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 we've seen that on numerous occasions down the years in this competition.
Paris' 19-year old French duo Désiré Doué and Senny Maylulu netted three goals between them in the 2024-25 Champions League final between PSG and Inter Milan, 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 currently up to and including the 2025-26 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.
