Euro 2024 has come to a closure with Spain becoming the new champion. Spain beat France 2-1 in the final to clinch the title for the fourth time.
The UEFA Euro Championship 2024 witnessed a total of 117 goals in 51 matches. The race for the Golden Boot award for the most number of goals scored by a player was a heated one.
Deviating from the previous phenomena, Euro 2024 threw six-joint Golden Boot winners for scoring the most number of goals in the tournament. This is in keeping with the new guideline that the UEFA has introduced.
The UEFA has tweaked the rule to allow multiple players to share the “Top Scorer” award, unlike in the previous editions where only a single player to bag the honour. The championship organizers in 2024 have decided to give the award purely on the basis of goals.
In the earlier editions of Euro championship, if multiple players scored the same number of goals by the end of the tournament, then assists would play as a tiebreaker. This meant that among the contenders, the players with the most number of assists could claim the award.
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Six Golden Boot Winners Of Euro 2024
With the change in the rule, therefore, Euro 2024 saw six players staking the claim on the Golden Boot award. Cody Gakpo (Netherlands), Harry Kane (England), Georges Mikautadze (Georgia), Jamal Musiala (Germany), Dani Olmo (Spain), and Ivan Schranz (Slovakia). All of them scored three goals each.
Between the years 1960 and 2008, the Golden Boot has been awarded to the top goalscorer(s) of each edition of Euro. From 2012 to 2020, the number of assists contributed by players was used as a tie-breaker, with fewest minutes played used as a further tie-breaker if required.
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Let’s have a look at the Golden Boot winners in Euro history:
| Year | Golden Boot Winner(s) | Goals | Tournament Winner |
| 1960 | Milan Galic, Francois Heutte, Valentin Ivanov, Drazan Jerkovic, Viktor Ponedelnik | 2 | Soviet Union |
| 1964 | Ferenc Bene, Dezso Novak, Chus Pereda | 2 | Spain |
| 1968 | Dragan Dzajic | 2 | Italy |
| 1972 | Gerd Muller | 4 | West Germany |
| 1976 | Dieter Muller | 4 | Czechoslovakia |
| 1980 | Klaus Allofs | 3 | West Germany |
| 1984 | Michel Platini | 9 | France |
| 1988 | Marco van Basten | 5 | Netherlands |
| 1992 | Dennis Bergkamp, Tomas Brolin, Henrik Larsen, Karl-Heinz Riedle | 3 | Denmark |
| 1996 | Alan Shearer | 5 | Germany |
| 2000 | Patrick Kluivert, Savo Milosevic | 5 | France |
| 2004 | Milan Baros | 5 | Greece |
| 2008 | David Villa | 4 | Spain |
| 2012 | Fernando Torres | 3 | Spain |
| 2016 | Antoine Griezmann | 6 | Portugal |
| 2020 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 5 | Italy |
| 2024 | Cody Gakpo, Harry Kane, Jamal Musiala, Georges Mikautadze, Dani Olmo and Ivan Schranz | 3 | Netherlands, England, Germany, Georgia, Spain, Slovakia |
