With 29 goals, the last scored Saturday against Clermont (2-3), the French striker of Paris SG is ahead of Lyon's Alexandre Lacazette (27 goals) after 38 rounds. Papin had managed the feat of being crowned five times in a row between 1988 and 1992 with Olympique de Marseille.

He scored 28 goals in 2021-22, 27 in 2020-21, 18 in the Covid-2019-truncated 20-19 season and 33 in 2018-19, his most prolific season in L1.

"It's for history," slipped the striker on Canal + after the game Saturday.

Under contract next season, the PSG N.7 could become the only player to have won this distinction six times in a row.

In any case, he has already projected himself on the next financial year: "I'm just here to play, I have a contract. The club does what it can, I'll just settle for what the club does. The rest is none of my business," the striker said.

Mbappe has already broken the record for the number of trophies for best player of the season won consecutively, with his fourth, obtained Sunday at the ceremony of the UNFP Trophies.

"It's a pleasure, I've always wanted to win, to leave my name in the history of the championship. But even with all the ambition I have I didn't think I would win so fast," he said that evening.

His teammate Lionel Messi was crowned best passer of the Championship, with 16 assists.

The ranking of goalscorers:

29 goals: Mbappé (Paris SG)

27 goals: Lacazette (Lyon)

24 goals: David (Lille)

21 goals: Balogun (Reims), Openda (Lens)

20 goals: Diallo (Strasbourg)

19 goals: Ben Yedder (Monaco), Wahi (Montpellier)

18 goals: Moffi (Nice)

16 goals: Messi (Paris SG)

15 goals: Gouiri (Rennes), Laborde (Nice)

14 goals: Sánchez (Marseille)

13 goals: Neymar (Paris SG)

12 goals: Baldé (Troyes), Dallinga (Toulouse), Embolo (Monaco), Savanier (Montpellier)

10 goals: Aboukhlal (Toulouse), Gameiro (Strasbourg), Kyei (Clermont), Le Douaron (Brest)

9 goals: Nordin (Montpellier), Terrier (Rennes)

8 goals: Golovin (Monaco), Mohamed (Nantes)

7 goals: Blas (Nantes), Bourigeaud (Rennes), Cabella (Lille), Fofana (Lens), Kalimuendo (Rennes), Khaoui (Clermont), Koné (Lorient), Munetsi (Reims), Rony Lopes (Troyes), Saracevic (Clermont), Sotoca (Lens), Toko Ekambi (Rennes)

6 goals: Bamba (Lille), Belaili (AC Ajaccio), Del Castillo (Brest), Delort (Nice), Doku (Rennes), El Idrissy (AC Ajaccio), Honorat (Brest), Ito (Reims), Mounié (Brest), Niang (Auxerre), Ouattara (Lorient), Pepe (Nice), Tavares (Marseille), Tetê (Lyon)

5 goals: Barcola (Lyon), Chaibi (Toulouse), Claude Maurice (Lens), Da Costa (Auxerre), Faitout Maouassa (Montpellier), Faivre (Lorient), Frankowski (Lens), Ganago (Nantes), Hakimi (Paris SG), Le Fée (Lorient), Lees-Melou (Brest), Mbemba (Marseille), Ratão (Toulouse), Saïd (Lens), Sima (Angers), Simon (Nantes), Thomasson (Lens), Under (Marseille), van den Boomen (Toulouse)

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