The Golden Shoe. Discredited, but still existing in its original form. For the first time the award was jointly won by two men. In the same time Toni Polster appeared for third time among the three top European scorers and somewhat curiously Austrians were among the most persistent in the history of the award: altogether, 9 times they were in the top three.
Toni Polster (FC Sevilla, Austria) and Mats Magnusson (Benfica, Sweden) were 3rd with 33 goals each.
Gerhard Rodax (Admira-Wacker, Austria) was 2nd with 35 goals.
Hugo Sanchez (Real Madrid, Mexico) and
Christo Stoichkov (CSKA, Bulgaria) shared the top position with 38 goals each.
The winners added some novelty as well – Hugo Sanchez, already a superstar for years precisely for his scoring ability never made the top three before. Stoichkov, still making his name internationally, was not only the third Bulgarian to win the Golden Shoe, but with a record – domestic record, yet important one: he bested the season-scoring record jointly held by Petar Zhekov and Nasko Sirakov by 2 goals. There was something symbolic awarding Sanchez and Stoichkov together, when looked from a time distance: on the crossroad of two decades, it was the 1980s still holding, but getting to step down to the 1990s – Sanchez was getting old by now and Stoichkov was rapidly climbing up, Real Madrid was very soon going to be eclipsed by Barcelona with Stoichkov. To a point, it was noble stepping down of the 1980s and the new order of the 90s decade coming up.
