The Bundesliga title race for 2023-24 has drawn to a close with Bayer Leverkusen not waiting till the final matchday to secure the championship. However, the race for the top goal scorer in the Bundesliga in 2024 is still alive, and so we have come up with our predictions for this season.
While the top scorer in the Premier League is awarded the Golden Boot, the Germans do things a bit differently. A trophy, shaped like a miniature artillery piece, is presented to the league’s leading goal scorer at the end of each season. Sponsored by the German magazine Kicker, the award is named ‘Kicker-Torjägerkanone’, which translates to ‘kicker goal hunter cannon’.
🏆 Robert Lewandowski receives his trophy as the Top Scorer of the Bundesliga this season:
👕 34 matches
⚽️ 35 goalsToo good. 🥶 pic.twitter.com/9PIks2zN0U
— Football Tweet ⚽ (@Football__Tweet) May 14, 2022
Even though they have become the champions of Germany, no Bayer Leverkusen player has scored the highest individual goals in the tournament so far. This stands testament to the fact that Xabi Alonso’s men played more as a team than relying on one man to do the job.
But does that render individual awards moot? Absolutely not. Players who work hard throughout the season ought to be rewarded. So, on that note, we bring you…
Our predictions for the top goal scorer in the Bundesliga in 2024
Harry Kane
Known for his habit of winning the Golden Boot in the Premier League, Harry Kane has continued his goal-scoring prowess at Bayern Munich. He sits atop the list with 35 goals to his name.
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Yes, he has been under a lot of criticism for Bayern Munich’s insipid display (by the team’s standards) this season. And the internet has not been too kind to him with constant jokes about how he brought misfortune to the greatest German club side. But nothing can cloak the fact that Kane has been mercurial in front of the net.
Both Kane and Bayern Munich will have a chance to redeem themselves when they take on Real Madrid in the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League. Defeating the Galacticos will do the German club a world of good as they will be on course to secure the grandest trophy in club football.
Everything said and done, making a prediction on Harry Kane as the Bundesliga’s top goal scorer in 2024 is the easiest thing to do. With three more games to go (at the time of writing this article), all eyes will be on the talismanic marksman as he takes a shot at going past Robert Lewandowski’s record tally of 41 goals in a season.
Serhou Guirassy
If anyone has a remote chance of overtaking Harry Kane, our bet has to be on Serhou Guirassy.
A relatively unknown player before the 2023-24 season, Guirassy has taken the world of football by storm as the games progressed. On the back of his impressive performances, VfB Stuttgart has punched way above their weight this season.
At the time of writing this article, the Stuttgart-based side stands third in the Bundesliga 2024 points table and only five points behind Bayern Munich. They have more points in their tally than RB Leipzig, Borussia Dortmund and Eintracht Frankfurt, which speaks volumes about the progress this team has made in the past 10 months.
Coming back to Guirassy, the Guinea international player is being fast-tracked by several behemoths of club football ahead of the 2024-25 summer transfer window. VfB Stuttgart will be looking to hold on to him, but the African forward might look to explore offers more beneficial to his career.
Right now, he would need to score a minimum of 11 goals in three matches and hope for Kane to not net the ball another time in the Bundesliga in 2024 till the final match day to win the top goal scorer award.
Loïs Openda
Breathing right down Serhou Guirassy’s neck is Loïs Openda, which makes him a worthy inclusion in the predictions for the Bundesliga’s top goal scorer in 2024.
After Christopher Nkunku finished the 2022-23 season as the Bundesliga’s leading goal scorer, he was picked up by Chelsea in the summer transfer window as a part of Mauricio Pochettino’s massive overhaul. To fill the void left by the Frenchman, RB Leipzig signed Openda from RC Lens.
In his debut Bundesliga season, the Belgian striker has been at his imperious best. With 24 goals to date, he is making a strong case to be included in Belgium’s UEFA Euro 2024 squad. While there will be stiff competition from the likes of Romelu Lukaku, Michy Batshuayi and Leandro Trossard, Openda has proven why he deserves to play in the marquee UEFA event this summer.
Deniz Undav
VfB Stuttgart has two players from their side rank in the leaderboard for the Bundesliga’s top goal scorer in 2024. This just proves how well the team has fared in the ongoing season.
Albeit not on the same level as Serhou Guirassy, Deniz Undav has been an asset for the Stuttgart-based club in his loan spell from Brighton & Hove Albion. While he did find it challenging to match steps with the rest of the players in the Premier League, once he came to the Bundesliga, Undav has enjoyed a purple patch.
Competing against some of the juggernauts of European football such as Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig, the German forward faced minimal hiccups. With 18 goals in the German domestic league so far, he has proved his mettle as a marksman.
However, Bundesliga, like any other league, has become a platform to audition for the UEFA Euro 2024. Having played only one game in the international sphere, it is unlikely that Undav will get a chance to represent his nation in Europe’s grandest football event. The fact that there is cut-throat competition for getting selected for the German national team will only hurt his chances.
Ermedin Demirović
Rounding off our predictions for the top goal scorer in the Bundesliga in 2024 is Ermedin Demirović.
Born in Hamburg, Germany, Demirović chose to play for Bosnia and Herzegovina in the international sphere. He has played for the nation at all youth levels before making his senior team debut in March 2021.
The FC Augsburg captain did not leave a lasting impression in 2022-23, netting only eight goals in the Bundesliga in 30 appearances. However, he has turned the tide this time with 15 goals to his name and ranking fifth on the leaderboard for the league’s top goal scorer in 2024.
While it is mathematically possible for him to overtake Harry Kane in the race for the cannon-shaped award, in all likelihood Demirović will not be winning the prize this year. However, with age still on his side, the forward can hope for an improved outing in the following season.
Who knows, the cannon could belong to him in 2024-25!
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