UEFA EURO'S FASTEST GOALS
Euro’s fastest goals: 3 from top 5 came from 2024 edition
The group stage of Euro 2024 has significatly updated the competition’s historical ranking of fastest goals.
As many as three it’s goals entered the top 5 of the all-time chart.
First of all, Nedim Bajrami's goal (PICTURE) after 23 seconds for Albania against Italy became the fastest ever scored at the Euro finals.
The previous record of Russian Dmitri Kirichenko (1 minute 7 seconds vs Greece at Euro 2004) stood for nearly 20 years and was beaten by far.
Besides, Youri Tielemans’s goal for Belgium vs Romania after 1 minute 13 seconds from kick-off took a place at podium (third position), and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s goal for Georgia vs Portugal got the 5th place with a rate of 1 minute 32 seconds.
Notably, all 6 fastest goals in the updated ranking were scored in the grop stage.
The record for knockout stage belongs to Robert Lewandowski who netted for Poland vs Portugal in the Euro 2016 quarter-final after exactly 100 seconds.
Will someone beat him at the forthcoming Euro 2024 playoffs?
| FASTEST GOALS | EURO FINALS | |||||
| Player | Country | Time | Game | Date | Stage | |
| 1 | Nedim Bajrami | Albania | 0:23 | Italy (1:2) | 15/06/2024 | Group |
| 2 | Dmitri Kirichenko | Russia | 1:07 | Greece (2:1) | 20/06/2004 | Group |
| 3 | Youri Tielemans | Belgium | 1:13 | Romania (2:0) | 22/06/2024 | Group |
| 4 | Emil Forsberg | Sweden | 1:22 | Poland (3:2) | 23/06/2021 | Group |
| 5 | Khvicha Kvaratskhelia | Georgia | 1:32 | Portugal (2:0) | 26/06/2024 | Group |
| 6 | Yussuf Poulsen | Denmark | 1:39 | Belgium (1:2) | 17/06/2021 | Group |
| 7 | Robert Lewandowski | Poland | 1:40 | Portugal (1:1) | 30/06/2016 | Quarter-final |
| 8 | Luke Shaw | England | 1:57 | Italy (1:1) | 11/07/2021 | Final |
| 9 | Robbie Brady | Republic of Ireland | 2:00 | France (1:2) | 26/06/2016 | Round of 16 |
| 10 | Sergei Aleinikov | Soviet Union | 2:07 | England (3:1) | 18/06/1988 | Group |
| 11 | Alan Shearer | England | 2:14 | Germany (1:1) | 26/06/1996 | Semi-final |
| 12 | Petr Jiráček | Czech Republic | 2:14 | Greece (2:1) | 12/06/2012 | Group |
| 13 | Michael Owen | England | 2:25 | Portugal (2:2) | 24/06/2004 | Quarter-final |
| 14 | Hristo Stoichkov | Bulgaria | 2:27 | Romania (1:0) | 13/06/1996 | Group |
| 15 | Paul Scholes | England | 2:42 | Portugal (2:3) | 12/06/2000 | Group |