Who scored the first goals in UEFA's competitions?
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
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Maccabi Tel-Aviv's Croatian forward Stipe Perica has scored the first goal of the UEFA Europa Conference League, but who got the first goals in our other competitions?
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It took Maccabi Tel-Aviv forward Stipe Perica just 13 minutes to score the first goal of the inaugural UEFA Europa Conference League proper on 14 September.
The Croatian netted in a 4-1 win against Group A rivals Alashkert in Israel to earn a place in footballing immortality (or, at the very least, in a pub quiz).
Mosta's Christ Ememe Evo had struck the first goal of UEFA Europa Conference League qualifying, on 6 July in a 3-2 win against Spartak Trnava. But who scored the first goals in other UEFA club, international, youth and futsal competitions?
Men's senior competitions
First European Champion Clubs' Cup scorer
João Baptista Martins (Sporting CP 3-3 Partizan, 4 September 1955)
First UEFA EURO scorer
Anatoli Ilyin (USSR 3-1 Hungary, 28 September 1958)
First European/South American Cup scorer
Ferenc Puskás (Real Madrid 5-1 Penarol, 4 September 1960)
First European Cup Winners' Cup scorer
Horst Kohle (Vörwarts Berlin 2-1 Rudá Hvezda, 1 August 1960)
First UEFA Cup scorer
Yaşar Mumcu (Fenerbahçe 1-1 Ferencváros, 14 September 1971)
First UEFA Super Cup scorer*
Luciano Chiarugi (AC Milan 1-0 Ajax, 9 January 1974)
First UEFA Champions League (group stage) scorer
Daniel Amokachi (Club Brugge 1-0 CSKA Moskva, 25 November 1992)
First UEFA Intertoto Cup scorer
Ercüment Şahin (Wimbledon 0-4 Bursaspor, 24 June 1995)
First UEFA Europa League (group stage) scorer
Alberto Zapater (Genoa 2-0 Slavia Praha, 17 September 2009)
First UEFA Nations League scorer
Giorgi Chakvetadze (Kazakhstan 0-2 Georgia, 6 September 2018)
First UEFA Europa Conference League goal
Stipe Perica (Maccabi Tel-Aviv - Alashkert, 14 September 2021)
Women's senior competitions
First UEFA Women's EURO scorer
Helen Johansson (Finland 0-6 Sweden, 18 August 1982)
First UEFA Women's Cup scorer
Gabriela Enache (Codru Anenii Noi 9-0 Ilirija, 14 August 2001)
Futsal
First Futsal EURO scorer
Serhiy Usakovskiy (Serbia 5-9 Ukraine, 23 October 1995, Turin)
First UEFA Futsal Cup scorer
Pedro Medina (Pramen Havlíčkův Brod 3-7 Action 21 Charleroi, 8 October 2001, Charleroi)
First Women’s Futsal EURO scorer
Ani Karapetyan (Moldova 0-1 Armenia, 21 August 2018)
First European U19 Futsal Championship scorer
Hugo Rodrigues (Montenegro 2-3 Andorra, 22 January 2019, Jonava)
Youth
First UEFA Youth League scorer
Sinan Bytyqi (Plzeň 1-4 Manchester City, 17 September 2013)
First U18 (now U19) EURO scorer
Tor Sveen (Denmark 0-1 Norway, 24 September 1980)
First WU18 (now WU19) EURO scorer
Petra Johnsson (Ukraine 0-8 Sweden, 23 September 1997, Sandviken)
First WU17 EURO scorer
Julie Skjeflo Adserø (Norway 4-0 Bulgaria, 5 September 2007)
*The 1972 Super Cup is not considered a UEFA competition