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Who are the youngest goalscorers in a UEFA Champions League final?

by Alex Sarwar · May 27 2025, 17:05
Updated June 3 2025, 12:50
Who are the youngest goalscorers in a UEFA Champions League final?

The statistics in this article cover the UEFA Champions League era only (1992-93 season onwards)

The UEFA Champions League final is a stage where young stars announce themselves to the football world and the 2024-25 final between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan was no different.

Paris' 19-year old French duo Désiré Doué and Senny Maylulu netted three goals between them, thus doubling the number of teenagers to have scored in a UEFA Champions League final in just one match.

As it stands now, nine players have found the net in a UEFA Champions League final whilst under the age of 22, including the four teenagers.

Below is a list of the top 12 youngest goalscorers in a UEFA Champions League final:

UEFA Champions League final – youngest goalscorers (1992-93 onwards) 

Name

Nationality

Team

Season

Age (year)

Age (days)

Opponent

Patrick Kluivert

Netherlands

AFC Ajax

1994/95

18

327

AC Milan

Carlos Alberto

Brazil

FC Porto

2003/04

19

167

AS Monaco

Senny Maylulu

France

Paris Saint-Germain

2024/25

19

14

Inter Milan

Désiré Doué

France

Paris Saint-Germain

2024/25

19

362

Inter Milan

Lars Ricken

Germany

Borussia Dortmund

1996/97

20

322

Juventus

Marco Asensio

Spain

Real Madrid C.F.

2016/17

21

133

Juventus

Vinícius Júnior

Brazil

Real Madrid C.F.

2021/22

21

320

Liverpool FC

Lionel Messi

Argentina

FC Barcelona

2008/09

21

337

Manchester United

Kai Havertz

Germany

Chelsea FC

2020/21

21

352

Manchester City

Alessandro Del Piero

Italy

Juventus

1996/97

22

200

Borussia Dortmund

İlkay Gündoğan

Germany

Borussia Dortmund

2012/13

22

213

FC Bayern München

Álvaro Morata

Spain

Juventus

2014/15

22

226

FC Barcelona

Data is current up to and including the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League final

Lionel Messi has represented Paris Saint-Germain over the course of glittering career, but it was as a 21-year-old at Barcelona when he scored his first UEFA Champions League final goal in a 2-0 win over Man Utd in 2009. That made Messi at the time the fourth youngest goalscorer in a UEFA Champions League final.

Since then, four players have found the net in Europe's biggest club match who were younger that Messi was at the time of his first goal, one of which by just 17 days. Two of those were Real Madrid players, both of whom were 21 years old. Marco Asensio scored at 21 years and 133 days old against Juventus in 2017, whilst Brazilian star Vinicius Junior netted his first UEFA Champions League final goal at 21 years and 320 days in 2022

Only four teenagers boast a goal in the final. Patrick Kluivert is the youngest at just 18 when he scored the winning goal for Ajax in the Dutch giants' 1-0 win over Juventus in 1995. Nine years later, 19-year-old attacking midfielder Carlos Alberto was on the scoresheet for Jose Mourinho's Porto, who defeated Monaco in 2004. A gap of 21 years then followed without a teenager scoring in a UEFA Champions League final, until the 2024-25 contest which saw both Désiré Doué and Senny Maylulu find the net, the former doing so twice in Paris' 5-0 victory.

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