Arsenal wonderkid Max Dowman has simply turn out to be the Premier League’s youngest-ever goalscorer, though he doesn’t fairly boast the all-time top-flight document. Who’re the record-breaking history-making prodigies from round Europe, although?
We’ve dusted off the historical past books and accomplished some digging to seek out the all-time youngest goalscorers throughout Europe’s huge 5 leagues – the Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, La Liga and the English high flight.
With out additional ado, listed here are the youngest goalscorers from every of Europe’s 5 greatest leagues.
La Liga – Lamine Yamal (Barcelona)
16 years, 87 days
Xavi Hernandez handed Lamine Yamal his La Liga debut with a quick cameo within the run-in of Barcelona’s 2023-24 title-winning marketing campaign.
Yamal was Barcelona’s youngest debutant in over a century, and the fifth-youngest in the whole historical past of the Spanish high flight.
He grew to become extra of a first-team common after turning 16 that summer time, and it wouldn’t be lengthy earlier than he was getting on the scoresheet.
The prodigy walked the ball over the road, having been arrange by Joao Felix, to halve the deficit in a 2-2 comeback draw towards Granada.
Yamal by no means regarded again from there and has damaged all types of information since, from changing into Spain’s youngest debutant and goalscorer, to changing into the youngest-ever goalscorer at a world main match, to changing into the youngest participant to notch 100 senior skilled appearances in European soccer historical past.
And the information simply preserve coming. It’s scary to assume what he’ll obtain if he continues on his present trajectory.
English High Flight – Jason Dozzell (Ipswich City)
16 years, 57 days
Soccer didn’t begin in 1992, don’t you realize?
Not like Europe’s different 4 huge leagues, which preserve information for his or her complete histories, we’ve obtained a bizarre scenario in England whereby there’s specific consideration paid solely to the fashionable period after the shiny new rebrand backed by Sky Sports activities.
For instance, Alan Shearer holds the excellence of being the ‘all-time high Premier League goalscorer’, however he’s fifth within the all-time top-flight rankings behind Jimmy Greaves, Steve Bloomer, Dixie Dean and Gordon Hodgson.
Likewise, Max Dowman may simply have damaged James Vaughan’s long-held document to turn out to be the youngest goalscorer of the Premier League period, however he’s second to Ipswich City’s Jason Dozzell within the all-time top-flight rankings. Dowman was simply 16 days off breaking the all-time document.
Dozzell was prolific as a youth and signed on schoolboy phrases by Bobby Robson. He scored as a late substitute on his debut, a 3-1 victory over Coventry Metropolis in February 1984, and went on to play over 300 instances for the Tractor Boys over the next decade, later turning out for Tottenham within the early Premier League years.
Apparently sufficient, his son Andre Dozzell additionally scored on his Ipswich debut as a 16-year-old, although that was within the Championship again in April 2016.
Ligue 1 – Richard Krawczyk (Lens)
16 years, 105 days
A comparatively lesser-known determine, Krawczyk grew to become Ligue 1’s youngest-ever goalscorer when he notched the opener for Lens in a 2-1 victory away to Angers in 1963.
Krawczyk remained at Lens for one more 5 years and later represented Metz and Reims earlier than seeing out his twilight taking part in years again at his boyhood membership. He earned one senior cap for France within the late 60s.
It’s considerably exceptional {that a} expertise manufacturing unit like France, having produced quite a few prodigiously gifted wonderkids over time, has seen the midfielder’s document stay unbroken for over half a century.
Lately, the likes of Neal Maupay and Warren Zaire-Emery opened their Ligue 1 accounts on the age of 16 however neither may fairly match Krawczyk.
Serie A – Amedeo Amadei (Roma)
15 years, 280 days
Nonetheless the one footballer in the whole historical past of Europe’s 5 main leagues to attain a objective earlier than turning 16. He by no means regarded again since scoring a comfort objective in a 5-1 defeat to Lucchese in Could 1937.
A legendary determine of the Nineteen Forties and Fifties, Amadei scored lots of for Roma, Inter and Napoli and nonetheless stands sixteenth within the all-time Serie A scoring charts, above the likes of Luca Toni, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Filippo Inzaghi.
Nicknamed the ‘eighth King of Rome’ lengthy earlier than Francesco Totti took on the identical nickname, the striker grew up close to the capital and loved two spells at his hometown membership.
Amadei received the Scudetto with the Giallorossi in 1941-42 and was inducted into the membership’s Corridor of Fame the yr earlier than his loss of life, in 2012. He was posthumously named within the Italian Soccer Corridor of Fame in 2018.
Bundesliga – Youssoufa Moukoko (Borussia Dortmund)
16 years, 28 days
The second-youngest goalscorer within the historical past of Europe’s 5 main leagues, Moukoko regarded for all of the world set to observe within the footsteps of Erling Haaland, Jadon Sancho and Jude Bellingham as one other Borussia Dortmund money-maker.
An extra 16 Bundesliga objectives adopted, however his profession hasn’t fairly developed as anticipated. After a so-so mortgage at Good final season, Moukoko made a considerably leftfield flip and signed for FC Copenhagen in the summertime.
He’s nonetheless solely 21 and should but attain his potential, but it surely’s secure to say that his progress in these early years has not been linear.
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