page_title: Premier League Golden Boot
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: Premier League Golden Boot / Winners
caption_attribution_description: English: Sunderland A.F.C. striker Dwight Yorke at Layer Road – 21 April 2007.
context_page_description: The Premier League Golden Boot is an annual association football award presented to the leading goalscorer in the Premier League. For sponsorship purposes, it was called the Carling Golden Boot from 1994 to 2001, the Barclaycard Golden Boot from 2001 to 2004, and the Barclays Golden Boot from 2005 to 2016; as of 2017, it is referred to as the Cadbury Golden Boot. In addition to the trophy, winners of the Golden Boot are usually given £1,000 for every goal they scored throughout the season to donate to a charity of their choice, although Robin van Persie was given £30,000 after scoring 26 goals in the 2012–13 season.
  The Premier League was founded in 1992, when the clubs of the First Division left the Football League and established a new commercially independent league that negotiated its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements. The newly formed league had no sponsor for its inaugural season until Carling agreed to a four-year £12 million deal that started the following season, and it was simply known as the Premier League in its first year. As a result, the award was called the "Premier League Golden Boot" when Teddy Sheringham received the inaugural award in 1993.
caption: Dwight Yorke, the 1999 co-recipient, was the first non-European Golden Boot winner.
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