Euro 2024: Who will win Golden Boot if there's a tie?
Dani Olmo and Harry Kane have a final chance to make the Golden Boot award their own.
Cristiano Ronaldo received the Golden Boot at Euro 2020 despite having the same number of goals as Czechia’s Patrik Schick. UEFA have announced that they will divide the award among six different players if Sunday’s final between England and Spain fails to determine a clear winner.
When both teams travel to Berlin for the final of the Euro 2024 competition, England skipper Harry Kane and Spain no. 10 Dani Olmo make up a pair of six players locked on three goals.
The other four players on this crowded top-scorer leaderboard are – Ivan Schranz (Slovakia), Georges Mikautadze (Georgia), Jamal Musiala (Germany) and Cody Gakpo (Netherlands).
Jude Bellingham (England) and Fabián Ruiz (Spain) both have two goals at Euro 2024, so they also have a fair chance of ending up as leaders of the scoring charts after the final. Still, Kane and Olmo are the favourites to get ahead of the pack by hitting a tally of a minimum of four goals in the Olympiastadion.
However, UEFA have guaranteed that the top scorer award will be shared unless a player breaks the four-goal mark, with little distinguishing the six players with three goals.
The strategy is a departure from the last competition, in which Portugal’s Ronaldo was declared the victor despite only scoring five goals and one assist during the pandemic-affected Euro 2020. Schick was unable to advance because he had not provided an assist, despite having tied Ronaldo on five goals.
Three goals will represent the smallest buffer for a Golden Boot winner since Fernando Torres (Spain), Mario Gomez (Germany) and Alan Dzagoev (Russia) all finished the competition with three goals in Euro 2012, assuming nobody scores a fourth goal on Sunday.
La Roja‘s Torres was given the Golden Boot award in that edition as he played fewer minutes than the rest of the contenders who contributed three goals.
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