 | 18.23 |
Alexander Isak | 17 | 1,804 | 14.14 |
Chris Wood | 17 | 1,928 | 10.24 |
Cole Palmer | 14 | 2,014 | 12.02 |
Bryan Mbeumo | 14 | 2,155 | 7.84 |
Justin Kluivert | 11 | 1,541 | 8.78 |
Yoane Wissa | 11 | 1,669 | 11.38 |
Matheus Cunha | 11 | 1,876 | 5.2 |
Ollie Watkins | 10 | 1,650 | 11.54 |
Players with the same amount of goals are ranked by fewer minutes played. Stats correct as of 19:00 on 02/02/25.

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Who is the most clinical finisher in the Premier League right now?
Expected Goals is commonplace in football as a stat now. Most people understand what is meant by it, and what it is intended to measure. But there are better metrics to use when discerning the better finishers in a league. Expected Goals on Target measures the post-shot quality of efforts on target. It takes into account where the shot is placed in the goal. With xGOT, you can generally work out who scores because of their finishing, and who might be scoring against poorer goalkeepers.
But which players improve their chances of scoring by their shot placement? That’s where shot placement ratio comes in — it’s the ratio of xG to xGOT. For example, a shot placement ratio of 2.0 would mean xGOT are double the value of xG. The higher the shot placement ratio, the better a player essentially is at finishing. So, who’s top in the Premier League? Of course, there may be one-hit wonders, so we’ve looked at those to have taken at least 30 shots in the Premier League this season. Because if you include all players, Ben Johnson has a shot placement ratio of 11.24, from his one shot with an xG of 0.04 and xGOT of 0.45.
Player | Shot Placement Ratio | Expected Goals | Expected Goals On Target |
Alex Iwobi | 1.76 | 2.59 | 4.55 |
Ismaila Sarr | 1.60 | 3.87 | 6.18 |
Chris Wood | 1.33 | 6.83 | 9.06 |
Bukayo Saka | 1.31 | 4.19 | 5.48 |
Justin Kluivert | 1.27 | 6.22 | 7.89 |
Liam Delap | 1.26 | 5.40 | 6.79 |
Joelinton | 1.26 | 2.88 | 3.62 |
Kaoru Mitoma | 1.23 | 4.02 | 4.94 |
Amad Diallo | 1.2 | 2.53 | 3.02 |
James Maddison | 1.18 | 4.74 | 5.59 |
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