No player won the Euro Golden Boot outright last time: six finished level on three goals at Euro 2024, Harry Kane, Cody Gakpo, Dani Olmo, Jamal Musiala, Georges Mikautadze and Ivan Schranz. The next tournament, Euro 2028 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, runs from 9 June to 9 July 2028, and no top-scorer market for it has been sourced here, so no price is quoted.
This page tracks the Euro top-scorer market from one tournament to the next. It keeps the last edition’s result as the record, says how this page’s own bet settled, and adds the next edition’s prices once a market is posted.
How Euro 2024 ended for the top scorers
Spain won Euro 2024, beating England 2-1 in the final in Berlin on 14 July. The tournament produced 117 goals in 51 matches, UEFA says, and nobody reached four.
| Player | Team | Goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Kane | England | 3 | 7 |
| Cody Gakpo | Netherlands | 3 | 6 |
| Dani Olmo | Spain | 3 | 6 |
| Jamal Musiala | Germany | 3 | 5 |
| Georges Mikautadze | Georgia | 3 | 4 |
| Ivan Schranz | Slovakia | 3 | 4 |
Among the players on two goals were Jude Bellingham, Fabián Ruiz, Nico Williams and Kai Havertz, ESPN’s tournament statistics show.
How this page’s bet settled
At the quarterfinal stage, this page’s bet was Cody Gakpo at +450. Gakpo finished on three goals, level with five others, which makes it a dead heat.
Under the usual dead-heat rule, the stake is divided by the number of players tied and each part is paid at the full price. Split six ways at +450, a $100 bet returns $91.67, a loss of $8.33. Books write their own settlement rules for ties, so the terms of the book you bet with decide it.
Euro 2028: what is set
UEFA has confirmed the dates and the shape of the tournament:
- Hosts: nine stadiums in England, Wales, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland hosts no matches; Belfast hosts the qualifying draw.
- Dates: 9 June to 9 July 2028, opening at the National Stadium of Wales in Cardiff, with both semifinals and the final at Wembley.
- Format: 24 teams in six groups, with the top two and the four best third-placed teams going through to the round of 16, the format used since Euro 2016.
- Qualifying: 12 groups, played from March to November 2027, with play-offs in March 2028. The qualifying draw is in Belfast on Sunday, 6 December 2026.
Betting the next Golden Boot
A top-scorer market is a futures bet on a short tournament. A player needs his team to go deep to get the games, and in 2024 three goals were enough to finish top, so a single hat-trick against a weak group opponent can decide it.
Read the price as a probability before you bet. At +450 a player is priced at 18.2%; at +2200, 4.3%. A futures bet is worth making only when you rate the chance higher than the price does, and a dead heat, as 2024 showed, can turn a winning pick into a small loss.
For the tournament winner market, see our Euro odds page.