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Paolo Rossi Award
Paolo Rossi Award
	Gunnar Nordahl, by winning the capocannoniere award five times, is the pluricapocannoniere of Serie A, while playing at AC Milan.
Awarded for	The leading goalscorer in a single Serie A season
Country	Italy
Presented by	Italian Footballers' Association
Formerly called	Capocannoniere
First awarded	2011
Currently held by	Lautaro Martínez (2023–24)
Most awards	Gunnar Nordahl (5)

The capocannoniere award (Italian: [ˌkapokannoˈnjɛːre]; lit. 'head gunner'), known as Paolo Rossi Award^[1] since 2021, is awarded by the Italian Footballers' Association (AIC) to the highest goalscorer of each season in Italy's Serie A from the 2010–11 season, when it was called the AIC Award to the Top Scorer (Italian: Premio AIC al Capocannoniere in Italian). The award is currently held by Lautaro Martínez, who scored 24 goals for Internazionale in the 2023–24 season.

The highest number of goals scored to win the Capocannoniere is 36, by Gino Rossetti for Torino in 1928–29, Gonzalo Higuaín for Napoli in 2015–16 and Ciro Immobile for Lazio in 2019–20. Ferenc Hirzer, Julio Libonatti and Gunnar Nordahl are in joint fourth place for this record; they each scored 35 goals for Juventus, Torino and Milan respectively.

Gunnar Nordahl of Milan has won the title of capocannoniere five times: 1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1953–54 and 1954–55, more than any other player in the history of Italian championship.^[2]

Winners

Data relating to seasons prior to 1923–24 are incomplete or imprecise due to scarcity of sources.

Key

Player also won the European Golden Shoe (first awarded in 1968)

* Italian by naturalisation (Puricelli has been a capocannoniere both as an Uruguayan and an Italian player)

Season	Player(s)	Nationality	Club(s)	Goals^[3]
1898	Edoardo Bosio Norman Victor Leaver	Italy England	Internazionale Torino Genoa	2
1899	Albert Weber	Switzerland	Internazionale Torino	2
1900	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A
1901	Umberto Malvano	Italy	Juventus	4
1902	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A
1903	Unknown	N/A	Juventus	N/A
1904	Unknown	N/A	Juventus	N/A
1905	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A
1906	Guido Pedroni	Italy	Milan	3
1907	Hans Kämpfer	Switzerland	Torino	7
1908	Mario Cagliani	Italy	US Milanese	4
1909	Amilcare Pizzi	Italy	US Milanese	9
1909–10	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A
1910–11	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A
1911–12	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A
1912–13	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A
1913–14	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A
1914–15	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A
1915–19	Not awarded
1919–20	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A
1920–21	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A
1921–22 (FIGC)	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A
1921–22 (CCI)	Unknown	N/A	N/A	N/A
1922–23	Fulvio Bernardini	Italy	Lazio	24
1923–24	Heinrich Schönfeld	Austria	Torino	22
1924–25	Mario Magnozzi	Italy	Livorno	19
1925–26	Ferenc Hirzer	Hungary	Juventus	35
1926–27	Anton Powolny	Austria	Internazionale	22
1927–28	Julio Libonatti	Italy*	Torino	35
1928–29	Gino Rossetti	Italy	Torino	36
Foundation of Serie A
1929–30	Giuseppe Meazza	Italy	Ambrosiana-Inter	31
1930–31	Rodolfo Volk	Italy	Roma	28
1931–32	Angelo Schiavio Pedro Petrone	Italy Uruguay	Bologna Fiorentina	25
1932–33	Felice Borel	Italy	Juventus	29
1933–34	Felice Borel (2)	Italy	Juventus	32
1934–35	Enrique Guaita	Italy*	Roma	28
1935–36	Giuseppe Meazza (2)	Italy	Ambrosiana-Inter	25
1936–37	Silvio Piola	Italy	Lazio	21
1937–38	Giuseppe Meazza (3)	Italy	Ambrosiana-Inter	20
1938–39	Ettore Puricelli Aldo Boffi	Uruguay Italy	Bologna Milan	19
1939–40	Aldo Boffi (2)	Italy	Milan	24
1940–41	Ettore Puricelli (2)	Italy*	Bologna	22
1941–42	Aldo Boffi (3)	Italy	Milan	22
1942–43	Silvio Piola (2)	Italy	Lazio	21
1943–45	Not awarded
1945–46	Guglielmo Gabetto	Italy	Torino	22
1946–47	Valentino Mazzola	Italy	Torino	29
1947–48	Giampiero Boniperti	Italy	Juventus	27
1948–49	István Nyers	Hungary	Internazionale	26
1949–50	Gunnar Nordahl	Sweden	Milan	35
1950–51	Gunnar Nordahl (2)	Sweden	Milan	34
1951–52	John Hansen	Denmark	Juventus	30
1952–53	Gunnar Nordahl (3)	Sweden	Milan	26
1953–54	Gunnar Nordahl (4)	Sweden	Milan	23
1954–55	Gunnar Nordahl (5)	Sweden	Milan	27
1955–56	Gino Pivatelli	Italy	Bologna	29
1956–57	Dino da Costa	Brazil	Roma	22
1957–58	John Charles	Wales	Juventus	28
1958–59	Antonio Valentín Angelillo	Argentina	Internazionale	33
1959–60	Omar Sívori	Argentina	Juventus	28
1960–61	Sergio Brighenti	Italy	Sampdoria	27
1961–62	José Altafini Aurelio Milani	Italy* Italy	Milan Fiorentina	22
1962–63	Harald Nielsen Pedro Manfredini	Denmark Argentina	Bologna Roma	19
1963–64	Harald Nielsen (2)	Denmark	Bologna	21
1964–65	Sandro Mazzola Alberto Orlando	Italy Italy	Internazionale Fiorentina	17
1965–66	Luís Vinício	Brazil	Vicenza	25
1966–67	Gigi Riva	Italy	Cagliari	18
1967–68	Pierino Prati	Italy	Milan	15
1968–69	Gigi Riva (2)	Italy	Cagliari	21
1969–70	Gigi Riva (3)	Italy	Cagliari	21
1970–71	Roberto Boninsegna	Italy	Internazionale	24
1971–72	Roberto Boninsegna (2)	Italy	Internazionale	22
1972–73	Giuseppe Savoldi Paolino Pulici Gianni Rivera	Italy Italy Italy	Bologna Torino Milan	17
1973–74	Giorgio Chinaglia	Italy	Lazio	24
1974–75	Paolino Pulici (2)	Italy	Torino	18
1975–76	Paolino Pulici (3)	Italy	Torino	21
1976–77	Francesco Graziani	Italy	Torino	21
1977–78	Paolo Rossi	Italy	Vicenza	24
1978–79	Bruno Giordano	Italy	Lazio	19
1979–80	Roberto Bettega	Italy	Juventus	16
1980–81	Roberto Pruzzo	Italy	Roma	18
1981–82	Roberto Pruzzo (2)	Italy	Roma	15
1982–83	Michel Platini	France	Juventus	16
1983–84	Michel Platini (2)	France	Juventus	20
1984–85	Michel Platini (3)	France	Juventus	18
1985–86	Roberto Pruzzo (3)	Italy	Roma	19
1986–87	Pietro Paolo Virdis	Italy	Milan	17
1987–88	Diego Maradona	Argentina	Napoli	15
1988–89	Aldo Serena	Italy	Internazionale	22
1989–90	Marco van Basten	Netherlands	Milan	19
1990–91	Gianluca Vialli	Italy	Sampdoria	19
1991–92	Marco van Basten (2)	Netherlands	Milan	25
1992–93	Giuseppe Signori	Italy	Lazio	26
1993–94	Giuseppe Signori (2)	Italy	Lazio	23
1994–95	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	Fiorentina	26
1995–96	Igor Protti Giuseppe Signori (3)	Italy Italy	Bari Lazio	24
1996–97	Filippo Inzaghi	Italy	Atalanta	24
1997–98	Oliver Bierhoff	Germany	Udinese	27
1998–99	Márcio Amoroso	Brazil	Udinese	22
1999–2000	Andriy Shevchenko	Ukraine	Milan	24
2000–01	Hernán Crespo	Argentina	Lazio	26
2001–02	David Trezeguet Dario Hübner	France Italy	Juventus Piacenza	24
2002–03	Christian Vieri	Italy	Internazionale	24
2003–04	Andriy Shevchenko (2)	Ukraine	Milan	24
2004–05	Cristiano Lucarelli	Italy	Livorno	24
2005–06	Luca Toni	Italy	Fiorentina	31
2006–07	Francesco Totti	Italy	Roma	26
2007–08	Alessandro Del Piero	Italy	Juventus	21
2008–09	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	Internazionale	25
2009–10	Antonio Di Natale	Italy	Udinese	29
AIC Award to the Top Scorer
2010–11	Antonio Di Natale (2)	Italy	Udinese	28
2011–12	Zlatan Ibrahimović (2)	Sweden	Milan	28
2012–13	Edinson Cavani	Uruguay	Napoli	29
2013–14	Ciro Immobile	Italy	Torino	22
2014–15	Mauro Icardi Luca Toni (2)	Argentina Italy	Internazionale Hellas Verona	22
2015–16	Gonzalo Higuaín	Argentina	Napoli	36
2016–17	Edin Džeko	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Roma	29
2017–18	Mauro Icardi (2) Ciro Immobile (2)	Argentina Italy	Internazionale Lazio	29
2018–19	Fabio Quagliarella	Italy	Sampdoria	26
2019–20	Ciro Immobile (3)	Italy	Lazio	36
Paolo Rossi Award
2020–21	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	Juventus	29
2021–22	Ciro Immobile (4)	Italy	Lazio	27
2022–23	Victor Osimhen	Nigeria	Napoli	26
2023–24	Lautaro Martínez	Argentina	Internazionale	24

Awards won by player

For 15 seasons the capocannonieri are unknown.

Rank	Player	Club(s)	Country	Titles	Seasons
1	Gunnar Nordahl	Milan	Sweden	5	1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1954–55
2	Ciro Immobile	Torino, Lazio	Italy	4	2013–14, 2017–18, 2019–20, 2021–22
3	Giuseppe Meazza	Internazionale	Italy	3	1929–30, 1935–36, 1937–38
	Aldo Boffi	Milan	Italy	3	1938–39, 1939–40, 1941–42
	Gigi Riva	Cagliari	Italy	3	1966–67, 1968–69, 1969–70
	Paolo Pulici	Torino	Italy	3	1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76
	Roberto Pruzzo	Roma	Italy	3	1980–81, 1981–82, 1985–86
	Michel Platini	Juventus	France	3	1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85
	Giuseppe Signori	Lazio	Italy	3	1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96

Awards won by club

For 13 seasons the clubs are unknown. Current Serie A teams are shown in bold.

Club	Total
Milan	18
Juventus	17
Internazionale	15
Lazio	12
Torino	11
Roma	9
Bologna	7
Fiorentina	5
Napoli	4
Udinese	4
Cagliari	3
Sampdoria	3
Internazionale Torino	2
Livorno	2
US Milanese	2
Vicenza	2
Atalanta	1
Bari	1
Genoa	1
Piacenza	1
Hellas Verona	1

Awards won by nationality

For 15 seasons the nationalities are unknown.

Country	Total
Italy	73
Argentina	10
Sweden	7
France	4
Brazil	3
Denmark	3
Uruguay	3
Austria	2
Hungary	2
Netherlands	2
Switzerland	2
Ukraine	2
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
England	1
Germany	1
Wales	1
Portugal	1
Nigeria	1