The World Record For Scorer In One Soccer Game
Panagiotis Pontikos 27-year-old, the striker of Olympos Xylofagou, Cypriot third division club, have been awarded as the highest scorer in one soccer game after scored 16 goals against SEK Ayios Athanasios FC, goals were timed at 3, 20, 33, 35, 47, 50, 55, 56, 58, 61, 68, 75, 76, 83, 86 and 87 minutes. Olympos Xylofagou beat SEK Ayios Athanasios FC 24-3 in final results. Pontikos then added to Guiness Book Of Record as the highest scorer in one game.
“I cannot remember a result like that in all the years I have been involved with football,” said a Cyprus Football Association official. “The same goes for the amount of goals scored by the player.”
Previously Stephan Stanis, also scored 16 goals for his side Racing Club in a French Cup match against Aubry Asturies in December 1942. In international football, the record for the number of goals scored by a single player in one match is held by Australian Archie Thompson, who scored 13 goals for the Socceroos in their 31-0 victory over American Samoa. In England, Luton Town’s Joe Payne, who started life on the wing and was playing up front for the first time for the Hatters, holds the record for the most goals scored in a league game by an individual player. Payne scored 10 goals in the Hatters’ 12-0 victory over Bristol Rovers on Easter Monday in 1936.
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