Serie A Golden Boot Winners (1923 – 2022)

The Italian soccer league is perceived by many soccer fans as very tactical and slower paced, especially when compared stylistically against some of the other divisions within Europe.

And that reputation certainly isn’t misplaced, because a lot of teams are well drilled on concepts that involve denying opponents time and space to make attacking plays.

You’d therefore expect that Serie A Golden Boot winners wouldn’t rack up huge goal tallies across the course of single campaigns.

After all, defenses within this league are well equipped to deal with all sorts of offensive threats, right?

Wrong!

Since the 2015-2016 season, every winner of the Serie A Golden Boot has netted more than 25 goals, which is no easy feat.

Here’s a closer look at the complete list of winners since 1923:

Who has won the most Golden Boots in Serie A?

Some of you will want to know the answer to this question, and rightly so.

It’s fascinating to know which players have been able to perform consistently well when it comes to goal scoring across multiple seasons.

Right then, let’s cut right to the chase.

A former Swedish player who goes by the name of Gunnar Nordahl has won the top scorer trophy in Italy the most times, as he claimed the prestigious award a total of five times.

Nordahl plied his trade for AC Milan and AS Roma within Italy, notching an impressive tally of 210 and 15 goals for both respective sides.

Update: In second place we now have Ciro Immobile, who managed 27 goals in the past campaign to claim his fourth top scorer award in the competition.

Below him, the third place spot is tied between multiple players here, such as:

• Giuseppe Meazza 
• Michel Platini
• Aldo Boffi
• Gigi Riva
• Paolo Pulici
• Roberto Pruzzo
• Giuseppe Signori

All of these players have won the top scorer award three times.

Here’s how that list ultimately stacks up:

Who won the Serie A Golden Boot award for 2021?

With the season almost concluded, it looks like a two-horse race between Lazio’s Ciro Immobile and Juventus’ Dušan Vlahović.

Immobile has already won the award three times so he’ll be confident in his own ability to pick up another Golden Boot trophy.

On the other hand, Dušan Vlahović is sort of like “the new kid on the block”.

Even though he previously represented Fiorentina in Serie A, the 22 year old got off to a sensational start for Juventus after he joined the club in the 2022 January transfer window.

It’ll be a close finish, and this article will be updated to highlight the winner once the current campaign has concluded.

Did Ronaldo win a Golden Boot in Italy?

Cristiano Ronaldo has performed at every club he’s played for.

He is a three-time previous La Liga Golden Boot winner and a Premier League Golden Boot winner as well, so the man knows exactly what it takes to top the goal scoring charts.

The Portuguese man did in fact win a Serie A Golden Boot award, as he netted 29 goals for Juventus in the previously concluded 2020-2021 campaign.

How many Serie A Golden Boots has Ronaldo won?

Quite surprisingly, Ronaldo has only won one Serie A Golden Boot trophy during his three seasons in Italy.

Sampdoria’s Fabio Quagliarrela pipped him to this title in the 2018-2019 season when he joined Juventus, and in the campaign right after that Ciro Immobile finished as the top scorer.

Luckily for him, he managed to leave Juventus on a relatively high note by claiming the individual honor in his penultimate season for the club.

Wrap up

This article should have enlightened you on Serie A’s top goal scorers over multiple seasons.

Hopefully you’ll have gained a lot of knowledge from it that may be of future use to you, particularly if you want to test your friends with soccer-related trivia questions!

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