Euro 2024: the mind-blowing stat at the end of the first day, unprecedented in the competition
|L'Anglais Jude Bellingham, buteur contre la Serbie (victoire 1-0).
Cristiano Ronaldo and Platini can sleep peacefully…
Take a close look at the scorer rankings at the end of the first twelve matches of the first day. Thirty-four players are in first place. And for good reason: the competition lists thirty-four different scorers, including three own goals.
Never has such a total been reached in the history of the Euro. Proof that modern football also sometimes reserves its Wharolian minute for an anonymous defender.
The records of Ronaldo and Platini
Among the winners, we can cite the Spaniard Morata, the Englishman Bellingham, the German Füllkrug…
Euro 2024 scorers ranking
Ranking | Players | Éteams | Number of goals scored |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Michel Aebischer | Switzerland | 1 |
1 | Kerem Aktürkoglü | Türkiye | 1 |
1 | Nedim Bajrami | Albania | 1 |
1 | Nicolo Barella | Italy | 1 |
1 | Alessandro Bastoni | Italy | 1 |
1 | Jude Bellingham | England | 1 |
1 | Adam Buksa | Poland | 1 |
1 | Emre Can | Germany | 1 |
1 | Dani Carvajal | Spain | 1 |
1 | Kwadwo Duah | Switzerland | 1 |
1 | Denis Dragus | Romania | 1 |
1 | Breel Embolo | Switzerland | 1 |
1 | Christian Eriksen | Denmark | 1 |
1 | Niclas Füllkrug | Germany | 1 |
1 | Cody Gakpo | Netherlands | 1 |
1 | Arda Güler | Türkiye | 1 |
1 | Kai Havertz | Germany | 1 |
1 | Erik Janza | Slovenia | 1 |
1 | Razvan Marin | Romania | 1 |
1 | Georges Mikautadze | Géorgia | 1 |
1 | Álvaro Morata | Spain | 1 |
1 | Mert Müldür | Türkiye | 1 |
1 | Jamal Musiala | Germany | 1 |
1 | Fabián Ruiz | Spain | 1 |
1 | Ivan Schranz | Slovakia | 1 |
1 | Nicolae Stanciu | Romania | 1 |
1 | Barnabás Varga | Hungary | 1 |
1 | Florian Wirtz | Germany | 1 |
1 | Wout Weghorst | Netherlands | 1 |
For the record, the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo is the top scorer of the European Championships with 14 goals (in six Euros: 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024), while Frenchman Michel Platini remains the top scorer in a single edition (9 goals in 1984).