STATISTICS - "OLDEST" INTERNATIONAL GOALS

• Oct 11, 2021
• History Statistics

Picture : Jose Fonte became the oldest goal scorer for Portugal.

José Fonte has scored one of “oldest” international goals!

In the friendly Portugal – Qatar (3-0) on 9 October, the centre-back José Fonte has scored a goal at the age of 37 years 291 days. He became the oldest goal-scorer for Portugal, breaking the previous record of Ricardo Carvalho (36 years 315 days in 2015). It is the only goal of José Fonte for Portugal so far.
José Fonte entered the European ranking of oldest national team goal-scorers taking 18th position. He is the only active national team player from the list below. Goran Pandev who scored another “old” goal on the past Euro for North Macedonia also continues his career, at club level, but he finished the international run.
Stanley Matthews remains the only European player to score for national team being older than 40 years. Zlatan Ibrahimovic has a chance to become the next one soon.  

	EUROPE'S
	ALL-TIME OLDEST	NATIONAL TEAM	GOAL	SCORERS
	Player	Country	Age	Date	Game
1	Stanley Matthews	England	41-248	06/10/1956	Northern Ireland (1-1)
2	Baqtïyar Bayseyitov	Kazakhstan	39-311	03/07/1992	Libya (1-0)
3	Morten Olsen	Denmark	39-308	18/06/1989	Brazil (4-0)
4	Jari Litmanen	Finland	39-270	17/11/2010	San Marino (8-0)
5	Mímis Domázos	Greece	38-294	11/11/1980	Australia (3-3)
6	Archibald Goodall	Ireland	38-282	28/03/1903	Wales (2-0)
7	Ivica Vastić	Austria	38-257	12/06/2008	Poland (1-1)
8	Jan Heintze	Denmark	38-243	17/04/2002	Israel (3-1)
9	Billy Meredith	Wales	38-230	17/03/1913	England (3-4)
10	Vitālijs Astafjevs	Latvia	38-159	09/09/2009	Switzerland (2-2)
11	Abe Lenstra	Netherlands	38-143	19/04/1959	Belgium (2-2)
12	Lothar Matthäus	Germany	38-129	28/07/1999	New Zealand (2-0)
13	Jurijs Ševļakovs	Latvia	38-096	30/04/1997	Belarus (2-0)
14	Milivoje Novaković	Slovenia	38-023	10/06/2017	Malta (2-0)
15	Lee Casciaro	Gibraltar	38-016	15/10/2019	Georgia (2-3)
16	Gunnar Gren	Sweden	37-360	26/10/1958	Denmark (4-4)
17	Goran Pandev	North Macedonia	37-321	13/06/2021	Austria (1-3)
18	José Fonte	Portugal	37-291	09/10/2021	Qatar (3-0)
19	Eiður Guðjohnsen	Iceland	37-265	06/06/2016	Liechtenstein (4-0)