STATISTICS - "OLDEST" INTERNATIONAL GOALS



Picture : Jose Fonte became the oldest goal scorer for Portugal.


José Fonte has scored one of “oldest” international goals!

In the friendly Portugal – Qatar (3-0) on 9 October, the centre-back José Fonte has scored a goal at the age of 37 years 291 days. He became the oldest goal-scorer for Portugal, breaking the previous record of Ricardo Carvalho (36 years 315 days in 2015). It is the only goal of José Fonte for Portugal so far.
José Fonte entered the European ranking of oldest national team goal-scorers taking 18th position. He is the only active national team player from the list below. Goran Pandev who scored another “old” goal on the past Euro for North Macedonia also continues his career, at club level, but he finished the international run.
Stanley Matthews remains the only European player to score for national team being older than 40 years. Zlatan Ibrahimovic has a chance to become the next one soon.  


 EUROPE'S    
 ALL-TIME OLDESTNATIONAL TEAMGOALSCORERS 
      
 PlayerCountryAgeDateGame
      
1Stanley Matthews              England41-248    06/10/1956Northern Ireland (1-1)
2Baqtïyar BayseyitovKazakhstan 39-311   03/07/1992Libya (1-0)
3Morten Olsen                  Denmark39-308   18/06/1989Brazil (4-0)
4Jari Litmanen                 Finland39-270   17/11/2010San Marino (8-0)
5Mímis Domázos      Greece 38-294   11/11/1980Australia (3-3)
6Archibald Goodall             Ireland38-282   28/03/1903Wales (2-0)
7Ivica Vastić                  Austria 38-257   12/06/2008Poland (1-1)
8Jan Heintze                   Denmark38-243   17/04/2002Israel (3-1)
9Billy Meredith                Wales38-230   17/03/1913England (3-4)
10Vitālijs Astafjevs            Latvia            38-159    09/09/2009Switzerland (2-2)
11Abe Lenstra                   Netherlands 38-143   19/04/1959Belgium (2-2)
12Lothar Matthäus               Germany38-129   28/07/1999New Zealand (2-0)
13Jurijs Ševļakovs              Latvia 38-096   30/04/1997Belarus (2-0)
14Milivoje Novaković            Slovenia38-023   10/06/2017Malta (2-0)
15Lee Casciaro                  Gibraltar 38-016   15/10/2019Georgia (2-3)
16Gunnar Gren                   Sweden37-360   26/10/1958Denmark (4-4)
17Goran PandevNorth Macedonia37-32113/06/2021Austria (1-3)
18José Fonte Portugal37-29109/10/2021Qatar (3-0)
19Eiður Guðjohnsen        Iceland37-265    06/06/2016Liechtenstein (4-0)