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Euro 2024: Top scorers in the past 20 years

As the most significant football event approaches, who will be Euro 2024 top scorer? Will Antoine Griezmann, Cristiano Ronaldo, or Kylian Mbappe bring home the elite individual title?

We will look at the past 20 years’ top scorers in the European competition.

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Only since Euro 1996 did UEFA decide to give credit to the tournament’s best scorer.

Newcastle and England great Alan Shearer was the first name to claim the merit when he won the prize on home soil.

• 1960: François Heutte (France), Viktor Ponedelnik (USSR), Valentin Ivanov (USSR), Dražan Jerković (Yugoslavia), Milan Galić (Yugoslavia) – 2 goals
• 1964: Jesús María Pereda (Spain), Ferenc Bene (Hungary), Deszö Novák (Hungary) – 2 goals
• 1968: Dragan Džajić (Yugoslavia) – 2 goals
• 1972: Gerd Müller (West Germany) – 4 goals
• 1976: Dieter Müller (West Germany) – 4 goals
• 1980: Klaus Allofs (West Germany) – 3 goals
• 1984: Michel Platini (France) – 9 goals
• 1988: Marco van Basten (Netherlands) – 5 goals
• 1992: Henrik Larsen (Denmark), Karl-Heinz Riedle (Germany), Dennis Bergkamp (Netherlands), Tomas Brolin (Sweden) – 3 goals
• 1996: Alan Shearer (England) – 5 goals

Euro 2024: Top scorers in the past 20 years

• 2000: Patrick Kluivert (Netherlands), Savo Milošević (Yugoslavia) – 5 goals
• 2004: Milan Baroš (Czech Republic) – 5 goals
• 2008: David Villa (Spain) – 4 goals
• 2012: Fernando Torres (Spain)*, Alan Dzagoev (Russia), Mario Gomez (Germany), Mario Mandžukić (Croatia), Mario Balotelli (Italy), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) – 3 goals
• 2016: Antoine Griezmann (France) – 6 goals
• 2020: Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)*, Patrick Schick (Czech Republic) – 5 goal

In 2012, UEFA invented the tie-breaker for the competition’s top scorer title and removed the shared one like in the previous versions.

According to UEFA: 

*When players finish level on goals, the following criteria are applied, in this order, to determine who wins the Adidas Golden Boot:

a) highest number of assists;

b) fewest minutes played.

NB: Only goals scored in normal or extra time count towards a player’s tournament total—penalties scored in a shootout do not.

Euro 2012 and 2020: Torres and Ronaldo won by tie-breaker

Torres helped Spain retain their crown with three goals in Poland and Ukraine, including one in the 4-0 final win against Italy in Kyiv. 

At that time, the 28-year-old finished tied with five other players in the scoring chart at this summer’s tournament. Torres and Germany’s Mario Gomez also had one assist, giving them the edge. The Spanish international took the Golden Boot honour; however, having played fewer minutes (189) at the finals than Gomez (282), his goals came at one every 63 minutes*.

Similarly, Ronaldo edged Schick to clinch the title. Ronaldo’s one assist at the tournament was enough to crown him the Golden Boot winner due to the criteria by which UEFA ranks the contenders.