1911:
1th-Imre Schlosser(In 1911 Schlosser won with Ferencvárosi TC the Hungarian League and was Hungarian Top Goalscorer and World Top-Scorer with 42 goals)
2nd-Billy Meredith(He won the Football League First Division with Manchester being the star player of the team)
3rd-Albert Shepherd(Sheperd was English League First Division Top Scorer with 25 goals and had a total of 33 league and cup goals. Newcastle got to the FA Cup final helped by 8 goals in the earlier rounds from Shepherd, however in a home league game against Blackburn Rovers the week before the Final, Shepherd was badly injured in a collision with the Blackburn 'keeper and missed the Final which Newcastle lost in a replay.)
1912:
1th-Imre Schlosser(In 1912 Schlosser won with Ferencvárosi TC the Hungarian League and was Hungarian Top Goalscorer and World Top-Scorer with 40 goals)
2nd-Harold Walden(This season , Walden was Bradford City's top scorer in the league with 14 goals. With England , he won the Olympics being his team's top scorer with 9 goals including the opener in both Final and Semi-Final and also 6 against Hungary in their 1th match)
3rd-Gottfried Fuchs(With his club , Karlsruher FV , he was runner-up for the German football championship , and won the Southern German championship and the Südkreis-Liga. With Germany , he was the top scorer at the Summer Olympics scoring 10 goals)
1913:
1th-Imre Schlosser(In 1913 Schlosser won with Ferencvárosi TC the Hungarian League and was Hungarian Top Goalscorer and World Top-Scorer with 42 goals)
2nd-Alberto Ohaco(Ohaco was top scorer in the Argetnine league with 20 goals and won the Primera División Argentina with Racing Club)
3rd-Charlie Buchan(Buchan won with Sunderland the Football League First Division and was his team star player and top scorer with 27 goals.He also narrowly missed out on the Double, losing the FA Cup final 1–0 to Aston Villa)
1914:
1th-Alberto Ohaco(Ohaco was top scorer in the Argetnine league with 20 goals and won the Primera División Argentina with Racing Club)
2nd-Imre Schlosser(In 1914 Schlosser becomes for the 4th time World League Top Scorer with 36 goals )
3rd-George Elliot(He was top scorer in the Division One during the 1913–14 season with 31 goals, and held the club record for most goals in a single match, with 11 for the Reserves in a 14–1 win over Houghton Rovers.)
1915:
1th-Alberto Ohaco(Ohaco was top scorer in the Argetnine league with 31 goals and won the Primera División Argentina with Racing Club this being his best year)
2nd-Rafael Moreno "Pichichi"(This year Pichichi won the Northern Championship and the Spanish Cup where he netted a hat-trick in the 1915 final as Athletic beat RCD Español 5–0)
3rd-Bobby Parker(Parker won the English League First Division with Everton and was the league’s top scorer with 35 goals)
1916:
1th-Isabelino Gradín(The 1916 South American Championship, in which Uruguay took out their first continental championship, is considered to have been Gradín's career high point. As the age of 19 he finished the tournament with three goals and was leading goalscorer for the tournament and the best player)
2nd-Angel Romano(This year Romano won the Uruguayan Primera Division and Copa de Honor with Nacional and with Uruguay he won Copa América)
3rd-James McColl(He was World League Top Scorer with 34 goals and won with Celtic the Scottish League Championship and the Glasgow Cup)
1917:
1th-Hector Scarone(At the age of 19, he scored the goal that gave Uruguay the title at the 1917 South American Championship, in the final against Argentina,being the best player of the tournament and he also won with his club Nacional the Primera Division Uruguaya)
2nd-Angel Romano(This year,Romano won with Nacional the Uruguayan Primera and with Uruguay the Copa América where he was Top Scorer with 4 goals)
3rd-Imre Schlosser(This season he won with Ferencvárosi TC the Hugarian League being the top scorer with 38 goals)
1918:
1th-Alfred Schaffer(He won Hungarian League Championship with MTK and was World League Top Scorer with 42 goals)
2nd-Imre Schlosser(He won Hungarian League Championship with MTK scoring a total of 41 goals)
3rd-Kalman Konrad(He won Hungarian League Championship with MTK him being the playmaker and also scoring many goals)
1919:
1th-Arthur Friedenreich(He was top scorer of the Liga Paulista with 26 goals and won it.With Brazil he won the South American Championship where he was joint top-scorer with 4 goals and best player of the tournament)
2nd-Alfred Schaffer(He won Hungarian League Championship with MTK and was World League Top Scorer with 41 goals)
3rd-Kalman Konrad(He won Hungarian League Championship with MTK him being the playmaker and also scoring many goals)
1920:
1th-Angel Romano(This year Romano won the Uruguayan Primera Division and Copa America where he was joint top scorer)
2nd-György Orth(He won Hungarian League Championship with MTK and was Hungarian League Top Scorer with 28 goals)
3rd-Arthur Fridenreich(This was his all time record season for scoring a total of 37 goals in only 21 appearenes for Paulistano for whom he won the Copa dos Campeões Estaduais)
1921:
1th-Arthur Friedenreich(He was top scorer of the Liga Paulista with 33 goals and won it)
2nd-György Orth(He won Hungarian League Championship with MTK and was Hungarian League Top Scorer with 21 goals)
3rd-Alan Morton(This season the 'Wembley Wizard' won with Glasgow Rangers the Scottish Football League and received runners-up medal for the Scottish Cup)
1922:
1th-Manuel Seoane(He finished as the top scorer in Argentine football with an incredible 55 goals and won with Independiente the Primera División Argentina title)
2nd-György Orth(He won Hungarian League Championship with MTK and was Hungarian League Top Scorer with 26 goals)
3rd-Agostinho Fortes Filho(He won with Brazil the South American Championship being the best player of the tournament)
1923:
1th-Charlie Buchan(He was frequently described as the best footballer in England and was English League First Division Top Scorer with 30 goals finishing runner-up with Sunderland.He was also World League Top Scorer)
2nd-José Nasazzi(He was Best player at the South American Championship and won it with Uruguay)
3rd-Domingo Tarasconi(He was Argentine Primera league topscorer with 40 goals and won the Primera División Argentina with Boca Juniors)
1924:
1th-Pedro Petrone(In this season he was Primera División Uruguaya winner and won the 1924 Olympics Gold Medal being the tournament’s top scorer with 7 goals and also won Copa America being the Tournament Top Goalscorer and MVP with 4 goals)
2nd-José Leandro Andrade(He won with Nacional the Primera División Uruguaya and with Uruguay the South American Championship and Olympic Games)
3rd-Hector Scarone(He won with Nacional the Primera División Uruguaya and with Uruguay the South American Championship and Olympic Games)
1925:
1th-Héctor Scarone(Regarded as arguably the best player of the period , Scarone backed this opion up this year when he participated in the historic tour conducted by Nacional in Europe during 159 days in France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal. He was the top scorer of the tour with 26 goals.
2nd-Manuel Seoane(He won the Copa América title in 1925 being the top scorer and best player with 6 goals)
3rd-Archie Stark(Stark scored this season with Bethlehem Steel an incredible 67 league goals 3 more goals in 2 league cup games and 5 goals in 2 games at national level being the best goal scorer ever in a single season at club level)
1926:
1th-José Leandro Andrade(This season he won the South American Championship with Uruguay where he was the best player of the tournament)
2nd-Manuel Seoane(This year Seoane won the Primera División Argentina with Independiente and was the league’s top scorer with 29 goals)
3rd-Alex Jackson(Jackson helped Huddersfield retain their league title this season scoring 16 goals and being their star player)
1927:
1th-Jimmy McGrory(He won the Scottish League and the Scottish Cup and was the world top goal scorer with a stunning 59 goals)
2nd- Hughie Gallacher(This season,he won with NewCastle the Football League First Division. He scored 36 league goals in 38 appearances, still the highest number of league goals in one season by a Newcastle player)
3rd-Hector Scarone(This season he played for Barcelona scoring 17 goals in only 18 games and with Uruguay he finished runner-up at the Copa America being the joint-top scorer of the tournament with 3 goals)
1928:
1th-Dixie Dean(He still is the only player in English football to have scored 60 League goals in one season and won the 'Sunday Pictorial Trophy' for 60 League Goals.He also won the League Championship with Everton)
3rd-Jimmy McGrory(With his team,Celtic,he was runner-up for the Scottish League and Scottish Cup and was the world top goal scorer with a stunning 62 goals being the second highest ever in European football)
2nd-Joseph Takacs(He won with Ferencváros the Hungarian cup and league where he was top scorer with 31 goals and also won the Mitropa Cup being the top scorer with 10 goals)
1929:
1th- Aurelio González(He won his 3rd consecutive national championship with Olimpia and was the top scorer of the Copa América with 5 goals were he finished runner-up with Paraguay)
2nd-Angelo Schiavio(In this season Bologna won their second championship, with Schiavio averaging more than a goal per game with 30 goals in 26 games , his most prolific domestic campaign)
3rd- Stefan Auer(With Újpest, Avar won the Mitropa Cup in 1929, being the competition's top scorer with ten goals)
1930:
1th-José Nasazzi(This year,Nasazzi won the first ever World Cup and won the Golden Ball for being the best player of the tournament)
2nd-Giuseppe Meazza(This season 20 year old Meazza won the Serie A title with Inter and was the competition’s top scorer with 31 goals holding the record for the most goals scored in a debut season in Serie A.He was also the Top Scorer of the Mitropa Cup with 7 goals)
3rd- Josef Smistik(He won with Rapid Wien the Austrian Football Bundesliga and the Mitropa Cup being the star player of his team)
1931:
1th-Raimundo Orsi(This year Orsi won the Serie Title with Juventus being the club’s top scorer with 20 goals this being his best goal scoring year of his career)
2nd-Alex James(James won with Arsenal the Football League First Division him being the star player of the team and playmaker)
3rd-Giuseppe Meazza(This season , Meazza scored a total of 31 goals for Inter and was the most entertaining player in the league)
1932:
1th-Matthias Sindelar(This year he won the Central European International Cup with Austria and displayed superb technical abilities)
2nd-Dixie Dean(He won the League Championship with Everton scoring an incredible total of 47 goals this season)
3rd-Raimundo Orsi(This season he won with Juventus the Serie A being his team's top scorer with 20 goals and also was arguably the best player in the Mitropa Cup)
1933:
1th-Matthias Sindelar(This year "The Mozart of football" won the Austrian Cup and the Mitropa Cup where he scored all three of FK Austria Wien's goals in the second leg of the final, the third, which was the winner, in the 88th minute)
2nd-Giuseppe Meazza(He scored for Inter 20 goals,including 2 astonshing goals against Combi,finnishing runner-up for the Serie A title and was also runner-up for the Mitropa Cup where he was top scorer with 5 goals)
3rd-Ricardo Zamora(This season he won with Real the La Liga and had the lowest "goals-to-games" ratio in the league.He was considered the best goalkeeper in the world)
1934:
1th-Giuseppe Meazza(At club level Meazza finished runne-up for the Serie A title with Inter being the 3rd in the goal scoring charts with 21 goals but at national level "il Balilla" won the World Cup and was elected into the All-Star Team of the tournament and won The Golden Ball, the award presented to the best player at each FIFA World Cup finals)
2nd-Matthias Sindelar(This year Sindelar was part of the Wunderteam.They were eliminated by the eventual champion Italy in the semi-final, a match under poor weather conditions that limited their movement of the ball.Sindelar won the Silver Ball for the second best player of the World Cup. At club level he scored a career recored of 23 goals)
3rd-Luis Monti(He won with Juventus the Serie A title and with Italy the World Cup where he was selected in the team of the tournament)
1935:
1th-György Sárosi(This season Sarosi didn't managed to win any team title but he was superb as an individual finishing as top scorer of the Mitropa Cup with 9 goals , scored 22 goals in 21 league games for his club and top scorer of the Central European International Cup with 7 goals for Hungary)
2nd-Ted Drake(Edward won with Arsenal the Football League First Division scoring 42 goals in 41 league games in the process — this included three hat-tricks and four four-goal hauls. With two more goals in the FA Cup and Charity Shield, Drake scored 44 in all that season, breaking Jack Lambert's club record, one that still holds to this day and was World League Top Scorer)
3rd-Alex James(James won with Arsenal the Football League First Division him being the star player of the team and playmaker assisting many of Ted Drake's goals)
1936:
1th-Giuseppe Meazza(He was top-scorer of Serie A with 25 goals and top scorer of the Mitropa Cup with 10 goals)
2nd-György Sárosi(He finished 3rd in the hugarian league with Ferencváros and was the league's top-scorer with 36 goals)
3rd-Matthias Sindelar(This season he won with FK Austria Vienna the Austrian Cup and the Mitropa Cup where he was one of the best players)
1937:
1th-Arsenio Erico(This year Erico was World League Top Scorer and with 48 goals and finished runner-up with Independiente in the Primera División)
2nd-György Sárosi(He won the Mitropa Cup with Ferencvárosi TC being the tournament’s top scorer with 12 goals and also scored 7 goals against Czechoslovakia with legendary keeper Frantsek Plánicka defending the goal)
3rd-Jose Manuel Moreno(He won with River Plate the Argentine Football Championship scoring 32 goals in 31 games this being his personal record)
1938:
1th-Leônidas da Silva(This year the “Black Diamond” was the World Cup's top scorer with 7 goals and won the World Cup Golden Ball)
2nd-György Sárosi(Sárosi won the Hungarian National Championship with Ferencvárosi TC and captained Hungary to the 1938 FIFA World Cup finals, where he scored five goals in the tournament. He finished with the bronze ball for being the third top goalscorer of the tournament)
3rd- Giuseppe Meazza(Meazza won the Serie A title with Inter being the Top Scorer with 20 goals and won the Jules Rimet Trophy with Italy)
1939:
1th-Tommy Lawton(Lawton won with Everton the Football League First Division and was the competition’s top scorer with 35 goals)
2nd-Arsenio Erico(Erico won the Argentine Football Championship with Independiente and was the competition’s top scorer with 40 goals)
3rd-Guyla Zsengeller(He won the Hungarian National Championship with Újpest FC and was World League Top Scorer with 56 goals.He also won the Mitropa and was the top scorer there with 9 goals)
1940:
1th-Josef Bican(He won the Czechoslovak First League with Slavia Prague and was World League Top Scorer with 50 goals)
2nd-Leônidas da Silva(He finished runner-up in the Rio State Championship with Flamengo being the Top Scorer with 30 goals)
3rd-José Manuel Moreno(He was the most technically gifted player in the world)
1941:
1th-José Manuel Moreno(Moreno won with River Plate the Argentine Football Championship and with Argentina the Copa América)
2nd-Josef Bican(He won the Czechoslovak First League with Slavia Prague and was World League Top Scorer with 38 goals)
3rd-Zizinho(He won the Rio State Championship with his club Flamengo showing an incredible array of skills such as dribbling, passing, shooting with both feet as well as dead ball ability and extraordinary vision)
1942:
1th-José Manuel Moreno(Moreno won with River Plate the Argentine Football Championship and with Argentina runner-up at the Copa América where he was joint-top scorer with 7 goals)
2nd-Adolfo Pedernera(This year he won with River Plate the Argentine Football Championship scoring a career record of 23 goals .With Argentina he finished runner-up at the Copa América
3rd-Josef Bican(He won the Czechoslovak First League with Slavia Prague and was World League Top Scorer with 45 goals)
1943:
1th-Zizinho(He won the Rio State Championship with his club Flamengo showing an incredible array of skills such as dribbling, passing, shooting with both feet as well as dead ball ability and extraordinary vision)
2nd-Valentino Mazzola(He won with Torino the Serie A and the Coppa Italia)
3rd-Josef Bican(He won the Czechoslovak First League with Slavia Prague and was World League Top Scorer with 39 goals)
1944:
1th-Josef Bican(He won the Czechoslovak First League with Slavia Prague and was World League Top Scorer with 57 goals in only 24 matches)
2nd-Zizinho(He won the Rio State Championship with his club Flamengo being the club’s “brain”)
3rd-Luizinho(He won the São Paulo State Championship and was top goalscorer of Campeonato Paulista with 22 goals)
1945:
1th-Ángel Labruna(He won with River Plate the Argentine Football Championship and was it’s top scorer with 25 goals.)
2nd-Felix Loustau(He won with River Plate the Argentine Football Championship and with Argentina the Copa América)
3rd-Adolfo Pedernera(He won with River Plate the Argentine Football Championship)
1946:
1th-Ferenc Deak(This year Deak was World League Top Scorer with 66 goals wich still stands the highest ever for a single season in European football)
2nd-Valentino Mazzola(He helped the team to the title, which they won over Inter Milan by 13 points him being the star player of the team)
3rd-Adolfo Pedernera(He won with Argentine the South American Championship being named the best player of the tournament)
1947:
1th-Valentino Mazzola(He won the Serie A with Torino and was the top goalscorer with 29 goals,being at his peak)
2nd-Alfredo Di Stefano(He won with River Plate the Primera División being the top scorer and with Argentina he won the Copa America scoring 6 goals)
3rd-José Manuel Moreno(He won the Copa América with Argentina and was chosen best player of the 1947 edition)
1948:
1th-Ferenc Puskás(This year Puskas was World League Top Scorer scoring 50 goals,this being his personal record,showing the world that a “phenom” was born.He also was the Balkan Cup’s Top Scorer with 8 goals,this being the highest ever )
2nd-Stanley Matthews(This season,The Wizard of the Dribble,as he was called for his superb drribling skills reached Blackpool's first FA Cup Final and won the inaugural Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year)
3rd-Valentino Mazzola(In 1948, He broke with Torino numerous records, including ending the season with the biggest ever advantage over the second-placed team-they beat Milan to the title by 16 points and he was 2nd in the goal scoring charts with 25 goals)
1949:
1th-Ademir(This year Ademir won the Campeonato Carioca with Vasco da Gama and was the top scorer with 31 goals.With Brazil he won the Copa América scoring 7 goals including a tournament-winning hat-trick in the final play-off against Paraguay)
2nd-Ferenc Deak(This season , Deak scored a total of 59 goals for his club and 11 goals in only 8 app for the NT)
3rd-Ferenc Puskás(He scored 46 goals and displayed superb technical abilities)
1950:
1th-Ferenc Puskas(This season he won the Hugarian League twice due to the emergence of a short tournament and was top scorer in both racking up 56 goals in 45 apps. At the NT he scored in all 5 gamesgathering an incredible 12 goals)
2nd-Zizinho(Zizinho was part of the Brazil team wich reached the World Cup Final and was surprisingly defeated by Uruguay.He won the WC Golden Ball for scoring 2 goals and perfectly coordinating the Brazil team)
3rd-Ademir(This year Ademir won the Campeonato Carioca with Vasco da Gama and was the top scorer with 25 goals. With Brazil he reached the World Cup Final and was the tournament’s top scorer with 9 goals winning the Bronze Ball)
1951:
1th-Nils Liedholm(This season Liedholm won the Serie A title and the Latin Cup with Milan.He was an astonishing playmaker assiting Nordhal numerous times who was the Top Scorer of the Serie A and he didn’t misplaced a pass the whole season at the San Siro)
2nd-Gunnar Nordahl(This season Nordhal won the Serie A title and the Latin Cup with Milan where he scored a hat-trick in the final and was the league’s top scorer with 34 goals)
3rd-Alfredo di Stéfano(He won the Fútbol Profesional Colombiano with Millonarios and was the Colombian League Top Scorer with 32 goals)
1952:
1th-Ladislao Kubala(Kubala scored 26 goals in 19 games. This included 7 goals in a 9-0 win over Sporting de Gijón, 5 against Celta de Vigo and hat-tricks against Sevilla and Racing de Santander. His 7 goals against Sporting de Gijón remain the record for most goals scored in a single match in La Liga. He also scored in the Copa final as FC Barcelona beat Valencia CF 4-2. He won five different trophies including La Liga, the Copa del Generalisimo, the Latin Cup and the Copa Eva Duarte)
2nd-Ferenc Puskás (This season he won the Hungarian National Championship with Budapest Honvéd and was Olympic Champion with Hungary scoring 4 goals including a goal in the Final)
3rd-Sándor Kocsis(He won the Hungarian National Championship with Budapest Honvéd being the World League Top Scorer with 36 goals.He also was Olympic Champion with Hungary being the tournaments top scorer with 6 goals)
1953:
1th-Ferenc Puskás(This season he was the Hungarian National Championship top scorer with 27 goals and with Hungary he won the The Central European International Cup.He was awarded with an unofficial title of “World Player Of The Year”)
2nd-Nándor Hidegkuti(He was Central European champion with Hungary and Hugarian league champion with his club.He invented the second striker role wich he perfectly applied in the "match of the century" against England where he scored a hat-trick)
3rd-Raymond Kopa(This season Kopa won with Stade Reims French League scoring 13 goals and also the Latin Cup scoring a brace against Milan in the Final)
1954:
1th-Sándor Kocsis(Kocsis won the World Cup and was the top goal scorer with 11 goals, being the first player to score two hat tricks in a World Cup, finishing the tournament as top scorer. His record 2.2 goal/game average in a single World Cup finals competition is still unbeaten as of 2010, and only Just Fontaie has scored more goals in a single World Cup.He also won the Hungarian National Championship and was World League Top Scorer with 33 goals)
2nd-Ferenc Puskás(He won the Hungarian National Championship with Budapest Honvéd and the Central European International Cup being the top scorer with 10 goals.He also finished runner-up in the World Cup with Hungary wich was considered the moral champion.He was the MVP of the tournament winning the Golden Ball)
3rd-Fritz Walter(He was captain of the West German team that won their first World Cup.Walter was the Star Player of his team and won the Bronze Ball for his performance)
1955:
1th-Alfredo di Stéfano(This year Di Stefano won with Real Madrid the Primera División and the Latin Cup being the star player of his team)
2nd-Juan Schiaffino(He won the Serie A with Milan scoring 15 goals and being the star player of his team)
3rd-Gunnar Nordahl(He won the Serie A with Milan being the top-scorer of the competition with 26 goals)