MLS Golden Boot

Template:Short description Template:DMCA Template:DMCA The MLS Golden Boot (currently commercially termed "MLS Golden Boot presented by Audi") 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	Goals (2 points)	Assists (1 point)	Points
1996	Template:Flagicon Roy Lassiter	Tampa Bay Mutiny	27	4	58
1997	Template:Flagicon Preki	Kansas City Wizards	12	17	41
1998	Template:Flagicon Stern John	Columbus Crew	26	5	57
1999	Template:Flagicon Jason Kreis	Dallas Burn	18	15	51
2000	Template:Flagicon Mamadou Diallo	Tampa Bay Mutiny	26	4	56
2001	Template:Flagicon Alex Pineda Chacón	Miami Fusion	19	9	47
2002	Template:Flagicon Taylor Twellman	New England Revolution	23	6	52
2003	Template:Flagicon Preki (2)	Kansas City Wizards	12	17	41
2004	Template:Flagicon Amado Guevara	MetroStars	10	10	30
	Template:Flagicon Pat Noonan	New England Revolution	11	8

2005–present

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

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

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	Template:Flagicon Taylor Twellman (2)	New England Revolution	17	25	0.68
2006	Template:Flagicon Jeff Cunningham	Real Salt Lake	16	31	0.52
2007	Template:Flagicon Luciano Emilio	D.C. United	20	29	0.69
2008	Template:Flagicon Landon Donovan	Los Angeles Galaxy	20	25	0.80
2009	Template:Flagicon Jeff Cunningham (2)	FC Dallas	17	28	0.61
2010	Template:Flagicon Chris Wondolowski	San Jose Earthquakes	18	28	0.64
2011	Template:Flagicon Dwayne De Rosario	D.C. United	16	33	0.48
2012	Template:Flagicon Chris Wondolowski (2)	San Jose Earthquakes	27	32	0.84
2013	Template:Flagicon Camilo Sanvezzo	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	22	32	0.69
2014	Template:Flagicon Bradley Wright-Phillips	New York Red Bulls	27	32	0.84
2015	Template:Flagicon Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC	22	33	0.67
2016	Template:Flagicon Bradley Wright-Phillips (2)	New York Red Bulls	24	34	0.71
2017	Template:Flagicon Nemanja Nikolić	Chicago Fire	24	33	0.73
2018	Template:Flagicon Josef Martínez	Atlanta United FC	31	34	0.91
2019	Template:Flagicon Carlos Vela	Los Angeles FC	34	31	1.10
2020	Template:Flagicon Diego Rossi	Los Angeles FC	14	19	0.74
2021	Template:Flagicon Taty Castellanos	New York City FC	19	32	0.59
2022	Template:Flagicon Hany Mukhtar	Nashville SC	23	33	0.70
2023	Template:Flagicon Denis Bouanga	Los Angeles FC	20	31	0.65
2024	Template:Flagicon Christian Benteke	D.C. United	23	30	0.77
2025	Template:Flagicon Lionel Messi	Inter Miami CF	29	28	1.04