Premier League Golden Boot odds and betting 2025/26: Salah, Haaland, Gyokeres among favourites for EPL top scorer

Football is a team sport, but the pursuit of individual accolades always attracts attention from fans.

While Player of the Season honours invite debate, one individual award that leaves no room for subjectivity is the Golden Boot.

Whether it is at a major international tournament or in major European club competitions, the race for the Golden Boot is always closely followed, especially in the Premier League.

The Premier League has seen a lot of money spent already this summer, with Arsenal signing Viktor Gyokeres and Chelsea bringing in both Joao Pedro and Liam Delap to compete at the top end of the pitch, with the ever-reliable likes of Erling Haaland and Mohamed Salah still gunning for the award.

The Sporting News takes you through the early odds and a look at some of the early candidates for the 2025/26 Golden Boot award in the Premier League.

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Premier League Golden Boot 2025/26 favourites and leading contenders

As mentioned, there has been an incredible amount of money spent in England’s top-flight, and a lot of it has been devoted to the top end of the pitch as teams begin the 38-game wrestle for glory this season.

This is a look at some of the early leading contenders to be the top scorer in the Premier League in 2025/26

Erling Haaland

Haaland remains the bookies' favourite to clinch the award this season, and already has two goals to his name in Manchester City's uneven start to the season.

City still finished third last season despite falling well below their usual high standards, with Haaland netting 22 goals in a season that saw him miss seven league games through injury.

He will go some to replicate his first season at the Etihad Stadium, in which he scored 36 goals in 35 league games, but Haaland remains a force of nature and, at 25, may well be warming up for a FIFA World Cup appearance with Norway this season. If he remains fit, Haaland threatening the top of the goalscoring charts is an inevitability.

Mohamed Salah

Salah enjoyed perhaps his best ever campaign for Liverpool last year as he took home the Golden Boot award with 29 of his 34 goals in 2024/25 coming in the Premier League.

He scored once in the first game of Liverpool's title defence and, though the Reds have already spent heavily this summer, Salah will remain a critical focal point of their attack even if they are able to add to it before the end of the transfer window.

Alexander Isak

The first of two Swedes among the leading contenders for the boot is Isak, who has missed the first two games of the season as he attempts to force through a move to Liverpool.

Isak, who came through at AIK before moves to Borussia Dortmund and Real Sociedad, has been simply phenomenal for the Magpies, backing up a 21-goal season in the 2023/24 league campaign by scoring 23 goals in 34 Premier League appearances last year.

His ability to trouble the likes of his potential future teammate Salah and Haaland will depend on just how quick his future can be sorted out, with Isak set to play catch-up due to his self-imposed exile and significantly short of game time.

Viktor Gyokeres

The big money striker signing of the summer in the Premier League, having arrived at Arsenal from Portuguese champions Sporting Lisbon for a fee believed to be in the region of £54.8 million.

The Sweden international, formerly of Brighton and Hove Albion and Coventry City, enjoyed a remarkable time of it in Lisbon as he hit 97 goals in 102 appearances across all competitions for Sporting.

And, after a quiet debut, Gyokeres opened his account for Arsenal against Leeds United, scoring twice in a 5-0 win to further a widely held belief that he could be the missing piece to finally push Mikel Arteta’s Gunners to the Premier League title for the first time in over 20 years.

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Who won the Premier League Golden boot 2024/25?

Mohamed Salah won his fourth Premier League Golden Boot last season with 29 goals. It was the second time winning the award outright after sharing the trophy in the 2018/19 campaign with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Sadio Mane, and with Son Heung-min in the 2021/22 season.

Four other players reached the 20-goal mark in the Premier League last season, with Bryan Mbeumo and Chris Wood finding the net 20 times, Haaland netting 22 goals and Isak scoring 23.

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