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CLUB SOCCER
Fastest UEFA Champions League hat-trick
On 12 Oct 2022, Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah (EGY)
scored three times in 6 min 12 sec against Rangers
in Glasgow, UK. Salah came o昀昀 the bench to hit a
quick昀椀re hat-trick as Liverpool romped to a 7–1 win.
Most goals in a
UEFA Champions
League game
On 14 Mar 2023, Erling
Haaland (NOR, b. UK)
struck 昀椀ve times
for Manchester City
during their 7–0 rout of
RB Leipzig at the City
of Manchester Stadium,
UK. Haaland matched
the single-game haul of
Barcelona’s Lionel Messi
(ARG) on 7 Mar 2012,
and Luiz Adriano (BRA)
for Shakhtar Donetsk
on 21 Oct 2014.
Most consecutive La Liga appearances
On 29 Jan 2023, injury prevented Iñaki Williams
(ESP) from playing in Athletic Bilbao’s 1–0 defeat
to Celta Vigo – breaking a streak of 251 Spanish
top-昀氀ight matches across seven seasons.
Most English Premier League goals for one club
England captain Harry Kane had scored 204 league
goals for Tottenham Hotspur as of 18 Mar 2023.
Previous holders of this record include Thierry
Henry, Wayne Rooney and Sergio Agüero.
Most Women’s Super League appearances
Gilly Flaherty (UK) retired in Jan 2023 having played
177 top-昀氀ight English league games. The defender
scored the 昀椀rst-ever WSL goal, on 13 Apr 2011.
Most UEFA Women’s
Champions League
appearances
Lyon’s Wendie Renard
(FRA) had played 110 times
in the Champions League
as of 30 Mar 2023. The
centre-back is the only
player to have made a
century of appearances.
Together with teammates
Eugénie Le Sommer and
Sarah Bouhaddi (both
FRA), Renard has won
the most Champions
League titles by a
player – eight.
Most Asian Football Confederation
Champions League goals
10
Montenegrin striker Dejan Damjanović scored
42 times in Asia’s premier club tournament
between 2009 and 2022. He has played for
four clubs in the competition: FC Seoul, Beijing
Guoan, Suwon Samsung Bluewings and Kitchee.
224
Most consecutive women’s
national top‑昀氀ight league titles
SFK 2000 Sarajevo won 20 editions
of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Premijer
Ženska Liga between 2003 and 2022.
Highest Major League Soccer
attendance
On 5 Mar 2022, a total of 74,479 fans
watched Charlotte FC’s home debut
at Bank of America Stadium in
North Carolina, USA. Visitors LA
Galaxy spoiled the party, beating
Charlotte 1–0.
Most FIFA Club World Cup team appearances
On 1 Feb 2023, Auckland City (NZ) played in their
10th international club tournament, going down
3–0 to Egypt’s Al Ahly in Morocco. Auckland’s best
昀椀nish in the competition is third, in 2014.
The eventual winners of the 2023 edition were
Real Madrid (ESP), who extended their record
for most FIFA Club World Cup wins to 昀椀ve.
Most goals by a player in
a Copa Libertadores match
Julián Álvarez (ARG) struck six times during River
Plate’s 8–1 demolition of Alianza Lima on 25 May
2022 in Buenos Aires. He equalled the feat
of Juan Carlos Sánchez (ARG),
who hit Deportivo Italia for
six while playing
for Blooming
on 7 Apr 1985.
Most wins of the UEFA Champions League
Spanish giants Real Madrid have won European club football’s
most prestigious prize 14 times – twice as many as their nearest
rival, AC Milan. Madrid won six European Cups between
1956 and 1966, and eight Champions League titles after the
competition’s rebrand in 1992. Their latest triumph came
on 28 May 2022, when they beat Liverpool 1–0 in the 昀椀nal.
VISIT THE GRAND CANYON
This 6-million-year-old chasm in Arizona, USA, is a natural wonder and UNESCO World Heritage
Site. John Jepkema (USA, b. 8 Jun 1928) was aged 91 years 152 days when he became the oldest
person to cross the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim on foot on 7 Nov 2019.