Who will win the top scorer title in Eredivisie for the 2024/2025 season?

Tomorrow, the top-tier Dutch league Eredivisie, currently ranked sixth among all European leagues, kicks off the 2024/2025 season. The first match is between newly promoted Groningen and NAC Breda, followed by four matches on Saturday and the round concludes with four matches on Sunday.

The reigning champions are PSV Eindhoven, who comfortably won the league in 2023/2024 with a seven-point margin over Feyenoord. PSV are also favourites to win the league again this season, and as usual, their main challengers are the other two big clubs in Dutch football - Feyenoord and Ajax.

But instead of predicting who will be champions and which teams might get relegated, we will focus on the players who have a chance to grab the leagues Golden Boot title this season.

PSV Eindhoven's Luuk de Jong

Favourites to win the top scorer title in Eredivisie for the 2024/2025 season

Last season, PSV Eindhoven's Luuk de Jong and AZ Alkmaar's Greek player Vangelis Pavlidis shared the top scorer title with 29 goals each. De Jong remains at PSV, but Pavlidis has left AZ Alkmaar for Portuguese club Benfica for a reported sum of 18 million euros, meaning he is out of the race this season.

Here is a ranking of the players with the best chances to become the league's top scorer this season.

1. Luuk de Jong, PSV Eindhoven

Veteran Luuk de Jong had a stellar season last year, winning the Dutch top scorer title for the second time in his career, although, like the first time in 2018/2019, he had to share the title. He has turned 33 and will turn 34 later in August, but considering how well he performed last season, he is expected to continue scoring goals despite his advancing age. Playing in the league's best team and being the teams primary penalty taker, there is no doubt he is the favourite to be the top scorer again this season.

Santiago Giménez, Feyenoord

2. Santiago Giménez, Feyenoord

Mexican Santiago Giménez scored goals consistently in his Feyenoord shirt during the first half of last season and led the scoring charts halfway through the season with 19 goals in 17 matches. However, he almost completely stopped scoring after that and "only" finished third in the top scorer list with a total of 23 goals. On a positive note for Giménez, and of course for Feyenoord, he showed good form by scoring two goals in the Dutch Super Cup against PSV a few days ago, even though both were penalties. If he finds the form he had in the first half of last season, he is for sure the number one challenger to de Jong.

3. Brian Brobbey, Ajax

Ajax started last season terribly but recovered to finish in fifth place. A significant reason for the Amsterdam team's turnaround was the form of young talent Brian Brobbey, who seriously got into his scoring stride. He scored 18 goals in total last season in the Ajax shirt, and if Ajax starts this season better, Brobbey is likely to improve on his goal tally from last season, perhaps even enough to win the top scorer title.

Chuba Akpom - here when he played for Middlesbrough

4. Chuba Akpom, Ajax

Next, we have another Ajax player, Englishman Chuba Akpom. Akpom joined the team before last season after winning the top scorer title in the EFL Championship the previous season, so expectations were high. While it wasn't the success Ajax fans had hoped for, scoring 11 goals was quite respectable considering it was a new league and playing style for him. Now more acclimated to Ajax and the league, it's not unreasonable to believe that he might start scoring at the rate he did in England this season.

5. Troy Parrott, AZ Alkmaar

AZ Alkmaar has lost Greek player Vangelis Pavlidis, who shared the top scorer title last season and scored 57 league goals in the past three seasons for AZ, so they are losing a very consistent scorer. His replacement is already in place: Irishman Troy Parrott. Perhaps not the most famous name, but he comes from Tottenham, which may sound bigger than it is since the London club has loaned him out for the past five seasons and he hasn't really played for Tottenham. However, he is considered a great talent and scored 10 goals for the bottom team Excelsior last season, where he was on loan. He is already adapted to the Dutch league and could be a very positive surprise now that he plays in a stronger team.

6. Johan Bakayoko, PSV Eindhoven

Belgian Johan Bakayoko is not a pure striker but rather a winger with a knack for scoring goals, which he showed last season with his 12 goals. He is one of Belgium's biggest offensive talents, and if he continues to develop in the right direction, we could see many goals from the 21-year-old this season. Provided a bigger European club doesn't snap him up before the transfer window closes of course.

7. Sem Steijn, Twente

Twente was the Eredivisie's big surprise last season, finishing in third place. The team's top scorer was 22-year-old Sem Steijn, who scored 17 goals and finished fifth in the leagues scoring list. He started the season very well in terms of scoring, had a couple of slumps in the middle of the season, but finished strongly with a hat trick in the league's second last round among other things. If Twente remains a top team and Steijn's development continues upwards, he could be a contender for the top scorer title.

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