Even when he started his scoring spree a bit later than his other competitors, the mercurial F.C. Barcelona star Lionel Messi has eventually won the European Golden Shoe award after scoring a whopping 37 goals in the just concluded LaLiga Season.

The Barca captain garnered 74 points on the log to stay ahead of close competitors Bas Dost of Sporting Lisbon who came second with 34 goals and 68 points while the third place went to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Borussia Dortmund who blasted in 31 goals in the German Bundesliga and ended up with 62 points.

As it stands right now, Messi has now won the award four times thereby equaling Cristiano Ronaldo’s record in the competition.

The only other F.C. Barcelona player on the award’s list is Messi’s partner in the MSN formation – Luis Suarez who was ranked 7th on the log with 56 points after scoring 28 goals and coming second in the just concluded LaLiga season.

Interestingly, the two F.C. Barcelona strikers were the only ones from LaLiga to make the top ten of the European Golden Shoe Competition this time around as names like that of Cristiano Ronaldo and Antoine Griezmann were conspicuously missing on the list.

The complete list of the top ten goal scorers on the log are reproduced right here below;

The top 10 league goalscorers in Europe for the 2016/17 campaign:

1. Lionel Messi (Barcelona) – 37 goals [x2] 74 points

2. Bas Dost (Sporting Lisbon) – 34 goals [x2] 68 points

3. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) – 31 goals [x2] 62 points

4. Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich) – 30 goals [x2] 60 points

5. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) – 29 goals [x2] 58 points

6. Edin Dzeko (Roma) – 29 goals [x2] 58 points

7. Luis Suarez (Barcelona) – 28 goals [x2] 56 points

8. Dries Mertens (Napoli) – 28 goals [x2] 56 points

9. Edinson Cavani (Paris Saint-Germain) – 35 goals [x1.5] 52.5 points

10. Andrea Belotti (Torino) – 26 goals [x2] 52 points

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