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Player Record Performances

Fastest Goals from Kick-off
Team Record Performances
 

Arranged by Time of Goal

 
 

17 seconds
Tommy Lawton
 Chelsea		 25 May 1947 - Portugal 0 England 10, Estádio Nacional, Lisboa Fr AW

27 seconds
Bryan Robson
 Manchester United		 16 June 1982 - France 1 England 3, Estadio San Mamés, Bilbao WCF NW

30 seconds
Jack Cock
 Huddersfield Town		 25 October 1919 - Ireland 1 England 1, Windsor Park, Belfast BC AD
Bill Nicholson
 Tottenham Hotspur		 19 May 1951 - England 5 Portugal 2, Goodison Park, Liverpool Fr HW

34 seconds
Tommy Lawton
 Chelsea		 21 September 1947 - Belgium 2 England 5, Stade du Centenaire, Bruxelles Fr AW

35 seconds
Edgar Chadwick
 Everton		 2 April 1892 - Scotland 1 England 4, Ibrox Park, Glasgow BC AW

36 seconds
Gareth Southgate
  Middlesbrough		 22 May 2003 - South Africa 1 England 2, ABSA Park, Durban Fr AW

38 seconds
Bryan Robson
 Manchester United		 13 December 1989 - England 2 Yugoslavia 1, Wembley Stadium, Wembley Fr HW

42 seconds
Gary Lineker
 Tottenham Hotspur		 12 June 1991 - Malaysia 2 England 4, Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur Fr AW

44 seconds
Bryan Robson
 Manchester United		 23 February 1982 - England 4 Northern Ireland 0, Wembley Stadium, Wembley BC HW

55 seconds
Geoff Hurst
 West Ham United		 13 October 1971 - Switzerland 2 England 3, Sankt Jakob Stadium, Basel ECP AW

Notes

These goal times are mostly taken from official Football Association records, although those for Jack Cock in 1919 and Edgar Chadwick in 1892 are estimates.

Tommy Lawton and Bryan Robson each share the distinction of scoring two of the 10 fastest England goals in history.  Lawton's two came in consecutive matches, in the last match of one season and the first match of the next..  Robson's effort against Yugoslavia in 1989 is the fastest England goal scored at Wembley.  His goal against France in 1982 is the fastest scored by England and the third fastest scored by any team in World Cup final tournament play.

Both Jack Cock and Bill Nicholson scored inside the first minute of their international debuts.  Nicholson's strike came on his first touch of the ball in an England shirt, but he was never again capped.

No England player has matched the fastest goal ever scored against England, by Davide Gualtieri for San Marino at 8.3 seconds of the final match of the ill-fated World Cup 1994 qualifying campaign in Bologna, Italy on 17 November 1993.  Here is Jonathon Pearce's radio commentary as the match kicked off:  "Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold for England versus San Marino with Tennent's Pilsner, brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste and England are one down."

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