Juventus forward Kenan Yıldız scored the first goal of the league phase of the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League competition.
Yıldız opened the 2024/25 record in marvelous style, twisting the ball in a delightful long-range strike to set Juventus ahead against PSV after 21 minutes in the game.
This season is the 33rd in the Champions League era, since the competition was rebranded in 1992/93.
Former Real Madrid and Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo remains the first player to strike first in the competition on two events.
In the 1992/93 Champions League season, Daniel Amokachi scored the first and only goal against CSKA Moskva in the 17th minute when he was playing for Club Brugge.
Domingos Paciência of Porto scored in the seventh minute against Werder Bremen the following year (1992/93).
Nikolai Pisarev, Jari Litmanen, Joseba Etxeberria, Robert Pirès, Yegor Titov, Marc Hendrikx, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Mikaël Silvestre, Vicente Rodríguez, Andrés Iniesta, and numerous other players scored their first respective goals for their clubs in the UEFA Champions league competition.
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