0 Top 5 scorers in Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and League one in race for Golden boots.

Top scorers in European leagues are in tough competition as more goals are scored from every league, but Spain seems to have more goals. Lionel Messi leads all European goal scorers with 19 (38 Golden Shoe Points)  La Liga goals followed by two player from small leagues in Europe, Philipp Hosiner  (Austria Wien) 17 goals and Henrik Mkhitaryan (Shakhtar Donetsk) 17 goals and 25.5 Golden Shoe Points each. Currently only 4 top scorers from top five European leagues are in top 10 list for European top scorers with other players coming from underdogs league of the 4 only Zlatan Ibrahimovic is not playing in Spain.

Lionel Messi Celebrate a goal

Fans used to see close race between Messi and Ronaldo but the gap is already big, 7 goals, but in Champions league competition they are still tied on 5 goals each. 

PSG new signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Premier League top scorers are very much tied at the top but the situation could suddenly change in top 5 scorers. So far there are a one goal gaps and the table will change a lot with just few matches. Former Top scorer, Robin Van Persie is still favorite to win golden boot considering is form and the chance he got at Manchester United. Can Benitez effect help Torres jump in top five? One would expect this to be the case, but time will tell.

Premier league top 5 scorers (02Dec2012)

No	Player	Team	Goals (P)
1	Luis Suárez	Liverpool FC	10
2	Miguel Cuesta	Swansea City	10
3	Robin Van Persie	Manchester United	10 (1)
4	Jermain Defoe	Tottenham Hotspur	8
5	Demba Ba	Newcastle United	8

Marouane Fellaini (Everton FC) also have 8 goals

Spanish La Liga top 5 scorers (02Dec2012)

No	Player	Team	Goals (P)
1	Lionel Messi	Barcelona	21 (1)
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Real Madrid	13 (4)
3	Radamel Falcao	Atletico Madrid	11 (5)
4	Aritz Aduriz	Athletic Bilbao	8
5	Álvaro Negredo	Sevilla FC	7 (2)

Gonzalo Higuaí­n (Real Madrid) Leo (Rayo Vallecano) Roberto Soldado  (Valencia CF) and Tomer Hemed (RCD Mallorca) also has 7 goals.

Bundesliga top 5 scorers (02Dec2012)

No	Player	Team	Goals (P)
1	Ádám Szalai	FSV Mainz 05	9 (1)
2	Alexander Meier	Eintracht Frankfurt	9 (2)
3	Mario Mandžukić	Bayern Munich	9
4	Robert Lewandowski	Borussia Dortmund	9 (1)
5	Stefan Kießling	Bayer Leverkusen	9

*Thomas Müller (Bayern München) also has 8 goals
 

Italy Serie A top 5 scorers (02Dec2012)

No	Player	Team	Goals (P)
1	Stephan El Sharawy	AC Milan	12
2	Antonio Di Natale	Udinese Calcio	8 (3)
3	Edinson Cavani	SSC Napoli	8 (2)
4	Erik Lamela	AS Roma	8
5	Miroslav Klose	Lazio Roma	8

League 1 top 5 scorers (02Dec2012)

No	Player	Team	Goals (P)
1	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Paris Saint-Germain	13 (1)
2	Bafetimbi Gomis	Olympique Lyon	10(2)
3	Wissam Ben Yedder	Toulouse FC	9
4	Pierre Aubameyang	AS Saint-Étienne	8
5	Yoan Gouffran	Girondins Bordeaux	7

1 Chris Wondolowski leads Major League soccer top 10 scorers closing to 2012 MLS MVP.

Chris Wondolowski, the current major league soccer top scorer with 21 goals, is on the right on course for mls Budweiser Golden Boot as he opened a 7 goals gap with runners-up Alvaro Saborío and Kenny Cooper both with 14 goals. He has been consistent goal scorer over the recent years and this season he on the top of MLS MVP race.  Graham Zusi is also on the race for MLS MVP awards with 14 league assists.

His goals fired San Jose Earthquakes to 9 points margin to second placed Seattle Sounders in Western Conference and will be key if San Jose has to win championship this season. San Jose is ahead of Kansas Cityy and if they maintain they performance they will have the chance to host MLS Cup final.

Last Wednesday Wondolowski score inspiring two goals from the bench level the score 2-2 against Portland Timbers and avoid dissapointing results at crucial time. With 21 goals this season, Wondolowski is current seat on seventh place as all time best MLS top scorer in single season. 

Wondolowski on brink for top scorer record breaking for San Jose and major league soccer
For San Jose Earthquakes Wondolowski has so far scored 58 goals and is runners-up for all time top scorers after Ronald Cerritos with 61 goals. With five games at hand, one would like to believe he will at least get three goal and equal Cerritos record.

 

The question is, Can Wondolowski reach 27 goals mark set by Roy Lassiter in 1996?

Chris Wondolowski score a brace to level the score 2-2 vs Portland Timbers. Video by sanjoseearthquakes

Major League Soccer top scorers (22 Sep 2012)

No	Player	Team	Goals (P)
1	Chris Wondolowski	San Jos Earthquake	21 (4)
2	Alvaro Saborío	Real Salt Lake	14 (3)
	Kenny Cooper	New York Red Bulls	14 (2)
3	Eddie Johnson	Seattle Sounders FC	13
	Thierry Henry	New York Red Bulls	13
4	Alan Gordon	San José Earthquakes	12
	Robbie Keane	Los Angeles Galaxy	12 (1)
	Fredy Montero	Seattle Sounders	12
5	Will Bruin	Houston Dynamo	11
	Kei Kamara	Sporting Kansas City	11 (2)

Chris Pontius (D.C. United) and Saër Sène (New England Revolution) also have 11 goals each.


Major league soccer top 5 assists
Graham Zusi - Kansas City 14   
Mauro Rosales - Seattle Sounders FC 13   
Dwayne De Rosario - DC United 12   
Landon Donovan - Los Angeles Galaxy 12   
Brad Davis - Houston Dynamo  11