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 has been awarded since 1998 when the league debuted as the
Canadian Professional Soccer League. The highest ranked CSL Golden Boot goalscorer is
Gus Kouzmanis with 33 goals during the league's inaugural season.[1] Kouzmanis has also won the award the most times (2) during the
1998, and
2000 seasons.[2] 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 (
Sergiy Ivliev, 2016,
Mykola Temniuk 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),[3] 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, and
Trois-Rivières Attak with two.
^"Fazlagic scores twice, Brantford beats Hamilton Croatia 3-0 for CSL title: Brantford beats Hamilton Croatia for CSL title". The Canadian Press. 31 October 2010.