The first goal of every European Championship tournament

With the opening game of EURO 2020 drawing ever closer, the TSZ boffins have delved into the history books to discover the first goal scored in every European Championship tournament since it began in 1960.

Year	Player	Minute	Match	Date
1960	Milan Galić	11	France 4-5 YUGOSLAVIA	06/07/1960
1964	Jesús María Pereda	35	SPAIN 2-1 Hungary	17/06/1964
1968	Dragan Džajić	86	YUGOSLAVIA 1-0 England	05/06/1968
1972	Gerd Müller	24	Belgium 1-2 WEST GERMANY	14/06/1972
1976	Anton Ondruš	19	CZECHOSLOVAKIA 3-1 Netherlands	16/06/1976
1980	Karl-Heinze Rummenigge	57	Czechoslovakia 0-1 WEST GERMANY	11/06/1980
1984	Michel Platini	78	FRANCE 1-0 Denmark	12/06/1984
1988	Roberto Mancini	52	West Germany 1-1 ITALY	10/06/1988
1992	Jan Eriksson	24	SWEDEN 1-1 France	10/06/1992
1996	Alan Shearer	23	ENGLAND 1-1 Switzerland	08/06/1996
2000	Bart Goor	43	BELGIUM 2-1 Sweden	10/06/2000
2004	Giorgios Karagounis	7	Portugal 1-2 GREECE	12/06/2004
2008	Václav Svĕrkoš	71	Switzerland 0-1 CZECH REPUBLIC	07/06/2008
2012	Robert Lewandowski	17	POLAND 1-1 Greece	08/06/2012
2016	Olivier Giroud	57	FRANCE 2-1 Romania	10/06/2016

Milan Galić has the honour of being the first ever goalscorer in the European Championship, notching after 11 minutes in Yugoslavia's 5-4 victory over France in 1960. The nine goals in that encounter remains the most scored in a single European Championship match.

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