FC Barcelona’s Bojan Krkic scored against Schalke 04 on Tuesday, 1 April to become the youngest goalscorer in a Champions League knockout match.
Peter Ofori-Quaye is still the youngest player to score a Champions League goal but he scored in the group stage.
Krkic missed Ofori-Quaye’s record, which has stood for over 10 years, by just 23 days. Cesc Fábregas was also exactly the same age as Krkic when he scored his first in the competition.
However, Krkic is the youngest goalscorer in a knockout match in the competition, taking the record from Obafemi Martins.
Only nine teenagers have scored in the knockout stages of the Champions League with only two — Patrick Kluivert and Carlos Alberto — scoring in the final before their 20th birthday.
List after the jump.
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Player |
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Match | Phase |
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Bojan Krkic |
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Schalke 04 – FC Barcelona (01 Apr 2008) 0-1 | Quarterfinal |
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Obafemi Martins |
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Internazionale – AC Milan (13 May 2003) 1-1 | Semifinal |
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Nwankwo Kanu |
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Ajax – Hajduk Split (15 Mar 1995) 3-0 | Quarterfinal |
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Kiki Musampa |
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Ajax – Borussia Dortmund (20 Mar 1996) 1-0 | Quarterfinal |
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Raúl |
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Real Madrid – Juventus (06 Mar 1996) 1-0 | Quarterfinal |
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Patrick Kluivert |
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Ajax – AC Milan (24 May 1995) 1-0 | Final |
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Cesc Fábregas |
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Arsenal – Juventus (28 Mar 2006) 2-0 | Quarterfinal |
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Carlos Alberto |
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FC Porto – AS Monaco (26 May 2004) 3-0 | Final |
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Nordin Wooter |
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Panathinaikos – Ajax (17 Apr 1996) 0-3 | Semifinal |
Youngest goalscorers in all Champions League matches
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Player |
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Match | Phase |
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Peter Ofori-Quaye |
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Rosenborg BK – Olympiakos Piraeus (01 Oct 1997) 5-1 | Group stage |
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Cesc Fábregas |
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Arsenal — Rosenborg (07 Dec 2004) BK 5-1 | Group stage |
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Bojan Krkic |
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Schalke 04 – FC Barcelona (01 Apr 2008) 0-1 | Quarterfinal |
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Martin Klein |
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Panathinaikos – Sparta Praha (27 Feb 2002) 2-1 | 2nd Group stage |
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Karim Benzema |
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Olympique Lyon – Rosenborg BK (06 Dec 2005) 2-1 | Group stage |
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Mariyan Ognyanov |
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Levski Sofia — Chelsea (27 Sep 2006) 1-3 | Group stage |
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Samuel Kuffour |
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Bayern München – Spartak Moskva (02 Nov 1994) 2-2 | Group stage |
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Andri Shevchenko |
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Dynamo Kyiv – Bayern München (07 Dec 1994) 1-4 | Group stage |
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Roque Santa Cruz |
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PSV – Bayern München (26 Oct 1999) 2-1 | 1st Group stage |
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Nigel de Jong |
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Arsenal – Ajax (18 Feb 2003) 1-1 | 2nd Group stage |
