Capocannoniere

The capocannoniere award (Italian: [ˌkapokannoˈnjɛːre]; lit. 'head gunner'), known as Paolo Rossi Award since 2021,^[1] is awarded by the Italian Footballers' Association (AIC) to the highest goalscorer of each season in Italy's Serie A. From the 2010–11 season until the change of denomination, it was called the AIC Award to the Top Scorer (Italian: Premio AIC al Capocannoniere in Italian). The award is currently held by Mateo Retegui, who scored 25 goals for Atalanta in the 2024–25 season.

Paolo Rossi Award
Gunnar Nordahl, by winning the capocannoniere award five times, is the pluricapocannoniere of Serie A, while playing at AC Milan.
Awarded for	The leading goalscorer in a single Serie A season
Country	Italy
Presented by	Italian Footballers' Association
Formerly called	Capocannoniere
First award	2011
Currently held by	Mateo Retegui (2024–25)
Most wins	Gunnar Nordahl (5)

The highest number of goals scored to win the Capocannoniere is 37, by Luigi Cevenini for Inter Milan. Gino Rossetti, Gonzalo Higuaín and Ciro Immobile are in joint second place for this record; they each scored 36 goals for Torino, Napoli and Lazio respectively.

Gunnar Nordahl of AC Milan has won the title of capocannoniere five times: 1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1953–54 and 1954–55, more than any other player in the history of Italian championship.^[2]

Winners

Data relating to seasons prior to 1923–24 are incomplete or imprecise due to scarcity of sources.

Key

  Player also won the European Golden Shoe (first awarded in 1968)

Season	Player(s)	Nationality	Club(s)	Goals	Ref.
1898	Edoardo Bosio Norman Victor Leaver	Italy  England	Internazionale Torino Genoa	2	[3]
1899	Albert Weber	Switzerland	Internazionale Torino	2	[4]
1900	Unknown
1901	Umberto Malvano	Italy	Juventus	4	[5][6][7]
1902	Unknown
1903	Umberto Malvano	Italy	Juventus	4	[8]
1904	Unknown[a]		Juventus
1905	Unknown
1906	Guido Pedroni	Italy	AC Milan	3	[9]
1907	Hans Kämpfer	Switzerland	Torino	7	[10]
1908	Mario Cagliani	Italy	US Milanese	4
1909	Amilcare Pizzi	Italy	US Milanese	9	[11]
1909–10	Ernest Peterly	Switzerland	Inter Milan	22
1910–11	Unknown
1911–12	Carlo Rampini	Italy	Pro Vercelli	28
1912–13	Unknown
1913–14	Luigi Cevenini	Italy	Inter Milan	37	[12]
1914–15	Unknown
1915–19	Not awarded
1919–20	Luigi Cevenini	Italy	Inter Milan	23	[13]
1920–21	Luigi Cevenini	Italy	Inter Milan	31	[13]
1921–22 (FIGC)	Unknown
1921–22 (CCI)	Unknown
1922–23	Fulvio Bernardini	Italy	Lazio	24	[14]
1923–24	Heinrich Schönfeld	Austria	Torino	22	[15]
1924–25	Mario Magnozzi	Italy	Livorno	19	[15]
1925–26	Ferenc Hirzer	Hungary	Juventus	35	[15]
1926–27	Anton Powolny	Austria	Inter Milan	22	[15]
1927–28	Julio Libonatti	Italy[b]	Torino	36	[16]
1928–29	Gino Rossetti	Italy	Torino	36	[17]
Foundation of Serie A
1929–30	Giuseppe Meazza	Italy	Ambrosiana-Inter	31	[18]
1930–31	Rodolfo Volk	Italy	Roma	28
1931–32	Angelo Schiavio Pedro Petrone	Italy  Uruguay	Bologna Fiorentina	25
1932–33	Felice Borel	Italy	Juventus	29
1933–34	Felice Borel (2)	Italy	Juventus	32
1934–35	Enrique Guaita	Italy[b]	Roma	28
1935–36	Giuseppe Meazza (2)	Italy	Ambrosiana-Inter	25
1936–37	Silvio Piola	Italy	Lazio	21
1937–38	Giuseppe Meazza (3)	Italy	Ambrosiana-Inter	20
1938–39	Ettore Puricelli Aldo Boffi	Uruguay Italy	Bologna AC Milan	19
1939–40	Aldo Boffi (2)	Italy	AC Milan	24
1940–41	Ettore Puricelli (2)	Italy[b]	Bologna	22
1941–42	Aldo Boffi (3)	Italy	AC Milan	22
1942–43	Silvio Piola (2)	Italy	Lazio	21
1943–45	Not awarded
1945–46	Guglielmo Gabetto	Italy	Torino	22
1946–47	Valentino Mazzola	Italy	Torino	29
1947–48	Giampiero Boniperti	Italy	Juventus	27
1948–49	István Nyers	Hungary	Inter Milan	26
1949–50	Gunnar Nordahl	Sweden	AC Milan	35
1950–51	Gunnar Nordahl (2)	Sweden	AC Milan	34
1951–52	John Hansen	Denmark	Juventus	30
1952–53	Gunnar Nordahl (3)	Sweden	AC Milan	26
1953–54	Gunnar Nordahl (4)	Sweden	AC Milan	23
1954–55	Gunnar Nordahl (5)	Sweden	AC Milan	27
1955–56	Gino Pivatelli	Italy	Bologna	29
1956–57	Dino da Costa	Brazil	Roma	22
1957–58	John Charles	Wales	Juventus	28
1958–59	Antonio Valentín Angelillo	Argentina	Inter Milan	33
1959–60	Omar Sívori	Argentina	Juventus	28
1960–61	Sergio Brighenti	Italy	Sampdoria	27
1961–62	José Altafini Aurelio Milani	Italy[b]  Italy	AC Milan Fiorentina	22
1962–63	Harald Nielsen Pedro Manfredini	Denmark  Argentina	Bologna Roma	19
1963–64	Harald Nielsen (2)	Denmark	Bologna	21
1964–65	Sandro Mazzola Alberto Orlando	Italy  Italy	Inter Milan Fiorentina	17
1965–66	Luís Vinício	Brazil	Vicenza	25
1966–67	Gigi Riva	Italy	Cagliari	18
1967–68	Pierino Prati	Italy	AC Milan	15
1968–69	Gigi Riva (2)	Italy	Cagliari	21
1969–70	Gigi Riva (3)	Italy	Cagliari	21
1970–71	Roberto Boninsegna	Italy	Inter Milan	24
1971–72	Roberto Boninsegna (2)	Italy	Inter Milan	22
1972–73	Giuseppe Savoldi Paolino Pulici Gianni Rivera	Italy  Italy  Italy	Bologna Torino AC Milan	17
1973–74	Giorgio Chinaglia	Italy	Lazio	24
1974–75	Paolino Pulici (2)	Italy	Torino	18
1975–76	Paolino Pulici (3)	Italy	Torino	21
1976–77	Francesco Graziani	Italy	Torino	21
1977–78	Paolo Rossi	Italy	Vicenza	24
1978–79	Bruno Giordano	Italy	Lazio	19
1979–80	Roberto Bettega	Italy	Juventus	16
1980–81	Roberto Pruzzo	Italy	Roma	18
1981–82	Roberto Pruzzo (2)	Italy	Roma	15
1982–83	Michel Platini	France	Juventus	16
1983–84	Michel Platini (2)	France	Juventus	20
1984–85	Michel Platini (3)	France	Juventus	18
1985–86	Roberto Pruzzo (3)	Italy	Roma	19
1986–87	Pietro Paolo Virdis	Italy	AC Milan	17
1987–88	Diego Maradona	Argentina	Napoli	15
1988–89	Aldo Serena	Italy	Inter Milan	22
1989–90	Marco van Basten	Netherlands	AC Milan	19
1990–91	Gianluca Vialli	Italy	Sampdoria	19
1991–92	Marco van Basten (2)	Netherlands	AC Milan	25
1992–93	Giuseppe Signori	Italy	Lazio	26
1993–94	Giuseppe Signori (2)	Italy	Lazio	23
1994–95	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	Fiorentina	26
1995–96	Igor Protti Giuseppe Signori (3)	Italy  Italy	Bari Lazio	24
1996–97	Filippo Inzaghi	Italy	Atalanta	24
1997–98	Oliver Bierhoff	Germany	Udinese	27
1998–99	Márcio Amoroso	Brazil	Udinese	22
1999–2000	Andriy Shevchenko	Ukraine	AC Milan	24
2000–01	Hernán Crespo	Argentina	Lazio	26
2001–02	David Trezeguet Dario Hübner	France  Italy	Juventus Piacenza	24
2002–03	Christian Vieri	Italy	Inter Milan	24
2003–04	Andriy Shevchenko (2)	Ukraine	AC Milan	24
2004–05	Cristiano Lucarelli	Italy	Livorno	24
2005–06	Luca Toni	Italy	Fiorentina	31
2006–07	Francesco Totti	Italy	Roma	26
2007–08	Alessandro Del Piero	Italy	Juventus	21
2008–09	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	Inter Milan	25
2009–10	Antonio Di Natale	Italy	Udinese	29
AIC Award to the Top Scorer
2010–11	Antonio Di Natale (2)	Italy	Udinese	28	[18]
2011–12	Zlatan Ibrahimović (2)	Sweden	AC Milan	28
2012–13	Edinson Cavani	Uruguay	Napoli	29
2013–14	Ciro Immobile	Italy	Torino	22
2014–15	Mauro Icardi Luca Toni (2)	Argentina  Italy	Inter Milan Hellas Verona	22
2015–16	Gonzalo Higuaín	Argentina	Napoli	36
2016–17	Edin Džeko	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Roma	29
2017–18	Mauro Icardi (2) Ciro Immobile (2)	Argentina  Italy	Inter Milan Lazio	29
2018–19	Fabio Quagliarella	Italy	Sampdoria	26
2019–20	Ciro Immobile (3)	Italy	Lazio	36
Paolo Rossi Award
2020–21	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	Juventus	29	[18]
2021–22	Ciro Immobile (4)	Italy	Lazio	27
2022–23	Victor Osimhen	Nigeria	Napoli	26
2023–24	Lautaro Martínez	Argentina	Inter Milan	24
2024–25	Mateo Retegui	Italy[b]	Atalanta	25	[19]

Statistics

Wins by player (multiple)

The capocannonieri are unknown for 12 seasons.

Awards	Player	Club(s)	Country	Seasons
5	Gunnar Nordahl	AC Milan	Sweden	1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1954–55
4	Ciro Immobile	Torino, Lazio	Italy	2013–14, 2017–18, 2019–20, 2021–22
3	Luigi Cevenini	Inter Milan	Kingdom of Italy	1913–14, 1919–20, 1920–21
	Giuseppe Meazza	Inter Milan	Italy	1929–30, 1935–36, 1937–38
	Aldo Boffi	AC Milan	Italy	1938–39, 1939–40, 1941–42
	Gigi Riva	Cagliari	Italy	1966–67, 1968–69, 1969–70
	Paolo Pulici	Torino	Italy	1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76
	Roberto Pruzzo	Roma	Italy	1980–81, 1981–82, 1985–86
	Michel Platini	Juventus	France	1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85
	Giuseppe Signori	Lazio	Italy	1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96
2	Umberto Malvano	Juventus	Kingdom of Italy	1901, 1903
	Roberto Boninsegna	Inter Milan	Italy	1970–71, 1971–72
	Felice Borel	Juventus	Kingdom of Italy	1932–33, 1933–34
	Antonio Di Natale	Udinese	Italy	2009–10, 2010–11
	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Inter Milan, AC Milan	Sweden	2008–09, 2011–12
	Mauro Icardi	Inter Milan	Argentina	2014–15, 2017–18
	Harald Nielsen	Bologna	Denmark	1962–63, 1963–64
	Silvio Piola	Lazio	Kingdom of Italy	1936–37, 1942–43
	Ettore Puricelli	Bologna	Uruguay	1938–39, 1940–41
			Kingdom of Italy
	Andriy Shevchenko	AC Milan	Ukraine	1999–2000, 2003–04
	Luca Toni	Fiorentina, Verona	Italy	2005–06, 2014–15
	Marco van Basten	AC Milan	Netherlands	1989–90, 1991–92

Wins by club

The capocannoniere has been won 18 times by AC Milan players, the most recent being Zlatan Ibrahimović in 2012

The players' clubs are unknown for 8 seasons. Current Serie A teams are shown in bold.

Club	Total
Inter Milan	19
Milan	18
Juventus	18
Lazio	12
Torino	11
Roma	9
Bologna	7
Fiorentina	5
Napoli	4
Udinese	4
Cagliari	3
Sampdoria	3
Atalanta	2
Internazionale Torino	2
Livorno	2
US Milanese	2
Vicenza	2
Bari	1
Genoa	1
Piacenza	1
Pro Vercelli	1
Hellas Verona	1

Wins by country

Argentines are the most prolific foreign winners of the capocannoniere, the most recent being Lautaro Martínez of Inter Milan in 2024.

The nationalities are unknown for 12 seasons.

Country	Total
Italy	78
Argentina	10
Sweden	7
France	4
Brazil	3
Denmark	3
Switzerland	3
Uruguay	3
Austria	2
Hungary	2
Netherlands	2
Ukraine	2
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
England	1
Germany	1
Wales	1
Portugal	1
Nigeria	1

See also

• Italy portal
• Association football portal

• List of Serie A players with 100 or more goals
• Pichichi Trophy
• Premier League Golden Boot
• List of Bundesliga top scorers by season
• List of La Liga top scorers
• European Golden Shoe
• List of Ligue 1 top scorers
• List of Süper Lig top scorers

Notes

1. It is presumed to be Walter Streule, with 2 goals.
2. Italian by naturalisation.