TT Pro League Golden Boot

Peter Byers is the most recent foreign player to win the Golden Boot in 2007 with San Juan Jabloteh

The TT Pro League Golden Boot is an annual Trinidad and Tobago football award given at the beginning of each TT Pro League calendar year to the top goalscorer for the previous season. The Golden Boot has been awarded since the establishment of the Pro League in 1999. The top-scoring Pro League Golden Boot winner is Arnold Dwarika with 45 goals in 28 games during the league's inaugural season. Devorn Jorsling has won the award the most times (4) having scored the most league goals during the 2008,[1] 2010–11,[2] 2012–13,[3] and 2014–15 seasons,[4] all when playing for the Teteron Boys of Defence Force. Jorsling remains the only player to have won the Golden Boot on more than one occasion with his most successful campaigns in 2008, 2012–13, and 2014–15 after leading the league with 21 goals each season.

There have been 15 players from eight different clubs that have won the Golden Boot. The award has gone to a single player each season, with the exception of two seasons. The first occurrence came in 2005, after W Connection's Gefferson and Earl Jean shared the award with 14 goals each. After scoring 16 goals apiece, Roen Nelson of Joe Public shared the award with San Juan Jabloteh's Anthony Wolfe the following season. The Golden Boot winner has played for Defence Force during their award-winning season six times, which is the most of any club in the TT Pro League. Joe Public and San Juan Jabloteh are second with three players each claiming the Golden Boot.

Players from five nations, other than Trinidad and Tobago, have won the Golden Boot including Guyana (Randolph Jerome, 2003–04), Brazil (Gefferson, 2005), Saint Lucia (Earl Jean, 2005), Jamaica (Roen Nelson, 2006), and Antigua and Barbuda (Peter Byers, 2007). Although there has been an increasing presence of foreign players in the Pro League, there has not been a foreign-born player to win the Golden Boot since 2008. Since the 2009 season, Trinidad and Tobago international players Kerry Baptiste, Marcus Joseph, Devorn Jorsling, and Richard Roy have won the award.

Although Arnold Dwarika has the highest number of goals scored to win the Golden Boot with 45, Jerren Nixon has the highest strike rate of 1.76 (37 goals in 21 games) in winning the Golden Boot during North East Stars' championship winning season in 2004. Every winner of the Golden Boot has thus far recorded an average strike rate of at least two goals every three matches, and scored a minimum of 14 goals. In fact, combining the statistics for all winners, a Pro League Golden Boot winner scores an average of 20 goals from 24 games, a strike rate of around 0.83 goals per appearance. The Golden Boot winner has helped his respective team to the TT Pro League championship eight years during the award-winning season.

Winners

Key
Games Number of TT Pro League games played by the winner that season
Rate Winner's goals-to-games ratio that season
dagger
 Indicates multiple award winners in the same season
double-dagger
 Denotes the club were TT Pro League champions in the same season
Season Winner
(number of times)		 Nationality Club Goals Games Rate
1999
 Dwarika, ArnoldArnold Dwarika  Trinidad and Tobago Joe Public
45
28
1.61
2000
 Scotland, JasonJason Scotland  Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
22
28
0.79
2001
 Unknown
14
2002
 Julien, SeanSean Julien  Trinidad and Tobago South Starworld Strikers
16
28
0.57
2003–04
 Jerome, RandolphRandolph Jerome  Guyana North East Stars
28
36
0.78
2004
 Nixon, JerrenJerren Nixon  Trinidad and Tobago North East Starsdouble-dagger
37
21
1.76
2005dagger , GeffersonGefferson  Brazil W Connectiondouble-dagger
14
23
0.61
2005dagger Jean, EarlEarl Jean  Saint Lucia W Connectiondouble-dagger
14
23
0.61
2006dagger Nelson, RoenRoen Nelson  Jamaica Joe Publicdouble-dagger
16
32
0.50
2006dagger Wolfe, AnthonyAnthony Wolfe  Trinidad and Tobago San Juan Jabloteh
16
32
0.50
2007
 Byers, PeterPeter Byers  Antigua and Barbuda San Juan Jablotehdouble-dagger
15
32
0.47
2008
 Jorsling, DevornDevorn Jorsling  Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
21
27
0.78
2009
 Baptiste, KerryKerry Baptiste  Trinidad and Tobago Joe Publicdouble-dagger
35
25
1.40
2010–11
 Jorsling, DevornDevorn Jorsling (2)  Trinidad and Tobago Defence Forcedouble-dagger
15
18
0.83
2011–12
 Roy, RichardRichard Roy  Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
15
21
0.71
2012–13
 Jorsling, DevornDevorn Jorsling (3)  Trinidad and Tobago Defence Forcedouble-dagger
21
21
1.00
2013–14
 Joseph, MarcusMarcus Joseph  Trinidad and Tobago Point Fortin Civic
16
24
0.67
2014–15
 Jorsling, DevornDevorn Jorsling (4)  Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
21
24
0.88
2015–16
 Lewis, MakesiMakesi Lewis  Trinidad and Tobago Police
21
27
0.78

Multiple winners

Devorn Jorsling is currently the only player who has been able to win the TT Pro League Golden Boot multiple times with four. Thus, he became the first to win four Golden Boots in 2008, 2010–11, 2012–13, and 2014–15.[1][2][3] No player has won the award in consecutive years.

Rank Player Total Seasons
1
 Trinidad and Tobago Jorsling, DevornDevorn Jorsling
4
 2008, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2014–15

Awards won by club

Rank Club Total
1
 Defence Force
6
2
 Joe Public
3
San Juan Jabloteh
3
4
 W Connection
2
5
 North East Stars
1
Point Fortin Civic
1
Police
1
South Starworld Strikers
1
Total 18

Awards won by nationality

Rank Country Total
1
 Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
13
2
 Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda
1
Brazil Brazil
1
Guyana Guyana
1
Jamaica Jamaica
1
Saint Lucia Saint Lucia
1
Total 18

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "2008 Pro-League Fixtures". Soca Warriors Online. 29 November 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2009.
  2. 1 2 "2010/11 – Pro League, Season Stats Goal". Soca Warriors Online. 24 April 2010. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
  3. 1 2 Inshan Mohammed. "2012/13 Pro League Fixtures". Archived from the original on 2 June 2013.
  4. ↑ Randy Bando. "2014/15 Pro League Top Scorers". TTProLeague.com.
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