The 2018/2019 season of the English Premier League recorded a tremendous achievement for African football, as the top three goal scorers in the league are all from African nations.

Arsenal and Gabonese forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored final-day goals to share the Golden Boot with Liverpool duo Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane.

Aubameyang’s double for Arsenal at Burnley means he joins Egyptian Salah and his Senagalese team mate Mane, who scored against Wolves, on 22 goals. Salah also won the prize last season.

Unlike other competitions, where assists are used in tie break situations, the Premier League regulations state that in the event of a tie the award will be shared.

Aubameyang is the first Arsenal player since Robin Van Persie in 2011-12 to win the Premier League’s Golden Boot and it is also

Salah, 26, scored 32 goals last term. That figure is the record for the most goals scored in a 38-game campaign.

He becomes the sixth player to win the award in consecutive seasons.

Three players last shared the award two decades ago in the 1997/98 season, where Liverpool’s Michael Owen, Manchester United’s Dwight Yorke and Leeds United’s Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink all finished the season with 18 goals.

Aubameyang, who also fired Arsenal to the Europa League final after hitting a hat-trick against Valencia in midweek, had previously won the Bundesliga’s top-scorer award in the 2016-17 season after hitting 31 goals for Borussia Dortmund.