Only three Zambian players have scored more than twenty goals in the Super League in the last sixteen Super League seasons; two players from Zesco United and a player from Red Arrows did it in the 2006–07 season.
Avram Grant, the current coach of the Chipolopolo Boys, has publicly voiced his worries over the lack of goal scorers in the Super League.
Despite only playing in sixteen of the thirty-four league games for the Green Eagles, Ivorian striker Freddy Michael finished as the league’s top scorer with 14 goals during the recently concluded 2023–24 Zambian Super League season.
Dube Phiri of Red Arrows won the League Golden Boot award in 2005 with 28 goals; Winston Kalenga won the award the following season with 28 goals; and Rainford Kalaba, the 2012 AfCON winner, scored 23 goals in the 2007 League season while playing for Zesco United.
To date, no player in Zambia has scored more than twenty goals in a league season than Kalaba, a former player for TP Mazembe.
Congolese strikers seem to find it easy in the ZSL
The last strikers in the Zambian Super League to score twenty league goals were three Congolese players: Patrick Kabamba, Chris Mugalu, and Idris Mbombo.
Twenty goals were scored by Kabamba during his Zanaco season of 2009. Mugalu (Lusaka Dynamos) scored twenty goals during the 2017 season, while Mbombo scored the same goal the following season. With 24 goals in 2016, Walter Bwalya, another Congolese striker, took home the Golden Boot.
Top scorers Chart since 2011
2002: Rotson Kilambe and Zachariah Simukonda (both Zanaco) – 17 Goals.
2003: Francis Kombe, John Lomani (both Power Dynamos) and Musonda Mweuke (Kabwe Warriors) – 18 Goals.
2004: Jimmy Mumba (Green Buffaloes) – 15 Goals.
2005: Dube Phiri (Young Arrows) – 28 Goals.
2006: Winstone Kalengo (Zanaco) – 28 Goals.
2007: Rainford Kalaba (Zesco United) – 23 Goals.
2008: Roger Kola (Zanaco) – 13 Goals.
2009: Patrick Kabamba (Zanaco) – 20 Goals
2010: Dube Phiri (Red Arrows) – 14 Goals.
2011: Luka Lungu (Power Dynamos) and Evans Kangwa (Nkana – 16 Goals.
2012: Ronald Kampamba (Nkana FC)- 14 goals
2013: Ronald Kampamba (Nkana FC)- 18 goals
2014: Jackson Mwanza (Zesco United)- 15 goals
2015: Wiston Kalengo (Zesco United)- 18 goals
2016: Walter Bwaltya (Nkana FC)- 24 goals
2017: Chris Mungalu (Lusaka Dynamos)- 17 goals
2018: Idris Mbombo (Nkana FC) -20 goals
2019-20: James Chamanga (Red Arrows)- 16 Goals.
2020-21: Moses Phiri (Green Buffaloes)- 17 Goals
2021-22: Ricky Banda (Red Arrows)- 15 Goals
2022-23: Andy Boyeli (Power Dynamos) 16 Goals
2023-24: Freddy Michael (Green Eagles)- 14 Goals.
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