Prolific Toni reaches new heights

Luca Toni became the first player for 47 years to score 30 goals in a Serie A season when he scored twice in ACF Fiorentina's 5-2 win against Reggina Calcio on Sunday. The last man to reach the landmark figure was FC Internazionale Milano's Argentinian striker Anton Valentin Angelillo, who scored 33 times in 1958/59, and no Italian-born player has done so since Felice Placido Borel of Juventus in 1934.

Henry flourish
The goals leave Toni a near-certainty to sccop the ESM Golden Shoe for 2005/06, as he holds a six-point lead with the season winding down. His only realistic competitor is Samuel Eto'o of FC Barcelona, but the Cameroonian would have to score five times in two matches to have a chance of winning. Arsenal FC's Thierry Henry ended the season with a bang, scoring a hat-trick to bring his total to 27 goals from only 30 starts.

Last updated: 7 May 2006

*Season finished

Only the leading five countries (Spain, Italy, Germany, France and England) in the UEFA coefficient rankings have two as their multiplier. This is to emphasise the difference in international performance level between clubs from those countries and those from the other countries.
A player cannot first play in a summer league (eg. Norway) and then in a winter league (eg. Spain) and combine the points total for each season.

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