LAMINE YAMAL THE YOUNGEST
Picture : Today July 13, Lamine Yamal will celebrate his 17th birthday and tomorrow, he will play the EURO Final !
The Euro youngest goal-scorer: now Lamine Yamal
The Euro 2024 have seen all 4 age records of the competitions for youngest/oldest players and scorers updated.
The last of these records, for youngest scorers, was beaten in the 9 July semi-final Spain vs France. Once again by Lamine Yamal (16 years 362 days), who re-wrote already, at the earlier stages of the tournament, the records for the youngest player and the youngest assistant.
The Spanish wonderkid came up to score in a Euro match before his 17th anniversary which he is celebrating today, one day before playing in the Euro final.
In his first season in professional football, at 16 years old, he has played as many as 63 games (50 with Barça and 13 with Spain) having amassed 10 goals.
Here we publish the ranking of 10 players who managed to score in Euro before turning 20. Arda Güler is another one to add his name in the list during this tournament.
| YOUNGEST | SCORERS | EURO | FINALS | ||
| Player | Country | Age | Game | Date | |
| 1 | Lamine Yamal | Spain | 16-362 | France (2:1) | 09/07/2024 |
| 2 | Johan Vonlanthen | Switzerland | 18-141 | France (1:3) | 21/06/2004 |
| 3 | Wayne Rooney | England | 18-237 | Switzerland (3:0) | 17/06/2004 |
| 4 | Renato Sanches | Portugal | 18-317 | Poland (1:1) | 30/06/2016 |
| 5 | Dragan Stojković | Yugoslavia | 19-108 | France (2:3) | 19/06/1984 |
| 6 | Arda Güler | Turkey | 19-114 | Georgia (3:1) | 18/06/2024 |
| 7 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 19-128 | Greece (1:2) | 12/06/2004 |
| 8 | Ferenc Bene | Hungary | 19-183 | Spain (1:2) | 17/06/1964 |
| 9 | Cristian Chivu | Romania | 19-238 | England (3:2) | 20/06/2000 |
| 10 | Patrick Kluivert | Netherlands | 19-353 | England (1:4) | 18/06/1996 |