UEFA has said it will share the Euro 2024 Golden Boot award between six players if Sunday’s final between England and Spain fails to produce a clear winner – three years after Cristiano Ronaldo won the prize at Euro 2020 despite finishing level on five goals with Czech Patrik Schick.
England captain Harry Kane and Spain forward Dani Olmo are two of six players to have scored 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 crowded leaderboard.
Jude Bellingham and Fabian Ruiz go into the final with chances of being top scorers after each scoring twice at Euro 2024, but Kane and Olmo are the favourites to move away from the group by taking their tally to at least four goals at the Stadio Olimpico.
But with no difference between the six players on three goals, UEFA confirmed that the tournament’s top scorer award would be shared unless a player broke the four-goal barrier.
The policy marks a change from the previous tournament when Portugal forward Ronaldo was declared the winner due to his one assist in addition to his five goals at the pandemic-postponed Euro 2020. Cech, who tied with Ronaldo on five goals, missed out on the tournament 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 by a Golden Boot winner since Euro 2012 when Fernando Torres (Spain), Mario Gomez (Germany) and Alan Dzagoev (Russia) finished the tournament with three goals.
Torres won the Golden Boot that year because he played fewer minutes than the players who scored three goals.
