Liverpool star Mohamed Salah has won the 2024/25 Golden Boot and Playmaker awards, making history in the process.
The Golden Boot award is awarded to the highest-scoring player of a Premier League season. Salah scored his 29th goal of the season in Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace. He finishes the campaign with six goals more than the next-highest scorer, Newcastle United’s Alexander Isak.
It is the fourth different season that Salah has finished as the Premier League’s top scorer, equalling Arsenal legend Thierry Henry’s record for most Golden Boots.
The Playmaker award is given to the player with the most assists. Salah ends the campaign on 18 assists, six more than the next-best player, Newcastle’s Jacob Murphy.
It is the second time Salah has won BOTH the Golden Boot and Playmaker awards in the same season, also doing so in 2021/22, when he scored 23 goals and assisted 13.
Only ONE other player has ever held both awards at the same time. That was Harry Kane, who won each award in 2020/21 with Tottenham Hotspur, scoring 23 goals and assisting 14.
Andrew Cole, with Newcastle United in 1993/94, and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, with Leeds United in 1998/99, also finished a season as the Premier League’s top scorer AND assister, but the Playmaker award was only introduced in 2017/18.
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