MLS Golden Boot

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The MLS Golden Boot (currently the Audi Golden Boot for sponsorship reasons) 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.

MLS Scoring Champion
Season Player Club Points
1996 United States Roy Lassiter Tampa Bay Mutiny 58
1997 United States Preki Kansas City Wizards 41
1998 Trinidad and Tobago Stern John Columbus Crew 57
1999 United States Jason Kreis Dallas Burn 51
2000 Senegal Mamadou Diallo Tampa Bay Mutiny 56
2001 Honduras Alex Pineda Chacón Miami Fusion 47
2002 United States Taylor Twellman New England Revolution 52
2003 United States Preki (2x) Kansas City Wizards 41
2004 Honduras Amado Guevara
United States Pat Noonan
MetroStars
New England Revolution
30

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.

MLS Golden Boot
Season Player Club Goals Games Rate
2005 United States Taylor Twellman (2x) New England Revolution 17 25 0.68
2006 United States Jeff Cunningham Real Salt Lake 16 31 0.52
2007 Brazil Luciano Emilio D.C. United 20 29 0.69
2008 United States Landon Donovan Los Angeles Galaxy 20 25 0.80
2009 United States Jeff Cunningham (2x) FC Dallas 17 28 0.61
2010 United States Chris Wondolowski San Jose Earthquakes 18 28 0.64
2011 Canada Dwayne De Rosario Toronto FC
New York Red Bulls
D.C. United
16 33 0.48
2012 United States Chris Wondolowski (2x) San Jose Earthquakes 27 32 0.84
2013 Brazil Camilo Sanvezzo Vancouver Whitecaps FC 22 32 0.69
2014 England Bradley Wright-Phillips New York Red Bulls 27 32 0.84
2015 Italy Sebastian Giovinco Toronto FC 22 33 0.67