All Lamine Yamal's records
La Masia forward makes the headlines during the 2023/24 season, weaving his way to achieving some historic feats
One of the names of the 2023/24 season has to be Lamine Yamal. During his first full season with the first team, the number 27 left many youngest player records in his wake. A difference-maker in every game he has featured in, the La Masia graduate has accumulated 17 records while wearing the FC Barcelona jersey.
Unprecedented milestones that add to what he achieved during his debut season as an FC Barcelona player. It was two seasons ago now when Lamine Yamal first took to the field at the Spotify Camp Nou against Real Betis, making him the youngest player ever to debut for Barça. An appearance at the age of 16 years old that set the tone for the trailblazing path to come. His nonchalant approach belies his youthful age, enabling him to put on a wonderful show during both 2023 and 2024.
Youngest player to start a LaLiga game
The blaugrana fans only had to wait two games to witness Lamine Yamal's first record of the 2023/24 season. During Barça's first home game in LaLiga, the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys bore witness to another milestone for the La Masia player. Aged 16 years and 38 days old, he became the youngest player of the 21st century to start a LaLiga game; surpassing the record set by Fabrice Olinga with Malaga in 2012. He also put in a worthy performance during that win against Cadiz.
Youngest player to provide an assist in LaLiga
Just a few days later, aged 16 years and 45 days old, he earned the right to be called the youngest player this century to provide an assist in LaLiga. A cross perfectly placed onto Gavi head wrote his name into the history books at the Estadi de la Ceràmica during the match that ended Villareal 3 - Barça 4.
Youngest blaugrana debut in the Champions League
We now leave LaLiga and turn to the Champions League, another competition where Lamine Yamal has delighted. His age of 16 years and 68 days old during the group stage at Montjuïc against Royal Antwerp (5-0) again proved to be a new record, making him the youngest player to ever debut for FC Barcelona in the Champions League, surpassing previous holder Ansu Fati. The number 27 didn't end up becoming the youngest ever in the competition's history that September 19 though, as Youssoufa Moukoko from Borussia Dortmund continues to hold that record, having made this debut aged 50 days younger.
Aged 16 years and 83 days old, he did become the youngest ever starter in Europe's premier club competition. Do Dragão was the stage where he broke this particular record during the close win against Porto, a record that had stood since 1994, when Celestine Babayaro (Anderlecht) started aged 16 years and 86 days old. As such, the blaugrana beat the record by just three days.
On 8 October 2023, Yamal enjoyed the experience of scoring for Barça for the first time ever. And it was no ordinary goal. At just 16 years and 87 days, he had just become the youngest goalscorer for any team in La Liga history, beating the previous holder, Fabrice Olinga of Malaga, by just 11 days. It happened in a game away to Granada.
Later that same month, on October 28, he became the youngest player ever to appear in a Clásico, beating the record held by another blaugrana, Vicenç Martínez. However, unlike Martínez, Lamine came on as substitute in his game. For the Clásico immediately after he was in the starting line-up, but by then he was older than Martínez, who remains the youngest player to ever start a game between the famous rivals.
Youngest Champions League assist
Almost every time Lamine Yamal did anything new on a football field he was also setting some kind of record! At the age of 16 years and 153 days in a game away to Antwerp, he became the youngest player ever to provide a Champions League assist when he set up Ferran Torres, thus surpassing a record previously in the hands of Bojan Krkic.
Youngest Spanish Super Cup debutant
A new season and a new record as Lamine Yamal became the youngest player ever to feature in a Spanish Super Cup match. That was in the semi-final against Osasuna. At 16 years and 182 days, he was even younger than Ansu Fati had been when he first appeared in the contest.
Not only that, but he also scored the second of Barça's two goals. Naturally that also made him the youngest player ever to claim a goal in the competition's history.
Youngest scorer this century in the Copa del Rey
Even Lamine himself was probably finding it hard to keep count of the different records he'd broken as 2024 got off to a prolific start with a goal against Athletic Club in the Copa del Rey on 24 January 2024. At 16 years and 195 days he was the youngest player to score in the Spanish Cup this century.
The extraordinary 3-3 draw with Granada was another record-breaking day because Lamal scored not once but twice, and at 16 years and 213 days that made him the youngest player ever to score twice in the same Liga fixture. The first was a right-footed conversion of a João Cancelo assist and he followed that with a stunning strike from the edge of the opposing area.
First U17 to score three league goals
That meant he had now scored three league goals in total, which was a tally that no player before him had reached before turning 17 years of age. In fact, he would go to score two more for a total of five before the season was out. That's as far as he can go, because by the time the 2024/25 season gets under way, he will have already turned 17.
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