This is alist of allown goals scored duringUEFA European Championship matches, which does not includequalifying matches.
AsUEFA is the governing body offootball, only goals recorded as own goals by UEFA are noted. 30 total own goals have been scored in the European Championship tournaments to date, of which a record 11 were scored atUEFA Euro 2020, with another 10 coming atEuro 2024.
The first European Championship own goal was scored byAnton Ondruš ofCzechoslovakia while playing against theNetherlands in the semi-finals of the1976 tournament, equalising Ondruš's earlier goal and pushing the game into extra time.[1]
The next own goal took place twenty years later, withLyuboslav Penev ofBulgaria scoring in the1996 edition while playing againstFrance.[2]
At the following tournament,Dejan Govedarica ofFR Yugoslavia scored an own goal while playing against the Netherlands in the quarter-finals ofUEFA Euro 2000.[3]
Four years later atUEFA Euro 2004,Igor Tudor ofCroatia scored the fastest own goal in a match until Euro 2020 broke the record, taking place in the 22nd minute of his side's group stage match against France.[4]Jorge Andrade ofPortugal also scored an own goal at the tournament in the semi-finals against the Netherlands, making it the first European Championship to feature multiple own goals.[5]
The next own goal was scored eight years later byGlen Johnson ofEngland atUEFA Euro 2012, againstSweden in the group stage.[6]
AtUEFA Euro 2016, for the first time three own goals were scored in a single tournament.Ciaran Clark of theRepublic of Ireland scored the first (playing against Sweden in the group stage),[7] beforeBirkir Már Sævarsson ofIceland scored an own goal five days later while playing againstHungary.[8] To date, Sævarsson's own goal is the latest in European Championship history, occurring in the 88th minute. One week later,Gareth McAuley ofNorthern Ireland scored the third own goal of the tournament, while playing in the round of 16 againstWales.[9]
The first own goal ofUEFA Euro 2020 came in the tournament's opening game, asMerih Demiral ofTurkey put through his own net to open the scoring in a 3–0 loss toItaly; it was the first time the opening goal of a European Championship was awarded as an own goal.[10] The first own goal scored by a goalkeeper occurred just three days later, whereWojciech Szczęsny ofPoland unluckily had the ball bounce off the post, off his back, and into the net while playing againstSlovakia. This broke Igor Tudor’s record of the fastest own goal in a match.[11] The following day,Mats Hummels ofGermany scored an own goal in his side's loss to France, which saw the 2020 tournament equal the previous edition's record total of three own goals in only the first round of matches.[12] In Germany's following match against Portugal, Portuguese defendersRúben Dias andRaphaël Guerreiro each scored an own goal in the span of less than five minutes; this was the first individual match with two own goals in tournament history, and also took Euro 2020's own goal tally to five, breaking its tie with the 2016 edition for most own goals in a single tournament.[13] Two days later, on 21 June,Finland goalkeeperLukáš Hrádecký scored an own goal in their last group stage match againstBelgium, bringing the record to six goals.[14] On 23 June, goalkeeperMartin Dúbravka and midfielderJuraj Kucka ofSlovakia each scored an own goal in their final group stage match againstSpain, becoming the second match with multiple own goals.[15] On 28 June, midfielderPedri of Spain scored an own goal after a missed back-pass to the goalkeeper during his side's Round of 16 match against Croatia, bringing the number of own goals in the tournament to nine, as many as in the previous 15 competitions combined. This was then exceeded on 2 July when Swiss midfielderDenis Zakaria scored an own goal during his team's quarter-final match against Spain, which broke Wojciech Szczęsny’s record of the fastest own goal in a match.[16] Five days later, another own goal occurred during the semi-final match-up betweenDenmark andEngland whereSimon Kjær scored an own goal in the 39th minute bringing the total number of own goals in Euro 2020 to 11.[17]
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| Player's team won the match | |
| Player's team drew the match (apenalty shoot-out is recorded as a draw regardless of shootout results) | |
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| Team | Own goals by | |
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| own players | opponents | |
 Turkey | 3 | 0 |
 Slovakia[b] | 3 | 1 |
 Portugal | 3 | 2 |
 Czech Republic[b] | 2 | 0 |
 Germany | 2 | 2 |
 Spain | 2 | 4 |
 Albania | 1 | 0 |
 Bulgaria | 1 | 0 |
 Denmark | 1 | 0 |
 Finland | 1 | 0 |
 Iceland | 1 | 0 |
 Northern Ireland | 1 | 0 |
 Poland | 1 | 0 |
 Republic of Ireland | 1 | 0 |
 Serbia[c] | 1 | 0 |
 Switzerland | 1 | 0 |
 Austria | 1 | 1 |
 Belgium | 1 | 1 |
 England | 1 | 1 |
 Italy | 1 | 1 |
 Croatia | 1 | 2 |
 Netherlands | 1 | 4 |
 Georgia | 0 | 1 |
 Hungary | 0 | 1 |
 Scotland | 0 | 1 |
 Wales | 0 | 1 |
 Sweden | 0 | 2 |
 France | 0 | 5 |
France France
Russia Czechoslovakia is inherited by both Czech Republic and Slovakia. Czechoslovakia.
FR Yugoslavia. Czechoslovakia between 1960–1980.Ein Pedri zugerechnetes Slapstick-Eigentor von Tormann Unai Simon (20.) schien die Pläne der Spanier an diesem Abend ein erstes Mal zunichte zu machen.[A comical own goal by keeper Unai Simon (20'), attributed to Pedri, seemed to foil Spain's plan.]
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