{"id":5910,"date":"2026-05-06T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/5910\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:36:08","slug":"alagich-vidmar-2025-26-ucan-alm-golden-boot-luka-jovanovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/5910\/","title":{"rendered":"Alagich Vidmar 2025\/26 UCAN ALM Golden Boot: Luka Jovanovi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide United is pleased to announce Luka Jovanovi\u0107 as the winner of the 2025\/26 UCAN A-League Men Golden Boot, with 11 goals in Red.<\/p>\n<p>Jovanovi\u0107\u2019s tally also secured him the honour of joint Golden Boot winner across the Isuzu UTE A-League; the second youngest player to ever do so in League history after Archie Goodwin became the youngest when he took the honour in Red last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Boot is awarded to the player who has scored the most goals in the regular season. Previous recipients include Bruce Djite, Sergio van Dijk, Cristiano, Ryan Kitto, Riley McGree, Craig Goodwin, Hiroshi Ibusuki, and Archie Goodwin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach, Airton Andrioli praised Luka Jovanovi\u0107\u2019s remarkable goalscoring season and league-wide impact:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuka has been exceptional for us this season. What he\u2019s achieved, not just within our squad but across the entire league, is a credit to his quality, consistency, and mindset. He has a natural instinct in front of goal, but it\u2019s his work rate and determination to keep improving that really stand out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo win both our Golden Boot and the League\u2019s Golden Boot is a remarkable accomplishment, and one he thoroughly deserves. He\u2019s a very exciting talent with an even bigger future ahead of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"335952\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/adelaideunited.com.au\/news\/alagich-vidmar-2025-26-ucan-alm-golden-boot-luka-jovanovic\/a-league-men-rd-18-adelaide-united-v-perth-glory\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/adelaideunited.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2262600919.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3463,4000\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Getty Images&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 20: Luka Jovanovic of Adelaide United celebrates his goal with Ryan White of Adelaide United during the round 18 A-League Men match between Adelaide United and Perth Glory at Coopers Stadium, on February 20, 2026, in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Sarah Reed\/Getty Images)&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1771618210&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2026 Getty Images&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;A-League Men Rd 18 - Adelaide United v Perth Glory&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A-League Men Rd 18 \u2013 Adelaide United v Perth Glory\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA \u2013 FEBRUARY 20: Luka Jovanovic of Adelaide United celebrates his goal with Ryan White of Adelaide United during the round 18 A-League Men match between Adelaide United and Perth Glory at Coopers Stadium, on February 20, 2026, in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Sarah Reed\/Getty Images)&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2262600919.jpg\" height=\"1386\" width=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2262600919.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-335952\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.8658084224307222;width:538px;height:auto\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Luka Jovanovi\u0107\u2019s 2025\/26 Season Stats:<\/p>\n<p>Games:<\/p>\n<p>23 Games<\/p>\n<p>1624 minutes<\/p>\n<p>21 Starts<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>11 Goals<\/p>\n<p>Three assists<\/p>\n<p>The most goal involvements (14) for Adelaide United<\/p>\n<p>Third most goal involvements in the League<\/p>\n<p>Equal top goal-scorer in the Isuzu UTE A-League\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Second youngest Isuzu UTE A-League Golden Boot Winner in competition history<\/p>\n<p>Six ALM Team of the Week appearances<\/p>\n<p>Previous A-League Men Golden Boot Winners:<\/p>\n<p>2024\/25: Archie Goodwin<\/p>\n<p>2023\/24: Hiroshi Ibusuki<\/p>\n<p>2022\/23: Craig Goodwin<\/p>\n<p>2021\/22: Craig Goodwin<\/p>\n<p>2020\/21: Tomi Juric<\/p>\n<p>2019\/20: Riley McGree<\/p>\n<p>2018\/19: Craig Goodwin<\/p>\n<p>2017\/18: Ryan Kitto<\/p>\n<p>2016\/17: Dylan McGowan<\/p>\n<p>2015\/16: Bruce Djite<\/p>\n<p>2014\/15: Pablo S\u00e1nchez<\/p>\n<p>2013\/14: Jer\u00f3nimo Neumann, F\u00e1bio Ferreira<\/p>\n<p>2012\/13: Dario Vido\u0161i\u0107<\/p>\n<p>2011\/12: Sergio van Dijk<\/p>\n<p>2010\/11: Sergio van Dijk<\/p>\n<p>2009\/10: Lucas Pantelis<\/p>\n<p>2008\/09: Cristiano<\/p>\n<p>2007\/08: Bruce Djite<\/p>\n<p>2006\/07: Nathan Burns, Fernando\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2005\/06: Carl Veart<\/p>\n<p>2003\/04 (NSL): Carl Veart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide United is pleased to announce Luka Jovanovi\u0107 as the winner of the 2025\/26 UCAN A-League Men Golden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[341,395,957,958],"class_list":{"0":"post-5910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-adelaide","8":"tag-a-league","9":"tag-adelaide","10":"tag-adelaide-united","11":"tag-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}