Ligue 1 Top Scorers & Assists

Winning the Golden Boot will be the target of any forward heading into a new season. In Ligue 1, the race to win the award for top scorer is always a competitive one and there has been a number of impressive records within the goalscoring category.

Carlos Bianchi, Delio Onnis and Jean-Pierre Papin have each finished as Ligue 1 top goalscorer on five occasions, while Josip Skoblar holds the record for most goals by a player in a single season with his tally of 44 in the 1970/71 season with Marseille.

Plenty of other famous names have won the award such as Youri Djorkaeff, Karim Benzema, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Edinson Cavani, Alexandre Lacazette and Kylian Mbappe. You can stay up to date on who is leading the top scorers’ chart in Ligue 1 below, as well as who is leading the assists in Ligue 1. 

Our Ligue 1 coverage is also extended to the Ligue 1 table and Ligue 1 fixtures and results pages that can be found here.

Ligue 1 Top Scorers

Ligue 1 Top Assists

Ligue 1 Golden Boot Winners Since 2000

• 1999/00 – Sonny Anderson
• 2000/01 – Sonny Anderson
• 2001/02 – Djibril Cisse, Pauleta
• 2002/03 – Shabani Nonda
• 2003/04 – Djibril Cisse
• 2004/05 – Alexander Frei
• 2005/06 – Pauleta
• 2006/07 – Pauleta
• 2007/08 – Karim Benzema
• 2008/09 – Andre-Pierre Gignac
• 2009/10 – Mamadou Niang
• 2010/11 – Moussa Sow
• 2011/12 – Olivier Giroud, Nene
• 2012/13 – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
• 2013/14 – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
• 2014/15 – Alexandre Lacazette
• 2015/16 – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
• 2016/17 – Edinson Cavani
• 2017/18 – Edinson Cavani
• 2018/19 – Kylian Mbappe
• 2019/20 – Wissam Ben Yedder, Kylian Mbappe
• 2020/21 – Kylian Mbappe