IFFHS EURO STATISTICS 29 - THE FASTEST GOALS
Picture : Dmitri Kirichenko, the fastest goal scorer in EURO !
Fastest goal (final stages): Dmitri Kirichenko
Dmitri Kirichenko (Russia) scored the fastest goal in the history of Euro finals. In the Euro 2004 match against Greece, he scored 1 minute and 7 seconds after kick-off.
Craig Bellamy (Wales) holds the record for qualifying matches. He took just 15 seconds to score in the match vs Azerbaijan (4: 0) on March 29, 2003. (picture).
The fastest goal in Euro final games was scored in 1964 by Chus Pereda (Spain, 5 minutes and 17 seconds after kick-off in the final vs Soviet Union).
In the history of Euro final tournaments, there have also been several cases when a substitute player scored in the first minute of his appearance:
Alessandro Altobelli (Italy, vs Denmark, 1988),
Juan Carlos Valerón (Spain, vs Russia, 2004),
Juan Mata (Spain, vs Italy, 2012),
Ondrej Duda (Slovakia, vs Wales, 2016).
| FASTEST GOALS | (ONLY FINALS) | |||||
| Player | Country | Time | Rival (Score) | Date | Stage | |
| 1 | Dmitri Kirichenko | Russia | 01:07 | Greece (2:1) | 20/06/2004 | Group |
| 2 | Robert Lewandowski | Poland | 01:40 | Portugal (1:1) | 30/06/2016 | Quarter-final |
| 3 | Robbie Brady | Republic of Ireland | 02:00 | France (1:2) | 26/06/2016 | Round of 16 |
| 4 | Sergei Aleinikov | Soviet Union | 02:07 | England (3:1) | 18/06/1988 | Group |
| 5 | Alan Shearer | England | 02:14 | Germany (1:1) | 26/06/1996 | Semi-finals |
| 6 | Petr Jiráček | Czech Republic | 02:14 | Greece (2:1) | 12/06/2012 | Group |
| 7 | Michael Owen | England | 02:25 | Portugal (2:2) | 24/06/2004 | Quarter-final |
| 8 | Hristo Stoichkov | Bulgaria | 02:27 | Romania (1:0) | 13/06/1996 | Group |
| 9 | Paul Scholes | England | 02:42 | Portugal (2:3) | 12/06/2000 | Group |