ISL 2022-23 top goal-scorers: Odisha FC's Diego Mauricio wins Golden Boot race

Odisha FC's Diego Mauricio won the Indian Super League (ISL) 2022-23 Golden Boot race after a tightly-fought three way race for the coveted award that stretched for over three months.

Diego Mauricio scored 12 goals in 21 matches in ISL 2022-23 - the exact same number as ATK Mohun Bagan's Australian forward Dimitri Petratos (12 goals in 23 matches) and East Bengal's Brazilian striker Cleiton Silva (12 goals in 20 matches). Diego Mauricio, however, pipped both to the Golden Boot award as he had a better minutes-per-goal ratio than the other two.

Brazil's Diego Mauricio played 1536 minutes for his goals compared to Cleiton Silva's 1778 and Dimitri Petratos' 2091.

The Golden Boot is presented to the league's top goal-scorer. As per the ISL rules, if more than two players are tied with the same number of goals, the one who has played lesser number of minutes wins the award.

ISL 2022-23 top goal-scorers: Golden Boot standings

Bartholomew Ogbeche won the ISL 2021-22 Golden Boot with 18 goals - the joint-highest goals scored by a player in a single season.

Bartholomew Ogbeche, who has been a part of ISL since 2018-19, also holds the all-time record for the most goals in ISL with 63 strikes. Ogbeche is closely followed by Indian talisman and Bengaluru FC captain Sunil Chhetri, who has 55 goals to his name.

Chennaiyin’s Elano won the inaugural ISL Golden Boot in 2014 while Coro is the only player to have won the ISL Golden Boot twice. The Spanish forward won back-to-back Golden Boots while representing FC Goa in 2017-18 and 2018-19.

With 48 goals in the ISL, Coro is also third in the all-time top goal-scorers in the ISL.

The Golden Boot race in ISL 2022-23 started with Ukrainian midfielder Ivan Kalyuzhnyi scoring a brace in Kerala Blaster’s 3-1 win over East Bengal in the season opener.