The TT Pro League Golden Boot is an annual

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football award given at the beginning of each

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calendar year to the top goalscorer for the previous season. The Golden Boot has been awarded since the establishment of the Pro League in 1999. The top-scoring Pro League Golden Boot winner is

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with 45 goals in 28 games during the league's inaugural season.

Devorn Jorsling Devorn Jorsling (born 27 December 1983 in Morvant) is a Trinidadian footballer who currently plays for Defence Force. Club career Early career Jorsling played extensively in the TT Pro League, initially with W Connection and Caledonia AIA, b ...

has won the award the most times (4) having scored the most league goals during the

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, and 2014–15 seasons, all when playing for the ''Teteron Boys'' of

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. Jorsling remains the only player to have won the Golden Boot on more than one occasion with his most successful campaigns in 2008, 2012–13, and 2014–15 after leading the league with 21 goals each season. There have been 15 players from eight different clubs that have won the Golden Boot. The award has gone to a single player each season, with the exception of two seasons. The first occurrence came in 2005, after

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's Gefferson and

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shared the award with 14 goals each. After scoring 16 goals apiece,

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of Joe Public shared the award with

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the following season. The Golden Boot winner has played for

during their award-winning season six times, which is the most of any club in the

. Joe Public and

are second with three players each claiming the Golden Boot. Players from five nations, other than

, have won the Golden Boot including Guyana (

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, 2003–04),

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( Gefferson, 2005),

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(

, 2005),

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(

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(

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). Although there has been an increasing presence of foreign players in the Pro League, there has not been a foreign-born player to win the Golden Boot since 2008. Since the

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season,

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players

Kerry Baptiste Kerry Baptiste (born 1 December 1981) is a Trinidadian football striker, who currently plays for the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the North American Soccer League. Club career First signed with Joe Public in March 2007 on a two-year deal. In December ...

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, Devorn Jorsling, and

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have won the award. Although

has the highest number of goals scored to win the Golden Boot with 45,

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has the highest strike rate of 1.76 (37 goals in 21 games) in winning the Golden Boot during

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' championship winning season in 2004. Every winner of the Golden Boot has thus far recorded an average strike rate of at least two goals every three matches, and scored a minimum of 14 goals. In fact, combining the statistics for all winners, a Pro League Golden Boot winner scores an average of 20 goals from 24 games, a strike rate of around 0.83 goals per appearance. The Golden Boot winner has helped his respective team to the

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eight years during the award-winning season.

Winners

Multiple winners

is currently the only player who has been able to win the

Golden Boot multiple times with four. Thus, he became the first to win four Golden Boots in

, and 2014–15. No player has won the award in consecutive years.

References

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Winners

Multiple winners

See also

References