CSL Golden Boot

The Canadian Soccer League Golden Boot is an annual Canadian soccer award given to the top goalscorer for each season in the Canadian Soccer League. The Golden Boot was awarded in 1998 when the Canadian National Soccer League merged with the stillborn Ontario Professional Soccer League to form the Canadian Professional Soccer League.^[1] The highest ranked CSL Golden Boot goalscorer is Gus Kouzmanis with 33 goals during the league's inaugural season.^[2] Kouzmanis and Serhiy Ivlyev have won the award the most times (2) with Kouzmanis in the 1998, and 2000 seasons and Ivlyev in the 2016 and 2023 seasons.^[3][4] Players from twelve countries, other than Canada, have won the Golden Boot including Croatia (Tihomir Maletic, 2010, Dražen Vuković, 2012, Marin Vučemilović-Grgić 2014), Serbia (Aleksandar Stojiljković, 2017, Vladimir Strizovic, 2022), Ukraine (Serhiy Ivlyev, 2016, 2023, Mykola Temnyuk 2019), Trinidad and Tobago (Kevin Nelson, 2001), England (Darren Tilley, 2002), Jamaica (Richard West, 2015), Northern Ireland (Paul Munster, 2004), United States (Aaron Byrd, 2005), Romania (Gabriel Pop, 2006), France (Guillaume Surot, 2014),^[5] Ghana (Sani Dey, 2018), and Central African Republic (Moussa Limane, 2020) The club with the most top goalscorers is the Toronto/Mississauga Olympians with four wins followed by London City, Scarborough SC, Serbian White Eagles, and Trois-Rivières Attak with two.

Season	Player	Team	Goals	Ref(s)
1998	Gus Kouzmanis	Toronto Olympians	33	[6]
1999	Eddy Berdusco	Toronto Olympians	24
2000	Gus Kouzmanis	Toronto Olympians	12	[7]
2001	Kevin Nelson	Ottawa Wizards	23	[8]
2002	Darren Tilley	Mississauga Olympians	20	[9]
2003	Carlo Arghittu	St. Catharines Wolves	18	[10]
2004	Paul Munster	London City	25	[11]
2005	Aaron Byrd	Windsor Border Stars	17	[12]
2006	Gabriel Pop	Serbian White Eagles	27	[13][14]
2007	Nicolas Lesage	Trois-Rivières Attak	20	[13]
2008	Daniel Nascimento	Brampton Lions	18	[15]
2009	Reda Agourram	Trois-Rivieres Attak	13	[16]
2010	Tihomir Maletic	Toronto Croatia	17	[17]
2011	Stefan Vukovic	TFC Academy	18	[18]
2012	Dražen Vuković	SC Waterloo	20	[19]
2013	Guillaume Surot	Kingston FC	28	[20]
2014	Marin Vučemilović-Grgić	London City	20	[21]
2015	Richard West	York Region Shooters	23	[22]
2016	Serhiy Ivlyev	FC Ukraine United	15	[23]
2017	Aleksandar Stojiljković	Scarborough SC	17	[24]
2018	Sani Dey[25]	Hamilton City SC	13	[26]
2019	Mykola Temnyuk	FC Vorkuta	18	[27]
2020	Moussa Limane	Scarborough SC	7	[28]
2021	Wabila Wallace	Atletico Sporting Toronto	7	[29]
2022	Vladimir Strizović	Serbian White Eagles	8	[30]
2023	Serhiy Ivlyev	Dynamo Toronto	13	[4]
2024	Nikola Timotijević	Serbian White Eagles	13	[31][32]

Awards won by club

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Rank	Club	Total
1	Toronto/Mississauga Olympians	4
2	Serbian White Eagles	3
2	London City	2
2	Scarborough SC	2
2	Trois-Rivieres Attak	2
3	Brampton United	1
3	FC Ukraine United	1
3	FC Vorkuta	1
3	Hamilton City SC	1
3	Kingston FC	1
3	Ottawa Wizards	1
3	SC Waterloo Region	1
3	St. Catharines Wolves	1
3	TFC Academy	1
3	Toronto Croatia	1
3	Windsor Border Stars	1
3	York Region Shooters	1
Total		25

Awards won by nationality

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Rank	Country	Total
1	Canada	8
2	Croatia	3
2	Ukraine	3
2	Serbia	3
4	Central African Republic	1
4	England	1
4	France	1
4	Ghana	1
4	Jamaica	1
4	Northern Ireland	1
4	Romania	1
4	Trinidad and Tobago	1
4	United States	1
Total		26