Christoph Baumgartner secured an entry into the history of international football on Saturday. The Lower Austrian scored in the seventh second of the Austrian national football team’s friendly against Slovakia in Bratislava, not only scoring the fastest goal in the history of the red-white-red team, but also in a men’s international match worldwide.
The striker scored 8.1 seconds into the World Cup qualifier against Gibraltar in Faro on October 11, 2016, making it 1-0 for Belgium.
1:0 by Baumgartner (1st)
Before that, according to the ORF archive, Christian Benteke held the record. The striker scored 8.1 seconds into the World Cup qualifier against Gibraltar in Faro on October 11, 2016, making it 1-0 for Belgium. In Austria, Baumgartner surpassed Stefan Maierhofer, who netted after 49 seconds in a 3-1 win against the Faroe Islands in Graz in September 2009 in World Cup qualifying.
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