MLS Golden Boot

The MLS Golden Boot (currently the Audi Golden Boot for sponsorship reasons) has been awarded since the 2005 MLS season to the Major League Soccer regular–season leading scorer. The award replaced the MLS Scoring Champion Award that was awarded since the league's creation 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	Roy Lassiter	Tampa Bay Mutiny	58
1997	Preki	Kansas City Wizards	41
1998	Stern John	Columbus Crew	57
1999	Jason Kreis	Dallas Burn	51
2000	Mamadou Diallo	Tampa Bay Mutiny	56
2001	Alex Pineda Chacón	Miami Fusion	47
2002	Taylor Twellman	New England Revolution	52
2003	Preki (2)	Kansas City Wizards	41
2004	Amado Guevara 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	Taylor Twellman (2)	New England Revolution	17	25	0.68
2006	Jeff Cunningham	Real Salt Lake	16	31	0.52
2007	Luciano Emilio	D.C. United	20	29	0.69
2008	Landon Donovan	Los Angeles Galaxy	20	25	0.80
2009	Jeff Cunningham (2)	FC Dallas	17	28	0.61
2010	Chris Wondolowski	San Jose Earthquakes	18	28	0.64
2011	Dwayne De Rosario	D.C. United	16	33	0.48
2012	Chris Wondolowski (2)	San Jose Earthquakes	27	32	0.84
2013	Camilo Sanvezzo	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	22	32	0.69
2014	Bradley Wright-Phillips	New York Red Bulls	27	32	0.84
2015	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC	22	33	0.67
2016	Bradley Wright-Phillips (2)	New York Red Bulls	24	34	0.71
2017	Nemanja Nikolić	Chicago Fire	24	33	0.73
2018	Josef Martínez	Atlanta United	31	34	0.91
2019	Carlos Vela	Los Angeles FC	34	31	1.09
2020	Diego Rossi	Los Angeles FC	14	19	0.74
2021	Valentín Castellanos	New York City FC	19	32	0.59
2022	Hany Mukhtar	Nashville SC	23	33	0.70

MLS Golden Boot Media

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  Carlos Vela scored a record 34 goals for Los Angeles FC during the 2019 season.

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  Chris Wondolowski is a two-time winner of the Golden Boot award and the all-time top scorer in MLS history.