Earlier this season South couldn’t score. Poor team performances and poor striker recruitment meant South, uncharacteristically, weren’t scoring many goals. Thankfully though this has changed in recent months. So, in light of Bonada, Mikkola and Nagamatsu’s goal scoring form, we thought we’d look back at the club’s great goal scorers.

1960s to 2000s

The earliest recorded club golden boot was Antonis Karagiannis who scored 15 goals in the 1961 season. In 1962 Antonis Hatzieleftheriou did one better and won the golden boot for the whole league!

In the 1970s South joined the NSL and we saw Jimmy Armstrong claim at least two club golden boots. However, it was Doug Brown in 1983 who won South’s first golden boot at NSL level.

In the 1990s only Awaritefe managed to win an NSL golden boot for South, but the club had many great goal scorers during this time including Taliadoros, Boutsianis and Trimboli.

2000s to today

Once South was forced back into the Victorian competition, Fernando De Moraes quickly made a name for himself and managed to win three club golden boots between 2006 and 2010.

But ‘Nando’s’ success was bettered in the 2010s when Milos Lujic joined the club. Lujic won five club golden boots and three league golden boots during his time at South. Overall he played 150 times for Hellas and scored 123 goals.

In the 2020s Harrison Sawyer was very much a spiritual successor to Lujic, and managing to score 46 goals over 77 games before being snapped up by an A-League club.

South has had many great strikers in the past. Hopefully our recent goal scoring form will continue and we will see some of our current players make a name for themselves as goal scoring legends of the club.