Inter Miami's Lionel Messi wins 2025 MLS Golden Boot, Past Winners List

Lionel Messi has won the 2025 MLS Golden Boot, scoring 29 goals and 19 assists for Inter Miami CF. He became the club’s first Golden Boot winner and the first Argentine to earn the honor since 2021. In Miami’s 5–2 win over Nashville, Messi scored three goals and one assist, finishing the season with 48 total goal contributions, just one shy of Carlos Vela’s record. Miami enter the 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs as the No. 3 seed, while Messi is also favored to win his second straight MLS MVP award.

MLS Golden Boot winners list 1996-2025: Top goal scorer in each season since 2005

2025: Lionel Messi, Miami - 29 goals

2024: Christian Benteke, D.C. - 23 goals

2023: Denis Bouanga, LAFC - 20 goals

2022: Hany Mukhtar, Nashville - 23 goals

2021: Taty Castellanos, NYCFC - 19 goals

2020: Diego Rossi, LAFC - 14 goals

2019: Carlos Vela, LAFC - 34 goals

2018: Josef Martínez, Atlanta - 31 goals

2017: Nemanja Nikolić, Chicago - 24 goals

2016: Bradley Wright-Phillips, New York - 24 goals

2015: Sebastian Giovinco, Toronto - 22 goals

2014: Bradley Wright-Phillips, New York - 27 goals

2013: Camilo Sanvezzo, Vancouver - 22 goals

2012: Chris Wondolowski, San Jose - 27 goals

2011: Dwayne De Rosario, D.C. - 16 goals

2010: Chris Wondolowski, San Jose - 18 goals

2009: Jeff Cunningham, Dallas - 17 goals

2008: Landon Donovan, LA - 20 goals

2007: Luciano Emilio, D.C. - 20 goals

2006: Jeff Cunningham, Salt Lake - 16 goals

2005: Taylor Twellman, New England - 17 goals

MLS Golden Boot winners 1996-2004 (points-based system)

2004: Amado Guevara, Pat Noonan; MetroStars, New England - 30 points

2003: Preki, Kansas City - 41 points

2002: Taylor Twellman, New England - 52 points

2001: Alex Pineda Chacón, Miami - 47 points

2000: Mamadou Diallo, Tampa Bay - 56 points

1999: Jason Kreis, Dallas- 51 points

1998: Stern John, Columbus - 57 points

1997: Preki, Kansas City - 41 points

1996: Roy Lassiter, Tampa Bay- 58 points 

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