Top 10 Fastest World Cup Goals of All Time
1. Hakan Sukur (2002) – 11 seconds
29/06/2002 ( Daegu, Daegu World Cup Stadium ) Third place play-off
It only took 11 seconds for a 40-year record to be broken during the 2002 World Cup Campaign held in South Korea by Turkey’s all-time leading goal scorer Hakan Sukur. Time for the hosts guided by Guus Hiddink and riding an euphoric wave of home support, to kick off and play the ball backwards and eventually find Hong Myung-bo thats where things went wrong, the defender lost the ball under pressure from Ilhan Mansiz who immediately fed Hakan Sukur who later slotted the ball home silencing the disbelieving crowd. Turkey won 2-3 to hosts South Korea with Ilhan scoring a brace for Turkey.