At the end of this season, Cristiano Ronaldo could become the first player in history to win the Golden Boot in four different tournaments.

The Portuguese scored a hat-trick as Al-Nassr beat Al Taee 5-1 last Saturday, bringing his total to 26 goals in 23 matches in the Saudi Pro League this season.

With 9 rounds remaining, Ronaldo is 4 goals ahead of Al-Hilal’s Aleksandar Mitrovic in the race to become the Saudi Pro League’s top scorer this season.

And with the former Fulham striker ruled out for up to six weeks with a hamstring injury on Monday, it looks like Ronaldo will almost certainly win the 2023-2024 Pro League Golden Boot.

If he does so, the former Manchester United and Real Madrid star will make history by becoming the first player to top the scoring charts in four different competitions.

Ronaldo won the Premier League Golden Boot in the 2007-2008 season, when he scored 31 goals in 34 appearances for Man United.

After that, he won the Pichichi Trophy three times – the award given to the player who scores the most goals in La Liga – for Real Madrid.

He had 40 goals in 34 matches in the 2010-2011 season, 31 goals/30 matches in the 2013-2014 season and especially 48 goals/35 matches in the 2014-2015 season.

Ronaldo also had a similar achievement in Italy when he won the Paolo Rossi award as the player who scored the most goals in Serie A in the 2020-2021 season with 29 goals.

Besides Ronaldo, Luis Suarez and Ruud Van Nistelrooy are two other players who won top scorer in three European tournaments.

Suarez won in the Eredivisie in the 2009-2010 season while playing for Ajax, in the Premier League with Liverpool in the 2013-2014 season and in La Liga with Barcelona in the 2015-2016 season.

As for Van Nistelrooy, he was also the top scorer in the Eredivise for PSV Eindhoven in the 1998-1999 and 1999-2000 seasons. The Dutch player won the Premier League Golden Boot in the 2002-2003 season with Man United and La Liga in the 2006-2007 season with Real Madrid.

Other players who also won the top scorer award in three tournaments are Robert Lewandowski – Pichichi Trophy in Liga last season after winning the Bundesliga Golden Boot seven times – twice for Borussia Dortmund and five times for Bayern Munich – and in the top league. beginning of Poland season 2009-2010.

Was Romario in the Netherlands for PSV Eindhoven for three consecutive seasons from 1988 to 1990, in La Liga in the 1993-1994 season and in Brazil in 2005.

Meanwhile, Alfredo di Stefano was top scorer in Argentina in 1947, in Colombia in 1951 and 1952 and then five times in La Liga from 1954 to 1959.

More recently, Seydou Doumbia achieved similar feats in Ivory Coast in 2005, the Swiss Super League in 2009 and 2010 and the Russian Premier League in 2012 and 2014.