After the Qatar 2022 World Cup, the UEFA Euro 2024 is delivering tons of excitement to millions of fans. Most of the attention floats around who will be the top scorer of the tournament. Harry Kane, Kylian Mbappe, Jude Bellingham or maybe Cristiano Ronaldo were favorites to win the award, but, none of that has happened.
It’s important to remember that we had an amazing party of goals during the group stage with only one match finishing 0-0. That game was between France and the Netherlands at Leipzig. Just incredible.
However, the biggest ‘star’ in the tournament has been undoubtedly the own goal. It happened again in the quarterfinals between the Netherlands and Turkey at Berlin.
How many own goals have been scored in Euro 2024?
Ten own goals have been scored during the UEFA Euro 2024: Klaus Gjasula (Albania), Maximilian Wöber (Austria), Antonio Rüdiger (Germany), Riccardo Calafiori (Italy), Robin Hranac (Czech Republic), Samet Akaydin (Turkey), Donyell Malen (Austria), Robin Le Normand (Spain), Jan Vertonghen (Belgium) and Mert Müldür (Turkey).
What is the record of own goals in UEFA Euro?
The record of own goals in UEFA Euro is 11 and it occurred in 2021. It was an amazing situation with mistakes by Merih Demiral (Turkey), Wojciech Szczesny (Poland), Mats Hummels (Germany), Lukas Hradecky (Finland), Martin Dubravka (Slovakia), Juraj Kucka (Slovakia), Ruben Dias (Portugal), Raphael Guerreiro (Portugal), Pedri (Spain), Denis Zakaria (Switzerland) and Simon Kjaer (Denmark).