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City's Teenage Top Flight Scorers

15/10/2026, 12:38:27 BST

City doubled their teenagers who have scored in the Premier League on Monday night, Stephen Mfuni shot straight to the top of that list.

But who else has scored as a teenager for City in the top flight? Even before the Premier League when football was apparently invented.

There are apparently 23 teenage top flight scorers for City and Sidki Cherif is an old man at number 21! Mufuni is positively middle aged at 5!

Seriously, there's some great names and some great memories in here.

Unsurprisingly 3 youth team products top the list. Tomy English being the youngest at just 17y 10m 3d. The next 2 are in their 18s, Willie Carr (who we talked about in the Happy Donkey Day article)

Then comes Peter Ndlovu, a massive favourite at City. He features in the teenage PL scorers list but he actually scored in the First Division before that at Arsenal in 1991. Here's his goal, in the same game as Lee Dixon's marvellous own goal.

I guess while we're here is worth reliving his winner against Villa in 91 a couple of weeks later. Oof!

Down at 12 is Robbie Keane's goal against Derby, I guess he could be on the list twice for his 2 goals. What a great day at Highfield Road this was, so exciting to have signed one of the top talents in the country, especially as Villa wouldn't cough up what Wolves wanted. Here's Keano's Derby debut goals and an intro from Strachan.

Here's all 23 teenage top flight scorers we know of! Put any memories in the comments below!

Coventry City Teenage Top-Flight Goalscorers

First Division (1967–1992) and Premier League (1992–2026) — youngest first, with each player listed once.

#

Player

Age at goal

Date

Opposition

1

Tommy English

17y 10m 3d

21 Aug 1979

Bristol City (H)

2

Willie Carr

18y 3m 10d

16 Apr 1968

Stoke City (A)

3

Garry Thompson

18y 5m 21d

28 Mar 1978

Wolves (H)

4

Peter Ndlovu

18y 6m 13d

7 Sep 1991

Arsenal (A)

5

Stephen Mfuni

18y 8m 0d

12 Oct 2026

Newcastle (H)

6

Martin Singleton

18y 8m 11d

13 Apr 1982

Everton (H)

7

Gary Bannister

18y 9m 13d

5 May 1979

Wolves (H)

8

Ray Gooding

18y 10m 11d

27 Dec 1977

Norwich City (H)

9

Danny Thomas

18y 11m 30d

11 Nov 1980

Liverpool (A)

10

Graham Paddon

19y 0m 23d

16 Sep 1969

Notts Forest (H)

11

Peter Bodak

19y 1m 1d

13 Sep 1980

Wolves (A)

12

Robbie Keane

19y 1m 13d

21 Aug 1999

Derby County (H)

13

Mark Hateley

19y 1m 20d

27 Dec 1980

Stoke City (A)

14

Mick McGuire

19y 3m 0d

4 Dec 1971

Leicester City (H)

15

Steve Sedgley

19y 3m 5d

31 Aug 1987

Sheff Weds (A)

16

Andy Blair

19y 4m 3d

21 Apr 1979

Southampton (H)

17

Dennis Mortimer

19y 4m 30d

4 Sep 1971

Chelsea (A)

18

Gary Gillespie

19y 5m 27d

1 Jan 1980

Middlesbrough (H)

19

John Hendrie

19y 6m 13d

7 May 1983

Stoke City (A)

20

Alan Green

19y 8m 0d

1 Sep 1973

Burnley (A)

21

Sidiki Chérif

19y 9m 27d

12 Oct 2026

Newcastle (H)

22

David Smith

19y 11m 5d

5 Mar 1988

Chelsea (H)

23

Jeff Blockley

19y 11m 8d

20 Aug 1969

West Brom (A)

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