Who is the youngest ever Premier League goalscorer?

Mikael Forssell (Chelsea) The former Chelsea striker holds the club record as their youngest ever goalscorer in the Premier League. Forssell was 17 years, 11 months and 5 days old when he netted against Nottingham Forest on his league debut.

Who is the youngest Premier League player ever?

CB: Matthew Briggs (Fulham) – 16 years, 2 months, 7 days. Until Elliott ripped up the record books, Briggs was the incumbent youngest player in Premier League history when he made his first-team debut for the Cottagers in May 2007.

Who is the youngest goalscorer for England?

Michael Owen | 40 goals

Michael Owen rose to international prominence at the 1998 World Cup in France. In that tournament he became the youngest player and youngest goalscorer for England at the time.

Who is the oldest Premier League goalscorer?

Teddy Sheringham holds that mark, interestingly, a man who played for both Manchester United and Tottenham throughout his career. Sheringham is also the Premier League's oldest goalscorer, scoring his final time at 40 years and 266 days old.

Who is the oldest footballer to play in the Premier League?

Teddy Sheringham is the oldest outfield player ever to appear in the Premier League when, aged 40 years and 272 days, the former England striker turned out for West Ham United against Manchester City in December 2006.

Who is the oldest player in Premier League?

The oldest players in Premier League history

• Steve Ogrizovic.
• Brad Friedel. ...
• Mark Schwarzer. ...
• Neville Southall. Age: 41 years, 5 months, 25 days. ...
• Kevin Poole. Age: 41 years, 5 months, 11 days. ...
• Jens Lehmann. Age: 41 years, 5 months. ...
• Teddy Sheringham. Age: 40 years, 8 months, 28 days. ...
• Edwin van der Sar. Age: 40 years, 6 months, 23 days. ...

How old is the youngest player to play for England?

Callum Hudson-Odoi

Debut: March 22, 2019, aged 18 years and 134 days. Hudson-Odoi came on as a substitute to play the final 20 minutes of a 5-0 Euro 2020 qualifier victory over the Czech Republic, becoming the youngest-ever player to make his England debut in a competitive fixture.

Who scored the most hat tricks for England?

Jimmy Greaves has scored the greatest number of hat-tricks, with six.

Can a 15 year old play professional football?

So far, the minimum legal age to become a professional football player was 16 years. On June 16, 2018, this age limit has been lowered and players can now conclude an employment agreement (i.e. until 80 hours per month) as from the age of 15.

Who is the best English footballer of all time?

Gareth Bale hailed as 'greatest British footballer of all-time' – but is Welshman better than Kenny Dalglish, George Best and Paul Gascoigne? talkSPORT pundits debate where Real Madrid star stands among legends.

What is it called when you get 4 goals in soccer?

Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.

Who is the oldest footballer still playing?

The same can be said of former Japan international Kazuyoshi Miura, another consummate professional, who at 55 is still playing in the lower tiers of Japanese football. However, over in Uruguay, Robert Carmona can boast being the oldest player in football history.

Who is the shortest footballer in the Premier League?

LW: Ryan Fraser (Newcastle United)

The smallest player in the entire Premier League rather fittingly rounds off our XI. However, what Fraser might lack in height, he certain doesn't lack in talent with his low centre of gravity no doubt coming in handy.

Who is the oldest player to retire in the Premier League?

Bradford City vs Leeds United (March 12, 2000)

Just like Steve Ogrizovic, another English top-flight goalkeeping legend bowed out in 1999-00, with Neville Southall ending his Premier League career at 41 years old.

Who is the youngest captain to lift the fa cup?

In this second spell with Marseille, Deschamps gained his first honours as a professional player, winning two French league titles in 1991 and 1992, and was a member of the first and only French side to win the Champions League in 1993, becoming the youngest captain ever to lift the trophy in the process.

Who is the youngest captain in football history?

At the age of 16, Ajer captained IK Start on April 7, 2015, becoming the youngest ever footballer to captain a team in the Tippeligaen, Norwegian professional football league.

Who is the best captain in the history of football?

Today, Let's pick your top 5 Greatest Captains in football history!

• Paolo Maldini. ...
• Didier Deschamps. ...
• Roy Keane. ...
• Steven Gerrard. ...
• Francesco Totti. ...
• Diego Maradona. ...
• Carles Puyol. ...
• Franz Beckenbauer. As a captain, Franz Beckenbauer won every trophy going at both club and international level.