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Kylian Mbappe may have finished the 2024/25 season without a collective trophy at Real Madrid, but his first season in white can be considered an individual success as he ran away with the La Liga top goal scorer award.
It certainly looks like he could defend the prize given his impressive goal-scoring performances in 2025/26, which have come despite Madrid's wider dysfunction.
The Sporting News will be tracking the Golden Boot race in La Liga from the season's opening kickoff right until the final matchday.
The table below will be updated throughout the 2025/26 La Liga season, which began on August 15, 2025.
Below is a list of the most regular winners of La Liga's top goal scorer throughout the history of the prize.
Lionel Messi holds the record for the most goals in La Liga history (474 goals) and also boasts the most Golden Boot prizes in the competition.
The award these days is known as the Pichichi, named in honour of former Athletic Club striker Rafael "Pichichi" Moreno.
2009/10, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21
1944/45, 1945/46, 1946/47, 1949/50, 1950/51, 1952/53
Celta Vigo, Real Madrid, Deportivo La Coruna, Granada
After securing a long-awaited move to Real Madrid, Kylian Mbappe won the 2024/25 Pichichi award by scoring six goals more than anyone else across the season.
While Mbappe's debut campaign in the Spanish capital was triumphant in this manner, he still garnered significant criticism that his presence hampered the team collectively despite the individual success. Real Madrid finished trophy-less while Mbappe's teammates struggled to adapt to his presence, leaving the individual award with a bitter aftertaste.
Artem Dovbyk won the Pichichi prize as the top goalscorer in La Liga for 2023/24. Following the campaign, his enormous success earned him a move to AS Roma, garnering Girona a healthy transfer fee in the process.
Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski won the Golden Boot in 2022/23 with 23 goals in 34 La Liga games as the Catalans won the title.
He finished four goals clear of Real Madrid's Karim Benzema in the Pichichi standings.