Last update 14 February, 2023 by Alberto Llopis
who are the youngest players in the history of the Champions League? These are some of the talents that debuted in the top continental competition as teenagers.
The youngest footballers in the history of the Champions League
Youssoufa Moukoko (16 years and 18 days)
Moukoko es the youngest footballer to debut in the Champions League until now. He did it with Borussia Dortmund with 16 years and barely 18 days on 8 from December to 2020 before him Zenit.
Céléstine Babayaro (16 years and 86 days)
His record lasted 26 years. And it is that Céléstine Babayaro became the youngest footballer in the history of the Champions League when he 23 November 1994 debuted with just 16 years and 86 days. He did it with the Belgian Anderlecht against the Romanian Steaua Bucharest.
Ryan Cherki (16 years and 102 days)
He 27 November 2019 another debuted with Olympique de Lyon teenager in the Champions League. Cherki He took the field against Zenit in St. Petersburg in the same place where Moukoko would do almost a couple of years later.
Alen Halilović (16 years and 128 days)
For a time he was the wunderkind of European football. Everyone expected a lot from Alen Halilovic. Especially after being one of the youngest players to play in the Champions League con 16 years and 128 days. He did it in a Dinamo de Zagreb-PSG he 27 October 2012.
Youri Tielemans (16 years and 148 days)
The Belgian debuted in the Champions League with 16 years and 148 days in a Anderlecht-Olympiakos. It was the 2 October 2013 where also, jugó en los 90 minutes.
Warren Zaire-Emery (16 years and 343 days)
A new early talent debuted in the Champions League as a teenager. It was the 14 February 2023, in the middle of the day of lovers, in the first leg of the PSG-Bayern Munich round of 16 match played at the Parque de los Príncipes de París. With nothing more and nothing less than 16 years and 343 days.
The youngest players to win the Champions League
Nwankwo Kanu (18 years 296 days)
Ajax – AC Milan 1-0, 1995
Patrick Kluivert (18 years 327 days)
Ajax – AC Milan 1-0, 1995
Iker Casillas (19 years 4 days)
Real Madrid – Valencia 3-0, 2000
Clarence Seedorf (19 years 53 days)
Ajax – AC Milan 1-0, 1995
Charles Albert (19 years 167 days)
Port – Monaco 3-0, 2004