Golden Boot Race: Navaya, Agyemang, Billiat — who will rule the roost?

The race for the 2025/26 PSL Golden Boot is no longer just about goals. It’s about history. With 12 games left, three names are in hot pursuit, and each one is chasing a different kind of legacy.

Hardrock’s Washington Navaya is leading the charts on 12 goals. He’s already been here before. Navaya won the Golden Boot in 2025, and now he’s trying to do what only one man has managed since 2000: win it twice.

That man is Leonard Tsipa. The CAPS United striker won it in 2004, then did it again 12 years later in 2016. Tsipa became the benchmark for consistency in the modern era.

If Navaya holds on, he joins Tsipa in that exclusive club. For a Hardrock side fighting for the championship his goals are crucial as goals wins titles. Every strike now counts double.

AGYEMANG ANGLING TO BREAK A 25-YEAR JINX

One goal behind on 11 is Dynamos’ Ghanaian hitman Frank Agyemang. And he’s not just chasing Navaya. He’s chasing ghosts. The last foreign player to win the PSL Golden Boot was Zambian Chewe Mulenga. That was in the 1999/2000 season when he banged goals for Railstars.

25 years later, no foreigner has broken through. Zimbabwean strikers have owned the award since. Agyemang is the closest they have come. At DeMbare he has the chances, the confidence, and now the numbers. If he overtakes Navaya, he ends the longest foreign drought in PSL history.

Knowledge Musona and Khama Billiat celebrating at Rufaro stadium. Picture bg Fanzone

BILLIAT: THE BRACE MASTER IN A TITLE CHASING TEAM

Right there with Agmeyang on 11 goals is Scottland’s Khama Billiat. The veteran has mastered the art of the brace this season, and it’s no coincidence. His goals are firing Scottland to the top of the table.

This is where it gets interesting. If Billiat wins the Golden Boot and Scottland win the league, he’ll achieve something rare.

In the last 3 seasons, and arguably the last 10, no top scorer has lifted the award in the same year their team won the league. Top scorers have come from mid-table and relegation battlers.

Billiat could break that trend. A Golden Boot to go with a league medal would put him among the very few to do the double in PSL history.

Navaya wants to match Tsipa’s greatness.
Agmeyang wants to end Mulenga’s 25-year foreign record. Billiat wants to do what no one has done in a decade – win the Boot and the league. Goals win games but this season, they might also make history. It remains to be seen, who will be a cut above the rest.

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