BERLIN — UEFA has announced it will share the Euro 2024 Golden Boot among six players if Sunday’s final between England and Spain fails to produce a clear winner of the trophy – three years after Cristiano Ronaldo won the prize at Euro 2020 despite a five-goal tie with Czech Patrik Schick.
England captain Harry Kane and Spain forward Dani Olmo are among six players tied on three goals so far in the tournament heading into the final in Berlin. Cody Gakpo (Netherlands), Georges Mikautadze (Georgia), Jamal Musiala (Germany) and Ivan Schranz (Slovakia) make up the packed leaderboard.
Jude Bellingham and Fabián Ruiz go into the final with the prospect of topping the goalscoring charts after both scoring twice at Euro 2024, but Kane and Olmo are favourites to pull away by taking their tally to at least four goals at the Olympiastadion.
But with nothing separating the six players who scored three goals, UEFA have confirmed that the top scorer award will be shared unless a player manages to break the four-goal barrier.
The policy marks a change from the previous tournament, when Portugal forward Ronaldo was declared the winner because he had an assist in addition to his five goals at the pandemic-delayed Euro 2020. Schick, who tied with Ronaldo on five goals, missed out because he did not register an assist in the competition.
If no one scores a fourth goal at Euro 2024 on Sunday, three goals will be the lowest tally for a Golden Boot winner since Euro 2012, when Fernando Torres (Spain), Mario Gomez (Germany) and Alan Dzagoev (Russia) all finished the tournament with three goals.
Torres was awarded the Golden Boot that year because he played fewer minutes than players who scored three goals.
