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Premier League Top Scorer 2026/27: The Golden Boot Race After Matchweek 5
Who is the Premier League top scorer in 2026/27? Erling Haaland leads on five goals after Matchweek 5. Full standings, xG analysis and NST kickoff times.
Erling Haaland is the Premier League top scorer in 2026/27 with five goals, one clear of Alexander Isak on four. Nine players sit level on three behind them, so a single goal separates first from second and two goals separate first from eleventh.
This article is for supporters in Nepal who follow the scoring charts week to week and want to know which players to watch, and at what time in Nepal Standard Time. All figures are current to the end of Matchweek 5 on 20 September 2026.
Who is the Premier League top scorer in 2026/27?
Erling Haaland leads the Premier League top scorer charts with five goals for Manchester City. Alexander Isak of Liverpool is second on four.
Both moved on Sunday. Haaland scored the last of Manchester City's goals in a 5-3 win over Sunderland, and Isak scored the only goal of Liverpool's 1-0 win at AFC Bournemouth in the 57th minute.
The gap at the top is narrow enough to be closed in ninety minutes. A single hat-trick from any of the nine players on three would put them level with Haaland.
What do the standings look like in full?
The table lists every player on two goals or more, thirty in all, after 50 matches and 141 goals. It was compiled from match-by-match scoring records rather than copied from a single stats page, and own goals are excluded, as they are from every official scoring chart.
Player | Club | Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Erling Haaland | Manchester City | 5 |
2 | Alexander Isak | Liverpool | 4 |
3 | Brian Brobbey | Sunderland | 3 |
3 | Rayan Cherki | Manchester City | 3 |
3 | Bruno Fernandes | Manchester United | 3 |
3 | Pascal Gross | Brighton | 3 |
3 | João Pedro | Chelsea | 3 |
3 | Morgan Rogers | Chelsea | 3 |
3 | Bukayo Saka | Arsenal | 3 |
3 | Kevin Schade | Brentford | 3 |
3 | Marcus Tavernier | AFC Bournemouth | 3 |
Premier League top scorers 2026/27, current to the end of Matchweek 5 on 20 September 2026. Compiled from ESPN match records across all 50 matches played. Own goals excluded.
How did Brian Brobbey score a hat-trick and still lose?
Brian Brobbey scored all three of Sunderland's goals away at Manchester City on 20 September, in the 12th, 33rd and 59th minutes. Sunderland still lost 5-3, because City answered every one of them.
The match went like this:
9': Enzo Fernández, free-kick. City 1-0 Sunderland
12': Brian Brobbey. City 1-1 Sunderland
29': Rayan Cherki. City 2-1 Sunderland
33': Brian Brobbey. City 2-2 Sunderland
43': Antoine Semenyo. City 3-2 Sunderland
57': Antoine Semenyo. City 4-2 Sunderland
59': Brian Brobbey, hat-trick complete. City 4-3 Sunderland
81': Erling Haaland. City 5-3 Sunderland
Twice Brobbey brought Sunderland level, and his third brought them back within a goal with 31 minutes of normal time remaining. Each time, City scored again. Sunderland were level at 1-1 and 2-2 but never led, and Haaland's goal in the 81st minute ended the contest.
The difference between the two sides is in who scored. Sunderland's three goals came from one player. City's five came from four: Fernández, Cherki, Semenyo twice and Haaland. One side had a striker having the afternoon of his season, and the other had goals from all over the pitch.
For the Golden Boot chart, the afternoon took Brobbey from no Premier League goals this season to joint third in a single match. It also means his entire season total came from one game, which is worth remembering when reading any scoring chart: three goals in one afternoon and three goals spread across five matchweeks look identical in a table.
His finishing was not a fluke either. Across the season, LiveScore's model puts the chances Brobbey has had at 3.5 expected goals, so if anything he has scored slightly fewer than his chances were worth. A striker getting into those positions at this level is likely to keep scoring, even if the next three do not all arrive on the same afternoon.
Which players are outperforming their chances?
Rayan Cherki has scored three goals from chances worth 0.7 expected goals, according to LiveScore's expected goals model. That overperformance of +2.3 is the largest in the division and the figure most likely to correct over a full season.
Haaland's position is the more durable one. His five goals came from 4.4 expected, an overperformance of only +0.6, which means he is scoring roughly what his chances are worth. A striker leading the chart without relying on outlier finishing is a striker whose lead is built on volume of opportunity, and volume of opportunity is the thing that persists.
How does this compare to recent Golden Boot seasons?
Haaland has won the Premier League Golden Boot three times, in 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2025/26. He is the reigning holder, having taken the 2025/26 award with 27 goals in 35 appearances.
His 2022/23 total of 36 goals remains the record for a single Premier League season, scored in 35 games at a ratio of 1.03 goals per appearance. No player has come close since.
Four is the number to beat overall. Thierry Henry and Mohamed Salah have each won the award four times, more than any other player, and Salah's most recent came in 2024/25 with 29 goals for Liverpool. A fourth Golden Boot this season would put Haaland level with both.
There is an Asian record in this competition too. Son Heung-min became the first Asian player to win the Golden Boot when he shared the 2021/22 award with Salah.
What time can you watch these players in Nepal?
Nepal Standard Time is UTC+5:45 and does not change. The United Kingdom does, so the same fixture slot arrives at two different times in Nepal depending on the month.
Britain is on British Summer Time until 25 October 2026, which puts Nepal 4 hours 45 minutes ahead of a UK kickoff. A 15:00 Saturday match starts at 19:45 NST. The 20:00 slot starts at 00:45 the following morning, which is the one that catches people out.
After 25 October the gap becomes 5 hours 45 minutes and every kickoff moves an hour later in Nepal. Full conversions for every slot are on the kickoff times page, and this matchweek's confirmed times are on the fixtures page.
Six of the eleven players on three goals or more play for Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea or Arsenal, so a large share of the Golden Boot race runs through four clubs each week.
Final Verdict
Haaland leads, and the underlying numbers say the lead is real rather than a finishing hot streak. That is the difference between his position and Cherki's.
The race is still open. One goal separates first from second and two goals separate first from eleventh, which at this stage of a season means almost nothing is settled. The chart after Matchweek 10 will be considerably more informative than the chart today.
For supporters in Nepal, the practical takeaway is narrower. Six of the eleven leading scorers play for four clubs, so following the Golden Boot race is largely a matter of knowing when those four are on. Find your channel number on the where to watch page, check the league table for context, and every match Kantipur Max HD carries is broadcast in HD with times already converted to Nepal Standard Time.
