Ligue 1 Top Scorer Every Season (1932–33 to 2025–26)

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France's top flight has crowned a leading marksman every season since its 1932–33 debut, and the roll call doubles as a history of European goalscoring. The early decades belonged to prolific imports and homegrown talents alike — Roger Courtois, Just Fontaine and the astonishing Josip Skoblar, whose 44 goals for Marseille in 1970–71 remain the single-season Ligue 1 record that no one has come close to touching since.

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Which striker won the Ligue 1 Golden Boot for champions Montpellier in their 2011-12 title-winning season?

Giroud and PSG's Nenê both scored 21, but the outright Golden Boot went to Giroud (more open-play goals) as Montpellier won their only French title.
Which French forward was Ligue 1's top scorer in 2014-15 with 27 goals?

Alexandre Lacazette's 27 league goals for Lyon won him the golden boot and the French Player of the Year award, finishing ahead of Gignac's 21.
Who is the all-time leading goalscorer in French Ligue 1 history, with 299 goals?

Argentine-Italian striker Delio Onnis netted 299 Ligue 1 goals in the 1970s and 80s, a record that still stands.
Which forward did PSG sign from Barcelona in 2023?

Ousmane Dembélé moved from Barcelona to PSG in the summer of 2023.
Which player has won a record five UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Year awards?

Kylian Mbappé won the UNFP award in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 — a record.

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Season	Player	Club	Goals
1932–33	Walter Kaiser / Robert Mercier	Rennes / Club Français	15
1933–34	István Lukács	Sète	28
1934–35	André Abegglen	Sochaux	30
1935–36	Roger Courtois	Sochaux	34
1936–37	Oskar Rohr	Strasbourg	30
1937–38	Jean Nicolas	Rouen	26
1938–39	Roger Courtois / Désiré Koranyi	Sochaux / Sète	27
1945–46	René Bihel	Lille	28
1946–47	Pierre Sinibaldi	Reims	33
1947–48	Jean Baratte	Lille	31
1948–49	Jean Baratte / Josef Humpál	Lille / Sochaux	26
1949–50	Jean Grumellon	Rennes	25
1950–51	Roger Piantoni / Jean Courteaux	Nancy / Nice	27
1951–52	Gunnar Andersson	Marseille	31
1952–53	Gunnar Andersson	Marseille	35
1953–54	Édouard Kargu	Bordeaux	27
1954–55	René Bliard	Reims	30
1955–56	Thadée Cisowski	Racing Paris	31
1956–57	Thadée Cisowski	Racing Paris	33
1957–58	Just Fontaine	Reims	34
1958–59	Thadée Cisowski	Racing Paris	30
1959–60	Just Fontaine	Reims	28
1960–61	Roger Piantoni	Reims	28
1961–62	Sékou Touré	Montpellier	25
1962–63	Serge Masnaghetti	Valenciennes	35
1963–64	Ahmed Oudjani	Lens	30
1964–65	Jacques Simon	Nantes	24
1965–66	Philippe Gondet	Nantes	36
1966–67	Hervé Revelli	Saint-Étienne	31
1967–68	Étienne Sansonetti	Ajaccio	26
1968–69	André Guy	Lyon	25
1969–70	Hervé Revelli	Saint-Étienne	28
1970–71	Josip Skoblar	Marseille	44
1971–72	Josip Skoblar	Marseille	30
1972–73	Josip Skoblar	Marseille	26
1973–74	Carlos Bianchi	Reims	30
1974–75	Delio Onnis	Monaco	30
1975–76	Carlos Bianchi	Reims	34
1976–77	Carlos Bianchi	Reims	28
1977–78	Carlos Bianchi	Paris Saint-Germain	37
1978–79	Carlos Bianchi	Paris Saint-Germain	27
1979–80	Erwin Kostedde / Delio Onnis	Laval / Monaco	21
1980–81	Delio Onnis	Tours	24
1981–82	Delio Onnis	Tours	29
1982–83	Vahid Halilhodžić	Nantes	27
1983–84	Patrice Garande / Delio Onnis	Auxerre / Toulon	21
1984–85	Vahid Halilhodžić	Nantes	28
1985–86	Jules Bocandé	Metz	23
1986–87	Bernard Zénier	Metz	18
1987–88	Jean-Pierre Papin	Marseille	19
1988–89	Jean-Pierre Papin	Marseille	22
1989–90	Jean-Pierre Papin	Marseille	30
1990–91	Jean-Pierre Papin	Marseille	23
1991–92	Jean-Pierre Papin	Marseille	27
1992–93	Alen Bokšić	Marseille	23
1993–94	Roger Boli / Youri Djorkaeff / Nicolas Ouédec	Lens / Monaco / Nantes	20
1994–95	Patrice Loko	Nantes	22
1995–96	Sonny Anderson	Monaco	21
1996–97	Stéphane Guivarc'h	Rennes	21
1997–98	Stéphane Guivarc'h	Auxerre	21
1998–99	Sylvain Wiltord	Bordeaux	22
1999–2000	Sonny Anderson	Lyon	23
2000–01	Sonny Anderson	Lyon	22
2001–02	Djibril Cissé / Pauleta	Auxerre / Bordeaux	22
2002–03	Shabani Nonda	Monaco	26
2003–04	Djibril Cissé	Auxerre	26
2004–05	Alexander Frei	Rennes	20
2005–06	Pauleta	Paris Saint-Germain	21
2006–07	Pauleta	Paris Saint-Germain	15
2007–08	Karim Benzema	Lyon	20
2008–09	André-Pierre Gignac	Toulouse	24
2009–10	Mamadou Niang	Marseille	18
2010–11	Moussa Sow	Lille	25
2011–12	Olivier Giroud / Nenê	Montpellier / Paris Saint-Germain	21
2012–13	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Paris Saint-Germain	30
2013–14	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Paris Saint-Germain	26
2014–15	Alexandre Lacazette	Lyon	27
2015–16	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Paris Saint-Germain	38
2016–17	Edinson Cavani	Paris Saint-Germain	35
2017–18	Edinson Cavani	Paris Saint-Germain	28
2018–19	Kylian Mbappé	Paris Saint-Germain	33
2019–20	Kylian Mbappé	Paris Saint-Germain	18
2020–21	Kylian Mbappé	Paris Saint-Germain	27
2021–22	Kylian Mbappé	Paris Saint-Germain	28
2022–23	Kylian Mbappé	Paris Saint-Germain	29
2023–24	Kylian Mbappé	Paris Saint-Germain	27
2024–25	Ousmane Dembélé	Paris Saint-Germain	21
2025–26	Esteban Lepaul	Rennes	21

A handful of names recur like a drumbeat. Carlos Bianchi topped the charts five times in the 1970s across Reims and Paris Saint-Germain, Delio Onnis piled up goals for Monaco, Tours and Toulon, and Jean-Pierre Papin strung together five straight Golden Boots for Marseille from 1988 to 1992 — a run only Kylian Mbappé has since rivalled. Ties were common in the amateur and early professional eras, when two or even three players finished level and shared the honour.

The modern era is defined by Mbappé, who led the division in six of seven seasons before leaving for Real Madrid, twice edging Wissam Ben Yedder and once posting 33 goals. His departure blew the race open: in 2024–25 Ousmane Dembélé and Mason Greenwood both finished on 21, with Dembélé taking the Golden Boot on the penalties tiebreak. The table below lists every season's leading scorer, the club they scored for, and their final tally.

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Ligue 1 Top Scorer Every Season (1932–33 to 2025–26) — FAQ

Who has scored the most goals in a single Ligue 1 season?

Josip Skoblar holds the record with 44 goals for Marseille in 1970–71, a tally no player has matched since. Zlatan Ibrahimović's 38 for PSG in 2015–16 is the highest of the modern era.

Who has won the most Ligue 1 top-scorer titles?

Carlos Bianchi and Delio Onnis lead the all-time list. Bianchi topped the charts five times in the 1970s, while Jean-Pierre Papin won five in a row from 1988 to 1992 and Kylian Mbappé led the division in six of seven seasons before 2024.

Who was the Ligue 1 top scorer in 2024–25?

Ousmane Dembélé of Paris Saint-Germain won the Golden Boot with 21 goals. He finished level with Marseille's Mason Greenwood, who also scored 21, but took the award on the penalties-scored tiebreak.

Why is there no Ligue 1 top scorer between 1939 and 1945?

The French Championship was suspended during the Second World War, so no official league title or top-scorer award was contested from the 1939–40 season through 1944–45. Play resumed in 1945–46.