A-League Youth Golden Boot

The A-League Youth Golden Boot, formerly Y-League Golden Boot, is an annual soccer award presented to the leading goalscorer in the Y-League, currently referred to as the Nike Golden Boot for sponsorship purposes.

A-League Youth Golden Boot
Awarded for	The leading goalscorer in a given Y-League season.
Sponsored by	Nike
Country	Australia
Presented by	Football Federation Australia
First award	2009
Final award	2019
Currently held by	Moudi Najjar
Most awards	Francesco Monterosso (2)

The Y-League was founded in 2008. The number of teams in the league has ranged from seven to ten during its history, and there are currently ten clubs in the league. The award is given to the top-scorer over the regular season (not including the finals series/grand final).

Francesco Monterosso is the only player to have won the award on multiple occasions.

Winners

Key

Player (X)	Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
Games	The number of Y-League regular season games played by the winner that season
Rate	The winner's goals-to-games ratio that regular season
§	Denotes the club were Y-League premiers in the same season

Y-League Golden Boot winners

Season	Player	Nationality	Club	Goals	Games	Rate	Ref(s)
2008–09	Francesco Monterosso	Australia	Adelaide United Youth	13	18	0.72	[1]
2009–10	Francesco Monterosso (2)	Australia	Adelaide United Youth	17			[1]
2010–11	Bernie Ibini-Isei	Australia	Central Coast Mariners Academy	12			[1]
2011–12	Mitchell Mallia	Australia	Sydney FC Youth	13			[1]
2012–13	Kale Bradbery	Australia	Newcastle Jets Youth	13			[1]
2013–14	Anthony Costa	Australia	Adelaide United Youth	14			[1]
2014–15	Wade Dekker	Australia	Melbourne City Youth§	9			[1]
2015–16	Joey Katebian	Australia	Melbourne Victory Youth	10			[1]
2016–17	Pierce Waring	Australia	Melbourne Victory Youth	6			[1]
2017–18	Abraham Majok	South Sudan	Western Sydney Wanderers Youth§	9	7	0.78	[2]
2018–19	Moudi Najjar	Syria	Melbourne City Youth	7	6	0.86	[3]

Awards won by club

Club	Total
Adelaide United Youth	3
Melbourne Victory Youth	2
Melbourne City Youth	2
Central Coast Mariners Academy	1
Sydney FC Youth	1
Newcastle Jets Youth	1
Western Sydney Wanderers Youth	1

See also

• Y-League records and statistics
• A-League Golden Boot
• W-League Golden Boot